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Federal Law No. 181 of November 24, 1995. Legislative framework of the Russian Federation

According to official data provided by the Federal State Statistics Service, as of November 2017, 12.7 million citizens with disabilities were registered in the Russian Federation. Of them:

1 group - 1,400,000 people;
2 groups - 6,300,000;
3 groups - 4,600,000.

These citizens belong to socially vulnerable segments of the population. Because of this vulnerability to society, they require special protection from the state. For this purpose, it was developed and adopted Federal Law No. 181. But what is this regulatory act? What are the rights of people with disabilities according to Federal Law 181? What are the significant modifications to the law in question that were introduced to it during 2017? Which articles were these amendments made to? Let's talk about this in the article.

What is the law?

Federal Law “On Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities in the Russian Federation” N 181-FZ was adopted by the State Duma in the official third reading on July 20, 1995. The regulatory act under study received approval from the Federation Council on November 15 of the same year. The signing of the Federal Law under consideration by the President of the Russian Federation and the official publication of this document took place on November 25, 1905.

The Federal Law “On Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities in the Russian Federation” consists of 6 chapters and 36 articles. The structure of the regulatory act being studied is as follows:

Chapter 1 - General and introductory provisions (Articles 1-6);
Chapter 2 - Principles of medical and social expertise (Articles 7-8);
Chapter 3 - Rehabilitation means for citizens with disabilities (Articles 9-12);
Chapter 4 - Problems of ensuring the livelihoods of people with disabilities (Articles 13-32);
Chapter 5 - Standards of this Federal Law on the creation of public associations of people with disabilities (Articles 33-34);
Chapter 6 - Final provisions of the Federal Law under consideration (35-36).

Law on social protection of disabled people to ensure legal equality of citizens of the Russian Federation, regardless of their health status. Federal Law No. 181 contains provisions ensuring that people with disabilities have access to activities in the sphere of economics, politics and social relationships. The provisions of the normative act under study ensure the right of persons with disabilities to medical care, as well as for rehabilitation activities.

Like other Federal laws of the Russian Federation, Federal Law 181 regularly undergoes significant amendments. IN last time the text of the regulatory act under study was updated on October 30, 2017.

Rights of people with disabilities under Federal Law 181

Rights of people with disabilities according to this law Federal Law 181, are as follows:

For social benefits;
To provide specialized medical care;
To provide funds for rehabilitation and life support;
For additional employment quotas;
To receive education in a general or special system (depending on health status);
For monthly financial assistance from the state;
Unhindered access to sources of information;
To help in everyday life;
To create communities of people with disabilities;
For social and economic support from government agencies.

According to the regulations Article 32 of the Federal Law being studied, an individual or legal entity that violates the rights of people with disabilities is called to administrative or criminal liability, depending on the severity of the crime committed. All disputes regarding violations of Federal Law 181 standards are resolved in court.

What changes have been made?

Any regulatory legal act regularly undergoes a procedure for updating its own text. This procedure is necessary to ensure the legitimacy of the document in the constantly changing social and legal conditions in modern Russia.

Last changes No. 181-FZ was introduced into the Federal Law “On Social Protection of Disabled Persons in the Russian Federation” October 30, 2017. The amending document was the Federal Law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.” The regulations of Article 3 of Federal Law 181 amend the paragraph 13 of article 17 Federal Law No. 181. The text of the article in question in the new edition states that when providing housing to disabled people, benefits for the provision of thermal energy are abolished.

It is worth paying attention to the following significant amendments introduced into the regulations of the normative act in question at different times:

Art. eleven, last amended on December 1, 2012. The article in question deals with the provision of an individual rehabilitation / habilitation program for persons with special needs. According to the amendments, the provision of rehabilitation equipment and other means is the direct responsibility of the authorities local government. If such services are not provided to a disabled person, or he paid for procedures or medications at his own expense, he is paid appropriate compensation;
Art. 15, last edition - December 1, 2014. The text of the studied part of Federal Law No. 181, as amended, states that for citizens with disabilities there should be no obstacles in terms of access to social, engineering and transport purpose. For these purposes, auxiliary means should be installed (such as a ramp and a traffic light with additional sound);
Art. 23, amendments made June 9, 2001. According to the regulations of this article, special working conditions must be created for people with disabilities. Thus, the working hours for a person with a disability of group 1 or 2 is no more than 35 hours per week. Full wages are retained. According to the Federal Law under consideration, disabled people are entitled to annual leave of at least 30 days. If the specifics of the position do not require intense physical labor, disability is not a legitimate reason for refusing to hire an employee.
Art. 28, as amended on March 7, 2017. This article in the edition under study contains standards for social services for people with disabilities. According to the changes made, the procedure for providing people with disabilities with technical aids is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The following amendments to the regulatory act under study are scheduled for December 2017.

Download the current version of the law

Persons interested in a more detailed study of the act in question are advised to familiarize themselves with the text of the Federal Law on Social Protection of Disabled Persons in latest edition.Download Federal Law 181 with changes relevant for the period of November 2017, you can use the following

1. supplement with parts two and three as follows:

“If citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to receive compensation and benefits provided for by this Law, for several reasons they are given the right to choose one of the compensations and benefits.

Compensations and benefits provided for by this Law are provided and paid in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation."

1) the second sentence of the paragraph of the second paragraph 3 after the word “population” should be stated as follows: “5 mSv (0.5 rem) in 1991 and the maximum possible, justified by economic and social factors reducing this dose to 1 mSv (0.1 rem) per year";

1) the paragraph of the second part of the first should be stated as follows:

1) in part one, the words “until the adoption of this Law” are replaced with the words “until May 15, 1991”; the words “in 1986 and subsequent years” shall be replaced with the words “in 1986 and 1987”; the words “or resettled” should be deleted;

1) in part one:

1) in the first part, replace the numbers “1 - 17” with the numbers “1 - 15”;

2) in part two:

replace the numbers "1 - 17" with the numbers "1 - 16";

delete the words “in full”;

in the last sentence, replace the numbers "1 - 17" with the numbers "1 - 16";

1) part eight after the word “disease,” add the word “death”;

2) in part ten, the words “other organs” are replaced with the words “other organs” if the disease is included in the list of diseases, the occurrence or exacerbation of which can be associated with the performance of work to eliminate the consequences of an accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant".

3) part eleven should be stated as follows:

"Citizens specified in paragraphs 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 (except for citizens who served in military service in the zone of residence with a preferential socio-economic status) of part one of Article 13 are issued special uniform certificates by executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, in which indicate the duration of stay of these persons in zones of radioactive contamination. In the event of citizens leaving the territory of the zone of residence with a preferential socio-economic status for a new place of residence, they are issued certificates of the established form."

1) paragraph three of part one after the words “disabled Group III and persons" shall be supplemented with the words "(including children and adolescents)";

2) part three should be supplemented with the sentence: “The amount of the specified compensation is determined as the difference in the number of minimum payments used for compensation for the new and previous disability groups.”

The president
Russian Federation
B.YELTSIN

Moscow Kremlin.

“On social protection of disabled people in the Russian Federation”

(as amended by Federal Laws dated July 24, 1998 N 125-FZ, dated January 4, 1999 N 5-FZ, dated July 17, 1999 N 172-FZ, dated May 27, 2000 N 78-FZ, dated June 9, 2001 N 74-FZ , dated 08.08.2001 N 123-FZ, dated 29.12.2001 N 188-FZ, dated 30.12.2001 N 196-FZ, dated 29.05.2002 N 57-FZ, dated 10.01.2003 N 15-FZ, dated 23.10.2003 N 132-ФЗ, dated 08/22/2004 N 122-ФЗ (as amended on 12/29/2004), dated 12/29/2004 N 199-ФЗ))

Accepted
State Duma
July 20, 1995

This Federal Law determines the state policy in the field of social protection of disabled people in the Russian Federation, the purpose of which is to provide disabled people with equal opportunities with other citizens in the implementation of civil, economic, political and other rights and freedoms provided for by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as well as in accordance with generally recognized principles and norms of international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation.

Provided hereby Federal law measures for social protection of disabled people are expenditure obligations of the Russian Federation, with the exception of measures social support and social services related to the powers of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

(paragraph introduced by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. The concept of “disabled person”, grounds for determining the disability group

A disabled person is a person who has a health impairment with a persistent disorder of body functions, caused by diseases, consequences of injuries or defects, leading to limitation of life activity and necessitating his social protection.

Limitation of life activity - complete or partial loss of a person’s ability or ability to perform self-care, move independently, navigate, communicate, control one’s behavior, study and engage in work.

Depending on the degree of disorder of body functions and limitations in life activity, persons recognized as disabled are assigned a disability group, and persons under the age of 18 are assigned the category “disabled child.”

(as amended by Federal Law dated July 17, 1999 N 172-FZ)

Recognition of a person as disabled is carried out by the federal institution of medical and social examination. The procedure and conditions for recognizing a person as disabled are established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 2. The concept of social protection of disabled people

Social protection of disabled people is a system of state-guaranteed economic, legal and social support measures that provide disabled people with conditions for overcoming, replacing (compensating) disabilities and aimed at creating equal opportunities for them to participate in the life of society with other citizens.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Social support for people with disabilities is a system of measures that provides social guarantees for people with disabilities, established by laws and other regulations, with the exception of pensions.

(Part two was introduced by Federal Law No. 122-FZ of August 22, 2004)

Article 3. Legislation of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people

The legislation of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people consists of the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, this Federal Law, other federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, as well as laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

If an international treaty (agreement) of the Russian Federation establishes rules other than those provided for by this Federal Law, then the rules of the international treaty (agreement) apply.

Article 4. Competence of federal government bodies in the field of social protection of disabled people

The jurisdiction of federal government bodies in the field of social protection of disabled people includes:

1) determination of state policy regarding people with disabilities;

2) adoption of federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people (including those regulating the procedure and conditions for providing disabled people with a single federal minimum of social protection measures); control over the implementation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people;

3) conclusion of international treaties (agreements) of the Russian Federation on issues of social protection of disabled people;

4) establishment general principles organization and implementation of medical and social examination and rehabilitation of disabled people;

5) defining criteria, establishing conditions for recognizing a person as disabled;

6) establishing standards for technical means of rehabilitation, means of communication and computer science, establishing norms and rules that ensure accessibility of the living environment for disabled people; determining appropriate certification requirements;

8) implementation of accreditation of enterprises, institutions and organizations that are federally owned and carry out activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people;

(as amended by Federal Law No. 15-FZ of January 10, 2003)

9) development and implementation of federal target programs in the field of social protection of disabled people, monitoring their implementation;

10) approval and financing of the federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means rehabilitation and services provided to the disabled;

(Clause 10 as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

11) creation of federal institutions of medical and social expertise, monitoring their activities;

(Clause 11 as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ of August 22, 2004)

12) has become invalid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

13) coordination scientific research, financing of research and development work on the problems of disability and people with disabilities;

14) development of methodological documents on issues of social protection of disabled people;

15) has become invalid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

16) assistance in the work of all-Russian public associations of disabled people and providing them with assistance;

17) - 18) are no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

19) formation of federal budget indicators for expenditures on social protection of disabled people;

20) establishment of a unified system for registering disabled people in the Russian Federation, including disabled children, and organizing, on the basis of this system, statistical monitoring of the socio-economic situation of disabled people and their demographic composition.

(Clause 20 introduced by Federal Law dated July 17, 1999 N 172-FZ)

Article 5. Competence of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of social protection and social support for disabled people

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

The jurisdiction of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of social protection and social support for people with disabilities includes:

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

1) implementation of state policy regarding people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

2) has become invalid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

3) setting priorities for implementation social policy in relation to disabled people in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, taking into account the level of socio-economic development of the territory of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation;

4) creation of enterprises, institutions and organizations of the State Service for the Rehabilitation Industry, monitoring their activities;

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

5) accreditation of enterprises, institutions and organizations owned by constituent entities of the Russian Federation, carrying out activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people;

(as amended by Federal Law No. 15-FZ of January 10, 2003)

6) - 7) are no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

8) creation and management of facilities in the field of social protection of disabled people, under the jurisdiction of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

9) organization and coordination of training activities in the field of social protection of disabled people;

10) coordination and financing of scientific research, research and development work in the field of social protection of disabled people;

11) development, within its competence, of methodological documents on issues of social protection of disabled people;

12) assistance in the work and assistance to public associations of people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

13) - 15)

Article 6. Liability for causing harm to health leading to disability

For causing harm to the health of citizens resulting in disability, the persons responsible for this bear material, civil, administrative and criminal liability in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Chapter II. Medical and social examination

Article 7. The concept of medical and social examination

Medical and social examination is the determination, in the prescribed manner, of the needs of the examined person for social protection measures, including rehabilitation, based on an assessment of the limitations in life activity caused by a persistent disorder of body functions.

Medical and social examination is carried out on the basis of a comprehensive assessment of the state of the body based on the analysis of clinical, functional, social, professional, labor, and psychological data of the person being examined using classifications and criteria developed and approved in the manner determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 8. Federal institutions of medical and social examination

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Part two

On federal institutions Medical and social examination is assigned to:

(as amended by Federal Laws dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ, dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

1) establishing disability, its causes, timing, time of onset of disability, the disabled person’s need for various types social protection;

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

2) development of individual rehabilitation programs for disabled people;

3) study of the level and causes of disability of the population;

4) participation in the development of comprehensive programs for the rehabilitation of disabled people, disability prevention and social protection of disabled people;

(Clause 4 as amended by Federal Law dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ)

5) determination of the degree of loss of professional ability to work;

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

6) determining the cause of death of a disabled person in cases where the legislation of the Russian Federation provides for the provision of social support measures to the family of the deceased.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

The decision to establish a medical and social examination is mandatory for execution by the relevant government bodies, local government bodies, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Chapter III. Rehabilitation of disabled people

Article 9. Concept of rehabilitation of disabled people

Rehabilitation of disabled people is a system and process of full or partial restoration of the abilities of disabled people to everyday, social and professional activity. Rehabilitation of disabled people is aimed at eliminating or, as fully as possible, compensating for life limitations caused by health problems with persistent impairment of body functions, for the purpose of social adaptation of disabled people, their achievement of financial independence and their integration into society.

