On November 11, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed the law “On Amendments to Laws on Veterans Affairs.” As stated in the press service of the head of state, the document was adopted to “increase social security” of veterans and people affected by wars.
That is the law information press service, providing for veterans of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) who received orders or medals from the USSR for incapacitated military service in the rear (equal to participants of the Second World War):
- increase the amount of the monthly increase in pension from 50% to 250% of the minimum age pension (or from 55 to 274 rubles from November 2024),
- increase the amount of annual support for Victory Day,
- financial support in the amount of 10 basic units (400 rubles now) for health improvement if it is impossible to go through a sanatorium.
For veterans of the Great Patriotic War who received orders or medals from the USSR for independent work on the home front, the law establishes:
- increasing the monthly increase in pension from 50% to 100% of the minimum age pension (from 55 to 110 rubles),
- exceptional services in health care organizations,
- emergency hospital,
- priority access to government and other entities, regardless of ownership.
Here are the benefits for former fascist prisoners:
- provision of free medication and technical means for social rehabilitation,
- free sanatorium treatment and rehabilitation,
- free dental production and repair.
For veterans of military work in the territories of other states, the law established a reduction in the retirement age by 5 years (for people who received the status of a disabled person in peacetime), as well as the same benefits (free supply of medicine). , sanatorium treatment, etc.) in relation to former fascist prisoners.
For widows of deceased servicemen who have not remarried, the law provides for medical benefits (on the same basis as parents of deceased servicemen): provision of free medicine and treatment and rehabilitation sanatorium.
The document established a pension increase in the amount of 100% of the minimum age pension for civilian workers who were sent to work in Afghanistan in the period 1979-1989.
Earlier, Telegraf.news wrote that Alexander Lukashenko signed order No. 402 “On social support” on October 29. Among other things, the document includes the abolition of restrictions on the amount of pensions of pensioners and a reduction in the requirement for insurance insurance for mothers of four or more children.
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