The procedure for providing medical assistance to persons entitled to receive state social assistance

This Federal Law establishes the legal and organizational framework for the provision of state social assistance to low-income families, low-income citizens living alone and other categories of citizens provided for by this Federal Law.

The subject of regulation of this Federal Law is not relations related to the provision of benefits and measures of social support to citizens established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

State social assistance - the provision of social benefits, social supplements to pensions, subsidies, social services and vital goods to low-income families, low-income citizens living alone, as well as other categories of citizens specified in this Federal Law;

A set of social services - a list of social services provided to certain categories of citizens in accordance with this Federal Law;

State social assistance is provided for the following purposes:

  • maintaining the standard of living of low-income families, as well as low-income citizens living alone, whose average per capita income is below the subsistence level established in the corresponding subject of the Russian Federation;
  • targeted use of budgetary funds;
  • strengthening the targeting of social support for needy citizens;
  • creating the necessary conditions to ensure universal accessibility and socially acceptable quality of social services;
  • reducing the level of social inequality;
  • increasing the income of the population.

Chapter 2 of the above law establishes the foundations of state social assistance, provided in the form of providing citizens with a set of social services.

Article 6.1. The right to receive state social assistance in the form of a set of social services.

In accordance with this chapter, the following categories of citizens have the right to receive state social assistance in the form of a set of social services:

1) war invalids;

2) participants in the Great Patriotic War;

3) combat veterans from among the persons specified in subparagraphs 1-4 of paragraph 1 of Article 3 of the Federal Law "On Veterans" (as amended by Federal Law No. 40-FZ of January 2, 2000);

4) military personnel who served in military units, institutions, military educational institutions that were not part of the army in the period from June 22, 1941 to September 3, 1945 for at least six months, military personnel awarded orders or medals of the USSR for service in the specified period;

5) persons awarded with the badge "Inhabitant of besieged Leningrad";

6) persons who worked during the Great Patriotic War at air defense facilities, local air defense, at the construction of fortifications, naval bases, airfields and other military facilities within the rear borders of the operating fronts, operating zones of the operating fleets, on the front-line sections of railways and highways, as well as members of the crews of ships of the transport fleet interned at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in the ports of other states;

7) family members of the dead (deceased) war invalids, participants of the Great Patriotic War and combat veterans, family members of those who died in the Great Patriotic War from among the personnel of the self-defense groups of the facility and emergency teams of the local air defense, as well as family members of the deceased workers of hospitals and hospitals in the city of Leningrad;

8) disabled people;

9) disabled children.

Article 6.2. Set of social services

1. The set of social services provided to citizens from among the categories specified in Article 6.1 of this Federal Law includes the following social services:

1) provision, in accordance with the standards of medical care, with the necessary medicines for medical use according to prescriptions for medicines, medical devices according to prescriptions for medical devices, as well as specialized medical nutrition products for children with disabilities;

1.1) providing, if there are medical indications, a voucher for sanatorium-and-spa treatment carried out in order to prevent major diseases, to sanatorium-and-spa organizations determined in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on the contract system in the field of procurement of goods, works, services to meet state and municipal needs;

2) free travel on suburban railway transport, as well as on intercity transport to the place of treatment and back.

When providing social services in accordance with this article, citizens with group I disability and disabled children have the right to receive, on the same conditions, a second voucher for sanatorium treatment and free travel on suburban railway transport, as well as on intercity transport to the place of treatment and back for the person accompanying them.

2. The Government of the Russian Federation approves a list of medicinal products for medical use, including medicinal products for medical use, prescribed by decision of medical commissions of medical organizations, a list of medical devices, a list of specialized therapeutic food products for disabled children, the provision of which is carried out in accordance with clause 1 of part 1 of this article, and the procedures for compiling such lists.

3. The duration of sanatorium-resort treatment within the framework of the set of social services provided to citizens in a sanatorium-resort organization is 18 days, for disabled children - 21 days, and for disabled people with diseases and consequences of injuries of the spinal cord and brain - from 24 to 42 days.

Article 6.3. Provision of social services

1. Accounting for the right of citizens to receive social services specified in Article 6.2 of this Federal Law is carried out at the place of residence of a citizen from the date of establishment of a monthly cash payment in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

2. The period for the provision of social services to citizens in accordance with this Chapter is a calendar year.

If a citizen within a calendar year has acquired the right to receive social services in accordance with this chapter, the period for the provision of social services to him is the period from the date the citizen acquired the right to receive social services until December 31 of the current year.

If a citizen within a calendar year has lost the right to receive social services in accordance with this Chapter, the period for the provision of social services to him is the period from January 1 to the date the citizen loses the right to receive social services.

3. A citizen entitled to receive social services in accordance with this Federal Law may refuse to receive them by submitting an application to the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, which makes a monthly cash payment to him, directly to the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, through a multifunctional center for the provision of state and municipal services (hereinafter referred to as the multifunctional center) or in another way (including sending an application in the form of an electronic document, the procedure for issuing which is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation and which is sent using the information tele communication networks, including a single portal of state and municipal services).

It is allowed to refuse to receive a set of social services in full, to refuse to receive one of the social services provided for in clauses 1, 1.1 and 2 of part 1 of Article 6.2 of this Federal Law, and to refuse to receive any two social services provided for in clauses 1, 1.1 and 2 of part 1 of Article 6.2 of this Federal Law.

4. Until October 1 of the current year, a citizen may submit an application for refusing to receive a set of social services (social services) for the period from January 1 of the year following the year in which the said application was submitted, and until December 31 of the year in which the citizen applies for the resumption of the provision of a set of social services (social services) to him.

An application for the resumption of the provision of a set of social services (social services) is submitted before October 1 of the current year for the period from January 1 of the year following the year in which the application was submitted.

A citizen may submit an application for refusal to receive a set of social services (social services) or for the resumption of its (her) provision directly to the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, through a multifunctional center or in another way (including sending an application in the form of an electronic document, the procedure for issuing which is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation and which is sent using information and telecommunication networks, including a single portal of state and municipal services). In the latter case, identification and authentication of the signature of a citizen are carried out:

1) by a notary or in the manner prescribed by paragraph 3 of Article 185 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation;

2) the body (organization) with which the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation has concluded an agreement on mutual certification of signatures. The standard form of this agreement is approved by the federal executive body responsible for the development and implementation of state policy and legal regulation in the field of labor and social protection of the population;

3) when submitting an application through a single portal of state and municipal services or when using an electronic signature in accordance with the established procedure.

5. The procedure for the provision of social services to citizens in accordance with this chapter is established by the federal executive body that carries out the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of labor and social protection of the population, and the federal executive body that exercises the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of healthcare.