The main areas of rehabilitation of disabled people include:

restorative medical events, reconstructive surgery, prosthetics and orthotics, spa treatment;
vocational guidance, training and education, assistance in employment, industrial adaptation;
socio-environmental, socio-pedagogical, socio-psychological and socio-cultural rehabilitation, social household adaptation;
physical education and health activities, sports.

The implementation of the main directions of rehabilitation of disabled people involves the use of technical means of rehabilitation by disabled people, the creation of the necessary conditions for unhindered access of disabled people to objects of engineering, transport, social infrastructure and the use of means of transport, communication and information, as well as providing disabled people and members of their families with information on the rehabilitation of disabled people.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Article 10. Federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to a disabled person

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

The state guarantees disabled people the implementation of rehabilitation measures, the receipt of technical means and services provided for by the federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to the disabled person at the expense of the federal budget.

The federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to disabled people is approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 11. Individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person

Individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person - developed on the basis of a decision of the authorized body that manages federal institutions of medical and social expertise, a set of optimal rehabilitation measures for a disabled person, including individual species, forms, volumes, timing and procedure for the implementation of medical, professional and other rehabilitation measures aimed at restoring, compensating for impaired or lost body functions, restoring, compensating for the abilities of a disabled person to perform certain types of activities.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

An individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person is mandatory for execution by the relevant government bodies, local government bodies, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership.

An individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person contains both rehabilitation measures provided to a disabled person with an exemption from payment in accordance with the federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to a disabled person, and rehabilitation measures, the payment for which is paid for by the disabled person himself or other persons or organizations independently. on organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

The volume of rehabilitation measures provided for by the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person cannot be less than that established by the federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to a disabled person.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

An individual rehabilitation program is of a recommendatory nature for a disabled person; he has the right to refuse one or another type, form and volume of rehabilitation measures, as well as the implementation of the program as a whole. A disabled person has the right to independently decide on the issue of providing himself with a specific technical means of rehabilitation or type of rehabilitation, including wheelchairs, prosthetic and orthopedic products, printed publications with a special font, sound-amplifying equipment, signaling devices, video materials with subtitles or sign language translation, and other similar means.

(as amended by Federal Laws dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ, dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

If a technical means of rehabilitation or service provided for by an individual rehabilitation program cannot be provided to a disabled person, or if a disabled person purchased the corresponding means or paid for the service at his own expense, then he is paid compensation in the amount of the cost of a technical means of rehabilitation or services that should be provided to the disabled person.

(as amended by Federal Laws dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ, dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Refusal of a disabled person (or a person representing his interests) from an individual rehabilitation program as a whole or from the implementation of its individual parts releases the relevant government bodies, local government bodies, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, from responsibility for its implementation and does not give a disabled person the right to receive compensation in the amount of the cost of rehabilitation measures provided free of charge.

Article 11.1. Technical means for rehabilitation of disabled people

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

(introduced by Federal Law dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ)

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Technical means of rehabilitation of disabled people are:

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

the paragraph is no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;
special means for self-service;
special care products;
special means for orientation (including guide dogs with a set of equipment), communication and information exchange;
special means for training, education (including literature for the blind) and employment;
prosthetic products (including prosthetic and orthopedic products, orthopedic shoes and special clothing, eye prostheses and hearing aids);
special training and sport equipment, Sports Equipment.

The decision to provide disabled people with technical means of rehabilitation is made when medical indications and contraindications are established.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Medical indications and contraindications are established based on an assessment of persistent disorders of body functions caused by diseases, consequences of injuries and defects.

For medical reasons, it is established that it is necessary to provide a disabled person with technical means of rehabilitation that provide compensation or elimination of persistent limitations in the disabled person’s life.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Parts six - seven are no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Financing of expenditure obligations to provide disabled people with technical means of rehabilitation, including the manufacture and repair of prosthetic and orthopedic products, is carried out at the expense of the federal budget and the Fund social insurance Russian Federation.

Parts nine through eleven are no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

The technical means of rehabilitation provided for by individual rehabilitation programs for disabled people, provided to them at the expense of the federal budget and the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, are transferred to disabled people for free use.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Additional funds to finance the costs of the technical means of rehabilitation of disabled people provided for in this article may be obtained from other sources not prohibited by law.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Technical means of rehabilitation are provided to disabled people at their place of residence by authorized bodies in the manner determined by the Government of the Russian Federation, the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, as well as other interested organizations.

(Part fourteen as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ of August 22, 2004)

The list of technical means of rehabilitation and indications for providing them to disabled people, as well as the procedure for providing disabled people with technical means of rehabilitation are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

The amount and procedure for paying annual monetary compensation to disabled persons for the costs of maintaining and veterinary care of guide dogs are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

(Part sixteen as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ of August 22, 2004)

Article 12.

Lost power. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Chapter IV. Providing life support for people with disabilities

Article 13. Medical assistance to disabled people

The provision of qualified medical care to disabled people is carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within the framework of the program of state guarantees for the provision of free medical care to citizens of the Russian Federation.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Parts two and three are no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Article 14 came into force on January 1, 1998 (Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 7, 1996 N 1449).

Article 14. Ensuring unhindered access to information for people with disabilities

The state guarantees a disabled person the right to receive the necessary information. Ensuring the publication of literature for the visually impaired is an expenditure obligation of the Russian Federation. Acquisition of periodical, scientific, educational, methodological, reference and informational materials fiction for disabled people, including those published on tape cassettes and embossed dotted Braille, for educational institutions and libraries administered by the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and municipal educational institutions is an expenditure obligation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, for municipal libraries - an expenditure obligation of the local government body . The acquisition of literature specified in this part for federal educational institutions and libraries is an expenditure obligation of the Russian Federation.

(Part one as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ dated August 22, 2004)

Sign language is recognized as a means of interpersonal communication. A system of subtitling or sign language translation of television programs, films and videos is being introduced.

Authorized bodies provide assistance to people with disabilities in obtaining sign language interpretation services, providing sign language equipment, and providing typhoid medications.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Article 15. Ensuring unimpeded access for people with disabilities to social infrastructure facilities

The Government of the Russian Federation, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local government bodies and organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms, create conditions for people with disabilities (including people with disabilities using wheelchairs and guide dogs) for unimpeded access to social infrastructure facilities (residential, public and industrial buildings, structures and structures, sports facilities, recreational facilities, cultural, entertainment and other institutions), as well as for the unhindered use of railway, air, water, intercity road transport and all types of urban and suburban passenger transport, communications and information (including means that provide duplication of sound signals for light signals of traffic lights and devices regulating the movement of pedestrians through transport communications).

(Part one as amended by Federal Law dated 08.08.2001 N 123-FZ)

Planning and development of cities and other settlements, formation of residential and recreational areas, development of design solutions for new construction and reconstruction of buildings, structures and their complexes, as well as development and production of vehicles common use, means of communication and information without adaptation of these objects for access to them by disabled people and their use by disabled people are not allowed.

State and municipal expenditures on the development and production of vehicles taking into account the needs of people with disabilities, adaptation of vehicles, communications and information for unhindered access to them by people with disabilities and their use by people with disabilities, creation of conditions for people with disabilities for unhindered access to engineering, transport and social infrastructure facilities are carried out in within the limits of allocations annually provided for these purposes in budgets of all levels. Expenses for carrying out these activities that are not related to state and municipal expenses are made from other sources not prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

(Part three as amended by Federal Law dated 08.08.2001 N 123-FZ)

Part four is no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

In cases where existing facilities cannot be fully adapted to the needs of people with disabilities, the owners of these facilities must, in agreement with public associations of people with disabilities, take measures to ensure that the minimum needs of people with disabilities are met.

Enterprises, institutions and organizations providing transport services to the population provide special devices for stations, airports and other facilities that allow people with disabilities to freely use their services. Organizations of the mechanical engineering complex that produce vehicles, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms, that provide transport services to the population, provide the equipment of the specified means with special devices and devices in order to create conditions for disabled people for the unhindered use of these means.

Places for the construction of a garage or parking for technical and other means of transportation are provided to disabled people out of turn near their place of residence, taking into account urban planning standards.

Part eight is no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

At each parking lot (stop) of vehicles, including near trade enterprises, services, medical, sports and cultural and entertainment institutions, at least 10 percent of the spaces (but not less than one space) are allocated for parking special vehicles for disabled people who are not must be occupied by other vehicles. Disabled persons use parking spaces for special vehicles free of charge.

Article 16. Responsibility for evading the requirements for creating conditions for people with disabilities for unhindered access to engineering, transport and social infrastructure facilities

(as amended by Federal Law dated 08.08.2001 N 123-FZ)

Legal entities and officials for evading compliance with the requirements provided for by this Federal Law, other federal laws and other regulatory legal acts for creating conditions for people with disabilities for unhindered access to engineering, transport and social infrastructure facilities, as well as for unhindered use of railway, air, water, intercity road transport and all types of urban and suburban passenger transport, communications and information means bear administrative responsibility in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Funds received from the collection of administrative fines for evading the requirements for creating conditions for people with disabilities to have unhindered access to these facilities and means are credited to the federal budget.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Article 17. Providing disabled people with living space

(as amended by Federal Law dated December 29, 2004 N 199-FZ)

Disabled people and families with disabled children in need of improved housing conditions are registered and provided with living quarters in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Providing, at the expense of federal budget funds, housing for disabled people and families with disabled children in need of improved housing conditions, registered before January 1, 2005, is carried out in accordance with the provisions of Article 28.2 of this Federal Law.

Disabled people and families with disabled children in need of improved housing conditions, registered after January 1, 2005, are provided with living quarters in accordance with the housing legislation of the Russian Federation.

Determining the procedure for providing residential premises (under a social tenancy agreement or ownership) to citizens in need of improved housing conditions who registered before January 1, 2005, is established by the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Residential premises are provided to disabled people and families with disabled children, taking into account their state of health and other circumstances worthy of attention.

Payment for residential premises (fee for social rent, as well as for the maintenance and repair of residential premises) provided to a disabled person under a social rental agreement in excess of the norm for the provision of residential premises area is determined based on the occupied total area of residential premises in a single amount, taking into account the benefits provided.

Residential premises occupied by disabled people are equipped by special means and adaptations in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person.

Disabled people living in stationary social service institutions and wishing to obtain residential premises under a social tenancy agreement are subject to registration to improve their living conditions, regardless of the size of the occupied area and are provided with residential premises on an equal basis with other disabled people.

Disabled children living in stationary social service institutions, who are orphans or left without parental care, upon reaching the age of 18 years, are subject to being provided with residential premises out of turn, if the individual rehabilitation program for the disabled person provides for the opportunity to provide self-care and lead an independent lifestyle.

Residential premises in the houses of the state or municipal housing stock, occupied by a disabled person under a social tenancy agreement, when the disabled person is placed in a stationary social service institution, are retained by him for six months.

Specially equipped residential premises in houses of the state or municipal housing stock, occupied by disabled people under a social tenancy agreement, upon their vacancy, are occupied primarily by other disabled people in need of improved housing conditions.

Disabled people and families with disabled children are provided with a discount of at least 50 percent on payment for living quarters (in houses of the state or municipal housing stock) and payment for utilities (regardless of the ownership of the housing stock), and in residential buildings that do not have central heating, - on the cost of fuel purchased within the limits established for sale to the public.

Disabled people and families that include disabled people are given the right to priority receipt of land plots for individual housing construction, farming and gardening.

Article 18. Education and training of disabled children

Part one is no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Educational institutions, together with social protection authorities and health authorities, provide pre-school, out-of-school education and education for disabled children, and for disabled people to receive secondary education. general education, secondary vocational and higher vocational education in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person.

For disabled children preschool age the necessary rehabilitation measures are provided and conditions are created for staying in general preschool institutions. For disabled children whose health condition precludes their stay in general preschool institutions, special preschool institutions are created.

If it is impossible to educate and educate disabled children in general or special preschool and general educational institutions Education authorities and educational institutions provide, with the consent of parents, the education of disabled children according to a full general education or individual program at home.

The procedure for raising and educating disabled children at home, as well as the amount of compensation for parents' expenses for these purposes, are determined by laws and other regulations of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and are expenditure obligations of the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

(Part five as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ dated August 22, 2004)

Education and training of disabled children in preschool and educational institutions are expenditure obligations of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

(Part six as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ dated August 22, 2004)

Article 19. Education of disabled people

The state guarantees the necessary conditions for people with disabilities to receive education and professional training.

General education of disabled people is carried out with exemption from fees both in general educational institutions, equipped, if necessary, with special technical means, and in special educational institutions and is regulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

The state ensures that disabled people receive basic general, secondary (complete) general education, primary vocational, secondary vocational and higher vocational education in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for the disabled person.

Vocational education of people with disabilities in educational institutions various types and levels is carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

For disabled people who need special conditions for receiving vocational education, special vocational educational institutions of various types and types or corresponding conditions in general vocational educational institutions are created.

Vocational training and professional education disabled people in special vocational educational institutions for disabled people are carried out in accordance with state educational standards on the basis of educational programs adapted for training people with disabilities.

Organization educational process in special vocational educational institutions for people with disabilities is regulated by regulatory legal acts, organizational and methodological materials of the relevant federal executive authorities.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Providing disabled people with exemption from payment or on preferential terms with special teaching aids and literature, as well as the opportunity to use the services of sign language interpreters, is an expense obligation of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation (with the exception of students in federal state educational institutions). For disabled people studying in federal state educational institutions, the provision of these activities is an expenditure obligation of the Russian Federation.

(Part eight as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ dated August 22, 2004)

Article 20. Ensuring employment of disabled people

Disabled people are provided with guarantees of employment by federal government bodies and government bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation through the following special events that help increase their competitiveness in the labor market:

1) has become invalid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

2) establishing in organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, quotas for hiring disabled people and a minimum number of special jobs for disabled people;

3) reserving jobs in professions most suitable for employing people with disabilities;

4) stimulating the creation by enterprises, institutions, organizations of additional jobs (including special ones) for the employment of people with disabilities;

5) creating working conditions for disabled people in accordance with individual rehabilitation programs for disabled people;

6) creating conditions for entrepreneurial activity disabled people;

7) organizing training for disabled people in new professions.

