Law of November 24, 1995. Amendments and additions to the Federal Law “On Social Protection of Disabled Persons in the Russian Federation”

Disabled people in Russia belong to one of the socially unprotected categories of citizens who need government support. Depending on the severity of the health condition, 3 groups of disability are distinguished.

Definition of law

This law guarantees all citizens with disabilities equal rights with other citizens, as well as social support from the state. All government bodies are required to act on the basis of this law and respect the legal rights of people with disabilities.

Law on social protection implies providing disabled people with the necessary conditions for their life activities, as well as their exercise of the right to rehabilitation.

General provisions

This law applies to people recognized as disabled. Disabled people in Russia, according to Article 1 of the Federal Law “On Social Protection of Disabled Persons”, are considered to be those people who have been recognized as special social medical examination.

The main parameters for determining disability are a person’s ability to independently provide necessary actions to ensure life.

Depending on the degree of independence of a person, expert doctors establish.

For children under the age of 18, the general category of disabled child is established. The disability group is determined only after reaching 18 years of age. This is due to the fact that in the process of child development it is quite difficult to determine the degree of independence based on the child’s developmental age.

The state undertakes obligations to protect the rights of each group of disabled people. These obligations are prescribed in Article 2 of this law, which are binding on all government bodies.

Legislative acts establish that in Russia every citizen has the right to be provided with equal living conditions, as well as to create additional auxiliary conditions if he needs them.

These rights are enshrined in the Basic Law Russian Federation Constitution, as well as Federal law"On social protection of disabled people." Also, on the basis of Article 3.1 of this law, no one has the right to discriminate against people based on disability and infringe on their rights granted to them by law.

The competencies of federal bodies and local self-government bodies are distributed in Articles 4 and 5 of the Federal Law “On Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities”. All federal and local authorities are required to act on the basis of this distribution.

All disabled people are listed in the Pension Fund in a certain register, where basic data about each of them is entered. This register takes into account personal data, as well as information about a person’s work activity and the benefits he receives. The procedure for maintaining this register is regulated by Article 5.1 of this law.

Article 6 of the Federal Law “On Social Protection of Disabled Persons” defines liability for harm to the health of any person that leads to disability.

Guilty people bear criminal, material, administrative and civil liability for causing harm to health.

You can find out what benefits disabled children are entitled to.

Medical and social examination

Chapter 2 of this law establishes a specific procedure for determining disability. This conclusion is issued by a social medical examination. It includes doctors who must determine the severity of the disease and its consequences, which lead to impaired functioning of the person. The definition and activities of this expert group are defined in Article 7 of the Federal Law “On Social Protection of Disabled Persons”.

  • Based on the determination of the person’s condition, this commission must also analyze and provide the following data:
  • rehabilitation course for human recovery;
  • analysis of the causes of disability and its nature in general among the Russian population; development of common comprehensive measures
  • for disabled people of each group;
  • causes of death of disabled people in situations where the family of the deceased has the right to receive government support;
  • degree of disability of the disabled person;

conclusion about the disability group.

These responsibilities are specified in Article 8 of this law. The decision of this commission is not subject to challenge by other authorities and is binding.

Rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled people

Habilitation is understood as the process of restoring a person’s missing abilities for everyday and professional activities. This definition is specified in Article 8 of this law.

In Russia, public associations created for the purpose of providing assistance to people with disabilities are permitted by Article 33 of this legislative act.

The state is obliged to assist them in providing assistance to people with disabilities. This assistance is paid from the local budget of each subject.

In addition, disabled people themselves can create such associations. Their representatives must participate in government decisions concerning people with disabilities. These associations may have real estate, cars and other property on their balance sheet.

Organizations whose authorized capital consists of more than half percent of contributions from disabled people, as well as a quarter of the wage fund provided to them, may be allocated buildings and non-residential premises for free use. In addition, such organizations participate in the small business support program.

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Russian legislation provides wide range state support for disabled people. According to this law, they should not need paid medical care or paid auxiliary aids. In addition, they receive support in the field of education and obtaining a profession, as well as assistance in further employment. Along with this they receive material support from the state. But read about which disability group is entitled to what benefits.

The entry into force of this law is regulated by its article 35, and its effect by article 36. Based on them, other laws cannot contradict this legislative act. And it comes into force from the moment of its publication.

In reality, this law does not work in full force, because local government bodies do not fully control the implementation of this law by all citizens and legal entities Russia.

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Federal Law on Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities in the Russian Federation

The Constitution of the Russian Federation states that every person has the right to work. However, not all people can take advantage of this right. Many people are completely or partially deprived of the opportunity to work due to injuries and illnesses. Such people are called disabled. In order for people with disabilities to receive a stable income and fully develop, the government of the Russian Federation has introduced certain measures of social support for people with disabilities.

Federal Law 181 and its amendments

To help people with disabilities, Federal Law No. 181 “On the social protection of people with disabilities in the Russian Federation” was adopted in 1995. This law gave a legal definition to the term “disabled person”, introduced the concept of medical and social examination, which was supposed to determine the degree of disability, and stipulated the issue social benefits and payments to disabled people, amendments were made to Labor Code and so on. Over time, some amendments and changes were also made to this law. The most changes were made by amendment package No. 419, which was adopted after the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Let's find out what features Federal Law 419 on the social protection of persons with disabilities has in 2019:

  • The need to create conditions that increase the accessibility of various cultural goods and values ​​(museums, concerts, theatrical performances, etc.) for people with disabilities is emphasized.
  • The need to replenish library collections with special books for blind and visually impaired people is emphasized.
  • Discrimination on the basis of disability is outlawed (including convicted disabled people and disabled people under investigation).
  • Created State Register disabled people.
  • The concepts of habilitation and rehabilitation of disabled people are introduced.
  • Creation federal programs to provide disabled people with free housing if they need it.
  • Social protection for people with disabilities is being expanded.
  • Some other decisions.



