Glossary:Social exclusion not elsewhere classified function
This function includes benefits in cash or kind (except health care) specifically intended to combat social exclusion where they are not covered by one of the other functions. The concept of social exclusion is multidimensional, but it refers firstly to an insufficient level of income (poverty). Apart from income support, the content of this function is fairly heterogeneous, however, its borderlines are traced by the definition of social protection, and by the following principles:
- small-scale, informal and incidental types of support that do not require regular management and accounting are conventionally excluded from the scope of ESSPROS.
- all social benefits related to a risk or need for which ESSPROS defines a specific function are reported under that function.
- while the other functions refer to people subject to clearly identifiable risks or needs (the elderly, the disabled, the unemployed and so on), this function refers to the "socially excluded" or to "those at risk of social exclusion".
Further information
Regulation (EC) No 458/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 April 2007 on the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)
Regulation (EC) No10/2008 of 8 January 2008 implementing Regulation (EC) No 458/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)