Article 21. Establishing a quota for hiring disabled people

(as amended by Federal Law dated December 29, 2001 N 188-FZ)

For organizations with more than 100 employees, the legislation of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation establishes a quota for hiring disabled people as a percentage of the average number of employees (but not less than 2 and not more than 4 percent).

(Part one as amended by Federal Law No. 122-FZ dated August 22, 2004)

Public associations disabled people and organizations formed by them, including business partnerships and societies, the authorized (share) capital of which consists of the contribution of a public association of disabled people, are exempt from mandatory quotas of jobs for disabled people.

Article 22. Special workplaces for employing disabled people

The minimum number of special jobs for employing people with disabilities is established by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for each enterprise, institution, organization within established quota for hiring disabled people.

Parts three and four are no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Article 23. Working conditions for disabled people

It is not allowed to establish in collective or individual labor contracts working conditions for disabled people (wages, working hours and rest periods, duration of annual and additional paid leave, etc.) that worsen the situation of disabled people in comparison with other employees.

For disabled people of groups I and II, a reduced working time of no more than 35 hours per week is established while maintaining full pay.

Involvement of disabled people in overtime work, work on weekends and at night is permitted only with their consent and provided that such work is not prohibited for them due to health reasons.

Disabled persons are granted annual leave of at least 30 calendar days.

(as amended by Federal Law dated 06/09/2001 N 74-FZ)

Article 24. Rights, obligations and responsibilities of employers in ensuring the employment of disabled people

Employers have the right to request and receive information necessary when creating special jobs for employing people with disabilities.

(as amended by Federal Law dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ)

Employers, in accordance with the established quota for hiring disabled people, are obliged to:

(as amended by Federal Law dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ)

1) create or allocate jobs for the employment of disabled people;

2) create working conditions for disabled people in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person;

3) provide, in accordance with the established procedure, information necessary for organizing the employment of disabled people.

3. Lost power. - Federal Law of December 30, 2001 N 196-FZ.

Articles 25 - 26.

Lost power. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Article 27. Material support for disabled people

Material support for disabled people includes monetary payments on various grounds (pensions, benefits, insurance payments for insuring the risk of health impairment, payments for compensation for harm caused to health, and other payments), compensation in cases established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Part two is no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Article 28. Social services for disabled people

ConsultantPlus: note.

On the issue concerning social services for elderly citizens and the disabled, see Federal Law No. 122-FZ of 02.08.1995.

Social services for disabled people are provided in the manner and on the basis determined by government bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation with the participation of public associations of disabled people.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

The executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation create special social services for disabled people, including the delivery of food and industrial goods to disabled people, and approve a list of diseases of disabled people for which they are entitled to preferential services.

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Disabled people in need of outside care and assistance are provided with medical and household services at home or in inpatient institutions. The conditions of stay of disabled people in a stationary social service institution must ensure that disabled people can exercise their rights and legitimate interests in accordance with this Federal Law and help meet their needs.

Part four has been removed. - Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ.

Disabled people are provided with the necessary means of telecommunications services, special telephone sets (including for subscribers with hearing impairments), and public call centers.

Part five is no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Disabled people are provided with household appliances, tiflo-, surdo- and other means they need for social adaptation.

(as amended by Federal Law dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ)

Maintenance and repair of technical means of rehabilitation of disabled people are carried out out of turn with exemption from payment or on preferential terms.

(as amended by Federal Laws dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ, dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

The procedure for providing services for the maintenance and repair of technical means of rehabilitation for people with disabilities is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

(part eight introduced by Federal Law dated October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ, as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Paragraph 7 of Article 154 of the Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ establishes that until the entry into force of the relevant federal law, the amount of monthly cash payment is not taken into account when calculating the amount of the total income of a family (a citizen living alone) to assess their need when determining the right to receiving subsidies for housing and utilities.

When setting monthly cash payments persons with limited ability to labor activity III, II and I degrees are applied without additional re-examination of disability groups I, II and III, respectively, established before January 1, 2005 (clause 6 of Article 154 of the Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ).

Article 28.1. Monthly cash payment for disabled people

(introduced by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ (as amended on December 29, 2004))

1. Disabled people and disabled children have the right to a monthly cash payment in the amount and manner established by this article.

From January 1 to December 31, 2005, monthly cash payments are paid in the amounts established by paragraph 5 of Article 154 of the Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Clause 2 of Article 28.1 comes into force on January 1, 2006 (clause 4 of Article 155 of the Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ).

The amount of the monthly cash payment from January 1, 2006 is calculated and paid taking into account the indexation (change) of the amount of the monthly cash payment and the cost of a set of social services carried out for the period from January 1, 2005 in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation (clause 5 of Article 154 of the Federal Law dated 08/22/2004 N 122-FZ).

2. The monthly cash payment is set in the amount of:

disabled people who have III degree restrictions on the ability to work - 1,400 rubles;
disabled people with II degree of limited ability to work, disabled children - 1,000 rubles;
disabled people with first degree limitation of ability to work - 800 rubles;
for disabled people who do not have a degree of limitation in their ability to work, with the exception of disabled children - 500 rubles.

3. If a citizen simultaneously has the right to a monthly cash payment under this Federal Law and under another federal law or other regulatory legal act, regardless of the basis on which it is established (except for cases where a monthly cash payment is established in accordance with the Law of the Russian Federation "On Social protection of citizens exposed to radiation as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster" (as amended by the Law of the Russian Federation of June 18, 1992 N 3061-1), Federal Law of January 10, 2002 N 2-FZ "On social guarantees for citizens exposed to radiation due to nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site"), he is provided with one monthly cash payment either under this Federal Law, or under another federal law or other regulatory legal act of the citizen’s choice.

Indexation of the monthly cash payment in 2005 is carried out no earlier than July 1, 2005, taking into account the coefficient by which the size of the basic part of the labor pension was indexed for the period from January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2005 (clause 5 of Article 154 of the Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ).

4. The amount of the monthly cash payment is subject to indexation in the manner and within the time limits determined by Federal Law of December 17, 2001 N 173-FZ "On labor pensions in the Russian Federation" to index the size of the basic part of the labor pension.

5. The monthly cash payment is established and paid by the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

6. Monthly cash payments are made in the manner determined by the federal executive body responsible for developing state policy and legal regulation in the field of healthcare and social development.

Article 28.2. Providing social support measures for people with disabilities to pay for housing and utilities, as well as to provide housing for people with disabilities and families with disabled children

(introduced by Federal Law dated December 29, 2004 N 199-FZ)

The Russian Federation transfers to the government authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation the authority to provide social support measures for people with disabilities to pay for housing and utilities and to provide housing for disabled people and families with disabled children in need of improved housing conditions, registered before January 1, 2005 .

Funds for the implementation of transferred powers to provide these social support measures are provided as part of the Federal Compensation Fund, formed in the federal budget, in the form of subventions.

The amount of funds provided for in the Federal Compensation Fund for the Budgets of the Subjects of the Russian Federation is determined:

for payment of housing and communal services based on the number of persons entitled to the specified social support measures; approved by the Government of the Russian Federation federal standard for the maximum cost of provided housing and communal services per 1 square meter of total housing area per month and the federal standard social norm housing area used to calculate interbudgetary transfers;
to provide housing for disabled people and families with disabled children, based on the number of persons entitled to the specified social support measures; the total housing area is 18 square meters and the average market value of 1 square meter of the total housing area in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, established by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Subventions are credited in the manner established for the execution of the federal budget to the accounts of the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The procedure for spending and accounting for funds for the provision of subventions is established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The form of provision of these social support measures is determined by the regulatory legal acts of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation quarterly submit to the federal executive body, which develops a unified state financial, credit, and monetary policy, a report on the expenditure of provided subventions indicating the number of persons entitled to the specified social support measures, categories of recipients of social support measures, and to the federal executive body responsible for developing a unified state policy in the field of healthcare, social development, labor and consumer protection - a list of persons who have been provided with social support measures, indicating the categories of recipients, the grounds for receiving social support measures, the size of the occupied area and the cost provided or purchased housing. If necessary, additional reporting data is submitted in the manner determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Funds for the implementation of these powers are targeted and cannot be used for other purposes.

If funds are not used for their intended purpose, the authorized federal executive body has the right to collect these funds in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Control over the expenditure of funds is carried out by the federal executive body exercising control and supervision functions in the financial and budgetary sphere, the federal executive body exercising control and supervision functions in the field of healthcare and social development, and the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Articles 29 - 30.

Lost power. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Article 31. The procedure for maintaining social protection measures established for people with disabilities

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Parts one and two are no longer valid. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

In cases where other legal acts for disabled people provide for norms that increase the level of social protection of disabled people compared to this Federal Law, the provisions of these legal acts are applied. If a disabled person has the right to the same measure of social protection under this Federal Law and at the same time under another legal act, the measure of social protection is provided either under this Federal Law or under another legal act (regardless of the basis for establishing the measure of social protection).

(as amended by Federal Law dated August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ)

Article 32. Responsibility for violation of the rights of persons with disabilities. Dispute resolution

Citizens and officials guilty of violating the rights and freedoms of people with disabilities bear responsibility in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Disputes regarding the determination of disability, the implementation of individual rehabilitation programs for people with disabilities, the provision of specific social protection measures, as well as disputes concerning other rights and freedoms of people with disabilities are considered in court.

Chapter V. Public associations of disabled people

Article 33. The right of disabled people to create public associations

(as amended by Federal Law No. 5-FZ dated January 4, 1999)

Public organizations of people with disabilities are recognized as organizations created by people with disabilities and persons representing their interests, in order to protect the rights and legitimate interests of people with disabilities, provide them with equal opportunities with other citizens, solve problems of social integration of people with disabilities, among whose members are people with disabilities and their legal representatives (one of the parents , adoptive parents, guardian or trustee) constitute at least 80 percent, as well as unions (associations) of these organizations.

(Part two was introduced by Federal Law No. 5-FZ dated January 4, 1999)

Federal executive authorities, executive authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, attract authorized representatives of public associations of disabled people to prepare and make decisions affecting the interests of disabled people. Decisions made in violation of this rule may be declared invalid in court.

Public associations of disabled people may own enterprises, institutions, organizations, business partnerships and societies, buildings, structures, equipment, transport, housing, intellectual values, cash, shares, shares and securities, as well as any other property and land plots in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Article 34.

Lost power. - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Chapter VI. Final provisions

Article 35. Entry into force of this Federal Law

This Federal Law comes into force on the date of its official publication, with the exception of articles for which other dates of entry into force are established.

Articles 21, 22, 23 (except for part one), 24 (except for paragraph 2 of part two) of this Federal Law come into force on July 1, 1995; Articles 11 and 17, part two of Article 18, part three of Article 19, paragraph 5 of Article 20, part one of Article 23, paragraph 2 of part two of Article 24, part two of Article 25 of this Federal Law come into force on January 1, 1996; Articles 28, 29, 30 of this Federal Law come into force on January 1, 1997 in terms of expanding the benefits currently in effect.

Articles 14, 15, 16 of this Federal Law come into force during 1995 - 1999. The specific dates for the entry into force of these articles are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 36. Effect of laws and other normative legal acts

The President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation should bring their regulatory legal acts in accordance with this Federal Law.

Until laws and other regulatory legal acts in force on the territory of the Russian Federation are brought into compliance with this Federal Law, laws and other regulatory legal acts are applied to the extent that does not contradict this Federal Law.

Federal Law on Social Protection of Disabled Persons in the Russian Federation

Date of signing: 11/24/1995

Publication date: 11/24/1995 00:00

(as amended on December 29, 2015)

This Federal Law defines the state policy in the field of social protection of disabled people in the Russian Federation, the purpose of which is to provide disabled people with equal opportunities with other citizens in the implementation of civil, economic, political and other rights and freedoms provided for by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as well as in accordance with generally recognized principles and norms of international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation.

The measures for social protection of disabled people provided for by this Federal Law are expenditure obligations of the Russian Federation, with the exception of measures of social support and social services related to the powers of the state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation (paragraph additionally included as of January 1, 2005).

Chapter I. General provisions (Articles 1 - 6)

Article 1. The concept of “disabled person”, grounds for determining the disability group

Depending on the degree of impairment of body functions, persons recognized as disabled are assigned a disability group, and persons under the age of 18 are assigned the category “disabled child.”
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2000.

Article 2. The concept of social protection of disabled people

Social protection of disabled people is a system of state-guaranteed economic, legal and social support measures that provide disabled people with conditions for overcoming, replacing (compensating) disabilities and aimed at creating opportunities for them to participate in the life of society equal to other citizens. Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Social support for people with disabilities is a system of measures providing social guarantees for people with disabilities, established by laws and other regulations, with the exception of pensions. (part additionally included from January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ).

Article 3. Legislation of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people

If an international treaty (agreement) of the Russian Federation establishes rules other than those provided for by this Federal Law, then the rules of the international treaty (agreement) apply.

Article 3_1. Non-discrimination on the basis of disability

Discrimination on the basis of disability is not allowed in the Russian Federation. For the purposes of this Federal Law, discrimination on the basis of disability means any difference, exclusion or restriction due to disability, the purpose or result of which is to diminish or deny the recognition, implementation or exercise on an equal basis with others of all rights and freedoms of man and citizen guaranteed in the Russian Federation in the political sphere. , economic, social, cultural, civil or any other area.
(The article was additionally included from January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ)

Article 4. Competence of federal government bodies in the field of social protection of disabled people

The jurisdiction of federal government bodies in the field of social protection of disabled people includes:

1) determination of state policy regarding people with disabilities;

3) conclusion of international treaties (agreements) of the Russian Federation on issues of social protection of disabled people;

4) establishment of general principles for the organization and implementation of medical and social examination and rehabilitation, habilitation of people with disabilities;
Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

5) defining criteria, establishing conditions for recognizing a person as disabled;

6) establishment, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on technical regulation, of mandatory requirements for technical means of rehabilitation, means of communication and computer science, ensuring accessibility of the living environment for disabled people (clause as amended, put into effect on October 21, 2011 by Federal Law of July 19, 2011 N 248-FZ;

7) establishing a procedure for accreditation of organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, carrying out activities in the field of rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled people;
; as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

8) implementation of accreditation of enterprises, institutions and organizations that are federally owned and carry out activities in the field of rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled people;
(Clause as amended, entered into force on January 15, 2003 by Federal Law of January 10, 2003 N 15-FZ; as amended by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

9) development and implementation of federal target programs in the field of social protection of disabled people, monitoring their implementation;

10) approval and financing of the federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to a disabled person Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

11) creation of federal institutions of medical and social expertise, monitoring their activities (clause as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

12) clause became invalid on January 1, 2005 -;

13) coordination of scientific research, financing of research and development work on the problems of disability and people with disabilities;

14) development of methodological documents on issues of social protection of disabled people;

15) the paragraph became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

16) assistance in the work of all-Russian public associations of disabled people and providing them with assistance;
(Clause as amended, entered into force on July 23, 2012.

