Official presentation of the Municipality of Ruma

Department of Social Affairs

Head of the Department: Svetislav Damjancuk

Address: Glavna Street 107

Phone numbers and extensions:

• Head of the Department: 022/479-162
• Education inspector: 022/479-070
• Affairs of implementation and monitoring of budget expenditure: 022/
• 479-347
• Secretary: 022/ 477-589
• Accounting treatment for maternity leave: 022/ 478-442, 478-800 extension 106
• Assistant for maternity rights, parent’s benefit and child benefit: 022/ 478-800
• Extension 104
• Clerk for parent’s benefit and child benefit 022/ 430-962
• Service for veteran-invalid care: 022/ 478-800, extension 108 and 109
• Liquidator and accountant of service for veteran-invalid care 022/ 478-800, extension 107
• Refugee Committee: 022/ 022/ 478-800, extension

Department of Social Affairs encompasses following services:

1. Refugee Committee
2. Service for veteran-invalid care
3. Child protection service

All claims for Commissariat for Refugees are filed through Refugee Commissioner of the municipality of residence

In order to be registered and obtain ID card for displaced persons, a displaced person needs to procure the following:

• personally signed claim
• ID card ( page with personal information, photo and change of residence pages – for adults, and birth certificate, date of issuance must not exceed six months, and a parents ID card for minors)
• place of residence notification
• statement regarding residence certified at Town Hall or Municipal Court, if the client owns some real estate and resides there, it is necessary to submit the proof of possession
• two photos (25 / 32 cm) for people older than 16

In order to obtain a duplicate of ID card for displaced persons, it is necessary to obtain the following:

• personally signed claim
• ID card ( page with personal information, photo and change of residence pages – for adults, and birth certificate, date of issuance must not exceed six months, and a parents ID card for minors)
• place of residence notification
• confirmation of Department of Internal Affairs of a missing ID card for displaced persons
• two photos (25 / 32 cm) for people older than 16

For changes within the ID card for displaced persons itself, it is necessary to obtain the following:

• personally signed claim
• ID card ( page with personal information, photo and change of residence pages – for adults, and birth certificate, date of issuance must not exceed six months, and a parents ID card for minors)
• place of residence notification
• - Proof regarding the change, date of issuance must not exceed six months
• two photos (25 / 32 cm) for people older than 16

For newly – born babies:

• personally signed claim
• Birth certificate, date of issuance must not exceed six months
• place of residence notification
• ID cards and ID cards for displaced persons for both parents

In order to cancel the status of a displaced person/ refugee, it is necessary to obtain the following:

• Personally signed claim
• Decision on having the status of a displaced person/ refugee
• Refugee/ displaced person ID card
• Decision on being granted Serbian citizenship and Citizenship Certificate itself

In order for a minor to gain the status of a refugee:

• Claim signed by parents
• New parents’ refugee ID cards
• Child’s birth certificate date of issuance must not exceed six months
• ZBEG 2 form

For additional registration:

• Personally signed claim
• Old refugee/ displaced person ID card
• Proof on being unable to attend mandatory registration

In order to change Decision on having the status of a displaced person/ refugee or to confirm the status of a displaced person/ refugee it is necessary to obtain the following:

• Personally signed claim

• Refugee/ displaced person ID card
• Decision on having the status of a displaced person/ refugee or decision on confirmation of having the status of a displaced person/ refugee
• Proof regarding the change, date of issuance must not exceed six months

In order for a Refugee Committee’s decision to become legally-binding, it is necessary to obtain the following:

• Personally signed claim
• Refugee Committee’s original decision
• Refugee/ displaced person ID card

In order to get approval for the change of residence, it is necessary to obtain the following:

• Personally signed claim
• Proof that s/he owns a real estate in the municipality where s/he is to reside
• Real estate owner’s statement, where refugee/ displaced person is to reside, certified at the Town Hall
• Proof that the house/ apartment is his/hers

In order to get a confirmation that a person exists or not in the data base:

• Personally signed claim
• ID card

In order to get a decision that an appeal process is in progress in order to regulate health care protection, it is necessary to obtain the following:

• Personally signed claim
• Decision on the cancellation of the status
• ID card

In order to compensate funeral expenses, it is necessary to obtain the following:

• Personally signed claim
• Death certificate
• Refugee/ displaced person ID card of the deceased
• Original undertaker’s receipt
• ID of the person who files the claim
• Proof from work market of being unemployed
• Proof of wages of the members of the household

Partial compensation of funeral expenses belong to the person who paid for the funeral, provided:

• That the deceased had the status of a refugee/ displaced person until the moment of his/her death and that s/he had no income at all in Serbia or his/her homeland
• That the person who files the claim for partial compensation of funeral expenses has no income higher than 2,500 RSD per member of the household

Service for veteran-invalid care

Disability allowance

1. Military certificate of wounding circumstances
2. Medical documentation from the wounding period
3. New medical documentation
4. ID copy
5. Citizenship Certificate
6. Birth Certificate
7. Certificate from the Municipal Court that the person is not being prosecuted at the time
8. Form number 1 from general practitioner
9. Claim

In title to get orthopedic appliances and home care assistance:

1. medical documentation
2. form number 1 from general practitioner
3. claim

Only disabled veterans wounded before April 27, 1992 are in title to this.

