Who are regional beneficiaries? Is a federal beneficiary better than a regional one? How can you exercise your right to a pension?

The state protects citizens who cannot fully provide for themselves. One of the types of assistance offered is social benefits. They affect basic areas of life: medicine, travel, housing. Additional subsidies provided for payment to pensioners.

Kinds

Benefits in social sphere, these are the benefits offered by the Government at the legislative level for different categories population. In the Russian Federation, all types of available social preferences are divided into several groups:

1. Medical.
2. Housing.
3. Pension.
4. Travel cards.
5. Other.

It should be noted that any types of social assistance can be provided only after a citizen submits an application to organizations providing certain types of support. General types of benefits:

1. Exemption from certain types of payments, execution various obligations, for example, for payment of housing and communal services.
2. Obtaining necessary medications, visiting doctors, receiving consultations.
3. Travel on trams, trolleybuses is free, and in some regions - on suburban transport.
4. Spa treatment.
5. Provision of apartments under a social tenancy agreement.
6. Registration of children in kindergarten at a discount or on conditions complete liberation from payment.
7. Discounts on tax payments.
8. Possibility of opening an individual entrepreneur according to a simplified scheme.
9. Providing necessary equipment for prosthetics of certain organs and body functions, for example, glasses, hearing aids.
10. Discounts when visiting theaters, museums, cinemas, state parks.

In order to receive benefits, a citizen must meet at least one or two of the following criteria:

1. Low level of income - as a rule, it belongs to disabled people, low-income people, pensioners, large families or families raising a disabled child.
2. Absence of one or two parents - due to their death or deprivation of parental rights.
3. The achievement of the venerable retirement age.
4. Having certain merits to the country.
5. Permanent or temporary disability.
6. Difficult life circumstances, having many children, loss of a breadwinner.

Certain types of benefits may or may not be available in some areas of the country.

Differences between federal and regional

Tax benefits or in the presence of 1, 2 or 3 disability groups can be provided at the federal or regional level. Financing social support for citizens occurs on federal level, throughout the country. The authorities of individual regions have the right to form some, additional preferences, in accordance with financial capabilities. The difference between federal and regional benefits is clearly presented in the table: Federal beneficiaries are:

1. Persons with disabilities.
2. Participants of the Second World War and combat operations in Chechnya and Afghanistan.
3. Liquidators of accidents that occurred at nuclear power plants, including Chernobyl.
4. Persons who were previously juvenile prisoners fascist camps.

Pension Fund Russia transfers additional financial assistance the above categories of citizens. Additionally, they can receive non-material support. Such persons have the right to visit government organizations out of turn and receive housing first. They are provided with easier working conditions, the opportunity to register additional leave– all these conditions are subject to federal legislation.

Who is entitled to

The right to receive state aid, compensation, discounts on housing and communal services and travel benefits are available to the following categories of citizens:

1. Labor veterans, disabled people of all groups.
2. Participants of the Great Patriotic War, military operations.
3. Citizens who have received state awards.
4. Honorary donors.
5. Persons who have reached retirement age and have stopped working.
6. Citizens from low-income families.
7. Large families.
8. Persons in the civil service.
9. Citizens who are politically persecuted and their relatives.
10. Persons who liquidated the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and other nuclear power plants.
11. Citizens without work.

In Russia for preferential system The main principle is equalizing. That is, first of all, the state takes care of those citizens who are least protected and most in need of support. Funds are redistributed through the federal and regional budgets, and are transferred in the form of compensation, benefits, and subsidies.

The state considers the protection of minor children, both those who have parents and those left without care.

