How to issue and activate a student card on the public services portal
The Student Social Card is a useful tool every student should acquire. It contains banking applications, allows you to use the services of any type of transport, make an appointment with a doctor, and many more useful functions. The social card provides beneficial discounts on various purchases or payments for services and provides many other benefits for the student. In today's article, we will explain in detail how to issue a student's social card through public services, how this method is convenient, as well as several important and interesting points related to this topic.
Small introduction
A social card can be applied for by inpatient students and students of secondary educational schools of any city of the Russian Federation, regardless of their place of residence. Moreover, the applicant can be the student himself or his legal representative. Today, this can be done without even leaving home - on the Unified portal of state services in Russia. Having entered the site, you can easily find the necessary service, on the page of which all information will be provided on how to activate the student's card on the public services portal. You can fill out an application for issuing a card in just a few minutes, and get the result in your hands - no more than a month later.
So, the student's social card gives its holder the following opportunities:
- convenient banking application - online payment for any goods or services
- medical application - now you can quickly make an appointment with a doctor online
- reduced fare for public transport
- discounts when paying for goods and services on the Internet
- free annual service
With a social card, you will receive many useful privileges that will somewhat simplify your busy and active student life.
Unified portal of state services of the Russian Federation
So, in order to figure out how to issue a student's social card through public services, you first have to go to the website www.gosuslugi.ru, where you can use the search box and find the service we need, which is usually not difficult. On the page of this public service, all the necessary information on it will be displayed, including contact information and deadlines.
In the screenshot, we see the service "Social cards of a resident of the Moscow region", the purpose of which is to issue a social card, as well as change the data on it (for example, changing the privileged status, extending disability).
There are different ways to get a service. Most often, the application is submitted in person, by e-mail or the website of the organization providing the public service. You can also apply for the service through your legal representative or the MFC. The same goes for getting the result.
It takes no more than a month to issue a social card, while an application for its issuance can be issued in just one day. While you are submitting an application, other users of the site can do the same, therefore, an electronic queue often appears on the portal of the Unified Portal of State Services of the Russian Federation. However, in our case, the maximum waiting time is 15 minutes.
The page will describe all the grounds for the provision of the service, as well as the reasons why you may be denied it. Usually this is the absence of any necessary document or the submission of inaccurate information, so be extremely careful when submitting an application.
The most common mistakes when applying for a social card:
- inconsistency of the submitted photo with the stated quality requirements
- information about the identity document has not been confirmed
- the presence of an already valid social card for the future holder of a new card
Always on the page of public services, contact details of the person or organization providing it are provided. This can be both a phone number and email address, as well as the address of the institution, the name of the head of the company, and even the schedule of the organization.
A social card is always issued free of charge. When the operation for its registration is completed, you will be notified of this.
How to activate a student card on the public services portal?
So, in order to issue a social card, you will need to provide the following documents:
1) information about the future card holder (including contact details),
2) a document that certifies the identity of the future card holder,
3) information about the registration of the future card holder,
4) color photograph (30 * 40 mm) of the future owner of the card in JPEG format.
A template for filling out an application form for issuing a social card will be available for download on the public services page.
So, all the necessary documents are ready. It remains to send them to the address indicated on the page - by e-mail or to the website of the service representative. When your documents are checked, and the process of issuing a social card is started, you will be surely notified about this using your contact information. The finished card is issued within 30 calendar days from the date of application.
After you receive a message that your social card is ready, you can pick it up at your educational institution. To do this, you will have to present a document proving your identity.
An important step after receiving a student's social card is its activation (unlocking the banking application). This can be done both in the bank to which the card is linked, and on the public services portal. Since minor citizens can have a social card, there are age restrictions when it is activated:
- for persons under 14 years of age: only a parent or legal representative of the child can apply for unblocking, and the presence of the student is not required
- for persons from 14 to 18 years old: the card can be unblocked either by a parent or legal representative, or by the child himself, who has provided written consent from the parent or legal representative
- for persons over 18 years of age: the student can personally apply to unlock the banking application
Remember that in order to activate your social card, you will definitely need to present it.
You can replenish the balance of the card for reduced travel in the following ways:
- on the Unified portal of state services of the Russian Federation
- at the kiosks "Travel tickets" of the State Unitary Enterprise "Mosgortrans"
- in round-the-clock self-service terminals "Eleksnet"
- for residents of Moscow: in the terminals of the Bank of Moscow, Moscow Credit Bank, Sberbank (as well as in their special online services)
Also, a student at any time can contact the metro ticket office to pay for travel for the current or next calendar month.
Similar services
It is worth further mentioning that such an operation as issuing a student's social card through public services is not the only way to get student benefits. On the Unified Portal of State Services of the Russian Federation, you can find many similar ones that will allow you to get discounts on public transport or simplify the process.
All these services can be obtained according to the same principle as the registration of a student's social card through public services. You just need to go to the website, find the page you want and read the instructions. Collect the necessary documents and send them to the contact information.
In general, the page of any public service will have a similar look to the one we have described today. There will always be a clear list of necessary documents, conditions and terms for the provision of the service, reasons for refusal, as well as contact details by which you can contact a public service representative to send an application or find out more information. If you could figure out how to activate a student card on the public services portal, then you can probably figure out other services without any problems. But there are quite a few of them on the Unified Portal of State Services of the Russian Federation - why don't we take advantage of the opportunity to get a service on the Internet without leaving our own home?