DISABILITY IS RECOGNIZED WITHOUT A VISIT TO THE MEDICO-SOCIAL EXPERTISE

This was announced at a briefing in the information and communication center by Turekhan Dautov, the acting head of the Department of the Committee of labor, social protection and migration in Shymkent city. In order to prevent cases of social strain in connection with the introduction of a state of emergency and the prevention of corruption in obtaining public services, the Ministry of labour and social protection of population of Kazakhstan has developed a mechanism for obtaining the state service "Recognition of disability and/or the degree of loss of the capacity for work and/or determination of necessary measures of social protection" without a visit to the Department of medico-social expertise.

"The service will be performed on the basis of an electronic application submitted via the "Electronic application" service on the e-government portal. To get a government service, you need to fill out an application in accordance with the standard, attach scanned copies of the necessary documents, and certify the application with an electronic digital signature. Then your application at your place of residence will be sent to the territorial Department of the Committee of labor, social protection and migration. After the medical and social expertise, its results are sent to the service recipient via sms, to the personal account on the e-government portal, or as a response to an application received via the "Electronic application"service. In addition, citizens who do not appear for re-examination in the Department of medical and social expertise during an emergency, the missed period will be set for February 16, 2020," -said the speaker.To persons who are recipients of state social benefits and (or) social payments in case of disability, payments during the state of emergency are paid until the month of the end of the state of emergency in accordance with the previously established disability group and (or) the degree of loss of faculty.
It should be noted that every year, the state service "Recognition of disability and/or the degree of loss of the capacity for work and / or determining the necessary social protection measures" is provided to more than 250 thousand citizens. Today, about 700 thousand people with disabilities live in Kazakhstan.