How much social security disability will my child receive
Children Getting SSDI if the Parent Is Disabled
If you are approved for SSDI, your child or children may get benefits. When you qualify, your children will also be eligible in many cases. The benefit amount available to your children will depend on how much you paid in, your benefit amount, and the number of qualifying family members you have.
If you have only one child, your child will likely receive about half of your monthly Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Your children will not get additional benefits based on any Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments you receive.
Qualifications for Children to Receive SSDI Dependent Benefits
To receive dependent benefits, children must meet particular criteria, including:
- Being a biological, adopted, or dependent stepchild of an adult receiving SSDI
- Being unmarried
- Being under 18, or still enrolled in high school and under age 19
- Having a valid birth certificate and Social Security number
- Grandchildren
Grandparents raising grandchildren or step-grandchildren may also qualify these children for dependent benefits in certain circumstances. This includes:
- If their parents passed away; or
- If their parents suffer from a qualifying disability that prevents them from working; or
- You provide “regular support” for the child, usually at least half of their financial support; or
- The grandchildren lived with you at least a year before you became entitled to SSDI benefits.
Often grandparents will adopt grandchildren under these circumstances or will receive legal custody through Pennsylvania courts. If this occurs, the rules for children of SSDI recipients would apply. If you have legal custody of your grandchildren, the Social Security Administration will evaluate their qualifications for dependent benefits as if they were your biological children.
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Understanding How Long Your Children will Receive Benefits
As long as you continue to qualify for and draw SSDI benefits, your children will likely continue to receive dependent benefits until the month before they turn 18 years old. If they are still in high school at that time, their benefits will continue until:
- They graduate; or
- They leave school; or
- They turn 19 years old.
When the first of these events occurs, it will trigger the end of their benefits. The only exception to this is if your child also suffers from a disability. If your child suffers a disability and remains dependent on you, they can continue to receive dependent benefits providing Social Security makes a finding that your child is disabled.
However, you may want to discuss this possibility with your claims representative or a disability attorney, especially if your child ever held a job. You may be able to get more money by having them apply for benefits based on their own earnings record.
Many parents who qualify for SSDI based on a chronic or terminal illness worry about what will happen to their children’s dependent benefits when the parent passes away. If you die before your child turns 18 or graduates high school, they will continue to receive benefits until they no longer meet the age requirement.
There are Limits on How Much Your Eligible Family Members Can Receive
The Social Security Administration will only pay out between 150 and 180 percent of your disability benefit amount to you and your family. Since each child qualifies for up to 50 percent of your benefit amount, having one child maxes out your dependent benefits.
If your monthly benefit amount is $1,200, your child should receive $600 in dependent benefits. This totals 150 percent of your benefit amount. If you have two children, the Social Security Administration will not pay out an additional $600 for your other child. This would be 200 percent of your benefit amount, violating the program limits. Instead, the Social Security Administration will split the $600 dependent benefit between your two children, paying out $300 to each one.
This does not just include your children but all family members who might qualify for dependent benefits. Some examples include:
- A spouse who cannot work, or is over age 62, or cares for a dependent child
- Grandchildren in your care
- Parents who are dependent on you for care and support
The Social Security Administration will never reduce your benefits based on these family limits. However, they will cut the benefits paid to each qualified member of your family proportionally until your household total is under the 150-180 percent limit.
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If I Get Disability, Can My Child Get Disability Benefits?
If you've been approved for disability, whether your children will get benefits depends on if you've been approved for SSDI or SSI.
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Depending on the type of Social Security benefit you receive, your children may be eligible for Social Security monthly benefits as well. If you get Social Security disability insurance (SSDI) benefits, your child will also get benefits until age 18 or 19, whether or not they have a disability.
For individuals who support a family, becoming disabled can be very difficult, not only emotionally and physically, but financially as well. Because of this, Social Security provides children's benefits when a disability disrupts the ability of a parent to work and support their family.
Here are some frequently asked questions about children's benefits.
Does your child qualify for benefits based on your disability benefit?
