Implementing of the right to pension by internally displaced persons: discriminative sources

Issue: № 11/2, 2020

Doi: https://doi.org/10.37634/efp.2020.11(2).2

Introduction. The paper establishes that in connection with the conduct of military operations by our state in the east of Ukraine over the past six years, the emergence of a new administrative and legal status of persons-internally displaced persons – is predetermined. It is determined that such persons need enhanced protection and ensuring the exercise of their rights and freedoms from the state, which in practice causes certain difficulties. The special value of social protection of citizens, including the implementation of pension payments to internally displaced persons, is justified. Purpose: substantiation of proposals to improve the conditions for the provision of administrative services for the renewal and continuation of the payment of IDP pensions and the procedure for making pension payments to IDPs. Results. The paper analyzes the specifics of providing administrative services to internally displaced persons in the field of pension provision. This publication examines and analyzes the legislation and practical experience of implementing the right to a pension by internally displaced persons, provides legal conclusions on the state of respect for the rights and freedoms of internally displaced persons when they receive administrative services in the field of pension provision. The problem of creating unequal conditions for persons with the status of Internally displaced persons and persons without such status in the exercise of the right to a pension is revealed, which causes discrimination against internally displaced persons, contradicts constitutional principles and international acts. The necessity of repealing a rules that contradicts the law and establishes discriminatory provisions against persons with the status of Internally displaced persons is justified. The proposals of amendments to the legislation regarding new conditions for providing public services related to the appointment/recalculation of pensions to internally displaced persons without reference to the place of residence of such persons and changes in the procedure for maintaining a unified information and analytical system for managing social support for the population of Ukraine. Conclusion. The results obtained will ensure that there is no need to control the implementation of payments at the place of residence of internally displaced persons, and in the existence of a separate procedure for paying pensions to internally displaced persons and, most importantly, it will stop discrimination against persons with the administrative and legal status of an internally displaced person in comparison with persons without such status.

Keywords : internally displaced persons, pension provision, administrative service, discrimination, pension, payments

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