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Published: 07/23/2018
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Disabled children in Russia are entitled to comprehensive financial support at the state level. They have the right to count on a variety of monthly additional payments in the form of pensions and benefits, as well as a number of labor and social benefits.
- Types of assistance in caring for a disabled child
- Preferential pension for disabled children
- Early care pension
- How to get a pension
Payout Features
A mother or father can apply for early retirement if they have a disabled child in their care. The benefit is paid only to one of the spouses. However, a husband or wife may refuse financial assistance in favor of another person in their family. For example, payments were previously issued to a woman, but she wants to switch to a regular pension. Thanks to this, the man gets the opportunity to go on a well-deserved rest ahead of schedule.
Legal regulation in this matter is carried out in paragraph 1 of Art. 32 Federal Law. The law stipulates the principle of calculating insurance pensions. Here you can also find information about the right to early exit, which is reserved for certain categories of citizens.
According to the Federal Law, the following groups of people can apply for early retirement:
- Mother of five or more children, if the youngest is already 8 years old. In this case, the woman must have at least 15 years of insurance experience. In this case, they can retire at age 50.
- Pensions for parents of children with disabilities are also paid early (for men from the age of 55, and for women from the age of 50). However, they must have a work experience of 20 and 15 years, respectively.
- Guardians of a disabled person also have the right to claim insurance benefits. In total, they can retire no earlier than 5 years. At the same time, similar requirements are put forward for the work experience and age of the disabled child.
The years that a father and mother take care of a disabled child are ultimately counted as work experience. Payments are assigned for life if parents or guardians are constantly caring for a disabled person.
Payments must be made to the Pension Fund
Supplement to pension for caring for a disabled person
Pensioners have the right to refuse the services of social workers. In this case, caring for them can be done by those people whom the disabled person or his relatives trust. In this case, guardianship is formalized with the consent of the disabled person. It will be limited.
If disability is established due to a mental disorder, the pensioner does not give consent to guardianship due to incapacity. But it needs to be established in court.
After recognizing the pensioner’s incapacity, the social security service appoints a guardian who receives the pensioner’s legal capacity. A guardian can make property transactions on behalf of a person declared incompetent. At the end of each year, he must submit a report to the social security authority on the expenses incurred.
To care for a disabled person, guardians are entitled to a supplement to the pension of a disabled or incapacitated citizen.
Important : social protection authorities carefully check persons applying for guardianship to ensure that they actually perform the functions assigned to them and do not use guardianship for personal gain.
Let's figure out how to apply for a pension for caring for a disabled person
A pension for caring for a disabled person is assigned by the social protection body after submitting an application from a person ready to care for a pensioner, a disabled person of the first group and additionally:
- Passports.
- Work record book (from both sides).
- Medical report establishing the first disability group.
- Confirmation of the absence of other income in the form of official earnings, pensions, unemployment insurance payments.
Relatives, acquaintances, or neighbors can apply for a pension for caring for a disabled person.
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Note : since 2013, after amendments were made to the labor code with the granting of the right to work to persons after turning 15 years old, they acquired the right to care for disabled people on an equal basis with adult citizens.
Choose an honest, decent person as your guardian
Disabled people of the second disability group have the right to care for pensioners, if this is possible for them.
Important : guardians cannot be persons who have been deprived of parental rights, have a criminal record, do not have living space and do not have any income.
For caring for a disabled person of group 1, the pension is increased by the compensatory additional payment that is due to the person caring for him.
It will be paid only if the citizen has no other income from labor or business activities, pensions, other insurance or social benefits.
The grounds for termination of payments may be:
- death of a disabled person;
- employment of a guardian;
- registration of a pension by a guardian;
- receipt of other payments by the guardian.
The occurrence of one of the events obliges the guardian to report this to the social security authority within five days, and payments will be stopped. Payments may be canceled due to the person’s failure to perform their duties properly.
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Today, the supplement is 1,200 rubles for caring for one pensioner and increases by the same amount for subsequent disabled people.
Important : a pension for caring for a disabled person of group 2 is not provided.
Additional benefits may be available for caregivers at the local level. So in Moscow they are provided with an exemption from transport tax for one vehicle.
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Guardians have the right to free travel while accompanying a pensioner to a medical facility.
The time that was used by them to care for a disabled person and when there was no right to work is counted toward citizens’ total length of service. The value of points increases by 1.8 units.
The assignment of payments for guardians does not reduce the size of pensions and additional payments for disabled people.
They receive the full amount of their pension, a set of social services and monthly cash payments.
A set of social services provides financial compensation:
- purchases of medicines (learn what benefits are provided!);
- purchasing a trip to a sanatorium;
- the cost of tickets for travel to a sanatorium or medical institution.
In 2020, in monetary terms, these payments will be the following amounts (see table).
