REGISTRATION OF PERMANENT CARE – 2024

Persons who are in difficult life circumstances and cannot provide for household self-care on their own have the right to obtain permanent care.

This care is established in order to reduce the impact of such circumstances, minimize their consequences, or even implement prevention, if it is possible.

Who has the right to permanent care

• The following categories of persons may apply for such care:
• those who have a disability since childhood, regardless of their current age;
• people with group I disabilities;
• people with disabilities of the 2nd group;
• those who have reached the age of 80 and, according to the opinion of the medical advisory commission, need constant care on a non-professional basis or constant care at home;
• people who have a persistent mental illness and group I or II disability in connection with it;
• senior citizens and people with disabilities who are incapable of self-care.

Registration procedure

In order to arrange permanent care for such a person, you need to contact the social protection authorities and provide the following list of documents:

• A statement that you want to provide permanent care for a certain person.
• Statement from the person who will be cared for permanently.
• Your passport (both the original and a copy are required). The passport of the person who will be cared for is also required.
• Medical certificate of the person who wants to provide such care.
• Certificate of registration of your place of residence and the place of residence of the person for whom care is established.
• A certificate from the MSEK or a medical commission confirming that the person needs constant care due to his health condition.

If we are talking about a person with legal capacity, who can be aware of his actions, but needs care due to his health condition, his mandatory consent is required.

Therefore, when it comes to a pensioner, he must also write an application to appoint a person who will provide him with constant care.

Legal support in these matters gives you the opportunity to receive qualified advice and support for all the processes you need.

This simplifies interaction with state bodies and makes it possible to do everything qualitatively at once, without contacting authorized institutions several times to obtain certificates and other documents.

Our team has enough experience in such matters, so you get to speed up and optimize everything properly.

Permanent care is established not only for incapacitated persons. Therefore, the procedure is simpler than establishing guardianship and does not require a prior court decision.

Why can they refuse to register care

Such reasons may include:

• unreliability of submitted documents;
• improper state of living conditions of a person who wants to take the person he plans to care for to live with him;
• the absence of a real need for such care by the person for whom care is sought. Representatives of social services determine to what extent the household service of the person for whom care will be established really depends on outside help.
• the presence of other able-bodied persons who are obliged by law to provide such care, but try to avoid providing such care without having grounds for it.

Well, it is important not to forget that in order to provide constant care for a person who needs it, joint residence must be provided.

If the fact of cohabitation is not confirmed in the act of verification by the social service, this is a reason for refusing to register care.

What the care provider gets

According to the current law “On social services”, a natural person who provides permanent care for another person in a non-business format has the right to compensation from the state.

Our specialists will advise you in detail about the amount of such compensation and the conditions for its receipt. A person who takes care of another person on a permanent basis and cannot work because of this, gets this care credited to his insurance record.

Also, a person who is fixed as a caregiver based on the Act on establishing the fact of caring for a person (permanent care) has the right to receive a deferment from mobilization in connection with the provision of care.

Another advantage that a caregiver receives is the ability to travel abroad during martial law. Of course, it is not about independent departure, but about departure in connection with the escort of the person being cared for.

If you want to simplify and speed up the procedure for registration of care, the team of the law office “Prikhodko and Partners” will help you with this.