If you worked a sufficient amount of time before you became disabled, you could receive a monthly SSDI check based on the amount of time you worked and how much money you paid into the Social Security system. Your dependents can also get a monthly benefit when you start receiving SSDI.
If you don't have enough work history to qualify for SSDI, or you worked at a job that didn't pay into Social Security, you could receive benefits based on need, from the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. But only SSDI provides dependents benefits to your children. SSI provides no benefit to anyone but the disabled individual, though kids with disabilities can receive disability benefits under the SSI program.
What requirements must be met for your child to receive Social Security benefits?
Social Security may provide benefits to your children, depending on their relationship to you, if you become disabled and qualify for SSDI. Social Security considers biological children, adopted children, or dependent stepchildren to be children of the disabled individual.
A child may receive benefits if they are:
- unmarried, and
- younger than 18 years old.
Unmarried children who are 18 years old or older may receive benefits in two circumstances:
- the child is under 19 years old and is enrolled full time as a student in a secondary school, or
- the child is disabled and the disability occurred before the child turned 22 years old. (For information on the second exception, see our article about disabled adult children receiving SSDI.)
Can grandchildren receive Social Security dependents' benefits?
If you have grandchildren or stepgrandchildren whom you are raising, they may be eligible to receive SSDI benefits as if they were your children. Grandchildren may receive benefits if:
- their biological parents are deceased or disabled
- you provide regular support to the grandchild
- the grandchildren have lived with you for the 12 months before they became eligible for SSDI or, if under 12 months old, they have lived with you for substantially their entire lives, and
- you provide at last half of their financial support.
If you adopt your grandchildren, they do not need to meet the above requirements. They are covered as your children because you adopted them.
How do you apply for Social Security benefits for your child?
To apply for benefits for your child, call Social Security at 800-772-1213 to set up an appointment. You can't apply online for children's benefits.
You will need at least your Social Security number, your child's Social Security number, and your child's birth certificate. If your child doesn't already have a Social Security number, you'll have to obtain one through Social Security before you can apply for the children's benefit.
Social Security may request other information as well; for example, if you're trying to obtain benefits for a full-time student who is over the age of 18, you will need to provide proof of enrollment in high school. Or, if your child isn't a U.S. citizen, you'll be asked to show evidence that your child is a lawful resident. When meeting with Social Security to apply for these benefits, you will be told if any additional information is necessary.
How much will your child receive in Social Security dependents benefits?
How much your child receives in SSDI benefits depends upon how much money you, the disabled individual, receive as an SSDI benefit. Generally, your child will receive up to 50% of your total SSDI benefit. But there's a maximum amount that a family can receive based on one disabled individual's benefits.
The family limit is usually 150% of the SSDI benefit awarded to the disabled individual. If a family would receive above that percentage, each individual receiving a benefit (with the exclusion of the disabled individual) will have their benefit lowered proportionally until the total benefit is below the percentage limit.
For example, if you're a single mother with four children and you become disabled, each child could potentially receive 50% of your SSDI award. However, if each child received 50% of your award, Social Security would be paying out 300% of your total award (100% received by you and 50% received by each of your four children), which Social Security won't allow. With the maximum family benefit rules, you would receive your 100% as the disabled individual and your children would have their percentages lowered equally until the total family benefit fell below the percentage limit set by Social Security.
How long will your child receive Social Security benefits?
Generally, children will receive dependent SSDI benefits until they reach the age of 18 years old. The benefit will end the month before their 18th birthday.
But if your child is a full-time high student, the benefit will end when they graduate from or leave school, or two months after they turn 19, whichever happens first.
If your child is disabled, and became disabled before the age of 22, his or her monthly dependent benefit can continue indefinitely, if you apply for "disabled adult child benefits."
If I die will my child continue to receive dependent benefits?
Yes, your child could receive a monthly survivors benefit for as long as he or she is eligible (according to the same rules as above). For more information, see our article on survivors disability benefits.
For more information, read our article on the Social Security child's benefit.
Updated August 9, 2022
how to get a disability pension, care allowances and benefits
Yulia Semenyuk
mother of a child with a disability
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In the summer of 2020, my daughter got sick. She periodically had a fever and her legs hurt.
