Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree simplifying the procedure for registering and confirming disability.

The document was published on the website of the Cabinet.

According to the changes, citizens will no longer have to reapply to the clinic if some of the necessary information is missing in the referral issued by the medical institution for the medical and social examination.

The government recalled that in order to establish or confirm disability, Russians need to undergo a medical and social examination.

A referral for this is issued by the polyclinic, indicating information about the results of medical examinations.

“Previously, if an incomplete volume of medical examinations was indicated in the direction, citizens had to re-apply to the polyclinic for additional information.

Under the new rules, this will not have to be done.

Specialists of the Bureau of Medical and Social Expertise will independently return the referral to the polyclinic indicating the missing information, ”the document says.

The return of the referral to the medical organization must occur within three working days, another 14 days are allotted to the polyclinic for revision of documents.

The press service of the Cabinet of Ministers noted that the new rules will take effect after the cancellation of the temporary procedure for registration of disability, which was approved due to the threat of the spread of coronavirus and will be in force at least until March 1, 2021.

It assumes the automatic extension of the previously established disability for six months, and also allows the assignment of disability for the first time without a personal appeal of a citizen to the bureau of medical and social expertise. 

“All the necessary documents are submitted to the authorities using the electronic interdepartmental interaction system,” the government said.

State Duma deputy, vice president of the All-Russian Society of the Blind, Oleg Smolin, in an interview with RT, noted that the new government decree is one of the steps to de-bureaucratize the registration of disability.

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He explained that currently, people with disabilities have to face a number of difficulties in the process of obtaining supporting medical documents.

“You have to go to a large number of doctors ... For example, if you want to get an individual rehabilitation program, ... you have to go to doctors for a month, while many doctors are unhappy because they have many other concerns.

Another problem is the availability of medical and social expertise, ”the parliamentarian added.

The deputy also drew attention to the fact that the decree was signed on the eve of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (celebrated on December 3).

Recall that in August, the government also simplified the procedure for registering social support for citizens whose interests are represented by their guardians.

Mikhail Mishustin announced this at a meeting with the deputy prime ministers on August 10.

“We are talking about underage children and people with disabilities,” the head of government explained.

He said that previously, in order to receive benefits, payments, benefits for medicines, food or parking, the guardian had to personally confirm his status with an appropriate certificate.

Now he can do it remotely.

“By the end of this year, all information about the legal representatives of those who have the right to social support will be entered into the Unified State Information System of Social Services,” the prime minister said.

The databank, Mishustin noted, will also contain information about citizens deprived of parental rights, which will protect children and those on whose behalf the guardian acts, as well as exclude possible abuse.

“In addition, the system will include information about orphans and children left without parental care, who have the right to social support, primarily to receive an apartment at the expense of the state.

The database will be unified for all executive authorities, and most importantly, it will be convenient to use, ”the head of the Cabinet of Ministers explained.

Earlier, Mikhail Mishustin also signed an order to allocate an additional 61.8 billion rubles for payments to low-income families with children from three to seven years old.

The Cabinet of Ministers clarified that more than 123 billion rubles will be spent for these purposes, which will support about 4.2 million children. 

The help can be received by families whose income does not exceed the amount of one living wage per person.

In accordance with the established procedure, the amount of payments is 50% of the regional subsistence minimum for children.

This is about 5.5 thousand rubles per child per month.