Assignment and payment of benefits for the care of a disabled person of the first group from childhood

      An allowance for a person caring for a disabled person of the first group from childhood is assigned and paid from the day the disabled person of the first group from childhood or his legal representative applies for the entire period of establishing the disability of the first group from childhood in the manner determined by the authorized state body.

       Caring for a disabled person of the first group from childhood involves:

• cohabitation of a caregiver and a disabled person of the first group since

childhood in the same settlement;

• assistance of a carer, a disabled person of the first group from childhood to

fulfill one or more unregulated basic needs (in maintaining personal hygiene, when dressing, eating, physiological departures, escorting from the place of residence to the destination and back, etc.), the need for satisfaction which occurs one or more times a day.

       The allowance for caring for a disabled person of the first group from childhood is not assigned to persons:

      1) minors;

      2) recognized by the court as incapable or partially incapable;

      3) registered in a psychiatric and (or) narcological dispensary.