From July 1, 2018 in Kazakhstan, the basic pension will be raised and a new manual will be introduced for people caring for disabled people of the 1st group since childhood

This was stated by the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population Madina Abylkasymova during a press conference in the Central Communications Service.

The main topic of the briefing was the results of the activities of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection for 2017 and the priority areas of work for 2018.

Opening the briefing, the head of the agency Madina Abylkasymova spoke about significant changes in the social and labor sphere implemented on behalf of the Head of State at the present time.

In order to improve the social support system, on July 2 of this year the Head of State signed the Law "On Amendments and Additions to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Social Security Issues" providing for the introduction of a new manual for persons caring for adults of the 1st group from childhood. This will allow receiving benefits in the amount of about 30 thousand tenge per month for more than 14 thousand families.

Another positive transformation of the social and labor sphere in 2018 was the introduction of a new format for providing targeted social assistance. This format involves the involvement of able-bodied members of low-income families in the promotion of employment. So, for 5 months of the current year, TSA beneficiaries became about 72 thousand families, and the average size of the benefit has doubled.

The Minister informed that since July 1 of the current year the basic level of pensions has been modernized, providing for the interrelation of payments with the length of service.

"In the implementation of the message of the Head of State, the pension system will now be completely tied to the length of service. The increase has affected more than 2 million pensioners, of which about 1 million people now receive a basic pension at the maximum amount, and for 930,000 people, the increase will be from 37% to 81%. Taking into account the indexation of pensions by 6% since January 1, 2018, the average size of the basic pension has increased 1.8 times compared to 2017, "Madina Abylkasymova summed up.

A significant measure to support the income of the population will be the implementation of the Fourth Social Initiative of the Head of State to expand the microcredit program. On the instructions of the President of the country, the volume of financing has been increased by 20 billion tenge and is 62.4 billion tenge. Thus, 14 thousand people wishing to open a business or develop an existing one will be covered by microcrediting.

The minister also summed up the results of the work of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population for 2017.

As the head of the department noted, in 2017 all social obligations of the state were fully implemented.

"The cost of the state budget for social security and social assistance in 2017 exceeded KZT 2.1 trillion, which exceeds the expenditures of 2016 by 13% and makes 26% of the expenditures of the republican budget. In 2017, pensions of Kazakhstanis have been increased twice - for more than 2 million people, the size of pensions has been increased by 20%. The growth in the amount of social payments for caring for a child up to one year is 7%, "M.Abylkasimova said.

In the framework of the Program of Productive Employment and Mass Entrepreneurship, 576,000 citizens were covered by employment measures and 450,000 people were employed.

Speaking about the development of mass entrepreneurship, the head of the department noted the new format of microcrediting and the possibility of teaching the basics of entrepreneurship under the Bastau-Business project, implemented jointly with the Atameken NPP. In total, 15 thousand people passed entrepreneurship training last year, 7.2 thousand people received microcredits, more than 4 thousand of them were directed to start-up projects. An important multiplicative effect has been obtained in the form of creating over 4.3 thousand additional permanent jobs.

To stimulate mobility of labor resources, 1,556 families were relocated from the labor surplus to the work-poor northern regions, which is 8 times more than in 2016.

To create safe working conditions, employers, together with trade unions, created over 12,000 production councils. More than 1,700 large enterprises of the country have implemented labor protection standards, 1,500 employers have certified workplaces.

Wage arrears are in special control. As a result, in 2017 the debt was repaid in the amount of

3 billion tenge, thereby protecting the rights of 25,000 workers.

Positive socio-economic dynamics achieved in 2017, creates the basis for further growth of social protection of the population and the quality of life of citizens in 2018.

According to Madina Abylkasymova, in 2018, taking into account the tasks set by the Head of State, the work of the Ministry is focused on the following priority tasks, including the growth of social welfare and the protection of the social rights of citizens of Kazakhstan; support of motherhood and childhood, improvement of the social insurance system, involvement in productive employment and formalization of employment; training a new formation for the new economy, improving the efficiency of migration regulation and ensuring decent working conditions for workers.

As part of the implementation of these tasks, the structure of the subsistence minimum was revised from January 1, 2018. As a result, all social payments related to the subsistence minimum for more than 3 million Kazakhstanis have been increased to 16%. This affected the incomes of more than 3 million Kazakhstanis.

In the social insurance system, the parameters of social payments will be revised to strengthen their connection with the work experience, and increasing coefficients are applied. The corresponding bill will be developed by the ministry before the end of this year.

Cardinally changing the system of social services for people with special needs. In order to optimize the procedure and terms of medical and social expertise for people with disabilities, a new format for the medical and social expertise has been developed and piloted.

Until the end of 2018, 8 services related to disability will be transferred to a proactive regime.

In order to address the problem of insufficient qualification of social workers, a National Resource Center for Social Work will be established in 2018.

As a result of these measures, the quality of life and accessibility of services for more than 500,000 persons with disabilities and more than 100,000 people in difficult life situations will improve.

For the implementation of the employment program "Ebek" in 2018, 110.6 billion tenge was allocated, which will allow to cover more than 500 thousand citizens with employment promotion measures.

In the current year, the Ministry has launched a lot of work to modernize and prepare the labor market for new challenges. The development of the system for forecasting the demand for personnel will develop. This year, a new National Classification of Occupations has been introduced, which assesses the composition of resources for more than a thousand relevant groups of professions. The formation of the National Qualifications Framework will continue, within the framework of which professional standards are developed, where employers define an exhaustive set of knowledge, skills and competencies in the professions.

To date, the development and signing, together with large enterprises, of Roadmaps for the management of labor flows, which envisage the forecast of the released personnel, investment in their retraining and the promotion of further employment.

At the moment, Road maps have been signed with 387 enterprises of the republic, in which more than 400 thousand employees work. Work is being done with 139 large enterprises.

In order to create safe working conditions at enterprises with a high level of occupational risk, a comprehensive Roadmap for reducing injuries and jobs with hazardous working conditions for 2019-2021 has been developed.

To prevent the risks of labor disputes, a new Action Plan for resolving labor conflicts will be approved.

In order to involve citizens in productive employment and provide stable incomes of the population, a single online platform has been created to search for work and recruitment - the Electronic Labor Exchange, functioning on the basis of the Internet portal enbek.kz, where today more than 42,000 vacancies are located, more than 85 thousand resume and registered more than 48 thousand employers. With the help of the exchange 145 thousand people have already found work.

Also in the first half of this year, with the goal of creating legal and social bases for registering self-employed people, a draft law on the formalization of employment has been drafted, providing for the creation of a new legal regime - the Single Total Payment.

Payment of the CPA will allow not only to register informal activities, but also to participate in the system of compulsory medical and social insurance, pension provision.

As the minister noted, the actual direction of the department is digitalization. The Ministry implements proactive services - without applying to citizens of state bodies, including persons with disabilities. The process of employment is also transferred to the electronic format: from job search to the introduction of electronic labor books.