Compensation for the time of unemployment of invalids from groups 1-4

1. Certificate of work market
2. Copy of the card of evidence and employment book
3. Certificate that the person is not a entrepreneur
4. Certificate that the person doesn’t have old-age or disability pension
5. Certificate that the person doesn’t pay tax for agricultural activities
6. Certificate from the Cadastre that the person doesn’t pay tax for real estate
7. Claim

Family disability pension per fallen soldier

1. Military certificate of death circumstances
2. Death certificate
3. Birth certificate of the person who files the claim
4. Citizenship certificate
5. Marriage certificate ( if a spouse is in question)
6. Certificate that the person doesn’t have old-age or disability pension
7. Certificate that the person doesn’t pay tax for agricultural activities
8. Certificate from the Municipal Court that the person is not being prosecuted at the time
9. Claim

Family disability allowance per deceased military disabled veteran:

1. Death certificate
2. Certificate of being a disabled veteran
3. Birth certificate of the person who files the claim
4. Citizenship certificate
5. Marriage certificate ( if a spouse is in question)
6. Certificate that the person doesn’t have old-age or disability pension
7. Certificate from the Cadastre whether the person owns real estate
8. Certificate from the Municipal Court that the person is not being prosecuted at the time
9. Claim

Increased family disability allowance

1. schooling certificate
2. claim

One- time help in case of the death of military disabled veteran:

1. Death certificate
2. Certificate of being a disabled veteran
3. ID copy of the person who files the claim
4. Certified statement of two witnesses that the deceased lived in the same household with the person who files the claim for the last year
5. Claim

Monthly income

1. Certificate whether the person who files the claim is the user of old-age or disability pension
2. Work market certificates for the person who files the claim and the members of the family
3. Certificate whether the person who files the claim and the members of the family are registered as entrepreneurs
4. Certificate whether the person who files the claim and the members of the family pay tax for real estate
5. Citizenship certificate
6. Photocopy of valid ID
7. Certified statement of a witness about the number of members of the household
8. Death certificate
9. PIO certificate for people from ex- Yugoslavia
10. Claim

Home care assistance

1. Medical documentation
2. form number 1 from general practitioner
3. Claim

Self supporting

1. Proof that the person who files the claim lives alone ( has no spouse, marital or extra marital children)
2. Claim

Compensation for funeral expenses

1. Statement of two witnesses that the person who files the claim paid for the expenses of funeral
2. Photocopy of ID of the person who files the claim
3. Death certificate
4. Claim

Veteran soldiers’ bonus

1. Certificate of a working organization that a person is permanently employed, that he has a full time job and what his job is and the degree of education
2. Certificate of monthly salary
3. Certificate of confirmation of military disabled veteran status
4. ID photocopy
5. Citizenship Certificate
6. Claim

All the documents have to be either original or certified documents

Child protection service

Claim for parent benefit - Republic

1. birth certificates for all the children
2. place of residence for all the children
3. citizenship certificate for mother (date of issuance must not exceed six months)
4. Mother’s ID
5. Mother’s health card
6. Two photocopies of the current account from both sides in any bank

All documents have to be original or certified photocopies

Claim for parent benefit – Municipality

1. Birth certificate for the first child
2. Citizenship certificate
3. ID photocopy
4. Photocopy of bankbook or current account card
5. If the mother is a refugee, she needs a certified photocopy of Refugee ID card

Claim for parent benefit – for Province

1. Birth certificate for the first child
2. ID photocopy
3. Photocopy of bankbook or current account card

Next to the claim for child benefit, the applicant is obliged to procure

1. Birth certificates for all the children
2. Citizenship certificate
3. ID photocopies for adults in the household, for children – place of residence
4. Health card photocopy
5. Income certificates for three previous months
6. Cadastre certificate for every member of the household
7. Tax certificate for every member of the household
8. Certificate that children regularly go to school
9. Proofs on facts regarding real estate and residential area
10. Certificate of authorized Health Care Center on reasons that a child don’t go to school regularly
11. Decision on children categorization
12. Decision on parental rights extension
13. Proofs for single-parent status
14. Unemployment proofs
15. Proofs of foster parenting
16. Photocopy of the current account from both sides in any bank

For newly-born baby

1. Birth certificate
2. Place of residence
3. Cadastre certificate for the baby from the place of birth and residence

Claim for partial compensation of expenses for third and fourth child

1. Photocopy of applicant’s ID
2. Birth certificate for all the children
3. Proof on place of residence for the children involved
4. Certificate of child’s admission to pre-school institution

Maternity leave, work leave for (special) care of a child

In order to be paid during maternity leave, an employee has to procure the following:

1. Claim
2. Employer’s certificate that the employee is in title to maternity leave and work leave for (special) care of a child
3. Employer’s certificate of employee’s uninterrupted period of service
4. Doctors original documents
5. Birth certificate for all the children
6. Health card, certified copy
7. Bankbook , certified copy
8. Current account, photocopy of the bank card
9. Employer’s certificate of employee’s previous salaries
10. Child’s father statement that he would not use compensation right for (special) care of a child

For employees in private companies it is necessary to procure

1. Work contract
2. Insurance policy

In order to be compensated during maternity leave, an entrepreneur, who empowered a manager, is obliged to procure the following:

1. Claim
2. Doctors original documents
3. Birth certificate for all the children
4. Health card, certified copy
5. ID, certified copy
6. Bankbook , certified copy
7. Current account, photocopy of the bank card
8. Insurance policy
9. Decision on monthly taxes
10. Photocopy of certificate of founding the shop
11. Photocopy of certificate on empowered manager