Social protection of disabled people

Social protection and rehabilitation of disabled people implies the implementation various programs:

  • Social help disabled people of groups 1, 2 and 3 in the form cash payments. Payments are made in the form of pensions and benefits. There are social and labor pensions, and the type of pension and its size are determined depending on the length of service, disability group, type of profession, whether the disabled person has dependents, and so on. Payments mean certain federal and regional programs - DEMO, and others.
  • Providing certain goods and services to people with disabilities. These could be medications, technical aids (for example, prostheses and wheelchairs), various medical and rehabilitation programs, and so on. Some goods and services sold in the form of PSU can be refused in favor of cash payments.
  • Possibility of admission to educational institutions for preferential terms.
  • Creation of specialized infrastructure.
  • Providing free housing to disabled people in need.
  • Some other types of social protection for disabled people.

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Disabled people and families with disabled children in need of improved housing conditions are registered and provided with living quarters in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Providing, at the expense of federal budget funds, housing for disabled people and families with disabled children in need of improved housing conditions, registered before January 1, 2005, is carried out in accordance with the provisions of Article 28.2 of this Federal Law.

Disabled people and families with disabled children in need of improved housing conditions, registered after January 1, 2005, are provided with living quarters in accordance with the housing legislation of the Russian Federation.

Determining the procedure for providing residential premises (under a social tenancy agreement or ownership) to citizens in need of improved housing conditions who registered before January 1, 2005, is established by the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Residential premises are provided to disabled people and families with disabled children, taking into account their state of health and other circumstances worthy of attention.

Disabled people may be provided with residential premises under a social tenancy agreement with a total area exceeding the norm for provision per person (but not more than twice), provided that they suffer from severe forms chronic diseases, provided for in the list established by the federal executive body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Payment for residential premises (payment for social rent, as well as for the maintenance and repair of residential premises) provided to a disabled person under a social rental agreement in excess of the norm for the provision of residential premises area is determined based on the occupied space total area residential premises in a single size, taking into account the benefits provided.

Residential premises occupied by disabled people are equipped by special means and adaptations in accordance with the individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for a disabled person.

Disabled people living in organizations social services who provide social services in a stationary form, and who wish to receive residential premises under a social tenancy agreement, are subject to registration for improvement of living conditions, regardless of the size of the occupied area and are provided with residential premises on an equal basis with other disabled people.

Disabled children living in social service organizations that provide social services in a stationary form and who are orphans or left without parental care, upon reaching the age of 18 years, are subject to being provided with residential premises out of turn, if the individual rehabilitation or habilitation program for a disabled person provides for the opportunity to carry out self-care and lead him an independent life.

Residential premises of a state or municipal housing stock occupied by a disabled person under a social tenancy agreement, when the disabled person is placed in a social service organization that provides social services in a stationary form, is retained by him for six months.

Specially equipped residential premises of the state or municipal housing stock, occupied by disabled people under a social tenancy agreement, upon their vacancy, are occupied primarily by other disabled people in need of improved housing conditions.

Disabled people and families with disabled children are provided with compensation for the cost of living quarters and utilities in the amount of 50 percent:

Rental fees and fees for the maintenance of residential premises, including fees for services, work on managing an apartment building, for maintenance and Maintenance common property in an apartment building, based on the occupied total area of ​​residential premises of state and municipal housing funds;

Fees for cold water, hot water, electrical energy consumed during the maintenance of common property in an apartment building, as well as for the removal Wastewater for the purpose of maintaining common property in an apartment building, regardless of the type of housing stock;

Payments for utilities, calculated based on the volume of consumed utilities, determined by meter readings, but not more than consumption standards approved in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. In the absence of the specified metering devices, fees for utility services are calculated based on standards for the consumption of utility services, approved in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation;

Payment of the cost of fuel purchased within the limits established for sale to the public, and transport services for the delivery of this fuel - when living in houses that do not have central heating.

Disabled people of groups I and II, disabled children, citizens with disabled children are provided with compensation for the costs of paying a contribution for major repairs of common property in an apartment building, but not more than 50 percent of the specified contribution, calculated based on the minimum amount of the contribution for major repairs for one square meter the total area of ​​residential premises per month, established by the regulatory legal act of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, and the size of the regional standard for the standard area of ​​​​living premises used to calculate subsidies for the payment of residential premises and utilities.

Social support measures for paying utility bills are provided to persons living in residential premises, regardless of the type of housing stock, and do not apply to cases established by the Government of the Russian Federation of applying increasing coefficients to utility consumption standards.

Disabled people and families that include disabled people are given the right to priority receipt of land plots for individual housing construction, farming and gardening.


