Webinar «Innovations in Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities: Social Benefits» (video)

The National Assembly of People with Disabilities held a regular webinar to protect the rights of people with disabilities. The event was held within the framework of project Together in Action: Building Civil Society Capacity to Advocacy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The speaker of the webinar, Pavlo Zhdan, lawyer of the National Association of Legal Professionals, paid much attention to the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine, in particular Articles 1, 3, 8 and 46, which enshrine the principle of the welfare state, the rule of law and guarantees of the right to social protection. The speaker emphasized that the state is obliged not only to declare social guarantees, but also to ensure their real effect, since human rights determine the content and direction of the state's activities.

He commented on the situation with the appointment and payment of compensation to individuals who provide social care services on a professional and non-professional basis. We are talking about people who actually provide daily care for people with disabilities and people who need constant assistance. According to the lawyer, they face underestimation of care minutes, delays in paperwork, non-transparent procedures, etc.

Read more about these and other problems with receiving social benefits on our page in YouTube.

The project "Together in Action: Enhancing Civil Society Capacity in Advocating for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" is implemented by the National Assembly of People with Disabilities of Ukraine in partnership with the Resource Centre for Non-Governmental Organisations with funding from the Humanitarian Fund for Ukraine (UHF)