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Targeted social assistance (hereinafter – TSA) provides comprehensive social assistance to low-income citizens:
first, it is a cash payment;
secondly, measures to promote employment, that is, referral to training, youth practice, public works, social jobs, micro-credit, permanent jobs;
third, measures of social adaptation, including social rehabilitation of disabled people, legal advice, assistance in obtaining housing assistance to compensate for the cost of housing and communal services, placement on the waiting list for housing and kindergartens, as well as registration in women's consultations, and other measures (organization of sections, circles, optional classes and free meals for school-age children);
fourth, a guaranteed social package for children from low-income families (provision of food sets and household chemicals; provision of free meals at the place of study, school uniforms and school supplies, preferential travel on public transport).
TSA is classified into 2 types: unconditional and conditional monetary assistance.
Unconditional monetary assistance is provided to families with disabled citizens or families in which the only able-bodied family member for objective reasons is not able to find employment (takes care of a child under the age of three, a disabled child, a disabled person of the first or second group, the elderly who need outside care and assistance).
To receive unconditional monetary assistance, mandatory participation in employment promotion measures is not required.
Unconditional cash assistance is assigned for the current quarter from the month of application and is paid monthly.
Conditional cash assistance is intended for families with at least one able-bodied member and is provided on condition that a social contract is concluded and executed in good faith. The social contract is valid for 3 months.
Conditional cash assistance is assigned from the month of application and is paid monthly or in a lump sum for the period of validity of the social contract.
To assign a TSA, low-income families (citizens) must apply to the employment Center at their place of residence, in rural areas – to the mayor of the village, village, rural district with an application and an identity card for identification.
When accepting documents for assistance, an interview is conducted, during which the following grounds are determined:
- to receive unconditional or conditional monetary assistance;
- need for employment promotion measures;
- the need for social adaptation measures.
The TSA is assigned to citizens with an average per capita income that does not exceed the poverty line for each family member.
Today, the poverty line is defined at the level of 70% of the PM or on average for the 1st quarter of 2020 – 21,302 tenge.
So, the size of the TSA per person (family) it is calculated as the difference between the average per capita income and the regional poverty line for each family member.
At the same time, the total family income includes all types of income except for the following payments: - housing and targeted social assistance;
- one-time burial allowances; - state social disability allowances for disabled children up to sixteen years of age;
- state social benefits for disabled children from sixteen to eighteen years of age of the first, second, third groups;
- special state allowances for children with disabilities up to sixteen years of age; - special state allowances for children with disabilities from sixteen to eighteen years of age of the first, second, third groups;
monthly state benefits assigned and paid to mothers of large families awarded with pendants "Altyn Alka", "Kumis Alka" or got before the rank "Mother-heroine", awarded the order "Maternal glory" I and II degree; - scholarships, including state and nominal scholarships paid to students studying in educational institutions, implementing educational programs of higher education, students of educational institutions, implementing educational programs of technical and vocational post-secondary education (schools, colleges,);
- assistance provided to the family in order to compensate for damage caused to their health and property as a result of emergency situations;
- one-time state benefits in connection with the birth of a child;
- financial and material assistance to students from low-income families, provided in educational institutions in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of education; - assistance in cash or kind provided to needy citizens in connection with growth of prices for food from the state budget and other sources in accordance with the decree of the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 21 may 2013
No. 504 "on approval of the Standard rules for providing social assistance, setting the size and determining the list of certain categories of citizens in need"; - one-time monetary assistance provided in accordance with the Standard rules; - charitable assistance;
- payment for the trip of citizens for free or preferential prosthetics;
- maintenance of citizens during prosthetics; - cost of free or preferential travel of citizens outside the locality for treatment;
- natural types of assistance provided in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the form of: medicines; Spa treatment; prosthetic and orthopedic products (manufacturing and repair); vehicles (wheelchairs) and rehabilitation allocated to disabled people; - material assistance to students and pupils of state educational institutions from families that do not receive state targeted social assistance, in which the average per capita income is below the subsistence minimum, children - orphans, children left without parental care, living in families, children from families requiring emergency assistance as a result of emergency situations, and other categories of students and pupils provided in accordance with the Rules for the formation, direction of expenditure and accounting of funds allocated for financial and material assistance to students and pupils of state educational institutions from families that are entitled to receive state targeted social assistance, as well as from families that do not receive state targeted social assistance, in which the average per capita income is lower than the subsistence minimum, and orphans, children left without parental care, living in families, children from families requiring emergency assistance as a result of emergency situations, and other categories of students and pupils approved by the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
No. 64 of January 25, 2008; - assistance provided under the guaranteed social package to children from low-income families;
- one-time monetary payments in connection with the adoption of an orphan child and (or) a child left without parental care;
- one-time relocation payments (for each family member) participants of voluntary resettlement under the Program; - one-time repayment in second-tier banks and microfinance organizations of debt on unsecured consumer loans in accordance with the decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated June 26, 2019 No. 34 "on measures to reduce the debt burden of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan»;
- the amount of housing certificates to cover part of the initial loan payment in accordance with the procedure established by housing legislation.