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The “Social Legislation” section contains a selection of Federal laws and Presidential Decrees in the field of state social policy, establishing social guarantees and social support measures for certain categories of citizens:

  • Federal Law of December 29, 2015 N 388-FZ "On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation regarding accounting and improvement of the provision of social support measures based on the obligation to comply with the principle of targeting and application of need criteria"
  • Federal Law of April 6, 2015 N 68-FZ "On the suspension of the provisions of certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation regarding the procedure for indexing salaries of state civil servants, military personnel and persons equivalent to them, official salaries of judges, payments, benefits and compensations and declaring the Federal Law “On the suspension of Part 11 of Article 50 of the Federal Law “On the State Civil Service of the Russian Federation” in connection with the Federal Law “On the Federal Budget for 2015 and for the planning period of 2016 and 2017” to have lost force
  • Federal Law of December 22, 2014 N 421-FZ “On the Features legal regulation relations related to the provision of social protection measures (support), as well as payments for compulsory social insurance to certain categories of citizens living in the territories of the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol"
  • Federal Law of December 28, 2013 N 442-FZ "On the fundamentals of social services for citizens in the Russian Federation"
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 26, 2013 N 175 "On monthly payments to persons caring for disabled children and disabled people from childhood of group I"
  • Federal Law of December 30, 2012 N 283-FZ "On social guarantees for employees of certain federal executive authorities and amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation"
  • Federal Law of July 20, 2012 N 125-FZ "On the donation of blood and its components"
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2012 N 606 “On measures to implement the demographic policy of the Russian Federation”
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2012 N 597 “On measures to implement state social policy”
  • Federal Law of November 30, 2011 N 360-FZ “On the procedure for financing payments from pension savings”
  • Federal Law of July 19, 2011 N 247-FZ "On social guarantees for employees of internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation and amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation"
  • Federal Law of July 17, 2011 N 211-FZ "On housing subsidies for citizens leaving closed settlements in the Far North and equivalent areas"
  • Federal Law of June 4, 2011 N 128-FZ "On benefits for children of military personnel, persons serving in the National Guard of the Russian Federation and having a special rank of police, and employees of certain federal executive authorities and federal government agencies those killed (deceased, declared dead, declared missing) in the performance of duties military service(official duties), and children of persons who died as a result of war trauma after dismissal from military service (service in the troops, bodies and institutions)"
  • Federal Law of May 10, 2010 N 84-FZ "On additional social security for certain categories of employees of coal industry organizations"
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 13, 2008 N 774 “On additional measures of social support for persons caring for disabled citizens”
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 13, 2008 N 775 "On the establishment of the Order of Parental Glory"
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2008 N 714 "On providing housing for veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945"
  • Federal Law of April 24, 2008 N 48-FZ “On Guardianship and Trusteeship”
  • Law on Maternity Capital (Federal Law of December 29, 2006 N 256-FZ “On additional measures of state support for families with children”)
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 26, 2006 N 1455 "On compensation payments to persons caring for disabled citizens"
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 1, 2005 N 887 “On measures to improve the financial situation of disabled people due to war trauma”
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 30, 2005 N 363 "On measures to improve the financial situation of certain categories of citizens of the Russian Federation in connection with the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945"
  • Federal Law of April 5, 2003 N 44-FZ "On the procedure for recording income and calculating the average per capita income of a family and the income of a citizen living alone for recognizing them as low-income and providing them with state social assistance"
  • Federal Law of October 25, 2002 N 125-FZ "On housing subsidies for citizens leaving the Far North and equivalent areas"
  • Federal Law of March 4, 2002 N 21-FZ "On additional monthly material support for citizens of the Russian Federation for outstanding achievements and special services to the Russian Federation"
  • Federal Law of January 10, 2002 N 2-FZ "On social guarantees for citizens exposed to radiation as a result of nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site"
  • Federal Law of November 27, 2001 N 155-FZ "On additional social security for members of flight crews of civil aviation aircraft"
  • Federal Law of August 7, 2000 N 122-FZ "On the procedure for establishing the amounts of scholarships and social benefits in the Russian Federation"
  • Federal Law of June 19, 2000 N 82-FZ "On the minimum wage"
  • Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 27, 1999 N 1708 "On additional measures of social support for Heroes of the Soviet Union, Heroes of the Russian Federation and full holders of the Order of Glory - participants in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945"
  • Federal Law of July 17, 1999 N 178-FZ "On State Social Assistance"
  • Federal Law of November 26, 1998 N 175-FZ "On the social protection of citizens of the Russian Federation exposed to radiation as a result of the accident in 1957 at the Mayak production association and the discharge of radioactive waste into the Techa River"
  • Federal Law of October 24, 1997 N 134-FZ "On the subsistence minimum in the Russian Federation"
  • Federal Law of January 9, 1997 N 5-FZ "On the provision of social guarantees to Heroes of Socialist Labor and full holders of the Order of Labor Glory"
  • Federal Law of December 21, 1996 N 159-FZ "On additional guarantees for social support for orphans and children without parental care"

It does not work Editorial from 24.11.1995

FEDERAL LAW of November 24, 1995 N 181-FZ "On SOCIAL PROTECTION OF DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION"

This Federal Law determines the state policy in the field of social protection of disabled people in the Russian Federation, the purpose of which is to provide disabled people with equal opportunities with other citizens in the implementation of civil, economic, political and other rights and freedoms provided for by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as well as in accordance with generally recognized principles and norms of international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation.

Chapter I. General provisions

A disabled person is a person who has a health impairment with a persistent disorder of body functions, caused by diseases, consequences of injuries or defects, leading to limitation of life activity and necessitating his social protection.

Limitation of life activity - complete or partial loss of a person’s ability or ability to perform self-care, move independently, navigate, communicate, control one’s behavior, study and engage in work.

Depending on the degree of impairment of body functions and limitations in life activity, persons recognized as disabled are assigned a disability group, and persons under the age of 16 are assigned the category “disabled child.”

Recognition of a person as disabled is carried out by the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise. The procedure and conditions for recognizing a person as disabled are established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Social protection of disabled people is a system of state-guaranteed economic, social and legal measures that provide disabled people with conditions for overcoming, replacing (compensating) disabilities and aimed at creating equal opportunities for them to participate in the life of society as other citizens.

