“I do not exclude, please, here the Minister (Healthcare Veronika Skvortsova. - RT ) is present and the Deputy Prime Minister (Tatyana Golikova. - RT ), who oversees this area, so I ask you to think about it again if you really need to strengthen it the punishment, then, of course, I will not mind, ”Putin said at a meeting with social activists, commenting on the topic of mistakes in the designation of disability.

At the same time, he emphasized that it was important not to tighten, but it was important that the punishment was inevitable, then it would not be necessary to tighten.

Earlier it became known that 18-year-old Polina Lysenkova from Volgograd, who lost her disability after adulthood, regained this status. The girl was diagnosed with mild mental retardation, because of which she could neither study nor work along with healthy peers. Along with the status of a disabled person, Polina lost her only source of income - pension. After the publication of RT, the girl was given a third disability group for a year.