Support Measures

The agenda of the held today plenary session of the Supreme Council included legislations, aimed at the social protection of disabled people and their relatives.

The parliamentarians adopted a resolution of the Supreme Council "On Recognition as a Framework Rule of Law on the Territory of the PMR of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of December 13, 2006". Approximately two hundred states, including in 2012 - Russia has already joined the basic convention, adopted by the UN 11 years ago. The document consists of 50 articles, and the basis - rejection of any kind of discrimination against people with disabilities.

According to the Ministry of Social Protection and Labor, there are more than 23,000 citizens with disabilities in the republic, 1341 of which are children under the age of 18.

The deputy corps supported the legislative initiative of the government with pronounced social orientation. In accordance with this, the parents and widows of disabled persons - defenders of Pridnestrovie, as well as those who have suffered injuries in conflicts in the territories of other states and subsequently died, will have the right to receive two pensions. This is done by analogy with the benefits now enjoyed by relatives of defenders who died directly in the course of hostilities. As the head of the profile parliamentary committee Sergei Cheban told his colleagues, members of the republican public organization "Memory" earlier addressed the Supreme Council on this issue. The same topic was discussed by the public during meetings with the President Vadim Krasnoselsky and the chairman of the government Alexander Martynov.

After the adoption of this decision by the legislature, it is planned that annually more than 5 million rubles will be required for these payments in the budget. More than 100 people will have the right to receive two pensions. Its monthly size, according to First Deputy Minister for Social Protection and Labor Oleg Fedotov, 1,422 rubles. One of the heads of the social body also noted that at the moment the recipients of such pensions are registered with relatives of disabled people who were injured in the war of 1992 and during the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

At the same time, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Social Policy, Health, Labor, Family and Childhood Issues, Sergei Cheban, drew attention to the inadmissibility of the enacted law from January 1, 2018, as prescribed by the legislative initiative of the highest executive body. According to him, obtaining a social benefit is a declarative nature.