Citizens undergoing military service on conscription or under contract in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as those liable for military service for the period of conscription for military training have the status of military personnel. The state provides social support for military personnel, in connection with military service in conditions of increased workload, as well as in adverse climatic conditions, providing the necessary assistance to both the military personnel themselves and their family members.
Below, we will describe social benefits available for military personnel.
The monetary allowance of military personnel, with the exception of conscripts and cadets of military educational institutions, comprises monetary pay (official salary and salary based on a military rank), allowances for special conditions of service and other allowances and surcharges provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The monetary allowance (scholarship) of conscripts and cadets of military educational institutions includes only the official salary.
When transferring military personnel, with the exception of cadets and conscripts, to a new place of service in another locality at a distance of more than 100 kilometers (including as part of a military unit or subdivision), they are paid a resettlement allowance in the amount of two months salary for a serviceman himself and half a month's salary for each family member.
The right of military personnel (with the exception of conscripts; cadets of military educational institutions and conscripts, undergoing military training) to housing is exercised from the date they are recognized as in need for housing and official housing is provided or housing payments are transferred to their personal special accounts.
Military personnel who have been in military service for ten or more years in calendar terms as of January 1, 2013, can privatize the offical housing at a residual value or free-of-charge after reaching 20 years of military service in calendar terms.
Military personnel are entitled to receive monetary compensation in the following cases:
Here you can familiarize with the instruction for payment of lump-sum compensation.
Military personnel and their family members, as well as those discharged from military service due to age or health condition, have the right to free-of-charge medical care.
In the absence of military medical institutions, specialists or special equipment at the place of military service or the place of residence of military personnel, military personnel may apply to other public or private medical institutions under guaranteed medical care.
Military personnel, who received wounds, concussions, traumas, maiming injuries or diseases while on military duties is sent to health resort treatment at the expense of an armed forces branch under the structure of which they undergo a military service.
Compulsory-duty military servicemen and cadets of military educational institutions are provided with health resort treatment at the expense of public funds if there are medical conditions.
- For military personnel serving under the contract, payment of expenses for utility services, except payment for those who live in closed and separate garrisons, frontier outposts and garrison headquarters, is made under the procedure set by chairpersons of authorized bodies in the amount established by the Lawon the republican budget for a relevant financial year.
- Other expenses for transportation across the Republic of Kazakhstan and expenses for postal items are reimbursed for military personnel in cases prescribed by the Law of RK “On Military Service and Status of Servicemen”.
- Military personnel have a right to travel by railway, air, water and motor transport at the government expense when relocating to carry out service; dismissing from military service; going for hospital treatment, and also the right for transportation of ten tons of own property in case of relocation or dismissal from military service.