17) the paragraph became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

18) the paragraph became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

19) formation of federal budget indicators for expenditures on social protection of disabled people;

21) determination of the basic requirements for the equipment (equipment) of special workplaces for the employment of disabled people, taking into account the impaired functions and limitations of their life activities;
(Item additionally included as of July 14, 2013)

22) preparation of reports on measures taken to fulfill the obligations of the Russian Federation under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation;
Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ)

23) other powers established in accordance with this Federal Law.
(The clause was additionally included from January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ)

Article 5. Participation of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in ensuring social protection and social support for people with disabilities

State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of social protection and social support for disabled people have the right:

1) participation in the implementation of state policy regarding people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

2) adoption, in accordance with federal laws, of laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

3) participation in determining priorities in the implementation of social policy regarding people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, taking into account the level of socio-economic development of these territories;

4) development, approval and implementation of regional programs in the field of social protection of disabled people in order to provide them with equal opportunities and social integration into society, as well as the right to control their implementation;

5) exchange information with authorized federal executive bodies on the social protection of disabled people and on the provision of social support to them;

6) providing additional measures of social support to people with disabilities from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

7) promoting the employment of disabled people, including stimulating the creation of special jobs for their employment, as well as determining the procedure for carrying out special events to provide disabled people with guarantees of employment;
(Clause as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

8) carrying out activities for training personnel in the field of social protection of disabled people;

9) financing scientific research, research and development work in the field of social protection of disabled people;

10) assistance to public associations of disabled people;

11) sending an interdepartmental request for the provision of documents and information necessary for the provision of state or municipal services and at the disposal of bodies providing public services, bodies providing municipal services, other state bodies, local government bodies or organizations subordinate to state bodies or local government bodies (clause additionally included by Federal Law of July 1, 2011 N 169-FZ).

The provisions of paragraph 11 of this article (as amended by Federal Law No. 169-FZ of July 1, 2011) do not apply until July 1, 2012 in relation to documents and information used within the framework of public services provided executive bodies state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation or territorial state extra-budgetary funds, and municipal services, and in relation to documents and information at the disposal of state bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local governments, territorial state extra-budgetary funds or organizations subordinate to state bodies or local governments participating in the provision of state or municipal services - see paragraph 5 of Article 74 of the Federal Law of July 1, 2011 N 169-FZ.
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(Article as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2006 by Federal Law of December 31, 2005 N 199-FZ

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From January 1, 2017, Federal Law No. 419-FZ of December 1, 2014 (as amended) will supplement this Federal Law with Article 5_1.
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Article 6. Liability for causing harm to health leading to disability

Chapter II. Medical and social examination (Articles 7 - 8)

Article 7. The concept of medical and social examination

Medical and social examination is the recognition of a person as disabled and the determination, in the prescribed manner, of the needs of the examined person for social protection measures, including rehabilitation, based on an assessment of the limitations in life activity caused by a persistent disorder of body functions.
Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Medical and social examination is carried out on the basis of a comprehensive assessment of the state of the body based on the analysis of clinical-functional, social-domestic, professional-labor, psychological data of the person being examined using classifications and criteria developed and approved in the manner determined by the federal executive body exercising the functions on the development and implementation of state policy and legal regulation in the field of social protection of the population.
; as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Article 8. Federal institutions of medical and social examination

Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ

Medical and social examination is carried out by federal institutions of medical and social examination, subordinate to the authorized body determined by the Government of the Russian Federation. The procedure for the organization and activities of federal institutions of medical and social examination is determined by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation (part as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ Federal Law of July 23, 2008 N 160-FZ.

Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ. .

Federal medical and social examination institutions are entrusted with Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ:

1) establishing disability, its causes, timing, time of onset of disability, the need of a disabled person for various types of social protection (clause as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

2) development of individual programs for rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled people;
(Clause as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

3) study of the level and causes of disability of the population;

4) participation in the development of comprehensive programs for rehabilitation, habilitation of people with disabilities, prevention of disability and social protection of people with disabilities;
(Clause as amended, entered into force on November 10, 2003 by Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ; as amended by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

5) determination of the degree of loss of professional ability to work (clause as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

6) determining the cause of death of a disabled person in cases where the legislation of the Russian Federation provides for the provision of social support measures to the family of the deceased (clause as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

7) issuance of a conclusion on the need for health reasons for constant outside care (assistance, supervision) in the cases provided for in subparagraph “b” of paragraph 1 of Article 24 of the Federal Law of March 28, 1998 N 53-FZ “On Military Duty and Military Service”.
(The clause was additionally included from January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ)

The decision of the establishment of a medical and social examination is mandatory for execution by the relevant government bodies, local government bodies, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership (part as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Chapter III. Rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled people (Articles 9 - 12)

Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Article 9. The concept of rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled people

(Name as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Rehabilitation of disabled people is a system and process of full or partial restoration of the abilities of disabled people for everyday, social, professional and other activities. Habilitation of disabled people is a system and process of developing the abilities that disabled people lack for everyday, social, professional and other activities. Rehabilitation and habilitation of people with disabilities are aimed at eliminating or, as fully as possible, compensating for the disabilities of people with disabilities for the purpose of their social adaptation, including their achievement of financial independence and integration into society.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

The main areas of rehabilitation and habilitation for people with disabilities include:
Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

medical rehabilitation, reconstructive surgery, prosthetics and orthotics, spa treatment;
(Paragraph as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

vocational guidance, general and vocational education, vocational training, assistance in employment (including in special workplaces), industrial adaptation;
(Paragraph as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

social-environmental, socio-pedagogical, socio-psychological and sociocultural rehabilitation, social and everyday adaptation;

physical education and health activities, sports.

The implementation of the main directions of rehabilitation and habilitation of people with disabilities involves the use of technical means of rehabilitation by people with disabilities, the creation of the necessary conditions for unhindered access of people with disabilities to social, engineering, transport infrastructure and the use of means of transport, communication and information, as well as providing people with disabilities and their family members with information on rehabilitation issues , habilitation of disabled people.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

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From January 1, 2019, Federal Law dated December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ (as amended by Federal Law dated December 29, 2015 N 394-FZ) this article will be supplemented with a fourth part.
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(Article as amended, put into effect on November 10, 2003 by Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ

Article 10. Federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to a disabled person

The federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to disabled people is approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ

Article 11. Individual program for rehabilitation or habilitation of a disabled person

(Name as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

An individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for a disabled person is a set of rehabilitation measures that are optimal for a disabled person, including certain types, forms, volumes, timing and procedures for the implementation of medical, professional and other rehabilitation measures aimed at restoration, compensation for impaired body functions, formation, restoration, compensation abilities of a disabled person to perform certain types of activities. Federal institutions of medical and social expertise may, if necessary, involve organizations engaged in rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled people in the development of individual programs for rehabilitation or habilitation of disabled people. The procedure for the development and implementation of an individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for a disabled person and its form are determined by the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of social protection of the population.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

An individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for a disabled person is mandatory for execution by the relevant government bodies, local government bodies, as well as organizations, regardless of their organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

An individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for a disabled person contains both rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to a disabled person with an exemption from fees in accordance with the federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to a disabled person, and rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services , in the payment of which the disabled person himself or other persons or organizations participate, regardless of organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership.
(Part as amended by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ; as amended by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

The scope of rehabilitation measures provided for by an individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for a disabled person cannot be less than that established by the federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to a disabled person.
(Part as amended by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ; as amended by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

An individual rehabilitation or habilitation program is of a recommendatory nature for a disabled person; he has the right to refuse one or another type, form and volume of rehabilitation measures, as well as the implementation of the program as a whole. A disabled person has the right to independently decide on the issue of providing himself with a specific technical means of rehabilitation or type of rehabilitation, including wheelchairs, prosthetic and orthopedic products, printed publications with a special font, sound-amplifying equipment, signaling devices, video materials with subtitles or sign language translation, and other similar means.
Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ; as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ; as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

If a technical means of rehabilitation and (or) service provided for by an individual program of rehabilitation or habilitation cannot be provided to a disabled person, or if a disabled person has purchased an appropriate technical means of rehabilitation and (or) paid for the service at his own expense, he is paid compensation in the amount of the cost of the acquired technical means of rehabilitation and ( or) the service provided, but not more than the cost of the corresponding technical means of rehabilitation and (or) services provided in the manner established by part fourteen of Article 11_1 of this Federal Law. The procedure for paying such compensation, including the procedure for determining its amount and the procedure for informing citizens about the amount of said compensation, is determined by the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of social protection of the population.
(Part as amended, entered into force on February 1, 2011; as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Refusal of a disabled person (or a person representing his interests) from an individual rehabilitation or habilitation program as a whole or from the implementation of its individual parts releases the relevant state authorities, local governments, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership, from responsibility for it execution and does not give the disabled person the right to receive compensation in the amount of the cost of rehabilitation measures provided free of charge.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Federal institutions of medical and social expertise send extracts from the individual program of rehabilitation or habilitation of a disabled person to the relevant executive authorities, local government bodies, organizations, regardless of their organizational and legal forms, which are entrusted with carrying out the activities provided for by the individual program of rehabilitation or habilitation of a disabled person.
Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ)

These bodies and organizations provide information on the implementation of the activities assigned to them by the individual program of rehabilitation or habilitation of a disabled person to federal institutions of medical and social examination in the form and in the manner approved by the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal norms. regulation in the field of social protection of the population.
(Part additionally included from January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ)

Article 11_1. Technical means for rehabilitation of disabled people

(name of the article as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ

Technical means of rehabilitation of disabled people include devices containing technical solutions, including special ones, used to compensate for or eliminate persistent limitations in the life activity of a disabled person. (part as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Technical means of rehabilitation of disabled people are (paragraph as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ:

the paragraph became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

special means for self-service;

special care products;

special means for orientation (including guide dogs with a set of equipment), communication and information exchange;

special means for training, education (including literature for the blind) and employment;

prosthetic products (including prosthetic and orthopedic products, orthopedic shoes and special clothing, eye prostheses and hearing aids);

special training and sports equipment, sports equipment;

special mobility aids (wheelchairs) (paragraph additionally included from February 1, 2011 by Federal Law of December 9, 2010 N 351-FZ).

The decision to provide disabled people with technical means of rehabilitation is made after establishing medical indications and contraindications (part as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

Medical indications and contraindications are established based on an assessment of persistent disorders of body functions caused by diseases, consequences of injuries and defects.

Based on medical indications and contraindications, the need is established to provide the disabled person with technical means of rehabilitation that provide compensation or elimination of persistent limitations in the disabled person’s life activity. (as amended by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 No. 122-FZ; amended on February 1, 2011 by Federal Law of December 9, 2010 No. 351-FZ.

Part lost force on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ. .

The technical means of rehabilitation provided for by individual rehabilitation and habilitation programs for disabled people, provided to them at the expense of the federal budget and the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, are transferred to disabled people for free use.
(Part as amended by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ; as amended by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Additional funds to finance the costs of the technical means of rehabilitation of disabled people provided for in this article may be obtained from other sources not prohibited by law. (part as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

The list of medical indications and contraindications for providing disabled people with technical means of rehabilitation is determined by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation.
(Part as amended by Federal Law of July 23, 2008 No. 160-FZ; as amended by Federal Law of December 9, 2010 No. 351-FZ; as amended by Federal Law of December 9, 2010 No. 351-FZ; entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Annual monetary compensation to disabled persons for the costs of maintaining and veterinary care of guide dogs is set at 17,420 rubles.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2012.

The amount of annual monetary compensation to disabled persons for the costs of maintaining and veterinary care of guide dogs is increased (indexed) in accordance with the federal law on the federal budget for the corresponding year and for the planning period, taking into account the level of inflation (consumer prices). The decision to increase (indexate) the specified annual monetary compensation is made by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Federal Law of November 30, 2011 N 355-FZ)
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Part seventeen of this article is suspended until January 1, 2017 - (as amended).

The procedure for paying annual monetary compensation to disabled persons for the costs of maintaining and veterinary care of guide dogs is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.
(Part additionally included from January 1, 2012 by Federal Law of November 30, 2011 N 355-FZ)
(The article was additionally included on November 10, 2003 by Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ)

Article 12. State Service for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons (repealed from January 1, 2005)

Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ. )

Chapter IV. Ensuring the livelihoods of people with disabilities (Articles 13 - 32)

Article 13. Medical assistance to disabled people

Part lost force on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ. .

Article 14. Ensuring unhindered access to information for people with disabilities

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Article 14 of this Federal Law came into force on January 1, 1998.

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The state guarantees a disabled person the right to receive the necessary information. Ensuring the publication of literature for the visually impaired is an expenditure obligation of the Russian Federation. The acquisition of periodical, scientific, educational, methodological, reference, information and fiction literature for people with disabilities, including those published on tape cassettes and in embossed dot Braille, for educational organizations and libraries administered by the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and municipal educational organizations is expenditure obligation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, for municipal libraries - expenditure obligation of the local government body. The acquisition of literature specified in this part for federal state educational organizations and libraries is an expenditure obligation of the Russian Federation.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ; as amended, entered into force on September 1, 2013.

Russian sign language is recognized as a language of communication in the presence of hearing and (or) speech impairments, including in the areas of oral use state language Russian Federation. A system of subtitling or sign language translation of television programs, films and videos is being introduced. Translation of Russian sign language (sign language interpreting, sign language interpreting) is carried out by Russian sign language interpreters (sign language interpreters, sign language interpreters) who have the appropriate education and qualifications. The procedure for providing Russian sign language translation services (sign language translation, sign language translation) is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 11, 2013.