The pediatrician prescribed antibiotics and sent us to a rheumatologist. The rheumatologist ordered a bunch of tests and, in turn, sent me to an infectious disease specialist, but neither one nor the other could make a diagnosis. Two months later, my daughter and I ended up in a children's hospital for an examination. And two months later and after two biopsies, my daughter was diagnosed with lymphoma.
Now she has a disability and I am the mother of a child with a disability. In this article I will tell you what benefits and compensations are due to our family and how to apply for them. In addition to payments to parents of children with disabilities, there are tax and labor benefits: I haven’t applied for them yet, so I can’t share my experience.
What payments are due to a family with a child with a disability? I will tell you about the main benefits that families with a child with a disability can count on.
Disability pension is called social because the child did not work, but receives a pension due to health problems. As of September 2021, the pension of a child with a disability was RUR 13,912.10. From April 1, 2022, it increased to RUR 14,983.32, and from July 1, 2022, to RUR 16,619.39. to them, the amount of the social pension is additionally multiplied by the regional coefficient.
Art. 11, 18 of the Federal Law "On state pension provision in the Russian Federation"
Monthly cash payment, or CST, consists of two parts - the actual cash payment and the set of social services, or NSO. There are only three services: free travel on commuter trains, as well as on intercity transport to and from the place of treatment, medicines and annual rest of the child in a sanatorium. You can refuse all this and receive monthly compensation.
Art. 28.1 of the Federal Law on the social protection of people with disabilities in the Russian Federation
art. 6.2, part 3 of Art. 6.3 Federal Law "On State Social Assistance"
Every year the payment is indexed: from February 2022, it is equal to 1850.78 R. Compensation for the NSO is another 1313.44 R monthly.
Table of amounts of UDV with and without VAT
Both pension and UDV are paid by the pension fund. You do not need to apply separately for a monthly cash payment: it is assigned automatically and the pension fund transfers it using the same details as the social pension.
Benefit for caring for a child with a disability. If a child with a disability needs constant care and mom or dad cannot work because of this, the pension fund pays an allowance.
Decree of the President on monthly payments to persons caring for children with disabilities and people with disabilities from childhood of group I
As of July 2022, non-working parents can receive 10,000 R monthly. If a child with a disability is cared for not by a parent, but, for example, by an aunt, the payment will be less - 1200 R.
Benefit for paying utility bills. Families with children with disabilities are entitled to compensation for housing and communal services.
Art. 17 Federal Law on the social protection of people with disabilities in the Russian Federation
Housing and communal services, in particular, include payment for the maintenance of residential premises and current repairs, payment for major repairs, for garbage collection, for electricity, water, gas, heating. This is a federal benefit, but each region calculates it differently.
We live in St. Petersburg: in our region, the benefit is calculated according to a complex formula that takes into account the number of people in the family and the regional payment standard per square meter. To be rough, it will turn out like this - the larger the apartment and the fewer people registered in it, the less the benefit will be.
Cash payments for paying for housing and utilities to certain categories of citizens - St. Petersburg public services portal
The regional standard changes several times a year, so in winter the payment will be more due to the heating season, and less in summer. From July to August, we paid an average of 5912 R for a communal apartment, and received compensation of 2908 R for each month - a little less than 50%.
Payment relief is not a discount, but compensation: you still have to pay the full amount on the receipt, but then some of the money is returned. The most important thing is to avoid debts: if there is a payment arrears for at least two months, then the money is no longer transferred.
Cash payments to disabled people at the expense of the budget of St. Petersburg
Regional payments. For families with children with disabilities, regional payments are provided: their size and terms of appointment differ in different cities. In St. Petersburg, we receive 17,257 R monthly for a child with a disability and a little more than a thousand for our second child. To receive these payments, you need to contact social security: directly or through the MFC.
Art. 18 of the Social Code of St. PetersburgPDF, 950 KB
All payments are assigned for the period of disability, they do not need to be reissued every year. Next, I will give step-by-step instructions that will help you apply for benefits and not get confused in the documents.
