Social protection of needy categories of the population in

Russia

Glukhikh Yana, The candidate of philosophical

sciences, the senior lecturer

Social layers

Poor people Needy people With average income Well off and rich people

Needy categories

Disabled people( I, II groups) Pensioners Aged citizens (80 years and elder) Large families (many children) One-parent families Families with handicaped children Families of the unemployed people Families with little children The persons who have got in extreme situations

The basic methods of regulation a standard of living for categories in need

Indexation The social help

Indexation

The mechanism of automatic updating of incomes

By increase of incomes at the certain interest through certain time

By updating incomes in process of growth of a price level on beforehand stipulated interest

The state social help

System of measures in order to help people who are in need (families and lonely citizens in need )

The purposes of rendering of the state social help

Maintenance of a standard of living of people in need

Overcoming and mitigation of vital difficulties Rational use of budgetary funds

Kinds of the social help

Payments The natural help Services and privileges The humanitarian aid

Payments

Social benefits Grants (definite sums of money) Compensations

Grants for payment (habitation/ dwelling) and municipal services ( % from the general number of families)

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

2000 2001 2002

Murmansk regionRussia

The state help to elderly and old people in the Russian Federation and Murmansk region

The address social help (the housing grant) Development of social establishments (a network of

houses for disabled people, houses for 25-30 people, houses for veterans - room type with a complex of social service

Hire of the medical equipment Free-of-charge transport ("Oka") The geriatric centres Houses of nursery care

Programs of Murmansk region (the Complex centres of social service) for old and elderly people

Social privileges for payment of municipal services, public transport

Social taxi Social chemist»s shops « Cheap fish » Social laundries Social hairdressing saloons Daily hot dinners Free-of-charge products (bread, a flour, macaroni) Social - resort treatment ("Tamara") Service at home

Model of social service, widespread in the Russian Federation (Murmansk region, Ekaterinburg, Penza, Novokuznetsk and others)

The urgent social help (mobile brigades) Address social and economic kitchen gardens Social - medical service for people with diseases The organization of sanatorium treatment at home Entertainment Psychological correction Social chemist s shops Social taxi

The program « Habitation/ dwelling for elderly people »

Own habitation

The rehabilitation help The social centre Social - rehabilitation

branch Day time stay Urgent home visiting

service Social service at home Social dining room

Special habitation

Boarding house - the house for veterans

The special (social) house Social hotel Social shelter The house of night stay The special house for

persons from jails Branches of mercy The house of a nursery care

The list of categories in need and kinds of the privileges given to people of Murmansk region

dwelling the phone sanatorium treatment

Cost of travel by bus in town

medicines

Veterans of war

50% less 50% less Free of charge

Free of charge

Free of charge

Veterans 50% less 50% less Free of charge

Free of charge

It depends

Handicapped children -

50% less 50% less 50% less Free of charge

Free of charge

Large families

( many children)

50% less 50% less It depends Free of charge

to children up to 6 years