Problem

The problems in the social security sector include the ineffectiveness of the mechanism of accounting treatment of funds allocated for social support, which leads to a number of corruption risks, which generally consist in the possibility of abuse of the social security system by both recipients of social support and civil servants who can make subjective decisions based on the data of recipients, causing unjustified expenditures of budget funds. This problem is caused by the ineffectiveness of the social support mechanism and the complexity of the process of providing services in the social sphere, as well as the unfair and discriminatory procedure for allocating budget funds for financial support to public associations of individuals living with disabilities.
The ineffectiveness of the social support mechanism and the complexity of the process of providing social services are caused by the duplication of social support instruments, as well as the maintenance of registers of persons in need of social support and receiving cash payments without verification of information contained in other registers. The main factors contributing to these reasons include the existence of legislative provisions that provide for kinds of social assistance that are largely overlapping and the absence of a unified register of persons receiving different kinds of social assistance. Moreover, corruption risks in the process of providing social services are caused by the lack of proper accounting of the spending of funds earmarked in the state budget for social support for all categories of recipients.
Unfair distribution of financial support among public associations of individuals living with disabilities is caused by the lack of a clear legal requirement to provide the above-mentioned financial support from the budget exclusively on a competitive basis, insufficient transparency of existing competitive procedures and the absence of a legislatively prescribed ban on granting privileges to certain public associations of individuals living with disabilities in the course of providing state financial support.
Moreover, one of the additional factors behind the flawed and ineffective nature of the existing mechanism of financial support for public associations of individuals living with disabilities is failure to comply with the requirements of guidelines on the implementation of institutional support for public associations of individuals living with disabilities at the state level exclusively on a competitive basis (in addition to the project support currently provided).