Here is a list of all benefits for children with disabilities in St. Petersburg. I didn’t apply for many of them: I don’t have a car, so compensation for OSAGO and a parking permit for a person with a disability are not relevant to us. Source: Government of St. PetersburgStep 1
Obtain disability documentsTo receive benefits for a child with a disability, you need a certificate of disability. It indicates the date of birth, the address of the child's registration and the period of disability.
To obtain a certificate, you must pass a commission of medical and social expertise. In our case, it took place in absentia: Alina and I were in the hospital, so the ex-husband took the birth certificate, medical statements to the clinic at the place of residence and filled out applications.
These documents were enough for us, but other polyclinics may require other papers: for example, records of a child’s examination by narrow specialists of this particular polyclinic and a reference from the school. In our case, the polyclinic specialists independently contacted the school administration and clarified all the points of interest to them.
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Benefits for parents of a child with a disability
I received my certificate of disability by registered mail addressed to the child. Together with him came an individual program of rehabilitation and habilitation - IPRA. It indicates the degree of restriction of the child - this is something like disability groups in adults. But unlike adults, in children, the higher the number, the worse their health.
A rehabilitation program will be needed if the child needs extra help, medication or special mobility aids. I wore a rehabilitation program at the MFC when I applied for a benefit for housing and communal services, I didn’t use it anymore. From 2021, the IPRA should be only in electronic form, and it is sent on paper upon request: but in our case, the program was attached to the letter.
paragraph 10 of the order, approved. By order of the Ministry of Labor No. 486n
dated June 13, 2017, I usually carry a photo of a certificate with me: according to it, a child can, for example, enter the park for free on weekends and holidays. An individual rehabilitation or habilitation program consists of more than 10 sheets. It lists the health problems of the child, as well as the need for social and psychological assistance or special means such as crutches, strollersStep 2
Apply to the pension fund for a pension and a single paymentA social pension and a single social allowance are due to a child from the moment the disability is received until it ends - these dates are indicated in the certificate of disability. If you apply for a pension later, the state will repay the debts, but for a maximum of six months.
My daughter's pension and cash payment arrive in my account around the middle of the month. The payment schedule can be clarified on the website of the pension fund - for this, you need to select your region.
What documents are needed. Birth certificate and certificate of disability of the child, parent's passport, details for crediting money. If this data is available in your personal account on the website of the pension fund or public services, they will be pulled up to the application automatically.
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Personal experience: how to apply for disability
Where to apply. A pension for a child with a disability can be issued remotely through the personal account of the pension fund. Another option is to submit documents in person: at the MFC or the territorial department of the pension fund at the place of residence of the child.
We applied through the personal account of the pension fund. Here's what was needed for this:
- Scan or photograph all the necessary documents, save the details for crediting the pension.
- Send an application through your personal account on the website of the pension fund. On the main page, you need to select "pension provision" - "assign a pension", on the next screen, log in through public services and then select "apply for a pension". The application must be submitted "through a representative", because this is the personal account of the parent, not the child. After filling in and confirming all the fields, click "generate an application".
- Wait for a decision on granting a pension: in our case, the application was considered for a week. You can follow the progress of the case in your personal account.
- Submit an application about where the pension will go. By default, the pension is sent to the mail. In order for money to be credited to a bank card, one more application must be submitted on the website of the pension fund or public services - “on the delivery of a pension”. To do this, you will need a Mir card: this payment will not be credited to cards of other systems. I didn't have a Mir card, and I couldn't go to the bank because we were in the hospital. Therefore, I added a Mir virtual card to my existing bank account: it took a few minutes. The details of the virtual bank card were accepted by the pension fund without question.
To increase the payment, you can refuse a set of social services through the website of public services, the personal account of the pension fund, at the pension fund department or the MFC. This application must be submitted before October 1 of the current year: then the money for the NSO will begin to accrue from January of the next.
The Pension Fund has received an application. After processing and verifying the data, the PF assigned a pension. If the data is not enough, specialists call and clarify the information. I was asked about registration. Source: State ServicesStep 3
Apply for disability child care allowanceThis allowance is also paid by the pension fund. He is assigned to a person who cares for a child, and only on the condition that he is not working at this time. Retired grandparents cannot claim the allowance: it is paid only to able-bodied persons.