Authorized bodies provide assistance to people with disabilities in obtaining services for sign language interpretation, sign language interpretation, provision of sign language equipment, and provision of sign language equipment.
(Part as amended by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 No. 122-FZ; as amended by Federal Law of December 30, 2012 No. 296-FZ.

State authorities and local governments create conditions in their subordinate institutions for people with hearing disabilities to receive translation services using Russian sign language.
Federal Law of December 30, 2012 N 296-FZ)

Training, advanced training and professional retraining of teachers and translators of Russian sign language, development of Russian sign language are provided.
(Part additionally included from January 11, 2013 by Federal Law of December 30, 2012 N 296-FZ)

Article 14_1. Participation of visually impaired people in operations using facsimile reproduction of a handwritten signature

When a credit organization carries out operations to receive, issue, change, exchange cash or when carried out by a legal entity that is not a credit organization, or individual entrepreneur(hereinafter referred to as a business entity) operations for the acceptance and issuance of cash, a visually impaired person has the right to use, when participating in the implementation of these operations, a facsimile reproduction of his handwritten signature, affixed using a mechanical copying device.

In order to exercise this right, a visually impaired person, when a credit institution carries out operations to receive, issue, change, exchange cash, or when a business entity carries out operations to receive and issue cash, represents:

1) identification document;

2) a notarial certificate certifying the identity of the handwritten signature of a visually impaired person with a facsimile reproduction of his handwritten signature, issued in the manner established by the legislation on notaries;

3) a certificate confirming the fact of establishing a visual disability and issued by the federal government agency medical and social examination, in a form approved by the authorized federal executive body.

When a credit institution carries out operations to receive, issue, change, exchange cash or when a business entity carries out operations to receive and issue cash, employees credit organization or employees of a business entity, determined by the administrative document of the credit organization or business entity and who do not carry out the specified operations, bring to the attention of the visually disabled person in the case of using a facsimile reproduction of a handwritten signature information about the nature of the operation being carried out and the amount of the operation in the manner established by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Federation.
(The article was additionally included from October 21, 2014 by Federal Law of July 21, 2014 N 267-FZ)

Article 15. Ensuring unimpeded access for people with disabilities to social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities

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By Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 7, 1996 N 1449, Article 15 of this Federal Law came into force on January 1, 1999.

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Federal government bodies, government bodies of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local government bodies (in the sphere of established powers), organizations, regardless of their organizational and legal forms, provide disabled people (including disabled people using wheelchairs and guide dogs):

1) conditions for unhindered access to social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities (residential, public and industrial buildings, structures and structures, including those in which physical education and sports organizations, cultural organizations and other organizations are located), to places of recreation and to the services provided services in them;

2) conditions for the unhindered use of railway, air, water transport, road transport and urban ground electric transport in urban, suburban, intercity traffic, communications and information means (including means that ensure duplication of sound signals with light signals of traffic lights and devices regulating the movement of pedestrians through transport communications);

3) the ability to independently move around the territory where social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities are located, enter and exit such facilities, get into and out of a vehicle, including using a wheelchair;

4) accompanying disabled people with persistent visual impairments and independent movement disorders, and providing them with assistance at social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities;

5) proper placement of equipment and storage media necessary to ensure unimpeded access for people with disabilities to social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities and services, taking into account the limitations of their life activity;

6) duplication of audio and visual information necessary for disabled people, as well as inscriptions, signs and other text and graphic information with signs made in embossed dot Braille, admission of a sign language interpreter and a sign language interpreter;

7) admission to objects of social, engineering and transport infrastructure of a guide dog in the presence of a document confirming its special training and issued in the form and in the manner determined by the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of social protection of the population;

8) provision of assistance by employees of organizations providing services to the public to people with disabilities in overcoming barriers that prevent them from receiving services on an equal basis with other persons.
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The provisions of part one of this article (as amended by Federal Law No. 419-FZ of December 1, 2014) regarding ensuring accessibility for disabled people of communication facilities, social, engineering and transport infrastructure, and vehicles apply from July 1, 2016 exclusively to newly commissioned or those that have undergone reconstruction or modernization of the specified facilities and means - see paragraph 3 of Article 26 of the Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.
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The procedure for ensuring conditions of accessibility for disabled people of social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities and services provided, as well as providing them with this necessary assistance is established by the federal executive bodies exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in established areas of activity, in agreement with the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of social protection of the population , based on the financial capabilities of the budgets of the budget system of the Russian Federation, organizations.

Federal executive authorities, executive authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, organizations providing services to the population, within the established powers, provide instruction or training to specialists working with people with disabilities on issues related to ensuring accessibility for them to social, engineering and transport infrastructure and services. in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

In cases where existing objects of social, engineering and transport infrastructure cannot be fully adapted to the needs of people with disabilities, the owners of these objects, before their reconstruction or major repairs, must accept agreements with one of the public associations of people with disabilities operating in the territory of a settlement, municipal district, city districts, measures to ensure access for people with disabilities to the place where services are provided or, when possible, to ensure the provision of necessary services at the place of residence of the person with disabilities or remotely.

Planning and development of cities and other settlements, the formation of residential and recreational areas, the development of design solutions for new construction and reconstruction of buildings, structures and their complexes, as well as the development and production of public transport vehicles, communications and information equipment without adapting these objects for unhindered Access to them by disabled people and their use by disabled people are not allowed.

State and municipal expenditures on the development and production of vehicles taking into account the needs of people with disabilities, adaptation of vehicles, communications and information for unhindered access to them by people with disabilities and their use by people with disabilities, providing conditions for people with disabilities to have unhindered access to social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities are carried out in within the limits of budgetary allocations annually provided for these purposes in the budgets of the budgetary system of the Russian Federation. Expenses for carrying out these activities that are not related to state and municipal expenses are made from other sources not prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Organizations engaged in the production of vehicles, as well as organizations providing transport services to the population (regardless of their organizational and legal forms), provide the equipment of these facilities, stations, airports and other transport infrastructure facilities with special devices and devices in order to provide conditions for disabled people for unhindered use by the specified means.

At every parking lot (stop) of vehicles, including near social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities (residential, public and industrial buildings, structures and structures, including those in which physical education and sports organizations, cultural organizations and other organizations are located), recreational areas, at least 10 percent of the spaces (but not less than one space) are allocated for parking special vehicles for people with disabilities. The designated parking spaces must not be occupied by other vehicles. Disabled persons use parking spaces for special vehicles free of charge.
(Article as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Article 16. Responsibility for evading the requirements for creating conditions for unhindered access of people with disabilities to social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities

(Name as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

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By Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 7, 1996 N 1449, Article 16 of this Federal Law came into force on January 1, 1999.

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Part lost force on December 6, 2013 - Federal Law of November 25, 2013 N 312-FZ. .
(Article as amended, put into effect on August 10, 2001 by Federal Law of August 8, 2001 N 123-FZ

Article 17. Providing housing for disabled people

(Name as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Residential premises are provided to disabled people and families with disabled children, taking into account their state of health and other circumstances worthy of attention.

Disabled people may be provided with residential premises under a social tenancy agreement with a total area exceeding the norm for provision per person (but not more than twice), provided that they suffer from severe forms of chronic diseases provided for in the list established by the federal body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation executive power (part as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2009 by Federal Law of July 23, 2008 N 160-FZ.

Residential premises occupied by disabled people are equipped with special means and devices in accordance with the individual program of rehabilitation or habilitation of the disabled person.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Disabled people living in social service organizations that provide social services in a stationary form, and wishing to obtain residential premises under a social tenancy agreement, are subject to registration to improve their living conditions, regardless of the size of the occupied area and are provided with residential premises on an equal basis with other disabled people.
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Disabled children living in social service organizations that provide social services in a stationary form and who are orphans or left without parental care, upon reaching the age of 18 years, are subject to being provided with residential premises out of turn, if the individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for a disabled person provides for the opportunity to carry out self-care and lead him an independent life.
(Part as amended by Federal Law of November 28, 2015 No. 358-FZ; as amended by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 No. 419-FZ.

Residential premises of a state or municipal housing stock occupied by a disabled person under a social tenancy agreement, when the disabled person is placed in a social service organization that provides social services in a stationary form, is retained by him for six months.
; as amended, put into effect on December 9, 2015 by Federal Law of November 28, 2015 N 358-FZ.

Specially equipped residential premises of the state or municipal housing stock, occupied by disabled people under a social tenancy agreement, upon their vacancy, are occupied first of all by other disabled people in need of improved housing conditions.
(Part as amended, entered into force on August 3, 2012 by Federal Law of July 20, 2012 N 124-FZ.

Disabled people and families with disabled children are provided with compensation for the cost of living quarters and utilities in the amount of 50 percent:

rental fees and fees for the maintenance of residential premises, including fees for services, work on managing an apartment building, for the maintenance and current repairs of common property in apartment building, based on the occupied total area of residential premises of state and municipal housing funds;

fees for cold water, hot water, electrical energy, thermal energy consumed in the maintenance of common property in an apartment building, as well as for the disposal of wastewater for the purpose of maintaining common property in an apartment building, regardless of the type of housing stock;

payment for utilities, calculated based on the volume of consumed utilities, determined by meter readings, but not more than consumption standards approved in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. In the absence of the specified metering devices, fees for utility services are calculated based on standards for the consumption of utility services, approved in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation;

payment for the cost of fuel purchased within the limits established for sale to the public, and transport services for the delivery of this fuel - when living in houses that do not have central heating.
(Part as amended, entered into force on June 30, 2015.

Disabled people of groups I and II, disabled children, citizens with disabled children are provided with compensation for the costs of paying a contribution for major repairs of common property in an apartment building, but not more than 50 percent of the specified contribution, calculated based on the minimum amount of the contribution for major repairs for one square meter of the total area of residential premises per month, established by the regulatory legal act of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, and the size of the regional standard for the standard area of living premises used to calculate subsidies for the payment of residential premises and utilities.
(Part additionally included from January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 29, 2015 N 399-FZ)
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Parts fourteen and fifteen of this edition from January 1, 2016 are considered respectively parts fifteen and sixteen of this edition - Federal Law of December 29, 2015 N 399-FZ.
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Social support measures for paying utility bills are provided to persons living in residential premises, regardless of the type of housing stock, and do not apply to cases established by the Government of the Russian Federation of applying increasing coefficients to utility consumption standards.
(Part additionally included from June 30, 2015 by Federal Law of June 29, 2015 N 176-FZ)

Disabled people and families that include disabled people are given the right to priority receipt of land plots for individual housing construction, farming and gardening.
(Article as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2005

Article 18. Education and training of disabled children

(Repealed from September 1, 2013 - Federal Law of July 2, 2013 N 185-FZ.)

Article 19. Education of disabled people

The state supports the acquisition of education by people with disabilities and guarantees the creation of the necessary conditions for people with disabilities to receive it.

Support for general education, vocational education and vocational training for people with disabilities is aimed at:

1) their exercise of human rights and freedoms on an equal basis with other citizens;

2) development of personality, individual abilities and capabilities;

3) integration into society.

Bodies exercising management in the field of education and educational organizations, together with social protection authorities and health authorities, ensure that people with disabilities receive public and free pre-school, primary general, basic general, secondary general and secondary vocational education, as well as free higher education.

General education, vocational education and vocational training for disabled people are carried out in accordance with adapted educational programs and individual rehabilitation and habilitation programs for disabled people.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Bodies exercising management in the field of education and organizations carrying out educational activities provide disabled people and their parents (legal representatives) with information on the issues of obtaining general education, vocational education, vocational training and rehabilitation of disabled people.

State authorities and organizations engaged in educational activities provide psychological and pedagogical support when disabled people receive education, including when disabled children receive general education at home and in the form of family education.

Disabled people are provided with the necessary conditions for receiving education in organizations that carry out educational activities in the implementation of basic general education programs, in which special conditions have been created for students with disabilities to receive education, as well as in individual organizations that carry out educational activities in accordance with adapted basic general education programs.

If it is impossible to educate disabled children in basic general education programs in organizations engaged in educational activities, the authorities in charge of education, with the consent of the parents (legal representatives) of disabled children, ensure the organization of training for disabled children in basic general education programs at home. The basis for organizing education for disabled children at home is a written request from their parents (legal representatives) and a conclusion medical organization, issued in the manner and on the terms determined by the federal executive body responsible for the development and implementation of state policy and legal regulation in the field of healthcare.

The list of diseases, the presence of which gives the right to study in basic general education programs at home, is approved by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The procedure for regulating and formalizing relations between state or municipal educational organization and parents (legal representatives) of disabled children in terms of organizing training in basic general education programs at home is established by a regulatory legal act of the authorized government body of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation. The amount of compensation for the expenses of parents (legal representatives) of disabled children for these purposes is determined by laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and are the expenditure obligations of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
(Article as amended, put into effect on September 1, 2013 by Federal Law of July 2, 2013 N 185-FZ.

Article 20. Ensuring employment of disabled people

Disabled people are provided with employment guarantees through the following special events that help increase their competitiveness in the labor market:
(Paragraph as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

1) the paragraph became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ;

2) establishing in organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, quotas for hiring disabled people and a minimum number of special jobs for disabled people;

3) reserving jobs in professions most suitable for employing people with disabilities;

4) stimulating the creation by enterprises, institutions, organizations of additional jobs (including special ones) for the employment of people with disabilities;

5) creating working conditions for disabled people in accordance with individual rehabilitation and habilitation programs for disabled people;
(Clause as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

6) creating conditions for entrepreneurial activity of disabled people;

7) organizing training for disabled people in new professions.

The procedure for holding special events specified in part one of this article is determined by state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
(Part additionally included from January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ)

Article 21. Establishing a quota for hiring disabled people

For employers whose number of employees exceeds 100 people, the legislation of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation establishes a quota for hiring disabled people in the amount of 2 to 4 percent of the average number of employees. For employers whose number of employees is no less than 35 people and no more than 100 people, the legislation of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation may establish a quota for hiring disabled people in the amount of no more than 3 percent of the average number of employees.

