Społeczny fundusz konsumpcji a dochody ludności

Abstract

It results from the essence of social fund of consumption, that it is a source of increasing total incomes of population. Services renderred from that fund are then — besides wages — additional incomes of the society members. They amounted to 2000 złoty in 1960, and to 6915 złoty for one inhabitant in the year 1976. Housekeepings receive income directly in a monetary form as well as in the form of definite means of consumption and of non-pecuniary services. It depends on material or pecuniar forms of distribution. Housekeepings can freely dispose of incomes received in virtue of social pecuniary services. They may also freely decide on certain consumption goods. From such poin of view these incomes do not differ from incomes received by division according to labour and they are not included into personal incomes. Social services in kind are not included into personal incomes of the people taking advantage of these services. That's why the common accessibility of these services produces a risk of waste. Services from social fund of consumption reduce income disproportions in particular social groups. They do not, however, equalize incomes of the whole society. Such fact would cause breach of principles of functioning the wages policy. An excessive restraint of the role of wages can contribute to decrease in effectivennes and to professional qualification decline. The task of incomes received by the people from social fund of consumption does not consist in levelling differences in wages but it is connected with diminishing social disproportions in working groups with low incomes for one family member.