In Soviet times, citizens who did not have the opportunity to earn money independently, as well as those in need of outside help, turned to the social security authorities. The people (the authorities) called them simply - social security.
Social Security
Officially, there is no concept of social security, this reduction in Soviet times was called all social security agencies that provided services and made payments to citizens. At the same time, social security was understood as a form of social policy of the state, with the help of which various funds, organizations, and some categories of citizens in need of material support are supported. State support was enjoyed by:
- children, - elderly people, - people with disabilities, - people who have lost their ability to work due to severe forms of diseases, - people with a special status (veterans, war veterans, large families, Heroes of the USSR and Socialist Labor, etc.)
That is, those for whom social security is a source of livelihood.
The system of social security bodies included not only social protection bodies, but also medical institutions, boarding houses, medical and preventive institutions, rehabilitation and correctional centers, etc.
Social security reform
In the early 2000s, the social policy of the state underwent reform, and social security is a thing of the past, although the people's memory has retained a simple and capacious word.
Pension payments in the "new Russia" began to be controlled by a single Pension Fund, therefore, from under the care of social protection, pensioners, disabled people, children receiving pensions for the loss of a breadwinner were transferred to the PFR and its territorial branches, which were created in each region. Since 2002, the Pension Fund began to dispose of the payment of the so-called EDV - monthly cash payments that can be spent by people with disabilities on medicines, travel or sanatorium treatment, although the sanatoriums themselves remained under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health.
Poor citizens, single mothers, disabled people receiving regional payments, labor veterans, repressed home front workers, WWII veterans and other categories of citizens who have additional measures of material and non-material support are still being dealt with by social protection bodies.
In the modern sense, social security is both a pension fund and social security agencies. Of course, the younger generation understands the difference between institutions, but the elderly still call everything in one word.
