The guests were Slavica Niksic, Head of the Center for Social Welfare (CSW) Slavonski Brod, Zeljko Balikic, representative of the Croatian Employment Service (CES) Slavonski Brod, and Ivan Vladisavljevic, representative of the Police Department Slavonski Brod.

35 citizens, members of Roma National Minority, attended the public discussion, as well as the local and the national media.

Slavica Niksic stated that almost all present at the panel discussion are the CSW's beneficiaries. She highlighted that according to the new Act on Social Welfare, social assistance has been reduced and the maximum amount allocated to one family could be 3.017,00 HKR,  insufficient for large families with many children. Mrs. Niksic also emphasized that social welfare beneficiaries and members of their households who own real estate that exceeds basic needs for living or vehicles in their names will lose social assistance. Besides, social welfare beneficiaries have to be registered with the CES.

Zeljko Balikic informed on required documents and necessary conditions that need to be fulfilled in order to register to the CES. He advised that all unemployed population of working age has to be registered with the CES. The beneficiaries are obliged to contact and inform their adviser about job seeking on a monthly basis by phone, email or in person. In case they fail to do so, they will be removed  from the CES records of unemployment and upon that have to wait six months to register again. During that period  they will not  be eligible for social assistance. Ivan Vladisavljevic stressed that all persons who are living in Croatia must have residence and ID cards. Since majority of houses in Roma settlement do not have numbers on their houses, when they apply for residence they are required to provide  an official statement to the Police Department in which they declare themselves as owners of the houses. Thus far, no person has been removed  by the Police Department from the Registry of residence.    

During the panel discussion that lasted an hour and a half, citizens were very active, they asked numerous questions, commented on their personal situations, and sought advice from the guests.