Disabled person care: registration procedure, documents, benefits and allowance

People with changes in physical and mental abilities need help, since they cannot provide for themselves. For this reason, the state prescribes the need to provide disabled people with guardians, the latter relying on financial support. How to get cash assistance for caring for a disabled person? Let's talk about what documents are needed and the conditions for registration.

Guardian Requirements

The first disability group is assigned to citizens with disabilities (physical or psychological). The full existence of such people is characterized by great limitations. They do not have the ability to serve themselves on their own, so they need guardianship. Most often, the status of the guardian is given to someone from a relative who lives with a disabled person on the same living space. Guardianship can be issued by persons who do not have blood ties. The state allows such an opportunity, but mainly blood relatives.

It’s one thing to simply look after a “special” group of the population and it’s quite another to receive money for it. Making guardianship allowance requires compliance with some nuances. These include:

1. Age of majority.
2. The absence of situations related to the deprivation of parental rights.
3. Absolute physical and psychological capacity.
4. Lack of formal work. Caring for a disabled person requires a constant presence.
5. Lack of additional state benefits (labor, military, social pension, unemployment benefits).
6. Lack of criminal record.

If the guardian begins to receive pension accruals or gets a job, he must notify the Pension Fund authorities about this within one week. A refusal to receive benefits is signed at the place.

If this is not done, then the actions of the trustee are regarded as illegal. Upon the establishment of the incident, he will have to return the full amount of social benefits from the moment he began to receive funds from another source of income.

You can count on benefits in the following cases:

1. The disabled person is 80 years old.
2. The guardian provides full care.
3. A disabled person is less than 18 years old.
4. Around-the-clock care is required.

Guardianship

Registration for the care of a disabled person requires the preparation of an impressive set of documents:

1. Passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation with a residence permit.
2. SNILS.
3. A document stating that the applicant does not receive an insurance pension and does not appear on the waiting list on the labor exchange.
4. Certificate confirming disability with the designation of the appropriate group. As a rule, it is issued on the basis of a medical report conducted by the bureau of socio-medical examination.
5. A document recognizing a child as disabled. If assistance is required for a person under the age of majority.
6. The conclusion of doctors about the need for constant care. It is issued to elderly citizens who are unable to provide for themselves on health grounds.
7. The workbook of the trustee with a note of dismissal, as well as a similar document of the ward (if any).
8. Written consent of parents / adoptive parents / other representatives to care for a disabled person from 14 years old. A teenager should receive an education, therefore supervision is possible only in his free time.
9. A certificate from a school or other educational institution, confirming the fact of full-time education. Only required for a child from 14 years old.
10. A document confirming that the applicant does not receive a pension as a former soldier, an employee of the internal affairs department, other law enforcement agencies, an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, a criminal investigation officer and other similar structures.

Where to file?

After preparing the above documents for the care of a disabled person, it is required to come to the Pension Fund branch. Reception is carried out at the place of registration. To apply for benefits on the spot, you will need to fill out a few more papers:

1. Application for the care of a disabled person on behalf of a guardian.
2. Written consent of a disabled citizen to receive assistance from the applicant.

An application for consent to leaving is entitled to be submitted by a legally disabled person from the age of 14. If the age is less than the specified one or the disabled person is recognized as legally incompetent, then the document may be submitted on behalf of parents, guardians or other representatives.

Since 2017, it has become possible to submit the above documents in electronic form through a personal account on the Pension Fund website or on the State Services portal.

Types of benefits and amounts of payments

The amount of payment for a certain type of privilege for caring for a disabled person is determined at the federal level. The size of the monthly allowance may be different, it is affected by the following circumstances:

1. An unemployed guardian parent who is looking after a child with disabilities is paid from 5,500 rubles.
2. The minimum allowance is 1,500 rubles.

Benefits for guardians may vary by area. At the state level, the following types are identified:

1. Decrease in payment of housing and communal services by 50%.
2. The right to use the property of the guardian.
3. Royalty free trip to the sanatorium once a year.
4. Reduction in the amount of transport tax.
5. Labor benefits for trustees of young children with disabilities under the age of 8 years.
6. Free travel on social transport.
7. Reduction of the amount of land tax and annulment of property tax.

If a citizen provides custody of several disabled people, then the benefits are added up. Mandatory alimony is assigned to a guardian looking after her disabled child.

Disability category confirmation is done every two years. After this period, the same package of documents is collected and a medical commission is convened anew. In addition to the state pension, persons with disabilities who do not have work experience and children with disabilities are entitled to social benefits. They are charged once a month, the amount depends on the district coefficient. The minimum size of this allowance is 3500 rubles.

How to get a disabled person care allowance?

In order to receive a cash payment for the care of an incompetent citizen, it is necessary to provide the following package of documents to the Pension Fund department:

1. Disability care statement from a guardian.
2. A statement by a disabled person (unless he is declared legally incompetent).
3. Disability certificate.
4. A document confirming that the trustee does not receive a pension.
5. Passports of both citizens.
6. Workbook (if any).

Disabled child care

Russian citizens involved in registering guardianship over a child who has received disability status since childhood or with congenital pathologies should be prepared for the features of this procedure. Material benefits for caring for everyone. The amount of social benefits depends on the status of the guardian.

What kind of disability care allowance does a guardian owe? The maximum financial support from the state is given to parents or persons who have received such rights. For them, the amount of cash benefit is 60% of the minimum wage, the amount depends on the district coefficient. The minimum amount of guardianship allowance for parents is 5500 rubles. Citizens with a different status are entitled to at least 1,500 rubles. This means that if other relatives (grandmother, grandfather, sister, brother, aunt, uncle and so on) draw up guardianship over an incapacitated child, then they will receive only one and a half thousand rubles.

Social custody

What about those who have no relatives or live in a remote place? In this case, the state provides social care for the disabled person. Such a service exists in any, even the smallest, city. Public workers provide care for disabled citizens, it is as follows:

1. Hygienic procedures.
2. Assistance in taking medications and monitoring compliance.
3. Carrying out various medical procedures and accompanying the patient to the place of their conduct. Such "assistants", as a rule, have the appropriate experience in caring for the disabled.
4. Purchase of products, essentials, medicines and other things.
5. Cooking food.
6. Feeding or helping with eating.
7. Cleaning and ventilation of the room in which the incapable person lives.
8. Laundry and ironing.
9. Walk in the fresh air with the sick (if possible).

Advantages and disadvantages of social assistance

Such help has both pros and cons:

1. Assistance from the state is free of charge.
2. Social workers often have a medical education and can provide first aid.
3. Support can be one-time or ongoing.
4. Social workers are assigned only as prescribed by the doctor.
5. Not all categories of citizens can apply for help.

Conclusion

In the territory of the Russian state, persons caring for incapable citizens are entitled to material payments. Only unemployed citizens and those who are not entitled to other state payments are entitled to receive them. The process of registration of guardianship requires a lot of time, since you have to collect an impressive package of documents. Given that patient care will require a round-the-clock presence, the trustee does not have to rely on any other means except benefits and benefits, so it is important to use all available methods.