The legislation of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people consists of the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, this Federal Law, other federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, as well as laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

If an international treaty (agreement) of the Russian Federation establishes rules other than those provided for by this Federal Law, then the rules of the international treaty (agreement) apply.

The jurisdiction of federal government bodies in the field of social protection of disabled people includes:

1) determination of state policy regarding persons with disabilities;

2) adoption of federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people (including those regulating the procedure and conditions for providing disabled people with a single federal minimum of social protection measures); control over the implementation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on social protection of disabled people;

3) conclusion of international treaties (agreements) of the Russian Federation on issues of social protection of disabled people;

4) establishment general principles organization and implementation of medical and social examination and rehabilitation of disabled people;

5) defining criteria, establishing conditions for recognizing a person as disabled;

6) establishment of state standards for social services, technical means of rehabilitation, means of communication and computer science, establishment of norms and rules to ensure accessibility of the living environment for disabled people; determining appropriate certification requirements;

7) establishing a procedure for accreditation and licensing of organizations, regardless of organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership, carrying out activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people;

8) implementation of accreditation and licensing of enterprises, institutions and organizations that are federally owned and carry out activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people;

9) development and implementation of federal target programs in the field of social protection of disabled people, monitoring their implementation;

10) approval and financing of federal basic programs for the rehabilitation of disabled people;

11) creation and management of rehabilitation industry facilities that are federally owned;

12) determination of the list of specialties of workers engaged in the field of medical and social examination and rehabilitation of disabled people, organization of training in this area;

13) coordination scientific research, financing of research and development work on the problems of disability and people with disabilities;

14) development of methodological documents on issues of social protection of disabled people;

15) establishment of job quotas for disabled people;

16) assistance in the work of all-Russian public associations of disabled people and providing them with assistance;

17) establishment of federal benefits, including taxation, for organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, that invest funds in the sphere of social protection of people with disabilities, produce special industrial goods, technical means and devices for people with disabilities, provide services to people with disabilities, as well as public associations of disabled people and enterprises, institutions, organizations, business partnerships and societies owned by them, the authorized capital of which consists of the contribution of a public association of disabled people;

18) establishment of federal benefits for certain categories of disabled people;

19) formation of federal budget indicators for expenditures on social protection of disabled people.

The jurisdiction of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of social protection of disabled people includes:

1) implementation of state policy regarding people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

2) adoption of laws and other regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation on the social protection of disabled people, monitoring their implementation;

3) determining priorities in the implementation of social policy regarding people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, taking into account the level of socio-economic development of the territory of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation;

4) creation of enterprises, institutions and organizations of the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise, State Service for the Rehabilitation Industry, monitoring their activities;

5) accreditation and licensing of enterprises, institutions and organizations owned by constituent entities of the Russian Federation, carrying out activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people;

6) participation in the implementation of federal programs in the field of social protection of disabled people, development and financing of regional programs in this area;

7) approval and financing of the list rehabilitation measures carried out in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, taking into account socio-economic, climatic and other features in addition to the federal basic programs for the rehabilitation of disabled people;

8) creation and management of facilities in the field of social protection of disabled people, under the jurisdiction of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

9) organization and coordination of training activities in the field of social protection of disabled people;

10) coordination and financing of scientific research, research and development work in the field of social protection of disabled people;

11) development, within its competence, of methodological documents on issues of social protection of disabled people;

12) assistance in the work and assistance to public associations of people with disabilities in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

13) establishment of benefits, including taxation, for organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, investing in the sphere of social protection of people with disabilities, producing special industrial goods, technical means and devices for people with disabilities, providing services to people with disabilities, as well as public associations disabled people and their owned enterprises, institutions, organizations, business partnerships and societies, the authorized capital of which consists of the contribution of a public association of disabled people;

14) establishment of benefits for disabled people or certain categories of disabled people in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation at the expense of funds from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;

15) formation of budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in terms of expenses for social protection of disabled people.

Federal government bodies and government bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation may, by agreement, transfer to each other part of their powers in the field of social protection of disabled people.

For causing harm to the health of citizens resulting in disability, the persons responsible for this bear material, civil, administrative and criminal liability in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Chapter II. Medical and social examination

Medical and social examination is the determination, in the prescribed manner, of the needs of the examined person for social protection measures, including rehabilitation, based on an assessment of the limitations in life activity caused by a persistent disorder of body functions.

Medical and social examination is carried out on the basis of a comprehensive assessment of the state of the body based on the analysis of clinical, functional, social, professional, labor, and psychological data of the person being examined using classifications and criteria developed and approved in the manner determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

1. Medical and social examination is carried out by the State Service for Medical and Social Examination, which is part of the system (structure) of social protection bodies of the Russian Federation. The procedure for organizing and operating the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

2. Medical services when registering citizens for examination in institutions of the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise, rehabilitation measures are included in the federal basic program of compulsory health insurance for citizens of the Russian Federation and are financed from federal and territorial compulsory health insurance funds.

3. The State Service for Medical and Social Expertise is responsible for:

1) determination of the disability group, its causes, timing, time of onset of disability, the disabled person’s need for various types social protection;

2) development individual programs rehabilitation of disabled people;

3) study of the level and causes of disability of the population;

4) participation in the development of comprehensive programs for the prevention of disability, medical and social rehabilitation and social protection of disabled people;

5) determining the degree of loss professional ability to work persons who have suffered a work injury or occupational disease;

6) determining the cause of death of a disabled person in cases where the legislation of the Russian Federation provides for the provision of benefits to the family of the deceased.

The decision of the body of the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise is mandatory for execution by the relevant government bodies, local government bodies, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership.

