Abstract:

After 1989, social and economic transformations in Poland, as well as the process of making the market a fundamental economic events regulator, has created new problems, and some of them have been disclosed because of new conditions of country functioning. Some of the problematic aspects have been income differentiation and occurrence of social groups in need of state aid. Creating socially acceptable differences in income levels, as well as assuring social safety conditions for families with incomes, which do not guarantee the satisfaction of basic needs, not only physiological but also these which not fulfilled lead to social exclusion, is in the scope of interest of the state implementing and continuing certain economic and social policy. This research presents the effectiveness of redistributive function of the state budget in solving the mentioned problems. Implementing descriptive methods and statistical data interpretation led to the conclusion that tools used by the state and the development of the social function of the state have not eliminated neither great inequalities of incomes nor long-lasting poverty. Verification of data performed on the basis of one of the Social Welfare Centres work effects analysis, where the positive tendencies of changes do not concern all aspects, therefore not being unidirectional, is the confirmation of the above-mentioned conclusions.