The Cabinet of Ministers has simplified the procedure for obtaining the status of a person with a disability due to war and a family member of a fallen defender
Kyiv • UNN
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the initiative of the Ministry of Veterans to simplify the procedure for applying for and establishing statuses for persons with war-related disabilities and family members of fallen servicemen and women.
At the initiative of the Ministry of Veterans, the government has simplified the process of obtaining statuses for persons with disabilities as a result of war and family members of fallen servicemen and women. This is reported by the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine, UNN reports.
Details
After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, this process was complicated, and in some cases it took up to 8 months or more to obtain the status. As a result, persons with disabilities and families of the victims had limited access to benefits and services guaranteed by the state
From now on, the status can be obtained within 30 days in two ways:
- in paper form - through the ASC regardless of the registered place of residence.
- in electronic form - through the e-cabinet of the Diia portal or the Unified State Register of War Veterans (currently an electronic product is under development).
The Ministry of Veterans emphasizes that nothing else is required except for of the application indicating the information necessary for granting the status.
It is not the responsibility of the veteran or the families of the deceased to collect the missing documents, but of the competent authorities. They have the right to obtain a full package of documents from authorized bodies or officials
The Ministry of Veterans outlined the key areas of its workApr 7 2024, 01:07 AM • 43520 views
The electronic format for applying for the statuses is still being finalized by the Ministry of Veterans together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation. The technical possibility of obtaining statuses "in one click" will appear in the near future.
At the first stage, the e-application will be available for servicemen of the security and defense sector (Armed Forces, National Guard, State Border Guard Service, National Police, Security Service, SZR) who have received a disability as a result of combat operations, as well as for families of fallen defenders of these categories.
The procedure for applying through the ASC is already in place for all categories, including civilian volunteer defenders, representatives of volunteer organizations and other civilians who stood up to defend the state and became disabled as a result of the war.
The Ministry of Veterans has collected all the issues related to obtaining statuses, and the Government has now taken the first step towards simplifying the procedure (...) It is not up to the veteran or a family member of the fallen Heroes to go and prove that they are a combat participant, a person with a disability, or that there are fallen soldiers in their family, but the state, through integrated systems, is obliged to confirm this. And this should be the case in all areas of veterans' policy: clear, simple, understandable algorithms for everyone. We are working on this, and there will be more simplifications and opportunities, primarily through the digitalization of processes
Recall
The government is working to create a "Single Window" system in the Centers for Administrative Services to provide integrated services to veterans and their families, allowing them to access various administrative services in one place with a single set of documents.
