Technogenic safety. Overcoming the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.
The main goal of the Department of Social Protection of Citizens Affected by the Chernobyl NPP Disaster is to provide assistance to citizens affected by the Chernobyl disaster in order to increase the effectiveness of their social support, combine the efforts and capabilities of both state and public actors in the above issue, and jointly participate in developing unified positions in regulatory legal acts that will regulate the provision of assistance to Chernobyl victims. The department makes maximum efforts to implement state policy in the field of protecting the population from the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.The work of the department is aimed at implementing legislative acts of the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the social protection of affected citizens of Ukraine, protecting their social and economic rights, and ensuring the implementation of the Law of Ukraine "On the Status and Social Protection of Citizens Affected by the Chornobyl Catastrophe."
In accordance with current legislation, financing for all measures to eliminate the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster is carried out from and within the limits of revenues to the Fund for the Implementation of Measures to Eliminate the Consequences of the Chornobyl Disaster and Social Protection of the Population, which is a component of the State Budget of Ukraine. During the year, compensation payments and the provision of benefits to the affected population were ensured in full.
The ASORV/KOMTEKH database has been created and is constantly replenished with personal files of victims and participants in the liquidation of the Chornobyl disaster of categories 1 and 2.
Documents are being accepted for the issuance and registration of Chernobyl certificates to citizens of the city of Lutsk.
| As of 01.01.2001 | As of 01.01.2002 | As of 01.01.2003 | As of 01.01.2004 | |
| Number of citizens with the status of persons affected by the Chornobyl disaster | 15591 | 15786 | 10689 | 7837 |
| Children | 12299 | 12450 | 7318 | 4465 |
| Adults | 3292 | 3336 | 3371 | 3372 |
Thus, the total number of rehabilitated people affected by the Chornobyl disaster in 2001 was 2,560 (16.3%), in 2002 – 1,741 (11%), and in 2003 – 1,283 (12%).
For 2003, for the payment of compensation for an unused voucher for the previous year, documents were accepted from category 1 – 138; from category 2 – 119; from category 3 – 102; for children – 56.
Payments are being accepted from city organizations through the State Treasury branch to prepare the distribution of funds received to finance social protection expenditures for the population affected by the Chornobyl catastrophe from city organizations; registers of funds received for the social protection of the population affected by the catastrophe at the Chernobyl NPP are being prepared in accordance with payment orders.
From organizations of the city of Lutsk, lists for the payment of compensation for unused vouchers are accepted for verification. Verification is carried out according to the accumulated database. In the database for the city of Lutsk there are 9,468 affected citizens who receive health treatment in sanatorium-resort institutions and camps of the sanitary type.
For health improvement in sanatorium-resort type camps and sanatoriums, documents were processed for issuing requests for vouchers for 162 children whose parents are unemployed.
As of 01.12.2003, 1149 children received health rehabilitation in sanatoria and camps (according to the submitted lists).
A one-time cash benefit was paid to 48 children with disabilities affected by the Chornobyl accident, totaling UAH 1,950, for the 17th anniversary of the Chornobyl catastrophe.
| Type of benefit | 31.12.2001 (persons) | 31.12.2002 (persons) | 31.12.2003 (persons) |
| Assessment and payment of monthly assistance for limited food consumption and compensation for preferential food provision, category 1 — 50% of the cost of food products | 267 | ||
| Assessment and payment of monthly assistance for limited food consumption and compensation for preferential food provision, category 2 — 25% of the cost of food products | 196 | 265 | 294 |
| Compensation for an unused voucher (including children) | 108 | 317 | 328 |
| Assessment and payment of monthly cash compensation to families with children | 95 | 137 | 161 |
| Applications accepted for sanatorium-resort vouchers for adults | 225 | 277 | |
| Vouchers issued for sanatorium-resort treatment for adults | 115 | 133 | 134 |
The problems related to the social protection of citizens affected by the Chornobyl catastrophe are:
- small amounts of compensation payments.
For example (according to Resolution No. 836 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 26.07.1996):
- monthly cash payment for children before they enter school, for children attending preschool education institutions, from 3 years — UAH 2.70, aged 3 to 8 years — UAH 5.30;
- monthly payment per school-age child (from a father or mother of category 1 or 2) UAH 3.30;
- annual health rehabilitation assistance: to persons with disabilities from the Chornobyl accident, group I and II — UAH 26.70, group III — UAH 21.50, children with disabilities — UAH 21.50, participants in the liquidation of the aftermath of the Chornobyl NPP accident, category 2 — UAH 26.70, participants in the liquidation of the aftermath of the Chornobyl NPP accident, category 3 — UAH 15.70, each child who lost one of their parents as a result of the Chornobyl accident — UAH 15.70, evacuees from the exclusion zone in 1986, including children — UAH 15.70.
- insufficient provision of sanatorium-resort vouchers, including for children.
For 2004, it is planned to improve work on minimizing the consequences of the Chornobyl catastrophe as follows:
- systematic provision through the mass media of information on changes and amendments to legislation related to the social protection of citizens affected by the Chernobyl disaster;
- improvement of work aimed at improving the reception of citizens affected by the Chernobyl disaster at the UPSZN;
- entering personal files for children affected by the Chernobyl disaster into the ASORV/KOMTEKH database;
- ensuring, in accordance with established standards, stable financing of budget programs.
| Type of assistance | 31.12.2001 | 31.12.2002 | 31.12.2003 |
| Calculation and payment of monthly assistance with restriction of food consumption and compensation for preferential provision with food products of category 1 - 50% of the cost of food products | - | 267 | 311 |
| Calculation and payment of monthly assistance with restriction of food consumption and compensation for preferential provision with food products of category 2 - 25% of the cost of food products | 196 | 265 | 294 |
| Compensation for an unused voucher | 108 | 317 | 328 |
| Calculation and payment of monthly cash compensation to families with children: for children who do not attend kindergarten under 3 years of age | 10 | 22 | 31 |
| Calculation and payment of monthly cash compensation to families with children: for children who attend kindergarten under 3 years of age | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculation and payment of monthly cash compensation to families with children: for children who do not attend kindergarten aged 3 to 8 | 32 | 20 | 22 |
| Calculation and payment of monthly cash compensation for children studying in schools | 35 | 54 | 60 |
| Payment of monthly monetary compensation for children studying in secondary educational institutions, colleges and technical schools, children evacuated from the exclusion zone, children who became disabled as a result of the Chernobyl disaster, and who do not eat in the canteens of the specified educational institutions | - | 5 | 6 |
| Monthly assistance for each school-age child who became disabled or is under dispensary observation for a disease as a result of the Chernobyl disaster, whose parents became disabled persons of group I or II or died as a result of the Chernobyl disaster | - | 21 | 23 |
| Applications for sanatorium-resort vouchers accepted | - | 225 | 277 |
| Vouchers for sanatorium-resort treatment issued | - | 133 | 134 |