By the decision of the UN General Assembly since 1950, on June 1, declared an international day of child protection. As in most countries of the world, in Azerbaijan, this day is highlighted. About this Haqqın.az reported in the press service of the Ministry of Labor.
The protection of children is one of the main directions of state policy in Azerbaijan, and one of the groups covered by the social security system, which is constantly intensified as a result of the successful social policy of President Ilham Aliyev, are children. In our country, more than 10 types of social security are sent to the social protection of children. From the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the population is currently provided:
– children under the age of 18 with disabilities of health,
– Children from the families of the shekhid and disabled wars,
– Children of women who have more than five children,
– Children of military servicemen of military service,
– Children of parents having disability I and II degree or dead in connection with an accident at the Chernobyl NPP,
– Children left without parental care,
– children up to one year from low-income (receiving address state social assistance) families
they are provided monthly benefits.
more than 95 percent of family members who pay monthly social benefits or pension on the occasion of the loss of the breadwinner, and more than 50 percent of family members who receive targeted social assistance are children. Guardians (trustees) of children who have lost their parents and devoid of parental care, their insured parents for child care under three years are provided by monthly benefits, faces that care for children under 18 years old with disabilities – monthly scholarship.
Total currently more than 600 thousand children from the relevant categories are provided with payments by type of social security. A one-time allowance for newborn children is also paid once a year to children of Chernobyl disabled, consisting on dispensary accounting.