How to apply

In order to start receiving benefits, they must be registered. All types of social assistance are of an application nature and are awarded only after a citizen applies to a government organization. In order to apply for benefits, you need to take the following steps:

1. Obtain a status that gives you the right to free travel, treatment, housing and other types of preferences. You will need to contact the ITU - to register disability, the Pension Fund - when applying for pension payments.
2. The next stage is preparing everyone necessary documents. Initially, find out which of them must be provided and whether photocopies are required.
3. The application is written by hand or filled out on a prepared paper form. Some organizations allow you to submit your application electronically.
4. Then follows an application to the government agency with a complete package of documents. As a rule, they are taken away for inspection. Both originals and photocopies may be required.
5. There is almost never an immediate result; registration of benefits takes from 5 to 30 working days, depending on the authority.
6. After a certain amount of time, you need to appear for a second appointment and find out the result of the consideration of the application.

Some types of benefits are provided upon request, after presentation of a document confirming the right to receive them. Others (in in cash) are transferred to the personal bank account provided by the citizen upon registration.

Required documents

You only need to confirm your beneficiary status once by preparing a large package of documents. Then only the extension of some types is necessary social benefits. Basically, monetary compensations, pensions and benefits are valid throughout life. Will need to assemble next package documents:

1. Passport of a Russian citizen - original and a copy of the main spread with a photograph, page and registration information.
2. Certificate of beneficiary (pension).
3. An extract from the house register, if the applicant lives in a private house.
4. Certificate issued by the Housing Office, or Management company, which serves apartment house. The document is necessary to confirm the absence of debt for utility services.
5. Certificates of receipt of state awards.
6. Certificate of ownership of residential premises.

All these papers in the form of originals and copies are provided in district organizations responsible for providing citizens social benefits. The list may vary slightly depending on the region.

When can you get rejected?

Citizens who fully meet all the conditions do not receive a refusal, and subsidies and benefits are provided to them upon their first application. However, there are several common reasons, for which social benefits may still be denied:

1. The applicant does not have the right to receive state assistance or documents confirming it.
2. Errors in official documents, wrong data.
3. The applicant does not meet the conditions for receiving certain types of benefits. Thus, a pension can only be issued upon reaching a certain age.
4. Contacting the wrong person government organization, which provides specific type social assistance.
5. Lack of a specific benefit in the region of circulation.

The refusal is formalized in in writing, and it can be appealed if necessary. To do this, you need to submit a second application to the head of the department or to a higher authority.

Before applying for benefits at the branch social protection or the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, you need to clarify what types of social assistance the applicant is entitled to count on. This will save a lot of time. Regional authorities can establish certain types subsidies, for example, for free travel on the metro, which is not available in every city, or for individual species helping orphans. Benefits can be provided only after analysis of the regional budget.

Federal beneficiaries are a separate category of citizens who have the right to apply for a large number of various payments and benefits other than the pension they receive. Such benefits are paid from the federal budget and are issued by the Pension Fund in order to support and provide a dignified existence for citizens who have rendered significant services to the state.

• Disabled people of war
• Participants of the Great Patriotic War
• Combat veterans
• Military personnel who served in Von units, but were not part of the active army during the Second World War
• Citizens with the sign “Resident of besieged Leningrad”
• Those working at air defense facilities during the war and their family members
• Disabled people, disabled children

How can you exercise your right to a pension?

People with federal benefits, like ordinary citizens, can be obtained by performing certain conditions - insurance pension. These conditions include:

• Having at least one day of work experience for which the employer paid contributions
• Reaching retirement age, for the Russian Federation, a man is 60 years old, a woman is 55
• Availability of pension points on the account

If a person had work experience but became disabled for some reason, he will be able to receive a disability pension.

• Some federal beneficiaries are entitled not only to insurance pension, but also state

It is awarded to persons who have certain services to the Fatherland and participated in the war of 1941-1945.

What benefits are provided to support

• Monthly cash payment
• Additional monthly financial support

In addition, beneficiaries receiving EDV are entitled to benefits that are integral part given payment, for example medical, transport, sanatorium services. If a person uses them, the amount of money decreases.