Chapter III. Rehabilitation of disabled people

1. Rehabilitation of people with disabilities is a system of medical, psychological, pedagogical, socio-economic measures aimed at eliminating or, as fully as possible, compensating for life limitations caused by health problems with persistent impairment of body functions. The goal of rehabilitation is to restore the social status of a disabled person, achieve financial independence and social adaptation.

2. Rehabilitation of disabled people includes:

1) medical rehabilitation, which consists of rehabilitation therapy, reconstructive surgery, prosthetics and orthotics;

2) professional rehabilitation of disabled people, which consists of vocational guidance, vocational education, vocational and industrial adaptation and employment;

3) social rehabilitation of disabled people, which consists of social-environmental orientation and social and everyday adaptation.

The Federal Basic Program for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons is a guaranteed list of rehabilitation measures, technical means and services provided to a disabled person free of charge at the expense of the federal budget.

The Federal Basic Program for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons and the procedure for its implementation are approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Rehabilitation technical means and services are provided to people with disabilities, as a rule, in kind.

An individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person is a complex of optimal rehabilitation measures for a disabled person, developed on the basis of a decision of the State Service for Medical and Social Expertise, which includes certain types, forms, volumes, timing and procedures for the implementation of medical, professional and other rehabilitation measures aimed at restoration and compensation for impaired or lost body functions, restoration, compensation of a disabled person’s ability to perform certain types activities.

An individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person is mandatory for execution by the relevant government bodies, local government bodies, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership.

An individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person contains both rehabilitation measures provided to a disabled person free of charge in accordance with the federal basic program for the rehabilitation of disabled people, and rehabilitation measures in the payment of which the disabled person himself or other persons or organizations participate, regardless of organizational, legal forms and forms of ownership.

The volume of rehabilitation measures provided for by the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person cannot be less than that established by the federal basic program for the rehabilitation of disabled people.

An individual rehabilitation program is of a recommendatory nature for a disabled person; he has the right to refuse one or another type, form and volume of rehabilitation measures, as well as the implementation of the program as a whole. A disabled person has the right to independently decide on the issue of providing himself with a specific technical means or type of rehabilitation, including cars, wheelchairs, prosthetic and orthopedic products, printed publications with a special font, sound-amplifying equipment, signaling devices, video materials with subtitles or sign language translation, and other similar means.

If a technical or other means or service provided for by an individual rehabilitation program cannot be provided to a disabled person, or if a disabled person has purchased the appropriate means or paid for the service at his own expense, then he is paid compensation in the amount of the cost of the technical or other means or services that should be provided to the disabled person.

Refusal of a disabled person (or a person representing his interests) from an individual rehabilitation program as a whole or from the implementation of its individual parts releases the relevant government bodies, local government bodies, as well as organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, from responsibility for its implementation and does not give a disabled person the right to receive compensation in the amount of the cost of rehabilitation measures provided free of charge.

The State Service for the Rehabilitation of Disabled People is a set of government bodies, regardless of departmental affiliation, local government bodies, institutions at various levels that carry out measures for medical, professional and social rehabilitation.

Coordination of activities in the field of rehabilitation of disabled people is carried out by the Ministry of Social Protection of the Population of the Russian Federation.

Rehabilitation institutions are institutions that carry out the process of rehabilitation of disabled people in accordance with rehabilitation programs.

Federal executive authorities, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, taking into account regional and territorial needs, create a network of rehabilitation institutions and ensure the development of a system of medical, professional and social rehabilitation of people with disabilities, organize the production of technical means of rehabilitation, develop services for people with disabilities, promote the development of non-state rehabilitation institutions with they have licenses for this type of activity, as well as funds of various forms of ownership and interact with them in the implementation of rehabilitation of disabled people.

Financing of rehabilitation activities is carried out from the federal budget, funds from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, federal and territorial compulsory health insurance funds, the State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation, Pension Fund Russian Federation (in accordance with the provisions on these funds), other sources not prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Financing of rehabilitation activities, including the maintenance of rehabilitation institutions, is allowed on the basis of cooperation of budgetary and extrabudgetary funds.

The procedure for organizing and operating the State Service for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Chapter IV. Providing life support for people with disabilities

Providing qualified medical care to people with disabilities, including drug provision, is carried out free of charge or on preferential terms in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The procedure and conditions for providing qualified medical care to various categories of disabled people are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Medical rehabilitation of disabled people is carried out within the framework of the federal basic program of compulsory health insurance for the population of the Russian Federation at the expense of federal and territorial compulsory health insurance funds.

The state guarantees a disabled person the right to receive the necessary information. For these purposes, measures are being taken to strengthen the material and technical base of editorial offices, publishing houses and printing enterprises that produce special literature for people with disabilities, as well as editorial offices, programs, studios, enterprises, institutions and organizations that produce recordings, audio recordings and other sound products, film and videos and other video products for people with disabilities. Issue of periodical, scientific, educational, methodological, reference and informational and fiction for people with disabilities, including those published on tape cassettes and in embossed dot Braille, is carried out at the expense of the federal budget.

Sign language is recognized as a means interpersonal communication. A system of subtitling or sign language translation of television programs, films and videos is being introduced.

Social protection authorities provide assistance to people with disabilities in obtaining sign language translation services, providing sign language equipment, and providing typhoid medications.

The Government of the Russian Federation, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local governments, organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, create conditions for people with disabilities (including people with disabilities using wheelchairs and guide dogs) for free access to social infrastructure: residential , public and industrial buildings, recreational facilities, sports facilities, cultural, entertainment and other institutions; for unhindered use of public transport and transport communications, communications and information.