When calculating the quota for hiring disabled people, the average number of employees does not include workers whose working conditions are classified as harmful and (or) dangerous working conditions based on the results of certification of workplaces for working conditions or the results of a special assessment of working conditions.
(Part additionally included from January 1, 2014 by Federal Law of December 28, 2013 N 421-FZ)
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Part two of the previous edition, from January 1, 2014, is considered part of the third of this edition - Federal Law of December 28, 2013 N 421-FZ.
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If the employers are public associations of disabled people and organizations formed by them, including business partnerships and societies, the authorized (share) capital of which consists of the contribution of a public association of disabled people, these employers are exempt from complying with the established quota for hiring disabled people.
(Article as amended, put into effect on July 14, 2013 by Federal Law of July 2, 2013 N 183-FZ.

Article 22. Special workplaces for employing disabled people

Special workplaces for employing disabled people are workplaces that require additional measures to organize work, including adaptation of main and auxiliary equipment, technical and organizational equipment, additional equipment and provision of technical devices, taking into account the individual capabilities of disabled people. Special workplaces for the employment of disabled people are equipped (equipped) by employers, taking into account the impaired functions of disabled people and the limitations of their life activities in accordance with the basic requirements for such equipment (equipment) of these workplaces, determined by the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of labor and social protection of the population.
(Part as amended, entered into force on July 14, 2013 by Federal Law of July 2, 2013 N 168-FZ.

The minimum number of special jobs for employing disabled people is established by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for each enterprise, institution, organization within the established quota for hiring disabled people.

Part lost force on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ. .

Article 23. Working conditions for disabled people

Disabled people employed in organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, are provided with the necessary working conditions in accordance with the individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for the disabled person.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

For disabled people of groups I and II, a reduced working time of no more than 35 hours per week is established while maintaining full pay.

Involvement of disabled people in overtime work, work on weekends and at night is permitted only with their consent and provided that such work is not prohibited for them due to health reasons.

Disabled persons are granted annual leave of at least 30 calendar days (part as amended, put into effect on June 14, 2001 by Federal Law of June 9, 2001 N 74-FZ.

Article 24. Rights, obligations and responsibilities of employers in ensuring the employment of disabled people

Employers have the right to request and receive information necessary when creating special jobs for employing people with disabilities (part as amended, put into effect on November 10, 2003 by Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ.

Employers, in accordance with the established quota for hiring disabled people, are obliged (paragraph as amended, put into effect on November 10, 2003 by Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ:

1) create or allocate jobs for employing people with disabilities and adopt local regulations containing information about these jobs;
(Clause as amended, put into effect on March 8, 2013 by Federal Law of February 23, 2013 N 11-FZ.

2) create working conditions for disabled people in accordance with the individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for a disabled person;
(Clause as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

3) provide, in accordance with the established procedure, information necessary for organizing the employment of disabled people.

3. Part lost force on July 1, 2002 - Federal Law of December 30, 2001 N 196-FZ ..

Article 25. Procedure and conditions for recognizing a disabled person as unemployed (lost force from January 1, 2005)

(the article became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.)

Article 26. State incentives for the participation of enterprises and organizations in ensuring the livelihoods of people with disabilities (lost force from January 1, 2005)

(the article became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.)

Article 27. Material support for disabled people

Part lost force on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ. .

Article 28. Social services for disabled people

Part lost force on December 9, 2015 - Federal Law of November 28, 2015 N 358-FZ. .

Disabled people in need of outside care and assistance are provided with medical and household services at home or in inpatient organizations. The conditions of stay of disabled people in a social service organization that provides social services in a stationary form must ensure that disabled people can exercise their rights and legitimate interests in accordance with this Federal Law and help meet their needs.
(Part as amended, entered into force on December 9, 2015 by Federal Law of November 28, 2015 N 358-FZ.

This part has been excluded since November 10, 2003 by Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ. .
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Parts five and six of the previous edition from November 10, 2003 are considered respectively parts four and five of this edition - Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ.
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Disabled people are provided with the necessary means of telecommunications services, special telephone sets (including for subscribers with hearing impairments), and public call centers.

Part lost force on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ

Maintenance and repair of technical means of rehabilitation of disabled people are carried out out of turn with exemption from payment or on preferential terms (part as amended by the Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ; as amended by the Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.

The procedure for providing services for the maintenance and repair of technical means of rehabilitation for people with disabilities is determined by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation (part additionally included on November 10, 2003 by Federal Law of October 23, 2003 N 132-FZ; as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ; as amended by from January 1, 2009 by Federal Law of July 23, 2008 N 160-FZ.

Article 28_1. Monthly cash payment for disabled people

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Pending the entry into force of the relevant federal law, the amount of the monthly cash payment established in accordance with this Federal Law is not taken into account when calculating the total income of a family (a single citizen living alone) to assess their need when determining the right to receive a subsidy for housing and utilities. - see paragraph 7 of Article 154 of the Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.
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1. Disabled people and disabled children have the right to a monthly cash payment in the amount and manner established by this article.

2. The monthly cash payment is set in the amount of:

1) disabled people of group I - 2162 rubles;

2) disabled people of group II, disabled children - 1544 rubles;

3) disabled people of group III - 1236 rubles.

(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2010.

4. The amount of the monthly cash payment is subject to indexation once a year from April 1 of the current year based on the forecast inflation rate established by the federal law on the federal budget for the corresponding financial year and for the planning period (part as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2010 by Federal Law of July 24, 2009 N 213-FZ.
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Part 4 of this article is suspended until January 1, 2017 - Federal Law of April 6, 2015 N 68-FZ (as amended by Federal Law of December 14, 2015 N 371-FZ).
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5. The monthly cash payment is established and paid by the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

6. Monthly cash payments are made in the manner determined by the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of social protection of the population.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

7. Part of the amount of the monthly cash payment may be used to finance the provision of social services to a disabled person in accordance with Federal Law of July 17, 1999 N 178-FZ “On State Social Assistance”.
Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ (as amended by Federal Law of December 29, 2004 N 199-FZ))

Article 28_2. Providing social support measures for people with disabilities to pay for housing and utilities, as well as to provide housing for people with disabilities and families with disabled children

Funds for the implementation of transferred powers to provide these social support measures are provided in the federal budget in the form of subventions.
(Part as amended, entered into force on May 8, 2013.

The volume of subventions from the federal budget to the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is determined:
(Paragraph as amended, put into effect on May 8, 2013 by Federal Law of May 7, 2013 N 104-FZ.

for payment of housing and communal services based on the number of persons entitled to the specified social support measures; approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, the federal standard for the maximum cost of provided housing and communal services per 1 square meter of total housing area per month and the federal standard for the social norm of housing area, used to calculate interbudgetary transfers, as well as the minimum amount of contribution established by a specific subject of the Russian Federation for capital repairs of common property in an apartment building;
(Paragraph as amended, put into effect on June 30, 2014 by Federal Law of June 28, 2014 N 200-FZ.

to provide housing for disabled people and families with disabled children, based on the number of persons entitled to the specified social support measures; the total housing area is 18 square meters and the average market value of 1 square meter of the total housing area in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, established by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Subventions are credited in the manner established for the execution of the federal budget to the accounts of the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The procedure for spending and accounting for funds for the provision of subventions is established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The form of provision of these social support measures is determined by the regulatory legal acts of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

Funds for the implementation of these powers are targeted and cannot be used for other purposes.

If funds are not used for their intended purpose, the authorized federal executive body has the right to collect these funds in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation have the right to vest, by the laws of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local self-government bodies with the powers to provide social support measures specified in part one of this article (part additionally included on October 24, 2007 by Federal Law of October 18, 2007 N 230-FZ).
(The article was additionally included from January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of December 29, 2004 N 199-FZ)

Article 29. Sanatorium-resort treatment of disabled people (repealed from January 1, 2005)

(the article became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.)

Article 30. Transport services for disabled people (repealed from January 1, 2005)

(the article became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.)

Article 31. The procedure for maintaining social protection measures established for people with disabilities

(name of the article as amended, put into effect on January 1, 2005 by Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ

Part lost force on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ. .

Article 32. Responsibility for violation of the rights of persons with disabilities. Dispute resolution

Citizens and officials guilty of violating the rights and freedoms of people with disabilities bear responsibility in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Disputes regarding the determination of disability, the implementation of individual rehabilitation programs, habilitation of people with disabilities, the provision of specific measures of social protection, as well as disputes concerning other rights and freedoms of people with disabilities, are considered in court.
(Part as amended, entered into force on January 1, 2016 by Federal Law of December 1, 2014 N 419-FZ.

Chapter V. Public associations of disabled people (Articles 33 - 34)

Article 33. The right of disabled people to create public associations

Public associations created and operating in order to protect the rights and legitimate interests of people with disabilities, providing them with equal opportunities with other citizens, are a form of social protection for people with disabilities. The state provides assistance and assistance to these public associations, including material, technical and financial. Local government bodies have the right to provide support to public associations of people with disabilities at the expense of local budgets (with the exception of interbudgetary transfers provided from the budgets of the budget system of the Russian Federation) (part as amended, entered into force on January 13, 1999; supplemented on November 20, 2011.

Federal executive authorities, executive authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local government bodies, organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, attract authorized representatives of public associations of people with disabilities to prepare and make decisions affecting the interests of people with disabilities. Decisions made in violation of this rule may be declared invalid in court. (part supplemented on November 20, 2011 by Federal Law of November 6, 2011 N 299-FZ.

Public associations of disabled people and organizations that were created by all-Russian public associations of disabled people, and whose authorized capital consists entirely of contributions public organizations disabled people, and the average number of disabled people in which in relation to other employees is no less than 50 percent, and the share of wages of disabled people in the wage fund is no less than 25 percent, state authorities and local governments can also provide support by providing free use of property (including buildings, non-residential premises) used by these associations and organizations on legally for a period of at least five years at the time of provision of such property.
Federal Law of July 10, 2012 N 110-FZ)

Providing support to public associations of disabled people can also be carried out in accordance with the Federal Law of January 12, 1996 N 7-FZ “On Non-Profit Organizations” in terms of socially oriented non-profit organizations.
(Part additionally included from July 23, 2012 by Federal Law of July 10, 2012 N 110-FZ)

For organizations that were created by all-Russian public associations of disabled people, and whose authorized capital consists entirely of contributions from public organizations of disabled people, and the average number of disabled people in relation to other employees is no less than 50 percent, and the share of wages of disabled people in the wage fund - no less than 25 percent, the Federal Law of July 24, 2007 N 209-FZ “On the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the Russian Federation” applies if these organizations comply with the requirements established by the said Federal Law, with the exception of paragraph 1 of part 1 of article 4 of the said Federal Law.
(Part additionally included from July 23, 2012 by Federal Law of July 10, 2012 N 110-FZ)

Article 34. Benefits provided to public associations of disabled people (repealed from January 1, 2005)

(the article became invalid on January 1, 2005 - Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ.)

Chapter VI. Final provisions (Articles 35 - 36)

Article 35. Entry into force of this Federal Law

This Federal Law comes into force on the date of its official publication, with the exception of articles for which other dates of entry into force are established.

Changes and amendments

(as amended by Federal Law dated January 4, 1999 N 5-FZ)

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. The concept of “disabled person”, grounds for determining the disability group

Depending on the degree of impairment of body functions and limitations in life activity, persons recognized as disabled are assigned a disability group, and persons under the age of 16 are assigned the category “disabled child.”

Recognition of a person as disabled is carried out by the State Medical and Social Examination Service. The procedure and conditions for recognizing a person as disabled are established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 2. The concept of social protection of disabled people

Social protection of disabled people is a system of state-guaranteed economic, social and legal measures that provide disabled people with conditions for overcoming, replacing (compensating) disabilities and aimed at creating equal opportunities for them to participate in the life of society as other citizens.

Article 3. Legislation of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people

If an international treaty (agreement) of the Russian Federation establishes rules other than those provided for by this Federal Law, then the rules of the international treaty (agreement) apply.

Article 4. Competence of federal government bodies in the field of social protection of disabled people

The jurisdiction of federal government bodies in the field of social protection of disabled people includes:

1) determination of state policy regarding people with disabilities;

3) conclusion of international treaties (agreements) of the Russian Federation on issues of social protection of disabled people;

4) establishment of general principles of organization and implementation of medical and social examination and rehabilitation of disabled people;

5) defining criteria, establishing conditions for recognizing a person as disabled;

6) establishment state standards for social services, technical means of rehabilitation, means of communication and computer science, the establishment of norms and rules that ensure accessibility of the living environment for disabled people; determining appropriate certification requirements;

7) establishing a procedure for accreditation and licensing of organizations, regardless of organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership, carrying out activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people;

8) implementation of accreditation and licensing of enterprises, institutions and organizations that are federally owned and carry out activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people;

9) development and implementation of federal target programs in the field of social protection of disabled people, monitoring their implementation;

10) approval and financing of federal basic programs for the rehabilitation of disabled people;

11) creation and management of rehabilitation industry facilities that are federally owned;

12) determination of the list of specialties of workers engaged in the field of medical and social examination and rehabilitation of disabled people, organization of personnel training in this area;

13) coordination of scientific research, financing of research and development work on the problems of disability and disabled people;

14) development of methodological documents on issues of social protection of disabled people;

15) establishment of job quotas for disabled people;

16) assistance in the work of all-Russian public associations of disabled people and providing them with assistance;

17) establishment of federal benefits, including taxation, for organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, that invest funds in the sphere of social protection of people with disabilities, produce special industrial goods, technical means and devices for people with disabilities, provide services to people with disabilities, as well as public associations of disabled people and enterprises, institutions, organizations, business partnerships and societies owned by them, the authorized capital of which consists of the contribution of a public association of disabled people;

18) establishment of federal benefits for certain categories of disabled people;

19) formation of federal budget indicators for expenditures on social protection of disabled people.

