Portugal — social integration benefits, family benefits and support for elderly || Romania — welfare benefits in June 2013 (aggregated mobile EU and non-EU nationals) || Slovakia — welfare benefits in May 2013 || Slovenia — social assistance in August 2013 ||

A person shall be entitled to family benefits in accordance with the legislation of the competent Member State, including for his/her family members residing in another Member State, as if they were residing in the former Member State.

1. If a recipient of long-term care benefits in cash, which have to be treated as sickness benefits and are therefore provided by the Member State competent for cash benefits under Articles 21 or 29, is, at the same time and under this Chapter, entitled to claim benefits in kind intended for the same purpose from the institution of the place of residence or stay in another Member State, and an institution in the first Member State is also required to reimburse the cost of these benefits in kind under Article 35, the general provision on prevention of overlapping of benefits laid down in Article 10 shall be applicable, with the following restriction onl ...[+++]y: if the person concerned claims and receives the benefit in kind, the amount of the benefit in cash shall be reduced by the amount of the benefit in kind which is or could be claimed from the institution of the first Member State required to reimburse the cost.

It is necessary to include statutory pre-retirement schemes within the scope of this Regulation, thus guaranteeing both equal treatment and the possibility of exporting pre-retirement benefits as well as the award of family and health-care benefits to the person concerned, in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation; however, the rule on the aggregation of periods should not be included, as only a very limited number of Member States have statutory pre-retirement ...[+++] schemes.

Since those persons had the grant of child benefit discontinued under new German legislation during the period from December 1993 to March 1994, they submitted in support of their actions challenging the decisions depriving them of those advantages that they and/or their spouses had to be regarded as stateless persons and, consequently, should enjoy family benefits in accordance with Community law which would enable them to be treated in the same way as German nationals and other nationals of the Member States of the European Union.

While the material scope of the new proposal is extended to benefit previously excluded benefits and exceptions provisionally authorized in the earlier Directives, its scope in relation to persons goes beyond that of the two previous Directives because of the nature of the benefits the Directive has to cover (family benefits, survivors' benefits) and therefore applies to the whole of the working population, including persons who have ceased their activity, family members, survivors and other dependants/. - 2 - The ...[+++] rules to be applied to eliminate existing instances of discrimination are set out in greater detail.