Social Security of Persons with Disabilities: Accessibility for Working-Age Population. Part II

Abstract

The article, which consists of two parts, proposes approaches and principles for the analysis of the Russian state social security policy for working-age disabled people, based on the experience of welfare states. The second part of the article analyzes the state social security policy during the initial and follow-up examination of working-age persons with disabilities for the period from 2010 to 2020 based on medical-social evaluation data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation. Comparisons are made of reduction approaches in Russia and the EU and OECD countries. The article explores how the disability assessment and personnel administration are being restricted, affecting the access to benefits, prospects for rehabilitation and employment promotion, as well as legal guarantees for applicants. The factors of reducing the availability of disability programs are revealed, and categories are identified that are denied soft rules for enrollment, in terms of disability groups, gender, type of settlement and main types of diseases, during initial and follow-up examination – “at the entrance” to the program and when being “pushed to the exit.” The nature of the measures of the anti-crisis social security in 2020 for working-age people with disabilities is revealed.

Keywords

• disability
• access to disability benefit system
• social protection