State targeted social assistance is a cash payment provided by the state to individuals with a monthly average per capita income below the poverty line established in regions, cities of republican significance, the capital, in the form of unconditional and conditional cash assistance.
Unconditional cash assistance is provided:
1) Lonely and (or) lonely living low-income people with disabilities to participate in measures to promote employment in connection with:
reaching retirement age;
disability of the first or second group;
the presence of a disease in which a period of temporary disability of more than two months can be established.
2) low-income families, all able-bodied family members of which are disabled people of the first or second group and (or) have diseases in which a period of temporary disability of more than two months can be established, and (or) they take care of:
a child under the age of seven;
disabled child;
disabled person of the first or second group;
the elderly;
needing outside care and assistance.
Conditional financial assistance is provided to single and (or) lonely living low-income able-bodied persons, as well as low-income families with a working-up (able-bodied) member (s), subject to his (their) participation in measures to promote employment and (or) if necessary social adaptation.
Who is assigned targeted social assistance?
Targeted social assistance in Kazakhstan can be obtained by categories of people with per capita incomes not exceeding the poverty line:
citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
the oralmans;
refugees
Foreigners;
stateless persons permanently residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The poverty line is the line of income necessary to meet the minimum needs of one person, which is set as a criterion for determining the size of targeted social assistance.
Who can’t get targeted social assistance?
According to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On state social targeted assistance”, the following are not entitled to the appointment of social targeted assistance:
persons (families) with per capita income exceeding the poverty line established in regions, cities of republican significance, the capital;
families whose able-bodied family members refused to participate in employment promotion measures, with the exception of minor children, including children studying full-time in secondary, technical and vocational, post-secondary, higher education institutions, after they reach the age of majority until the time graduation from their educational institutions (but no more than before reaching the age of twenty-three);
persons (families) who have provided deliberately false information and false (fake) documents for the appointment of targeted social assistance.
Size of targeted social assistance
According to the Law “On State Targeted Social Assistance”, the amount of targeted social assistance per person or family is calculated by the authorized body in the form of the difference between the average per capita income and the poverty line established in the regions based on each family member.
In the event of changes in family composition and income, the amount of targeted social assistance assigned is recounted. The applicant is obliged to report on circumstances that may serve as a basis for changing the size of targeted social assistance to the authorized body within 10 working days.
How is per capita income calculated?
The total income of a person applying for targeted social assistance is determined on the basis of documents submitted when applying for targeted social assistance and information obtained from information systems of state bodies.
The total family income includes all types of income, except for housing and targeted social assistance, as well as state support measures in the framework of participation in active measures to promote employment received in cash or in kind for a specified period of time.
Akimats, taking into account the peculiarities of the regions, are entitled to determine as not giving income: livestock, poultry, land.
Per capita income is calculated by dividing the total income received in the quarter preceding the quarter of applying for targeted social assistance by the number of family members and by three months.