Renta wdowia w systemie zabezpieczenia społecznego

In the author’s opinion, the amendment of social security benefits proposed in the analysed bill is a major systemic change concerning the tenets of the right to social security. The proposed solution consists in changing the well-established basic principles concerning the overlapping of entitlements from different types of social insurance and different social security systems. The purpose of the proposed changes is to maintain the quality of life of a widowed person after the death of a spouse. In the view of the opinion’s author, these changes set a higher standard than the one adopted so far by the Constitutional Tribunal and being currently in force. The bill requires legislative refinement, in particular with regard to the use of the term ‘widow’s pension’.