During the Soviet period, social insurance at the expense of the state was not available to everyone, but only to employees and workers who signed an employment contract, but those who performed various services under civil law contracts did not think about social security.
Time passes and everything changes. Every modern citizen of the Russian Federation knows that the Constitution establishes the same opportunity for everyone, upon the occurrence of certain objective circumstances, to receive high-quality and timely social services, often in the form of financial assistance. The size of such payments is not limited by signs of sex, nationality, race, origin, place of residence, language, religious beliefs or beliefs, or any other factors, but depends solely on what happened. The only restriction is that you must be a citizen of a given country in order to be able to use all the services for receiving social assistance.
Social security is a system designated at the state level that functions to serve a part of the population that is disabled. In the legislation it is spelled out as a form of social policy of the state, which should be aimed at material assistance to those segments of the population who need it. This is not the only definition, because in different countries this term is interpreted differently. For example, in the United States of America such a system was created exclusively for retirees, in the UK social assistance means all cash payments and benefits with health expenses, and in Poland the entire social system is based on insurance, on its three principles - coercion, systemicity and purpose payouts.
The principle document of the universality of the right to such security is enshrined in the main state document, the Constitution of the Russian Federation, but this does not mean at all that it is correctly enshrined in other legal documents and functions correctly at all levels. If you conduct a thorough analysis of the legislation, it becomes clear that the law and the organization of social security is of great importance for a certain circle of people for whom social responsibility insurance is mandatory. Sometimes theory and practice diverge, in this case it is understood that social assistance is not so easy to get as we would like. First, you will need to go through all the necessary checks and present documents, and only then a verdict will be issued that will allow or not to receive payment.
There is one aspect that unites all countries of the world, it is that social security is at the center of a complex mechanism for protecting the population, which also includes commercial forms of insurance, charity and so on.
So in which case can one count on state assistance? Most often, this issue relates to the health of a citizen, only with documents issued that can confirm this fact of illness or injury, and retirement age. If a person works, regularly pays taxes and makes other social payments, then he can count on a paid sick leave, and upon retirement - on the corresponding regular cash payments.
Assistance from the state is a kind of support that is provided in cash. Its amount depends on how much a person needs it. In different countries of the world, they look at this issue in their own way, but in Russia a fairly wide circle of citizens can count on social security. To receive a subsidy, it is enough to simply collect the necessary documents and contact the nearest social assistance point, which will consider your request and make a decision on it.