Article 5. Competence of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of social protection of disabled people

The jurisdiction of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of social protection of disabled people includes:

1) implementation of state policy regarding people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

2) adoption of laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation on the social protection of disabled people, monitoring their implementation;

3) determining priorities in the implementation of social policy regarding people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, taking into account the level of socio-economic development of the territory of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation;

4) creation of enterprises, institutions and organizations of the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise, the State Service of the Rehabilitation Industry, monitoring their activities;

5) accreditation and licensing of enterprises, institutions and organizations owned by constituent entities of the Russian Federation, carrying out activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people;

6) participation in the implementation of federal programs in the field of social protection of disabled people, development and financing of regional programs in this area;

7) approval and financing of the list of rehabilitation activities carried out in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, taking into account socio-economic, climatic and other features in addition to the federal basic programs for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities;

8) creation and management of facilities in the field of social protection of disabled people, under the jurisdiction of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

9) organization and coordination of training activities in the field of social protection of disabled people;

10) coordination and financing of scientific research, research and development work in the field of social protection of disabled people;

11) development, within its competence, of methodological documents on issues of social protection of disabled people;

12) assistance in the work and assistance to public associations of people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

13) establishment of benefits, including taxation, for organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, investing in the sphere of social protection of people with disabilities, producing special industrial goods, technical means and devices for people with disabilities, providing services to people with disabilities, as well as public associations disabled people and their owned enterprises, institutions, organizations, business partnerships and societies, the authorized capital of which consists of the contribution of a public association of disabled people;

14) establishment of benefits for disabled people or certain categories of disabled people in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation at the expense of funds from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

15) formation of budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in terms of expenses for social protection of disabled people.

Federal government bodies and government bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation may, by agreement, transfer to each other part of their powers in the field of social protection of disabled people.

Article 6. Liability for causing harm to health leading to disability

Chapter II. Medical and social examination

Article 7. The concept of medical and social examination

Medical and social examination is carried out on the basis of a comprehensive assessment of the state of the body based on the analysis of clinical - functional, social - everyday, professional - labor, psychological data of the person being examined using classifications and criteria developed and approved in the manner determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 8. State service of medical and social examination

1. Medical and social examination is carried out by the State Service for Medical and Social Examination, which is part of the system (structure) of social protection bodies of the Russian Federation. The procedure for organizing and operating the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

2. Medical services when registering citizens for examination at institutions of the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise, rehabilitation measures are included in the federal basic program of compulsory health insurance for citizens of the Russian Federation and are financed from federal and territorial compulsory health insurance funds.

3. The State Service of Medical and Social Expertise is entrusted with:

1) determination of the group of disability, its causes, timing, time of onset of disability, the need of a disabled person for various types of social protection;
2) development of individual rehabilitation programs for disabled people;
3) study of the level and causes of disability of the population;
4) participation in the development of comprehensive programs for the prevention of disability, medical and social rehabilitation and social protection of disabled people;
5) determination of the degree of loss of professional ability of persons who received a work injury or occupational disease;
6) determining the cause of death of a disabled person in cases where the legislation of the Russian Federation provides for the provision of benefits to the family of the deceased.

The decision of the body of the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise is mandatory for execution by the relevant government bodies, local government bodies, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership.

Chapter III. Rehabilitation of disabled people

Article 9. Concept of rehabilitation of disabled people

1. Rehabilitation of disabled people is a system of medical, psychological, pedagogical, socio-economic measures aimed at eliminating or possibly more fully compensating for limitations in life caused by health problems with persistent impairment of body functions. The goal of rehabilitation is to restore the social status of a disabled person, achieve financial independence and social adaptation.

2. Rehabilitation of disabled people includes:

1) medical rehabilitation, which consists of rehabilitation therapy, reconstructive surgery, prosthetics and orthotics;

2) professional rehabilitation of disabled people, which consists of vocational guidance, vocational education, vocational and industrial adaptation and employment;

3) social rehabilitation of disabled people, which consists of social and environmental orientation and social and everyday adaptation.

Article 10. Federal basic program for the rehabilitation of disabled people

The Federal Basic Program for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons is a guaranteed list of rehabilitation measures, technical means and services provided to a disabled person free of charge at the expense of the federal budget.

The Federal Basic Program for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons and the procedure for its implementation are approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Rehabilitation technical means and services are provided to people with disabilities, as a rule, in kind.

Article 11. Individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person

An individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person is a complex of optimal rehabilitation measures for a disabled person, developed on the basis of a decision of the State Medical and Social Expertise Service, which includes certain types, forms, volumes, timing and procedures for the implementation of medical, professional and other rehabilitation measures aimed at restoration and compensation for impaired or lost body functions, restoration, compensation of the disabled person’s abilities to perform certain types of activities.

An individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person contains both rehabilitation measures provided to a disabled person free of charge in accordance with the federal basic program for the rehabilitation of disabled people, and rehabilitation measures in the payment of which the disabled person himself or other persons or organizations participate, regardless of organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership.

The volume of rehabilitation measures provided for by the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person cannot be less than that established by the federal basic program for the rehabilitation of disabled people.

An individual rehabilitation program is of a recommendatory nature for a disabled person; he has the right to refuse one or another type, form and volume of rehabilitation measures, as well as the implementation of the program as a whole. A disabled person has the right to independently decide on the issue of providing himself with a specific technical means or type of rehabilitation, including cars, wheelchairs, prosthetic and orthopedic products, printed publications with a special font, sound-amplifying equipment, signaling devices, video materials with subtitles or sign language translation, and other similar means.

If a technical or other means or service provided for by an individual rehabilitation program cannot be provided to a disabled person, or if a disabled person has purchased the appropriate means or paid for the service at his own expense, then he is paid compensation in the amount of the cost of the technical or other means or services that should be provided to the disabled person.

Refusal of a disabled person (or a person representing his interests) from an individual rehabilitation program as a whole or from the implementation of its individual parts releases the relevant state authorities, local governments, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, from responsibility for its implementation and does not give a disabled person the right to receive compensation in the amount of the cost of rehabilitation measures provided free of charge.

Article 12. State service for rehabilitation of disabled people

The State Service for the Rehabilitation of Disabled People is a set of government bodies, regardless of departmental affiliation, local government bodies, institutions at various levels that carry out measures for medical, professional and social rehabilitation.

Coordination of activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people is carried out by the Ministry of Social Protection of the Population of the Russian Federation.

Rehabilitation institutions are institutions that carry out the process of rehabilitation of disabled people in accordance with rehabilitation programs.

Federal executive authorities, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, taking into account regional and territorial needs, create a network of rehabilitation institutions and ensure the development of a system of medical, professional and social rehabilitation of people with disabilities, organize the production of technical means of rehabilitation, develop services for people with disabilities, promote the development of non-state rehabilitation institutions with they have licenses for this type of activity, as well as funds of various forms of ownership and interact with them in the implementation of rehabilitation of disabled people.

Financing of rehabilitation activities is carried out from the federal budget, funds from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, federal and territorial compulsory health insurance funds, the State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation (in accordance with the provisions on these funds), other sources not prohibited legislation of the Russian Federation. Financing of rehabilitation activities, including the maintenance of rehabilitation institutions, is allowed on the basis of cooperation of budgetary and extra-budgetary funds.

The procedure for organizing and operating the State Service for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Chapter IV. Providing life support for people with disabilities

Article 13. Medical assistance to disabled people

Providing qualified medical care to people with disabilities, including drug provision, is carried out free of charge or on preferential terms in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The procedure and conditions for providing qualified medical care to various categories of disabled people are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Medical rehabilitation of disabled people is carried out within the framework of the federal basic program of compulsory health insurance for the population of the Russian Federation at the expense of federal and territorial compulsory health insurance funds.

Article 14. Ensuring unhindered access to information for people with disabilities

The state guarantees a disabled person the right to receive the necessary information. For these purposes, measures are being taken to strengthen the material and technical base of editorial offices, publishing houses and printing enterprises producing special literature for people with disabilities, as well as editorial offices, programs, studios, enterprises, institutions and organizations that produce recordings, audio recordings and other audio products, films and videos and other video products for people with disabilities. The publication of periodical, scientific, educational, methodological, reference, informational and fiction literature for people with disabilities, including those published on tape cassettes and in embossed dotted Braille, is carried out at the expense of the federal budget.

Sign language is recognized as a means of interpersonal communication. A system of subtitling or sign language translation of television programs, films and videos is being introduced.

Social protection authorities provide assistance to people with disabilities in obtaining sign language translation services, providing sign language equipment, and providing typhoid medications.

Article 15. Ensuring unimpeded access for people with disabilities to social infrastructure facilities

The Government of the Russian Federation, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local governments, organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, create conditions for people with disabilities (including people with disabilities using wheelchairs and guide dogs) for free access to social infrastructure facilities: residential , public and industrial buildings, recreational facilities, sports facilities, cultural and entertainment and other institutions; for unhindered use public transport and transport communications, means of communication and information.

Planning and development of cities and other populated areas, formation of residential and recreational areas, development of design solutions for new construction and reconstruction of buildings, structures and their complexes, as well as the development and production of public transport vehicles, communications and information equipment without adapting these objects for access disabled people are not allowed to access them or use them.

Carrying out measures to adapt social and industrial infrastructure facilities for access to them by disabled people and their use by disabled people is carried out in accordance with federal and territorial target programs approved in the prescribed manner.

The development of design solutions for the new construction of buildings, structures and their complexes without coordination with the relevant executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and taking into account the opinions of public associations of people with disabilities is not allowed.

Enterprises, institutions and organizations providing transport services to the population provide special adaptations for vehicles, stations, airports and other facilities that allow people with disabilities to freely use their services.

Disabled people are exempt from rent for land and premises for storing vehicles available for their personal use.

Article 16. Responsibility for failure to fulfill obligations to ensure access for people with disabilities to social infrastructure facilities

Organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, that do not comply with the adaptation measures provided for by this Federal Law, other federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation existing funds transport, communications, information and other social infrastructure facilities for access to them by disabled people and their use by disabled people, allocate to the appropriate budgets the funds necessary to meet the needs of disabled people, in the manner and amounts established by the Government of the Russian Federation, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, authorities local government with the participation of public associations of disabled people. These funds are used for the intended purpose only for the implementation of measures to adapt social infrastructure facilities for access to them by disabled people and their use by disabled people.

Article 17. Providing disabled people with living space

Disabled people and families with disabled children in need of improved housing conditions are registered and provided with living quarters, taking into account the benefits provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Residential premises are provided to disabled people and families with disabled children, taking into account their state of health and other circumstances worthy of attention.

Disabled people have the right to additional living space in the form of a separate room in accordance with the list of diseases approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. This right is taken into account when registering for the improvement of living conditions and the provision of residential premises in houses of the state or municipal housing stock. Additional living space occupied by a disabled person (regardless of whether in the form of a separate room or not) is not considered excessive and is subject to payment in a single amount, taking into account the benefits provided.

Residential premises occupied by disabled people are equipped with special means and devices in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program of the disabled person.

Disabled people living in stationary social service institutions and wishing to obtain residential premises under a rental or lease agreement are subject to registration for improvement of living conditions, regardless of the size of the occupied area and are provided with residential premises on an equal basis with other disabled people.

Disabled children living in stationary social service institutions, who are orphans or deprived of parental care, upon reaching the age of 18 years, are subject to being provided with residential premises out of turn, if the individual rehabilitation program for the disabled person provides for the opportunity to provide self-care and lead an independent lifestyle.

Residential premises in the houses of the state, municipal and public housing stock, occupied by a disabled person under a rental or rental agreement, when the disabled person is placed in a stationary social service institution, are retained by him for six months.

Specially equipped residential premises in houses of the state, municipal and public housing stock, occupied by disabled people under a rental or rental agreement, upon their vacancy, are occupied first of all by other disabled people in need of improved housing conditions.

Disabled people and families with disabled children are given a discount of at least 50 percent on rent (in state, municipal and public housing) and utility bills (regardless of the housing stock), and in residential buildings that do not have central heating , - from the cost of fuel purchased within the limits established for sale to the public.

Disabled people and families that include disabled people are given the right to priority receipt of land plots for individual housing construction, farming and gardening.

The procedure for providing these benefits is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation. Executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments have the right to establish additional benefits for people with disabilities.

Article 18. Education and training of disabled children

Educational institutions, social protection bodies, communication, information, physical culture and sports institutions ensure continuity of upbringing and education, social and everyday adaptation of disabled children.

Educational institutions, together with social protection authorities and health authorities, provide pre-school, out-of-school education and education for disabled children, and the receipt of secondary general education, secondary vocational and higher vocational education by disabled people in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for the disabled person.

Disabled children of preschool age are provided with the necessary rehabilitation measures and conditions are created for their stay in general preschool institutions. For disabled children whose health condition precludes their stay in general preschool institutions, special preschool institutions are created.

If it is impossible to educate and educate disabled children in general or special preschool and general education institutions, education authorities and educational institutions provide, with the consent of the parents, the education of disabled children according to a full general education or individual program at home.

The procedure for raising and educating disabled children at home, in non-state educational institutions, as well as the amount of compensation for parents' expenses for these purposes are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 19. Education of disabled people

The state guarantees the necessary conditions for people with disabilities to receive education and professional training.

General education of disabled people is provided free of charge both in general educational institutions, equipped, if necessary, with special technical means, and in special educational institutions and is regulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Vocational education of disabled people in educational institutions of various types and levels is carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Vocational training and vocational education of people with disabilities in special vocational educational institutions for people with disabilities are carried out in accordance with state educational standards on the basis of educational programs adapted for training people with disabilities.

The organization of the educational process in special professional educational institutions for people with disabilities is regulated by regulatory legal acts, organizational and methodological materials of the relevant ministries and other federal executive authorities.

State educational authorities provide students with special teaching aids and literature free of charge or on preferential terms, and also provide students with the opportunity to use the services of sign language interpreters.

Article 20. Ensuring employment of disabled people

1) implementation of preferential financial - credit policy in relation to specialized enterprises employing the work of disabled people, enterprises, institutions, organizations of public associations of disabled people;

2) establishing in organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, quotas for hiring disabled people and a minimum number of special jobs for disabled people;

3) reserving jobs in professions most suitable for employing people with disabilities;

4) stimulating the creation by enterprises, institutions, organizations of additional jobs (including special ones) for the employment of people with disabilities;

5) creating working conditions for disabled people in accordance with individual rehabilitation programs for disabled people;

6) creating conditions for entrepreneurial activity of disabled people;

7) organizing training for disabled people in new professions.

Article 21. Establishing a quota for hiring disabled people

Organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, whose number of employees is more than 30 people, are set a quota for hiring disabled people as a percentage of the average number of employees (but not less than three percent).