Decree of the President on monthly payments to persons caring for children with disabilities and people with disabilities from childhood, group I
What documents are needed. To assign this payment, you only need an application: the pension fund requests and receives other documents on its own.
Application form for child care allowance
Where to apply. You can apply remotely through the personal account of the pension fund or by phone. And you can come to the client service of the pension fund or the MFC.
The pension fund will make a decision within 10 days. For the months preceding registration, the allowance is not paid.
If the person caring for the child goes to work or retires, the allowance will stop. Changed circumstances must be notified to the pension fund within five days.
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How to combine pension and disability care payment?
To apply by phone, you will need to set a secret code or a secret question in the personal account of the pension fund, with the help of which the operator will verify the identity of the applicantStep 4
Issue compensation for expenses for paying for housing and utilitiesCompensation can be received retroactively: after registration, it will be accrued no more than six months from the moment the child received a disability.
My daughter was diagnosed with disability in January, I submitted the documents for payment at the end of April, and a positive decision was made in mid-May. I received my first compensation at the end of June - 2817.26 R, at the same time I received a payment for the previous four months.
What documents are needed. Certificate of disability, child's birth certificate, parent's passport, details for payment, as well as a certificate in form 8 or 9: this document confirms that a child with a disability is registered in an apartment for which they receive a benefit.
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How to get a subsidy for utility bills
These forms differ in different regions and are issued by different organizations: you can find out what kind of certificate you need at the MFC or on the regional public services website.
This is form 8, which is issued in St. Petersburg, it has been at my house since 2013. It was issued when the child was registered in apartmentIn St. Petersburg, form 8 for children is given during the registration of the child, and it is kept at home. But I forgot that I have it, so I went for form 9: you can get it at the department of moving in and registration or at the passport office. It looks different - it lists everyone registered in the apartment.
You still need to bring receipts for housing and communal services, electricity and major repairs to the MFC for the last month. If there are no required receipts, the documents will still be accepted, but the receipts will be asked to be delivered later.
At the same time, in some regions - for example, in St. Petersburg - the payment is in no way tied to receipts. Nevertheless, at the MFC they asked me to convey them. In the end, I did it after I made a positive decision, although I didn’t see the point in it.
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How to pay utility bills
Where to go. The benefit can be issued remotely through the regional website of public services. But I didn’t succeed, because I had to attach a certificate that I do not receive such a benefit: and I did not have such a certificate.
Another way is to contact the MFC. The operators will fill in all the documents themselves, they will only need to be signed. Then you will receive an SMS about what decision was made - positive or negative.
The process of obtaining benefits through the MFC was very simple: I brought only the original documents, the operators on the spot made copies of them. I forgot to print out the payment details and simply copied them by hand from the banking application directly to the MFC.
Step 5
Apply for a monthly allowanceThe monthly allowance for a child with a disability is paid by the regions, so the amount of the payment is different everywhere.
In St. Petersburg, the Committee on Social Policy of St. Petersburg is responsible for benefits and allowances for children with disabilities, and the City Information and Settlement Center pays benefits: there you can ask questions about the timing and amount of payments and change your account details.
In St. Petersburg, 7659 R per month is paid for a child with a disability. Money comes first.
7965 Р
monthly allowance for a child with a disability in St. Petersburg
What documents are needed. Certificate of disability and IPRA, child's birth certificate, parent's passport, form 8 or 9, payment details.
I also brought with me to the MFC a certificate of divorce and a birth certificate for my second child - they were copied and saved in the database. These data did not affect current payments. I think that the MFC was collecting documents for the future - for example, if I wanted to apply for benefits for single-parent families.
Where to contact. The allowance can be issued through the personal account of the regional website of public services or in person through the MFC. My child and I were in the hospital, so I applied for the allowance remotely through the St. Petersburg public services portal.
Here's how to do it:
- Collect the necessary documents. Prepare scans or photographs of the main documents for the electronic application. Bank account details must also be in electronic form.