• The amount of such a monthly benefit can range from 480 rubles to 56 thousand, and additional security from 500r. to 1000

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Monthly cash payments

This category of benefits is handled by the Pension Fund. To schedule a payment, you must personally or through legal representative go to the Foundation branch at the place of registration or residence, write an application in the appropriate form and collect full package documents. Size this manual is established for each category of beneficiaries separately.

• If a citizen has the right by law to receive EDV in several categories, then he can choose the one that is more optimal for him

Spa treatment

Sanatorium-resort treatment, as well as medical products And medicines, free travel to the place of treatment are included in the list social services provided to citizens eligible for federal benefits. The right to receive these benefits arises when submitting documents to receive EDV; you do not need to process them separately.

• Persons accompanying disabled people or disabled children have the same rights to receive compensation for travel as the beneficiaries themselves

Installed in 2017 the following amounts benefits:

Regarding the issue of obtaining and issuing vouchers for health improvement and treatment, you must contact the social protection authorities. Vouchers are provided in accordance with established queue. The duration of treatment is eighteen days, for disabled children twenty-one days/

Providing free medicines

In order to receive medical supplies, products for therapeutic nutrition Disabled children need to go to the clinic in their area of ​​residence and provide the following documents:

• Passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation
• SNILS
• Document giving the right to preferential security
• Certificate giving the right to NSO
• Medical policy

The attending physician must write you a prescription prescribing subsidized drugs, which must be included in the list approved by the Government. It can be found on the Internet or may be posted in clinics. Get medications It is also possible not in all pharmacies, but in certain ones.

Preferential travel on railway transport

The right to free travel on trains is exercised all year round, regardless of the route or number of trips. Social security authorities issue a travel ticket that cannot be transferred or exchanged to anyone. It must be provided along with a document confirming your right to this benefit.

To ensure free travel to the place of treatment, the beneficiary is provided with travel documents or social coupons, which give rise to the right to receive travel tickets. If the route involves several types of transport, then coupons are issued for each separately back and forth. You can travel by car, train or plane.

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Additional benefits and allowances

TO additional benefits and payments include DEMO additional monthly material support.

It is assigned by the Pension Fund, which accrued the pension.

If a pensioner has several reasons for receiving a monthly material support, then they will install it according to the one that is more advantageous in size. The establishment of DEMO does not depend on other payments.

Citizens who are entitled to receive EDV must independently decide whether they will receive NSU as the service itself or even though it monetary equivalent. To do this, you need to submit an application to the Pension Fund once, indicating the form of receipt, and there is no need to confirm it every year, but if the choice changes, the application must be rewritten before October 1.

You can receive your pension in one of the following ways: following methods:

1. via Russian Post– at your discretion, you can receive a pension at home or on your own post office at the place of residence. IN in this case Each pensioner is given a date when he can receive pension provision, it may be ahead of schedule and too late depending on the availability of money in the cash register. If you do not show up for receipt within six months for any reason, the payment is suspended and to resume it you must again contact the Pension Fund with an application.
2. through the bank– you can receive your pension at the cash desk of any bank branch or get a bank card and withdraw money through an ATM or accumulate it. Funds are credited to the card immediately after funding by the Pension Fund, and they can be withdrawn at any time without additional fees.

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1. through an organization that delivers pensions- for this, study full list such organizations located in the PF of your region, the procedure is the same as receiving at the post office

List of documents for registration, payment terms

To receive EDV, provide the Pension Fund with:

• Russian passport
• A document that gives and confirms the right to payment

The recipient is obliged to promptly notify the authorities of any changes in his documents or status that may affect the amount of the benefit or its termination.

According to the deadline, the decision is made within 10 days from the date of submission of documents, notification of the decision takes five days. This type benefits are paid simultaneously with the pension, and if the recipient is not a pensioner, then in any way convenient for him

• Thus, we can conclude that receiving federal benefits is very important for certain categories of citizens. They at least somehow help us stay afloat in our difficult life. Some benefit from receiving free medicines, while others benefit from monetary compensation, everyone chooses for themselves what is convenient for them. In any case, it is good that the state is trying to take care of pensioners, disabled people, and socially vulnerable categories of citizens (Read also article ⇒).