Basic conditions
Before retirement age, parents or guardians of an incapacitated child can count on payments. However, in addition they must fully satisfy the following conditions:
Registration of disability for a child
- Care is provided from birth until the child reaches eight years of age.
- The parent does not additionally receive a special disability benefit.
- It is also important to comply with the terms of work experience. Mothers will need to work 15 years, and fathers 20.
- A parent will not be able to count on payments if he is an individual entrepreneur.
- An incapacitated child lives in the family from birth until the age of 8 inclusive.
If these conditions are met in full, then one of the parents will be able to retire. One and a half years of caring for a disabled person is counted as one year of work experience. Receiving payments and issuing certificates is considered a completely voluntary process. The family can independently choose the optimal way of further existence.
Will it be possible to arrange care for disabled parents of groups 2 and 3?
Many children are concerned about the question of whether they can arrange care for parents with disabilities of groups 2 and 3. This cannot be done in this case, but there is an exception. It is possible to arrange care for an incapacitated disabled person of group 2 if there is a medical report that indicates an accurate diagnosis. Then the caregiver will provide care under the same conditions as those who care for disabled people of group 1. A working-age citizen will be entitled to similar benefits and cash payments.
Payment and deadlines for processing documents
If a child is disabled from childhood, then his parents can apply for a pension without additional payment to the state. The Pension Fund accepts an application if a woman is already 50 years old and a man is 55.
You should start preparing documents 1–2 years before retirement age.
The duration of the procedure is fixed at 30 days. A number of difficulties may arise in the process of collecting certificates. That is why the process should begin well in advance of the appropriate age. Payments will be credited to the card from the next period after the application is accepted.
The process of applying for a pension before the deadline is no different from the usual one. The size directly depends on the length of service, additional subsidies and special coefficients. The main difference is the opportunity to start receiving appropriate insurance payments five years earlier. If a parent wishes to continue working as before, then he does not need to warn the Pension Fund about this. It is permissible to refuse this opportunity in favor of the other spouse. However, retiring early at the same time is also considered unacceptable. Before you start processing documents, we recommend that you carefully read the nuances of this process.
Accrual of IPC during the period of caring for a disabled person
In general, the IPC is accrued only if insurance contributions are transferred to the account of compulsory pension insurance (OPI). Thus, a citizen can increase his IPC in the following cases :
- during the period of official employment on the basis of an employment contract (or contract), subject to the employer transferring contributions to the compulsory pension insurance account;
- during the activities of individual entrepreneurs (other self-employed activities), subject to the transfer of contributions to the OPS account in the prescribed manner.
However, current legislation provides exceptions to the above rules. In particular, IPC is accrued to citizens who do not work due to the need to care for a disabled person.
Number of pension points for the period of caring for a disabled person
The IPC accrual for a disabled person in 2020 is 1.8 points for each full calendar year of care.
Thus, a citizen who has not worked for 3 years and was caring for a disabled person is entitled to an increase in the IPC by 5.4 (1.8 * 3).
The calculation of the IPC accrued for an incomplete year of care is carried out in proportion to the actual period during which the citizen did not work and cared for a disabled person (0.15 points for each month of such care).
How to obtain an additional IPC during the period of caring for a disabled person
The basis for increasing the IPC at the expense of points accrued during the period of incapacity for work are the following documents:
- consent of a disabled citizen to receive care from a specific person (executed in the form of an application, the form of which can be downloaded here ⇒ Statement of consent of a disabled person to care for him );
- a document certifying the disability of the care recipient (extract from the ITU act on assignment of a disability group, a copy of the citizen’s passport confirming age over 80 years);
- a certificate stating that the citizen is not a recipient of a pension during the period of caring for a disabled person;
- work book confirming the absence of work activity during the period of caring for a disabled person.
If a citizen was caring for an elderly person (over 80 years old), then an additional certificate from a medical institution must be provided regarding the elderly citizen’s need to receive care.
All of the above documents should be submitted to the territorial office of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation at the place of registration. A citizen can submit documents both at the time of completion of care and when applying for an insurance pension, along with other documents certifying the right to receive payment.
Where to go and how to arrange care
In order for the time of care to be included in your work experience, you need to contact the Pension Fund together with the person for whom you intend to provide care. You will have to present documents confirming the status and disability group, or the advanced age of the ward.
Keep in mind: if you have two disabled people on your hands, then do not count on double experience. It is added up only if you take care of two disabled children under the age of one and a half years. And by the way, never put off the issue of registering with the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, because laws are constantly changing, and besides, a disabled person can refuse your services at any time and the experience that is not completed on time will simply disappear.
If an elderly or disabled person cannot contact you at the Fund, you can fill out an application and invite a Fund employee to your home in order to settle all the formalities.
It is not at all necessary that the person under your care be your relative; there is no such requirement in the law, but before you are placed in care, you must have at least some official work experience.
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