- Log in to the site through the ESIA - as well as on public services.
- Select the service "monthly allowance for a disabled child aged from birth to 18 years" in the catalog.
- Fill out an application, attach all required documents and wait for a positive decision.
The application is considered within a month, but if a positive decision is made, then all debts are returned - a maximum of the previous six months from the date of disability. For example, my daughters were put on disability in January, but I applied for benefits only in May: when he was assigned, I received money for four months - from January to May.
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Payments and child benefits in 2022
Favorable benefit decision: here I am advised to apply for second child benefit. The contact phone number is the district department of social protection of the population: it is easy to get through, they answer all questions about benefitsWhen I received a positive decision, it turned out that my child is considered a child with a disability with special needs and we have the right to receive an increased payment.
Monthly allowance for a disabled child with special needs
Monthly allowance for a child with a disability with special needs is paid for a child whose individual rehabilitation program indicates the third degree of restriction. This payment is more than the usual allowance: 17,947 R instead of 7,965 R.
17,947 R
monthly allowance for a child with a disability with special needs in St. Petersburg
You can apply for this benefit only through the MFC. You need to bring a standard set of documents with you: passport, birth certificate, certificate of disability and IPRA, form 8 or form 9, payment details.
I applied at the end of April, the city administration made a positive decision at the end of May. In June, all my debts were paid off, because less than six months had passed since the disability was registered. If more time had passed, then they would have given the money only for six months.
Step 6
Apply for a monthly allowance for a child from 7 to 16 years oldIn St. Petersburg there is an allowance for school-age children from special families, including those in which a child with a disability is brought up. In 2022, they pay 1085 R per child.
What documents are needed. Certificate of disability, birth certificates of children, parent's passport, form 8 or 9, payment details.
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Where to go. This allowance is quite simple to issue remotely through the St. Petersburg public services portal: you need to fill out an electronic application, attach scans of documents and wait for a positive decision. Another way is to contact the MFC with a package of documents, but I have not tried this method: the application was easily accepted and approved remotely.
Step 7
Get free medicinesThe medicines necessary for the life of a child with a disability are listed in the IPRA individual rehabilitation and habilitation program. All of their children can receive for free - regardless of whether they are on the federal or regional lists of essential drugs or not.
If parents have renounced NSI in kind and receive money, then they do not have benefits for receiving free medicines from the federal budget. But the rights to a regional benefit still remain, so , children with disabilities can receive both a federal supplement for NSI and free medicines at the expense of the budget of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.
Program of state guarantees for free medical care in St. PetersburgPDF, 7.1 MB
item 1 of the review of the Supreme Court on disputes related to social support for citizensPDF, 807 KB
List of population groups that are entitled to free medicines and medical products for outpatient treatment
Clarification of the Ministry of Health on the right to receive free medicines from the regional budget
What documents are needed. Certificate of disability, IPRA. In our clinic, these documents are already in the database - you do not need to bring them every time.
Where to go. Preferential prescriptions are written by a pediatrician or an attending physician, so you need to contact the clinic at the place of residence of the child. Since parents of children with disabilities often visit pediatricians on various issues, sometimes it is possible to agree on convenient conditions: for example, we take blood tests at home for free, and the pediatrician leaves all the necessary referrals at the registry so that I do not sit in line at cabinet.
We don't get free medicines, but I suppose we can arrange to get prescriptions for medicines also in a special regime.
If the pediatrician refuses free medicines, I advise you to write to the head of the clinic with a request to provide the child with medicines at a discount. A written request must be answered within 30 days, but usually issues are resolved faster: after I complained to the manager about the long paperwork for the medical and social examination, they apologized to me the next day, and disability was established after five days.
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After filling out a prescription, you can get medicines at the pharmacy. Not everyone is suitable: in the clinic you need to find out which pharmacy you can get free prescription medicine. If the medicine is not available, you will need to leave a request and wait for delivery.
