The Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan approved in two readings the bill "On Amendments and Additions to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Social Security Issues"

The main innovations of the Draft Law are the introduction from July 1, 2018 of a new state benefit to persons caring for disabled people of the first group from childhood over 18 years of age.

This allowance will receive about 14 thousand families. The size of the allowance will be 1.05 of the subsistence level or 29 699 tenge in the current year. It is appointed for life and the time of care for the disabled will be counted as a seniority in the appointment of pension payments for long service. At the same time, the amount of state social benefits for the disabled of the first group since childhood is now 54,306 tenge. In addition, the disabled of the first group on the basis of individual rehabilitation programs are already provided with rehabilitation facilities and services in accordance with medical and social indications and contraindications.

Also, amendments will be made to the Law "On Special Social Services" to ensure joint participation in social services not only by the state, but also by citizens, family members, representatives of the private sector and NGOs, which will lead to an improvement in the quality of social services, and by increasing the participation of the private sector.

In addition, it is planned to create a social services portal, which will contain personalized information about the recipients of special social services and their social services. It will be systematically updated taking into account the natural movement and changing the composition of consumers of services and specialists providing special social services.

The bill also provides for amendments to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On State Targeted Social Assistance" with regard to the prolongation of the social contract in the event of a change in the terms of active measures to promote employment. This will allow in practice to fix the objective circumstances under which the term of the social contract can be prolonged, which will increase the efficiency of performing by poor citizens of their obligations under the contract.

At the same time, the draft law amends the transition to daily funding on the schedule of social payments from the state social insurance fund, which will shorten the terms of receiving social benefits up to 3 working days after their appointment.

Along with this, the document regulates the amendments to the granting to persons discharged from military service after June 13, 2017 of the right to travel at the expense of the state on rail, road and inland water transport to the place of registration for military registration or to the chosen place of residence within the Republic of Kazakhstan.