Answers to frequently asked questions

My grandmother was a survivor of the Leningrad siege, what federal benefits are provided to her?

Answer: Yes, the grandmother fits into the preferential category of citizens entitled to federal benefits from the state, namely monthly allowance EDV, or NSU. NSU refers to Spa treatment, obtaining medications, traveling by rail. To register, contact the pension fund authorities

My friend is disabled group 3, refused EDV and receives monetary compensation, while every month the doctor prescribed her 2 drugs for free. And now they refuse to prescribe one of the drugs, citing the fact that it is in short supply. The drug is on the list of mandatory medications. So is it legal for a doctor to refuse a discharge?

If the patient is already receiving monetary compensation, then the doctor does not have the right to write a prescription for a subsidized drug, this is illegal and then during the inspection the doctor will be punished

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IN Russian Federation valid single law on the provision of social support separate categories citizens. In addition, each region has certain programs to help the population. Due to this social categories citizens are divided into two groups: federal beneficiaries and regional ones.

Who belongs to them

Who are the beneficiaries? Federal support is provided to the following categories:

• veterans and disabled people of the Second World War and survivors of the siege;
• who took part in hostilities;
• , children with disabilities;
• heroes of labor;
• victims of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant;

Let's take a closer look at what privileges citizens who receive federal support in law.

Participants in wars, siege survivors

1. Possibility of simultaneous registration of several pension benefits at the same time: due to old age or disability. This is regulated by Russian Federation Law No.166. In addition, there is the opportunity to receive additional cash security and EDV.
2. The right to receive housing free of charge at the rate of 36 m2 per veteran. If family members live with him, then each person has another 18 m2.
3. Varied support in socially, and you can choose a social package or money.

War veterans are exempt from tax on 1 apartment or house if it is the property of a veteran. There are regions that exempt this category of persons from transport and land taxes.

Disabled people, disabled children

Law of the Russian Federation No. 181 defines assistance to citizens of this category, it includes: disabled people since childhood, disabled people of groups 1 and 2, certain cases even 3 grams, disabled children.

1. Disabled people of groups 1, 2, 3 receive cash payments , and have .
2. IN in kind, For example, receive for free: products, medicines, from federal list, transport travel is free.
3. Right to services to any institution out of turn.

These benefits are also divided into types, according to temporary provision:

• one-time benefit;
• monthly benefits, for example, a 50% discount on utility bills;
• annual assistance – travel expenses.

Victims at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

How to apply for a preference

1. According to, you need to visit the clinic and consult with your doctor about possible receipt assistance from the state, whether regional or federal benefits.
2. If you are eligible to receive assistance from the government, then you should go to the PF office in your city. You should write according to the sample provided to you by the PF employee and collect a package of documents.
3. The pension fund will issue a certificate stating that from such and such a date you have the right to receive medications.
4. Then every month you need to go to your doctor with this certificate, and he will write a prescription for subsidized medications or devices medical purposes. IN outpatient card the corresponding entry will appear.
5. If you are eligible for regional benefits, then the documents should be submitted to the clinic to obtain a preference.

Documentation

Federal benefits are managed by the pension fund, to which the following documents must be submitted:

• citizen's passport;
• pensioner's ID;
• a certificate justifying the provision of the benefit;
• metric on .

You will write an application to the Pension Fund.

Other types of benefits

Eat additional types benefits provided federal budget, For example:

• free dental and other prosthetics;
• additional leave, which can be taken at any time in the amount of 35 calendar days;
• extraordinary service in stores, station ticket offices, supermarkets;
• help social workers in housekeeping;
• providing a place in a nursing home without a waiting list.