After my email to the clinic, the documents were sent to the ITU instantlyStep 8
Get a ticket to the sanatoriumOnce a year, children with disabilities can go to the sanatorium for 21 days free of charge. Together with a child, one accompanying person can also travel for free. This is a federal benefit provided by the Social Security Fund, so if the parents refused the NSI in kind, they will not give a free ticket.
Art. 6.2 Federal Law "On State Social Assistance"
What documents are needed. Certificate on form 070/y from a pediatrician, child's birth certificate, parent's passport and application.
Where to go. A ticket to a sanatorium is given to a child with a disability only if there are indications and if there are no contraindications, so you first need to contact a pediatrician at the clinic. The pediatrician will issue a certificate on form 070/y: this certificate is valid for 12 months.
After that, the documents must be submitted to the FSS: personally, through the MFC or using the public services portal.
On the website of public services, select "provision of spa treatment" and then "provision of a voucher for spa treatment in the territorial bodies of the Fund." After authorization, an electronic application form will appear, where you will need to enter data on a medical certificate, place of residence, passport and birth certificate. You can’t choose a sanatorium, places are given in turn and according to the diagnosis.
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What benefits from the state are people with disabilities entitled to
To get tickets, you need to fill out a separate application and select the item "provision of free travel by intercity transport to the place of treatment and back in the territorial bodies of the Fund. "
When the applications are approved, the FSS will issue a ticket and paper or electronic coupons for free travel. Paper coupons can be exchanged for tickets at Russian Railways ticket offices, and an electronic ticket will allow you to issue tickets through the Russian Railways website. You can select only certain tickets - they are visible in the "FSS benefits" filter.
Remember
- Children with disabilities throughout the country can apply for a monthly social pension and a single cash payment - in 2022, only 18,470.17 R. In addition, you can get free medicines, the right to free travel on public transport and one ticket to a sanatorium within a year or exchange a set of social services for a monthly payment - another 1313.44 R monthly.
- Families with a child with a disability can receive a benefit for housing and communal services in the form of compensation: first, you will need to pay the utility bill in full, and then the region will return part of the money to the card. The amount of the benefit is calculated differently in each region.
- If one of the parents left his job to take care of a child with a disability, he can receive benefits from the state instead of a salary - 10,000 R monthly. If another able-bodied relative takes care of the child, the allowance will be 1200 RUR.
- In addition to federal payments, there are regional payments: for example, in St. the same family.
How to solve the problem of refusals to assign disabilities to children?
A working meeting was held in the Federation Council on the problems of assigning the appropriate status to children with disabilities. The decision to study this issue was made at the 372nd meeting of the Chamber on the initiative of the Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Lyudmila Bokova .
The senator said that a number of regions are receiving complaints about the difficulties that have arisen this year with the registration of disability for minors. There is a growing number of cases when institutions of medical and social expertise, based on the results of medical and diagnostic measures, refuse to assign the status of a "disabled child" to children who were considered disabled for several years and received the necessary social protection and rehabilitation on the basis of this. “Failure to receive the proper level of rehabilitation will greatly affect the health of the child,” emphasized Ludmila Bokova .
See also
Disabled children urgently need support — L. Bokova
L. Bokova: We will deal with the problem of refusal to assign disability to minors
L. Bokova: Discussion of a new version of the order concerning disabled children should be held with the participation of experts at the site of the Federation Council
“Today, as they explain to us, state institutions remove the status of a disabled child due to the absence of “conditions for recognizing a citizen as disabled” at the time of examination. This is the interpretation of the order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection No. 664n of September 29, 2014 "On the classifications and criteria used in the implementation of medical and social examination", according to which not only qualitative, but also quantitative assessments of persistent violations of body functions were introduced. On the basis of these assessments, the degree of impairment of body functions is assigned, allowing one or another group of disability to be obtained.
According to the senator, such an approach, on the one hand, makes it possible to more accurately classify violations of body functions, on the other hand, it deprives some children and their parents of the necessary social protection.
The Federation Council supports the decision of the Ministry of Justice of Russia to cancel Order 664n of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation "On the classifications and criteria used in the implementation of medical and social examination of citizens by federal state institutions of medical and social examination.