O moralności transferów socjalnych. Mechanizmy dystrybucji zasiłków w ośrodkach pomocy społecznej w Polsce

On the Morality of Social Transfer: Mechanisms of Benefit Distribution in Social Services Centres in Poland

The monograph presents the findings of research on the everyday reality of work in Polish Social Services Centres. The author discusses the practical side of social benefits policy, which emerges at the intersection of the law, social workers’ attitudes to rules and regulations, the societal and institutional entanglements of their work, and the decision-making process in the local institutions responsible for distributing benefits. The gap between the tenets of social welfare policy and everyday practice constitutes a hidden dimension of local social policy that is impossible to grasp using official statistics.

Keywords: benefits, social workers, social services centres, sociology of money, street-level bureaucracy.

Mateusz Trochymiak – assistant professor at the Professor Robert Zajonc Institute of Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, a researcher with 10 years of experience in consulting and evaluation for the public sector. He specializes in social policy, city management, and digital transformation in public administration. Member of the Civil City Lab team. Research interests: social policy, social work, economic sociology, smart city, digitalization.