Planning and development of cities and other settlements, the formation of residential and recreational areas, the development of design solutions for new construction and reconstruction of buildings, structures and their complexes, as well as the development and production of public transport vehicles, communications and information means without adapting these objects for access to them by disabled people and their use by disabled people is not are allowed.

Carrying out measures to adapt social and industrial infrastructure facilities for access to them by disabled people and their use by disabled people is carried out in accordance with federal and territorial target programs approved in the prescribed manner.

The development of design solutions for the new construction of buildings, structures and their complexes without coordination with the relevant executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and taking into account the opinions of public associations of people with disabilities is not allowed.

In cases where existing facilities cannot be fully adapted to the needs of people with disabilities, the owners of these facilities must, in agreement with public associations of people with disabilities, take measures to ensure that the minimum needs of people with disabilities are met.

Enterprises, institutions and organizations providing transport services to the population provide special adaptations for vehicles, stations, airports and other facilities that allow people with disabilities to freely use their services.

Places for the construction of a garage or parking for technical and other means of transportation are provided to disabled people out of turn near their place of residence, taking into account urban planning standards.

Disabled persons are exempt from rent for land and premises for storing vehicles for their personal use.

At each parking lot (stop) of vehicles, including near trade enterprises, services, medical, sports and cultural and entertainment institutions, at least 10 percent of the spaces (but not less than one space) are allocated for parking special vehicles for disabled people who are not must be occupied by other vehicles. Disabled persons use parking spaces for special vehicles free of charge.

Organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, that do not comply with the adaptation measures provided for by this Federal Law, other federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation existing funds transport, communications, information and other social infrastructure facilities for access to them by disabled people and their use by disabled people, allocate to the appropriate budgets the funds necessary to meet the needs of disabled people, in the manner and amounts established by the Government of the Russian Federation, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, authorities local government with the participation of public associations of disabled people. Specified funds are used for the intended purpose only for the implementation of measures to adapt social infrastructure facilities for access to them by disabled people and their use by disabled people.

Disabled people and families with disabled children in need of improved housing conditions are registered and provided with living quarters, taking into account the benefits provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Residential premises are provided to disabled people and families with disabled children, taking into account their state of health and other circumstances worthy of attention.

Disabled people have the right to additional living space in the form of a separate room in accordance with the list of diseases approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. This right is taken into account when registering for the improvement of living conditions and the provision of residential premises in houses of the state or municipal housing stock. Additional living space occupied by a disabled person (regardless of whether in the form of a separate room or not) is not considered excessive and is subject to payment in a single amount, taking into account the benefits provided.

Residential premises occupied by disabled people are equipped with special means and devices in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program of the disabled person.

Disabled people living in inpatient institutions social services and those wishing to obtain residential premises under a rental or rental agreement are subject to registration for improvement of living conditions, regardless of the size of the occupied area and are provided with residential premises on an equal basis with other disabled people.

Disabled children living in stationary social service institutions, who are orphans or deprived of parental care, upon reaching the age of 18 years, are subject to being provided with residential premises out of turn, if the individual rehabilitation program for the disabled person provides for the opportunity to provide self-care and lead an independent lifestyle.

Residential premises in the houses of the state, municipal and public housing stock, occupied by a disabled person under a rental or rental agreement, when the disabled person is placed in a stationary social service institution, are retained by him for six months.

Specially equipped residential premises in houses of the state, municipal and public housing stock, occupied by disabled people under a rental or rental agreement, upon their vacancy, are occupied first of all by other disabled people in need of improved housing conditions.

Disabled people and families with disabled children are given a discount of at least 50 percent on rent (in state, municipal and public housing) and utility bills (regardless of the housing stock), and in residential buildings that do not have central heating , - from the cost of fuel purchased within the limits established for sale to the population.

Disabled people and families that include disabled people are given the right to priority receipt of land plots for individual housing construction, farming and gardening.

The procedure for providing these benefits is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation. Executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments have the right to establish additional benefits for people with disabilities.

Educational institutions, social protection bodies, communications, information, physical culture and sports institutions ensure continuity of upbringing and education, social adaptation of disabled children.

Educational institutions, together with social protection authorities and health authorities, provide pre-school, out-of-school education and education for disabled children, and the receipt of secondary education for disabled people. general education, secondary vocational and higher vocational education in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person.

For disabled children preschool age the necessary rehabilitation measures are provided and conditions are created for staying in preschool institutions general type. For disabled children whose health condition precludes their stay in general preschool institutions, special preschool institutions are created.

If it is impossible to educate and educate disabled children in general or special preschool and general educational institutions Education authorities and educational institutions provide, with the consent of parents, the education of disabled children according to a full general education or individual program at home.

The procedure for raising and educating disabled children at home, in non-state educational institutions, as well as the amount of compensation for parents' expenses for these purposes are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The state guarantees disabled people the necessary conditions for education and training.

General education for disabled people is provided free of charge, as in educational institutions, equipped, if necessary, with special technical means, and in special educational institutions and is regulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation, the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The state ensures that disabled people receive basic general, secondary (complete) general education, primary vocational, secondary vocational and higher vocational education in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for the disabled person.

Vocational education of people with disabilities in educational institutions various types and levels is carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

For disabled people who need special conditions for receiving vocational education, special vocational educational institutions of various types and types or corresponding conditions in general vocational educational institutions are created.

Vocational training and professional education disabled people in special professional educational institutions for disabled people are carried out in accordance with state educational standards based on educational programs adapted for teaching people with disabilities.

Organization educational process in special professional educational institutions for people with disabilities is regulated by regulatory legal acts, organizationally - teaching materials relevant ministries and other federal executive authorities.