Public associations of disabled people and their owned enterprises, institutions, organizations, business partnerships and societies, the authorized capital of which consists of the contribution of a public association of disabled people, are exempt from mandatory quotas of jobs for disabled people.

The executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation have the right to establish a higher quota for hiring people with disabilities.

The procedure for determining the quota is approved by the specified bodies.

In case of non-fulfillment or impossibility of fulfilling the quota for hiring disabled people, employers pay a mandatory fee in the established amount for each unemployed disabled person within the established quota to the State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation. The funds received are spent specifically on creating jobs for people with disabilities.

By submission Federal service Employment of Russia The State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation transfers the indicated amounts to organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, for the creation of jobs for disabled people in excess of the approved quota, as well as public associations of disabled people for the creation of specialized enterprises (shops, sites) employing the work of disabled people.

Article 22. Special workplaces for employing disabled people

Special jobs for the employment of disabled people are created at the expense of the federal budget, funds from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation, with the exception of jobs for disabled people who have received a work injury or occupational disease. Special jobs for employing disabled people who received illness or injury while performing military service duties or as a result of natural disasters and ethnic conflicts are created using federal budget funds.

Special jobs for the employment of disabled people who have received a work injury or occupational disease are created at the expense of employers who are obliged to compensate for damage caused to employees as a result of injury, occupational disease or other damage to health associated with the performance of work duties by employees.

Article 23. Working conditions for disabled people

For disabled people of groups I and II, a reduced working time of no more than 35 hours per week is established while maintaining full pay.

Involvement of disabled people in overtime work, work on weekends and at night is permitted only with their consent and provided that such work is not prohibited for them due to health reasons.

Disabled persons are granted annual leave of at least 30 calendar days based on a six-day working week.

Article 24. Rights, obligations and responsibilities of employers in ensuring the employment of disabled people

1. Employers have the right to request and receive information necessary when creating special jobs for employing people with disabilities.

2. Employers, in accordance with the established quota for hiring disabled people, are obliged to:

1) create or allocate jobs for the employment of disabled people;
2) create working conditions for disabled people in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person;
3) provide, in accordance with the established procedure, information necessary for organizing the employment of disabled people.

3. Heads of organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, who violate the procedure for making mandatory payments to the State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation, are liable in the form of paying a fine: for concealing or understating the mandatory payment - in the amount of the hidden or underpaid amount, and in in case of refusal to hire a disabled person within the established quota - in the amount of the cost of the workplace determined by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The amounts of fines are collected in an indisputable manner by the authorities of the State Tax Service of the Russian Federation. Paying a fine does not relieve them from paying the debt.

Article 25. Procedure and conditions for recognizing a disabled person as unemployed

Unemployed is a disabled person who has a work recommendation, a conclusion on the recommended nature and conditions of work, which is issued in the prescribed manner, who does not have a job, is registered with the Federal Employment Service of Russia in order to find a suitable job and is ready to start it.

To make a decision on recognizing a disabled person as unemployed, he submits to the Federal Employment Service of Russia, along with the documents established by the Law of the Russian Federation “On Employment of the Population in the Russian Federation,” an individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person.

Article 26. State incentives for the participation of enterprises and organizations in ensuring the livelihoods of people with disabilities

State support (including the provision of tax and other benefits) to enterprises and organizations producing industrial goods, technical means and devices for disabled people, providing employment for disabled people, providing medical care, educational services, providing sanatorium and resort treatment, consumer services and creating conditions for physical education and sports, organizing leisure activities for people with disabilities, investing more than 30 percent of profits in projects that ensure the livelihoods of people with disabilities, in scientific and experimental development of technical means for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities, as well as prosthetic and orthopedic enterprises, medical and industrial (labor) workshops and subsidiary rural farms of institutions of social protection bodies, the state enterprise "National Fund for Assistance to Disabled Persons of the Russian Federation" is carried out in the manner and under the conditions provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Article 27. Material support for disabled people

Receiving compensation and other monetary payments of one type does not deprive disabled people of the right to receive other types of monetary payments if they have grounds for this, provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Article 28. Social services for disabled people

Note: On the issue relating to social services for elderly citizens and the disabled, see Federal Law of 02.08.95 N 122-FZ.

Social services for disabled people are provided in the manner and on the basis determined by local government bodies with the participation of public associations of disabled people.

Executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments create special social services for disabled people, including the delivery of food and industrial goods to disabled people, and approve a list of diseases of disabled people for which they are entitled to preferential services.

Disabled people have the right to manufacture and repair prosthetic and orthopedic products and other types of prosthetic products (except for dentures made of precious metals and other expensive materials equal in value to precious metals) at the expense of the federal budget in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Disabled people are provided with the necessary means of telecommunications services, special telephone sets (including for subscribers with hearing impairments), and public call centers.

Disabled persons receive a 50 percent discount for using telephones and radio broadcasting points.

Disabled people are provided with household appliances, tiflo-, surdo- and other means they need for social adaptation; Repair of these devices and facilities is carried out for disabled people free of charge or on preferential terms.

The procedure for providing disabled people with technical and other means that make their work and life easier is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 29. Sanatorium and resort treatment for disabled people

Disabled people and disabled children have the right to sanatorium and resort treatment in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person on preferential terms. Group I disabled people and disabled children in need of sanatorium and resort treatment have the right to receive a second voucher for the person accompanying them under the same conditions.

For non-working disabled people, including those in inpatient social service institutions, sanatorium and resort vouchers are issued free of charge by social protection authorities.

Working disabled people are provided with sanatorium - resort packages at the place of work on preferential terms at the expense of social insurance funds.

Disabled people who have received a work injury or occupational disease are provided with vouchers for sanatorium and resort treatment at the expense of employers who are obliged to compensate for harm caused to employees as a result of injury, occupational disease or other damage to health associated with the performance of work duties by employees.

Article 30. Transport services for disabled people

Disabled children, their parents, guardians, trustees and social workers caring for disabled children, as well as disabled people, enjoy the right to free travel on all types of public transport in urban and suburban traffic, except taxis.

Disabled persons are given a 50 percent discount on the cost of travel on intercity lines of air, rail, river and road transport from October 1 to May 15 and once (round trip) at other times of the year. Disabled people of groups I and II and disabled children are given the right to free travel once a year to the place of treatment and back, unless more preferential conditions are established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

These benefits apply to a person accompanying a disabled person of group I or a disabled child.

Disabled children and their accompanying persons are given the right to free travel to the place of treatment (examination) on buses on suburban and intercity intraregional routes.

Disabled people with appropriate medical conditions are provided with vehicles free of charge or on preferential terms. Disabled children who have reached the age of five and suffer from dysfunction of the musculoskeletal system are provided with motor vehicles under the same conditions with the right to drive these vehicles by adult family members.

Technical support and repair of vehicles and other rehabilitation equipment, belonging to disabled people, are carried out out of turn on preferential terms and in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Disabled persons and parents of disabled children are compensated for expenses associated with the operation of special vehicles.\

Disabled persons who have appropriate medical indications for receiving a free vehicle, but have not received it, and also at their request, instead of receiving a vehicle, are provided with annual monetary compensation for transportation expenses.

The procedure and conditions for the provision of vehicles and payment of compensation for transportation costs are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 31. Procedure for maintaining benefits established for disabled people

Organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, provide disabled people with benefits in paying for medicines and sanatorium and resort treatment; on transport services, lending, acquisition, construction, receipt and maintenance of housing; for payment of utilities, services of communication institutions, trade enterprises, cultural and entertainment and sports and recreational institutions in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

This Federal Law preserves the benefits established for disabled people legislation former Union SSR. The benefits provided for disabled people are preserved regardless of the type of pensions they receive.

In cases where other legal acts for disabled people provide for norms that increase the level of social protection of disabled people compared to this Federal Law, the provisions of these legal acts are applied. If a disabled person has the right to the same benefit under this Federal Law and at the same time under another legal act, the benefit is provided either under this Federal Law or under another legal act (regardless of the basis for establishing the benefit).

Article 32. Responsibility for violation of the rights of persons with disabilities. Dispute resolution

Citizens and officials guilty of violating the rights and freedoms of people with disabilities bear responsibility in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Chapter V. Public associations of disabled people

Article 33. The right of disabled people to create public associations

Article 34. Benefits provided to public associations of disabled people

The state guarantees the provision of benefits for the payment of federal taxes, fees, duties and other payments to budgets of all levels to all-Russian public associations of disabled people, their organizations, enterprises, institutions, organizations, business societies and partnerships owned by them, the authorized capital of which consists of the contribution of these public associations of disabled people.

Decisions on providing benefits to public associations of disabled people for the payment of regional and local taxes, fees, duties and other payments are made by government bodies at the appropriate level.

Decisions on providing benefits for the payment of federal taxes, fees, duties and other payments to regional and local public associations of people with disabilities can be made by government bodies at the appropriate level within the limits of amounts credited in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation to their budgets.

Preparation and adoption of decisions on the provision of these benefits is carried out with mandatory participation public associations of disabled people.

Chapter VI. Final provisions

Article 35. Entry into force of this Federal Law

This Federal Law comes into force on the date of its official publication, with the exception of articles for which other dates of entry into force are established.

Articles 21, 22, 23 (except for part one), 24 (except for paragraph 2 of part two) of this Federal Law come into force on July 1, 1995; Articles 11 and 17, part two of Article 18, part three of Article 19, clause 5 of part two of Article 20, part one of Article 23, clause 2 of part two of Article 24, part two of Article 25 of this Federal Law come into force on January 1, 1996; Articles 28, 29, 30 of this Federal Law come into force on January 1, 1997 in terms of expanding the benefits currently in effect.

Articles 14, 15, 16 of this Federal Law come into force during 1995 - 1999. The specific dates for the entry into force of these articles are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Article 36. Effect of laws and other normative legal acts

The President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation should bring their regulatory legal acts into compliance with this Federal Law.

The president

Russian Federation

What is the law?

Rights of people with disabilities under Federal Law 181

What changes have been made?

Download the current version of the law

Accepted State Duma July 20, 1995

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. The concept of “disabled person”, grounds for determining the disability group

Article 2. The concept of social protection of disabled people

Article 3. Legislation of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people

Article 4. Competence of federal government bodies in the field of social protection of disabled people

Chapter II. Medical and social examination

Article 7. The concept of medical and social examination

Article 8. Federal institutions of medical and social examination

Chapter III. Rehabilitation of disabled people

Article 9. Concept of rehabilitation of disabled people

Article 11. Individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person

Article 11.1. Technical means for rehabilitation of disabled people

Article 12.

Chapter IV. Providing life support for people with disabilities

Article 13. Medical assistance to disabled people

Article 17. Providing disabled people with living space

Article 18. Education and training of disabled children

Article 19. Education of disabled people

Article 20. Ensuring employment of disabled people

Article 21. Establishing a quota for hiring disabled people

Article 22. Special workplaces for employing disabled people

Article 23. Working conditions for disabled people

Article 24. Rights, obligations and responsibilities of employers in ensuring the employment of disabled people

Articles 25 - 26.

Article 27. Material support for disabled people

Article 28. Social services for disabled people

Article 28.1. Monthly cash payment for disabled people

Article 28.2. Providing social support measures for people with disabilities to pay for housing and utilities, as well as to provide housing for people with disabilities and families with disabled children

Articles 29 - 30.

Article 31. The procedure for maintaining social protection measures established for people with disabilities

Article 32. Responsibility for violation of the rights of persons with disabilities. Dispute resolution

Chapter V. Public associations of disabled people

Article 33. The right of disabled people to create public associations

Article 34.

Chapter VI. Final provisions

Article 35. Entry into force of this Federal Law

Chapter I. General provisions (Articles 1 - 6)

Article 1. The concept of “disabled person”, grounds for determining the disability group

Article 2. The concept of social protection of disabled people

Article 3. Legislation of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people

Article 3_1. Non-discrimination on the basis of disability

Article 4. Competence of federal government bodies in the field of social protection of disabled people

Article 5. Participation of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in ensuring social protection and social support for people with disabilities

Article 6. Liability for causing harm to health leading to disability

Chapter II. Medical and social examination (Articles 7 - 8)

Article 7. The concept of medical and social examination

Article 8. Federal institutions of medical and social examination

Chapter III. Rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled people (Articles 9 - 12)

Article 9. The concept of rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled people

Article 10. Federal list of rehabilitation measures, technical means of rehabilitation and services provided to a disabled person

Article 11. Individual program for rehabilitation or habilitation of a disabled person

Article 11_1. Technical means for rehabilitation of disabled people

Article 12. State Service for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons (repealed from January 1, 2005)

Chapter IV. Ensuring the livelihoods of people with disabilities (Articles 13 - 32)

Article 13. Medical assistance to disabled people

Article 14. Ensuring unhindered access to information for people with disabilities

Article 14_1. Participation of visually impaired people in operations using facsimile reproduction of a handwritten signature

Article 15. Ensuring unimpeded access for people with disabilities to social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities

Article 16. Responsibility for evading the requirements for creating conditions for unhindered access of people with disabilities to social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities

Article 17. Providing housing for disabled people

Article 18. Education and training of disabled children

Article 19. Education of disabled people

Article 20. Ensuring employment of disabled people

Article 21. Establishing a quota for hiring disabled people

Article 22. Special workplaces for employing disabled people

Article 23. Working conditions for disabled people

Article 24. Rights, obligations and responsibilities of employers in ensuring the employment of disabled people

Article 25. Procedure and conditions for recognizing a disabled person as unemployed (lost force from January 1, 2005)

Article 26. State incentives for the participation of enterprises and organizations in ensuring the livelihoods of people with disabilities (lost force from January 1, 2005)

Article 27. Material support for disabled people

Article 28. Social services for disabled people

Article 28_1. Monthly cash payment for disabled people

Article 28_2. Providing social support measures for people with disabilities to pay for housing and utilities, as well as to provide housing for people with disabilities and families with disabled children

Article 29. Sanatorium-resort treatment of disabled people (repealed from January 1, 2005)

Article 30. Transport services for disabled people (repealed from January 1, 2005)

Accepted
State Duma
July 20, 1995