In conclusion, it can be noted that the list of benefits provided by federal legislation is not small - DEMO, EDV, NSU. The state takes care of its citizens and honors heroes, so the list of benefits is constantly growing.

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Anyone who belongs to one of the categories that meets the requirements of legislative acts on this issue can obtain the status of a federal beneficiary. The state strives, whenever possible, to support federal beneficiaries both in monetary terms and in the form of services.

Who is eligible to receive federal benefit status?

List of persons who can count on receiving benefits under federal laws, and the volumes of state assistance are established by the following legislative documents:

• Law of July 17, 1999 No. 178 - Federal Law;
• Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;
• Law of May 15, 1991 No. 1244-1-FZ.

According to these laws, federal benefits can be used by:

1. veterans of all wars;
2. those who are in underage were in concentration camps;
3. disabled people (including childhood disabled people);
4. victims of radiation on Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other objects.

If a person has the right to benefits under more than one law, then he has the right to choose the basis according to which material payments will be the most significant. And only beneficiaries who have also been exposed to radiation will be able to receive both payments and concessions.

1. Heroes Soviet Union and heroes of the Russian Federation;
2. full gentlemen Order of Glory, Knights of the Order of Labor Glory;
3. Heroes of Social Labor, Heroes of Labor of the Russian Federation.

All these deserving people, if they fall under two or more grounds at once, can receive the status of a federal beneficiary and receive payments for all these grounds.

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What benefits are provided?

Federal benefits- these are monthly cash payments, as well as a set of social services, the latter being part of the EDV. There is no need to apply for both separately; from the moment of acquiring the status of a federal benefit recipient, everything that is required is automatically assigned. An exception is those who have been exposed to radiation, they should write separate statement with application separate set papers

Where to contact

Federal benefits are financed from the Pension Fund. Moreover, these payments are indexed annually in proportion to the growth of inflation. In 2017, for example, all benefits were indexed from February 1, without any participation of beneficiaries. This means that applying for indexing is not required.

What documents are needed

An applicant for federal benefit status must personally or through a representative submit the following documents:

• statement;
• passport;
• pension certificate (if available);
• SNILS;
• certificates of government awards;
• papers confirming participation in wars, exposure to radiation, etc.;
• medical documents about the presence of disability, etc.

Each document must be in original and copy form. The application should indicate everything that is asked in the form, usually this is:

• personal data - full name, passport details, address, citizenship;
• information about the location of the pension file;
• on what basis are benefits established;
• list of attached papers;
• signature, date.

The application form will be issued by the staff. local branch Pension Fund. When submitting an application, they will check the correctness of its execution, as well as the completeness of the set of documents. The applicant will also sign that he must inform the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation if there is any change in his status.

Deadlines

The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation is required to consider the application within 10 days from the date of application, during this period they must decide on the result, after which within 5 days the applicant must receive a response, if the response is negative, with a detailed motivation for the refusal. Written confirmation of the appointment of preferential payments is the document that certifies the status of a federal benefit recipient.

If the verdict is positive, payments will be accrued from the day of application (from the date recorded in the application). Money will be paid as long as the basis is valid and the citizen has not ceased to be classified as a person entitled to federal benefits - for example, if disability is canceled, payments will stop.

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The state provides social assistance to citizens belonging to one or another category of federal beneficiaries, directly regulated by legislative acts. Providing benefits is the most common method at all levels. Not everyone enjoys the right to receive it due to personal ignorance of the law.

The legal basis for the separation of persons requiring state social support in the form of benefits is a number of government laws regulating the basic provisions and important aspects legal relations in this area.

