Disability pensions for military personnel: procedure for calculating and timing of payments
Life is unpredictable. All the more so for a citizen who is doing military service.
It doesn't matter if the conscript is either just who came to serve on a contract basis, a man or a woman.
Various unpredictable circumstances may occur that seriously affect health, and then, as a consequence, on the ability to work.
The legislation provides for compensation payments for such people, in particular, disability pensions for military personnel.
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Characteristics of categories of pensioners
Pension payments to the military are made at the expense of state budget funds. The calculation is carried out as follows: it is paid as a percentage of the amount received during the period of service activities of monetary allowance.
Military personnel are a special group of civil servants, including citizens, who are called up to serve in the implementation of the power and security functions of the country, having special rights. According to the norms, the status of "military" is given to soldiers, officers, junior command personnel and other persons on urgent / contract service.
Privileged persons
A pension of this category is eligible for individuals whose disability was obtained during:
- military service
- or in the next three months from the date of dismissal
- later than the specified period, as a result of injury, injury or illness, while performing duties in various military formations
Pensions to subjects who served on a contractual basis or by conscription, depending on the reasons for receiving a disability recorded by doctors, are divided into the appropriate categories:
- payments received as a result of injury, or
- due to a disease acquired during employment
The following citizens have the corresponding right:
- subjects who served in the Armed, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, border, railway, and other paramilitary formations created in accordance with regulatory requirements, under contracts or by conscription
- workers Gen. prosecutors who have established positions, titles
- employees of fire, tax, service, customs
- employees of the penitentiary system
- participants in the "blockade of Leningrad" who have been assigned any disability group
- citizens who have become disabled under the influence of emergencies
- astronauts who became disabled under the influence of certain negative factors in the process of preparing for flight
At the legislative level, the system introduced a differentiated approach to the military who served on the basis (who decided to volunteer to join the army) and those who were officially called up to serve.
The primary normative acts for calculating pension payments are the laws governing the registration procedure and prerequisites for a disability pension for military personnel under a contract and for a disability pension for military personnel on call.
Competent authorities in charge of clearance
Persons wishing to receive the described state support must come to the nearest PF office at the place at any time convenient for them.
In this case, together with you, you must have an application of the established form on the appointment of such payments, which is submitted in person or through an authorized representative.
It is also possible to send by registered mail with notification.
It is important to take into account that when sending a letter through the post office, the day of contact is the date indicated on the postage stamp of the place where the document was sent from. In addition, documents can be sent in electronic form on the Internet portal of the official website of the PFR.
It is important to remember that when issuing disability pensions, servicemen should contact directly the Ministry of Defense bodies that deal with similar ones.
Registration provides for a mandatory package of documents, which contains:
- duly executed application regarding the purpose of payments
- copies of all pages of the passport
- military ID
- a certificate issued by a medical expert commission on the establishment of the fact of damage to health
- the conclusion of the medical board for employees (assigning a group of disability, depending on the conditions of its occurrence)
- other necessary, confirming the corresponding right
Key conditions and features of the appointment
The procedure is simple and the same for all persons who can be classified as military personnel.
The fact of the onset of disability
This event is not defined at the legislative level, but special attention is paid to the fact that disability should occur within a certain period of time. That is, the question arises when, in fact, a person is endowed with such a medical status - in a specified period of time or after a disease that entailed a similar consequence.
According to the majority of specialists engaged in research in the field of social protection law, in order to recognize the described category of persons as disabled, it is enough to be injured. While serving, the offensive can be determined based on the results of a military medical examination, after dismissal - within three months - on the basis of a conclusion issued by a health care institution.
This document reflects information about the degree of disruption of the organs, the general condition of the victim's entire body, as well as the results of rehabilitation measures, if any.
A military medical examination establishes fitness for military service for health reasons. If an employee does not agree with the results of the expert commission, an examination can be carried out on an independent basis at his request.
At the same time, he has the right to choose an institution, specialists who will conduct it. In conflict situations, the results are challenged in court.
Reasons that caused disability
These are injuries, diseases received during the period of service in military specialization.
Calculation of payments
When determining the amount of payments, the following is taken into account:
- The way of passing the service - conscription or contract basis, in what capacity the person liable for military service acted.
