Moldova's President enacted the Law on social assistance on Friday, Sept. 26, which provides for offering guaranteed state assistance to poor families, Info-Prim Neo has learnt from the presidential press unit. The law aims at ensuring a minimally guaranteed monthly income for poor families by providing them with social assistance established in agreement with the global monthly income of the each family and their need for social assistance. The level of the guaranteed minimum is to be established annually in the State Budget Law. It will be computed on the basis of economic indexes as the minimum salary, the minimum pension. The social assistance the family will get will represent the difference between the guaranteed monthly minimum income and the actual monthly income of a family. The draft provides that the assistance will be granted to the whole family and not to each member. The aid will be supplied to poor families where all the adult members correspond at least to one of the following situations: reached the retirement age, have disability degrees, are registered unemployed, nurse a child smaller than 3, nurse a 1st degree disability member of the family, nurse a disabled child or a person older than 75, study full-time and are younger than 23. Families having at least one disabled will benefit of this type of aid starting from 1 October 2008, for families nursing small children – starting from 1 January 2009, while the other beneficiaries will get the aid starting from 1 July 2009. The assistance will be established for a period not longer than 2 years, and will be reviewed once in six months. Now all the financial assistance is granted in case of belonging to certain social categories, and in providing the social assistance no attention is paid to the living standard and needs of solicitors. The most significant social aid is granted to pay for utilities, being distributed to 11 categories encompassing 262,000 beneficiaries.