Federal benefits are financed from the government treasury. Manager Money The Pension Fund became part of the budget of the Russian Federation, taking care of its citizens who were on the following list:

1. Veterans of combat operations (without restrictions in time and territoriality of the war).
2. Family members of a war veteran who died.
3. Persons who took part in the liquidation emergency situation at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, suffered the consequences.
4. Individuals who suffered abuse from supporters of fascism.
5. People who have received distinctive insignia and orders for special, including labor, services to the Motherland.
6. Former military personnel who were in the rear, contributed to increasing the combat strength of the Soviet army.
7. Children with a corresponding disability group.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War and residents of besieged Leningrad

Participants of the Great Patriotic War and residents of besieged Leningrad are federal beneficiaries,
belonging to the same group. Basically, older people have the right to count on privileges in:

• housing industry (opportunity provided free receipt residential premises in compliance with regional norms, standards and features);
• pension provision (the federal beneficiary has the authority to choose the type of pension and the right to receive material compensation in monetary terms);
• sphere social nature- These are federal benefits, which include:

1. Providing a discount (up to 50%) when paying for housing and communal services provided.
2. Installation and connection of local home communication in the form of a landline telephone.
3. Gratuitous medical service in health care institutions related to municipal form property.
4. Dental services subject to a certain procedure.
5. Benefits when official employment in the process of applying for leave.
6. Possibility of priority.
7. Economic assistance from social workers of specially created institutions.
8. Accelerated procedure for settling in nursing homes.

It is worth noting that, depending on the place of residence, regional benefits may imply a number of features in the taxation process.

Disabled people and disabled children

It's about adult citizens having 1-3 groups of disability received from childhood and directly from the children themselves. Compensation payments are not limited in their regulation to one regulatory legal act. There is a whole system.

The main document for registration federal benefits is a conclusion issued by a competent medical commissions, specially created for these purposes.

Liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Individuals who have received a dose radiation exposure, due to the disaster-explosion of the reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, has the right to rely on the provision federal aid. This:

1. Financial support awarded to individuals and their younger generation every month for the purpose of purchasing essential goods.
2. One-time compensation due to radiation exposure.
3. Payment once a year for damage to health.
4. If the fact of disability is established, obtaining sum of money once.
5. Financial assistance in the amount of up to 50% of the cost of services provided by housing and communal services enterprises.
6. Improvement living conditions through the provision of new premises.
7. Privileges in the field of labor law.
8. 100% payment by the employer for sick leave.
9. Advantages when reducing the working staff.
10. Priority.
11. Level fixation wages.

Other beneficiaries

The list of preferential categories includes citizens who have taken Active participation on the battlefield not only in 1941-1945, but also in actions of a paramilitary nature in other time periods. Social help is provided in this form:

1. Housing:
   • provision of housing;
   • extraordinary installation of fixed telephone equipment;
   • system of privileges when paying for utility services received.
2. Medical:
   • no queue during service;
   • free treatment in municipal health resorts, preferential prosthetics procedures.
3. Compensation:
   • one-time financial support(EDV);
   • a certain set of social services (NSS);
   • payments in the event of a disability group.

What is the difference between a federal and a regional beneficiary?

Different types preferential categories have a number of similarities and differences. Let us consider in more detail which of the citizens belongs to them.

A similar feature is the ability of some state persons to simultaneously use two types of assistance.

The differences are as follows:

1. Source of financing.
2. Individuality of design.
3. Legislative body, procedure for agreeing and adopting a rule-making document.

Main types of benefits: social, EDV, DEMO

State aid
Social	Material
1. Free medical drug treatment. 2. Providing food. 3. Resort recovery. 4. Free pass municipal public transport.	EDV	DEMO
	The cash payment is intended for persons related to actions of a paramilitary nature, services to the Fatherland, and the Chernobyl disaster. If there are signs of several categories, finances are not summed up, the principle applies highest benefit. Choice regulatory regulation determined by the beneficiary himself. The amount of social benefits can reach from 2 to 5 thousand Russian rubles.	Additional material is intended for a specific circle of people.
		500 Russian rubles	1000 Russian rubles
		1. Rear servicemen in the 41-45s. 2. Wives of those killed in the Finnish, Japanese, and WWII wars.