- Reasons and preconditions for disability.
- Are there any dependent persons with disabilities?
- Does the citizen live in an area with climatic conditions that are considered difficult.
When deciding on a positive response to the application, it is essential when a person becomes disabled: during the service period or within a three-month period after dismissal; disability came later, but arose as a result of illness (injuries) received in the service.
Payments are established in percentage terms based on the starting amount of the social pension, namely:
- Citizens, upon the onset of disability as a result of a military injury, are assigned: for the first group - three hundred, for the second - two hundred and fifty, the third - one hundred and seventy-five percent of social payments for residents of retirement age (sixty years old - men, fifty-five - women).
- For persons who have received a disability as a result of the disease, set by groups: the first - two hundred and fifty percent of the size of the social. pensions for citizens who have reached the age of retirement, the second - two hundred percent, the third - one hundred and fifty.
For the category in question, it can be established once for the whole life or temporarily. It depends on the length of the period by which the group is defined.
Double pension
More often than not, interested persons have recently been asking themselves an urgent question - is it possible to receive a regular labor pension when a disability pension is paid to servicemen in the military sphere?
The answer is unequivocal.
For persons with the required civilian experience, legislation additionally prescribes the appointment of the insurance part of the old-age pension.
Sometimes it happens that citizens go to work after being dismissed from a military post.
It is not at all connected with the previous sphere (for example, a manager in some organization). At the same time, they continue to receive disability pensions for the length of service.
For a pension, in addition to a military one, the following main conditions must be met:
- the employee must be of the appropriate age
- there are assigned pensions for disability, for length of service, provided by law
- sufficient availability of mandatory retirement points is required
- insurance experience on a civilian - at least seven years from 2016 (then annually increase by one year to fifteen years in 2024)
- with all this, the periods of military service already taken into account when assigning payments under the Min. defense, cannot be used when assigning retirement pensions
Every year for a military pensioner, just like an ordinary citizen who continues to work, the second pension is recalculated automatically. There is no need to provide additional documents and evidence on the recalculation of pension payments.
In addition, for all disabled people, including military personnel, except for pension payments, monetary supplements are prescribed by law at monthly intervals. These are the costs of social services:
- free on suburban railway transport
- provision of free drugs
- payment for transportation to the place of treatment (sanatoriums, resorts)
- undergoing a medical rehabilitation program
At the same time, you can refuse monthly payments by receiving monetary compensation.
Pension payment period
The described payments have a number of peculiarities peculiar only to them.
They are appointed for the period of validity of the certificate of disability. Persons with disabilities over fifty-five, sixty years (respectively, female and male) - indefinitely. If there are any conditions for changing the assigned groups, a secondary examination can be carried out at the request of the pensioner.
In the event that a pensioner who, for some reason has not reached the appropriate age, is recognized as able-bodied, the payment of previously assigned pensions is terminated.
Is it possible to re-examine a disability?
A pensioner has the opportunity to personally apply to the bodies of medical and social expertise for re-certification of disability, if necessary. This can happen if there is no clear period for its validity.
That is, after the expiration of the time prescribed in the document, it is required to re-pass the medical examination. Upon confirmation of disability, the certificate will be extended / changed depending on the current state of health of the citizen. But, in the absence of evidence, the military can be deprived of the status of "disabled", respectively, the pension payment will be terminated.
If the certificate of disability has no expiration date, no re-examination can be ordered. This is due to the fact that the state of a person, which was established by a medical examination, cannot change over time.
Re-examination has no meaning. A person will have the right to receive disability-related pension payments on a permanent basis.
Thus, with all of the above, it is very important for citizens who defend our Motherland, fulfill their duty to it - to feel solid ground under their feet. This is not even a certainty, but a necessity! It doesn't matter what the person is doing.
Despite the difficulties in the practical implementation of programs and gaps in legislation, the issue of social security for disabled servicemen is being dealt with at all levels.
Given the difficult economic situation in the country, the state strives to support this category of citizens by annually indexing cash payments. It is clear that these are very small sums, but better than nothing at all, especially when you consider that it is these citizens who find it harder to survive in today's realities.
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