State educational authorities provide students with special education free of charge or on preferential terms. teaching aids and literature, and also provide students with the opportunity to use the services of sign language interpreters.

Disabled people are provided with guarantees employment federal government bodies, government bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation through the following special events that help increase their competitiveness in the labor market:

1) implementation of preferential financial and credit policies in relation to specialized enterprises employing the work of disabled people, enterprises, institutions, organizations of public associations of disabled people;

2) establishing in organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, a quota for hiring disabled people and a minimum number of special jobs for disabled people;

3) reserving jobs in professions most suitable for employing people with disabilities;

4) stimulating the creation by enterprises, institutions, organizations of additional jobs (including special ones) for the employment of people with disabilities;

5) creating working conditions for disabled people in accordance with individual rehabilitation programs for disabled people;

6) creating conditions for entrepreneurial activity disabled people;

7) organizing training for disabled people in new professions.

Organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, the number of employees in which is more than 30 people, are set a quota for hiring disabled people as a percentage of average number employees (but not less than three percent).

Public associations of disabled people and their owned enterprises, institutions, organizations, business partnerships and societies, the authorized capital of which consists of the contribution of a public association of disabled people, are exempt from mandatory quotas of jobs for disabled people.

The executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation have the right to establish a higher quota for hiring people with disabilities.

The procedure for determining the quota is approved by the specified bodies.

In case of non-fulfillment or impossibility of fulfilling the quota for hiring disabled people, employers pay a mandatory fee to established amount for each unemployed disabled person within the established quota to the State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation. The funds received are spent specifically on creating jobs for people with disabilities.

By submission Federal service Employment of Russia The State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation transfers the indicated amounts to organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, for the creation of jobs for disabled people in excess of the approved quota, as well as public associations of disabled people for the creation of specialized enterprises (shops, sites) employing the work of disabled people.

Special jobs for employing disabled people - jobs that require additional measures on labor organization, including adaptation of main and auxiliary equipment, technical and organizational equipment, additional equipment and provision of technical devices, taking into account the individual capabilities of people with disabilities.

The minimum number of special jobs for employing disabled people is established by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for each enterprise, institution, organization within the established quota for hiring disabled people.

Special jobs for the employment of disabled people are created at the expense of the federal budget, funds from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation, with the exception of jobs for disabled people who have received a work injury or occupational disease. Special workplaces for the employment of disabled people who received illness or injury while performing military service duties or as a result of natural Disasters and interethnic conflicts are created at the expense of the federal budget.

Special jobs for the employment of disabled people who have received a work injury or occupational disease are created at the expense of employers who are obliged to compensate for damage caused to employees as a result of injury, occupational disease or other damage to health associated with the performance of work duties by employees.

Disabled people employed in organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, are provided with the necessary working conditions in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for the disabled person.

It is not allowed to establish in collective or individual labor contracts working conditions for disabled people (wages, working hours and rest periods, duration of annual and additional paid leave, etc.) that worsen the situation of disabled people in comparison with other employees.

For disabled people of groups I and II, a reduced working time of no more than 35 hours per week is established while maintaining full pay.

Involvement of disabled people in overtime work, work on weekends and at night is permitted only with their consent and provided that such work is not prohibited for them due to health reasons.

Disabled persons are granted annual leave of at least 30 calendar days based on a six-day work week.

1. Employers have the right to request and receive information necessary when creating special jobs for employing people with disabilities.

2. Employers, in accordance with the established quota for hiring disabled people, are obliged to:

1) create or allocate jobs for the employment of disabled people;

2) create working conditions for disabled people in accordance with the individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person;

3) provide, in accordance with the established procedure, information necessary for organizing the employment of disabled people.

3. Heads of organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, who violate the procedure for making mandatory payments to the State Employment Fund of the Russian Federation, are liable in the form of paying a fine: for concealing or understating the mandatory payment - in the amount of the hidden or underpaid amount, and in in case of refusal to hire a disabled person within the established quota - in the amount of the cost of the workplace determined by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The amounts of fines are collected in an indisputable manner by the authorities of the State Tax Service of the Russian Federation. Paying a fine does not relieve them from paying the debt.

Unemployed is a disabled person who has a work recommendation, a conclusion on the recommended nature and conditions of work, which is issued in the prescribed manner, who does not have a job, is registered with the Federal Employment Service of Russia in order to find a suitable job and is ready to start it.

To make a decision on recognizing a disabled person as unemployed, he submits to the Federal Employment Service of Russia, along with the documents established by the Law of the Russian Federation “On Employment of the Population in the Russian Federation,” an individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person.

Governmental support(including the provision of tax and other benefits) of enterprises and organizations producing industrial goods, technical means and devices for disabled people, providing employment for disabled people, providing medical care, services in the field of education, providing sanatorium-resort treatment, consumer services and creating conditions for physical education and sports, organizing leisure activities for people with disabilities, investing more than 30 percent of profits in projects that ensure the livelihoods of people with disabilities, in scientific and experimental development of technical means of rehabilitation disabled people, as well as prosthetic and orthopedic enterprises, medical-industrial (labor) workshops and subsidiary rural farms of institutions of social protection bodies, the state enterprise "National Fund for Assistance to Disabled Persons of the Russian Federation" is carried out in the manner and on the conditions provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Material support for disabled people includes monetary payments on various grounds (pensions, benefits, insurance payments for insuring the risk of health impairment, payments for compensation for harm caused to health, and other payments), compensation in cases established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Receiving compensation and other monetary payments of one type does not deprive disabled people of the right to receive other types of monetary payments if they have grounds for this, provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Social services for disabled people are provided in the manner and on the basis determined by local government bodies with the participation of public associations of disabled people.

Executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments create special social services for disabled people, including the delivery of food and industrial goods to disabled people, and approve a list of diseases of disabled people for which they are entitled to preferential services.

Disabled people in need of outside care and assistance are provided with medical and household services at home or in inpatient institutions. The conditions of stay of disabled people in a stationary social service institution must ensure that disabled people can exercise their rights and legitimate interests in accordance with this Federal Law and help meet their needs.

Disabled people have the right to manufacture and repair prosthetic devices orthopedic products and other types of prosthetic products (except for dentures made of precious metals and other expensive materials equal in value to precious metals) at the expense of the federal budget in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Disabled people are provided necessary means telecommunications services, special telephone sets (including for subscribers with hearing impairments), public call centers.

Disabled persons receive a 50 percent discount for using telephones and radio broadcasting points.

Disabled people are provided with household appliances, tiflo-, surdo- and other means they need for social adaptation; Repair of these devices and facilities is carried out for disabled people free of charge or on preferential terms.

The procedure for providing disabled people with technical and other means that make their work and life easier is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Disabled people and disabled children have the right to sanatorium-resort treatment in accordance with an individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person on preferential terms. Group I disabled people and disabled children in need of spa treatment, have the right to receive a second voucher under the same conditions for the person accompanying them.

Non-working disabled people, including those in inpatient social service institutions, health resort vouchers are issued free of charge by social protection authorities.

Working disabled people are provided with sanatorium and resort vouchers at their place of work on preferential terms at the expense of social insurance funds.

Disabled people who have received a work injury or occupational disease are provided with vouchers for sanatorium-resort treatment at the expense of employers who are obliged to compensate for harm caused to employees as a result of injury, occupational disease or other damage to health associated with the performance of work duties by employees.

Disabled children, their parents, guardians, trustees and social workers caring for disabled children, as well as disabled people enjoy the right free travel on all types of public transport in urban and suburban transport, except taxis.

Disabled persons are given a 50 percent discount on the cost of travel on intercity lines of air, rail, river and road transport from October 1 to May 15 and once (round trip) at other times of the year. Disabled people of groups I and II and disabled children are given the right to free travel once a year to the place of treatment and back, unless more preferential conditions are established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

These benefits apply to a person accompanying a disabled person of group I or a disabled child.

Disabled children and their accompanying persons are given the right to free travel to the place of treatment (examination) on buses on suburban and intercity intraregional routes.

Disabled people who have appropriate medical indications, provided by car vehicles free of charge or on preferential terms. Disabled children who have reached the age of five and suffer from dysfunction of the musculoskeletal system are provided with motor vehicles under the same conditions with the right to drive these vehicles by adult family members.

Technical support and repair of vehicles and other rehabilitation equipment belonging to disabled people are carried out out of turn on preferential terms and in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Disabled persons and parents of disabled children are compensated for expenses associated with the operation of special vehicles.

Disabled people who have appropriate medical indications for free receipt vehicle, but who have not received it, and also at their request, instead of receiving a vehicle, an annual financial compensation transport costs.

The procedure and conditions for the provision of vehicles and payment of compensation for transportation costs are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, provide disabled people with benefits for paying for medications and sanatorium and resort treatment; on transport services, lending, acquisition, construction, receipt and maintenance of housing; for payment of utilities, services of communication institutions, trade enterprises, cultural, entertainment and sports and recreational institutions in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

This Federal Law preserves the benefits established for disabled people by the legislation of the former USSR. The benefits provided for disabled people are preserved regardless of the type of pensions they receive.

In cases where other legal acts for disabled people provide for norms that increase the level of social protection of disabled people compared to this Federal Law, the provisions of these legal acts are applied. If a disabled person has the right to the same benefit under this Federal Law and at the same time under another legal act, the benefit is provided either under this Federal Law or under another legal act (regardless of the basis for establishing the benefit).

Citizens and officials guilty of violating the rights and freedoms of people with disabilities bear responsibility in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Disputes regarding the determination of disability, the implementation of individual rehabilitation programs for people with disabilities, the provision of specific social protection measures, as well as disputes concerning other rights and freedoms of people with disabilities are considered in court.

Chapter V. Public associations of disabled people

In order to represent and protect their rights and legitimate interests, disabled people and persons representing their interests have the right to create public associations, movements and funds in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Public associations of disabled people and their divisions, which are legal entities, can be participants in business companies created for the purpose of carrying out entrepreneurial activities. Federal executive authorities and executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation provide assistance and assistance, including material, technical and financial, to public associations of disabled people, their movements and funds.

Federal executive authorities, executive authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms and forms of ownership, attract authorized representatives of public associations of disabled people to prepare and make decisions affecting the interests of disabled people. Decisions made in violation of this rule may be declared invalid in court.

Public associations of disabled people may own enterprises, institutions, organizations, business partnerships and societies, buildings, structures, equipment, transport, housing, intellectual values, cash, shares, shares and securities, as well as any other property and land plots in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

The state guarantees the provision of benefits for payment federal taxes, fees, duties and other payments to budgets of all levels to all-Russian public associations of disabled people, their organizations, enterprises, institutions, organizations, business societies and partnerships owned by them, the authorized capital of which consists of the contribution of these public associations of disabled people.

Decisions on providing benefits to public associations of disabled people for the payment of regional and local taxes, fees, duties and other payments are made by government bodies at the appropriate level.

Decisions on providing benefits for the payment of federal taxes, fees, duties and other payments to regional and local public associations of people with disabilities can be made by government bodies at the appropriate level within the limits of amounts credited in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation to their budgets.

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