A social student card is a convenient tool that replaces paper, such as a ticket for urban land and underground transportation. Each student taking full-time education in both state and commercial educational institutions of the capital can receive a plastic card. We’ll talk more about how to get a student’s social card in Moscow below.
What does a social card give?
Student card provides the owner with a list of features:
- Unlimited travel in the city’s underground transport.
- Ground transportation (buses, trams, trolleybuses).
- 50% discount on commuter trains.
- Traveling by suburban buses.
- All kinds of bonuses and discounts in drugstores, shopping centers and entertainment venues of the city.
- Sotsialka can be used as a bank card.
Traveling on a student’s social card is several times cheaper than acquiring a standard travel card with a fixed number of trips. The validity of plastic is 5 years.
How to get a social travel card?
You can apply for a student’s social card in several ways:
- In the subway window.
- In the multifunctional center (MFC).
- Through the portal of public services.
What documents for a social card must a student provide in order to receive it? Read on. For registration of "social programs", you must first collect a set of documents, which includes:
- Application form.
- Student passport.
- University ticket.
- Photo 3x4 cm.
Getting a social ticket at the subway ticket office
How to make a student social card through a subway employee? To do this, perform a series of actions:
- Take the application form from the cashier and fill it in the prescribed format. To obtain the form, you will need to transfer your student ID and passport to the cashier, whose term expires no earlier than the end of the current year.
- Fill out the questionnaire with a black or blue pen with printed symbols. On the reverse side of the form there is a detailed example of filling, read it to avoid errors.
- Glue a 3x4 photo in a special window.
- Approach with a completed application form to the dean's office for certification by an authorized person and setting up a university seal.
- Hand over the finished form to the cashier in the subway window.
You need to have an identification document and a student ID with you. The application for the student’s social card must be accurately filled out without errors, tattered and wrinkled documents are not accepted.
A plastic ticket will be ready within two weeks from the date of acceptance of the application. To receive it, you will again need to show the cashier the passport, student ID and the spine of the questionnaire issued earlier. If the "social network" is reissued, then you will still need a receipt to pay the cost of making the card.
Getting a card in a multifunctional center
How to make a student social card at the MFC? To obtain a pass at the Multifunctional Center, you must:
- Come to the center.
- Take the coupon.
- Present a passport or student ID to the employee.
- Sign the application filled out by the employee of the multifunctional center on the basis of the submitted document.
- Arrive at the indicated time to receive the card.
All multifunctional centers are open for 12 hours, a complete list of addresses can be found on the official website.
Registration of a student’s social card through the Gosuslug portal
In accordance with the changes made in June 2016, now residents of the Russian Federation can send an application for the issue of a social student card on the website of the State Services online. How to make a student social card through public services? To do this, you need to perform several actions:
- Register on the portal.
- Confirm the registration by clicking on the special link sent to the specified email address.
- On the main page of the portal in the upper right corner indicate your region.
- Next, on the same page, find the "Service Catalog" section and go to it.
- Select the item "Education" or enter the phrase "Social card" in the search line, the entire list of services provided on this issue will be released.
- Go to the "Get a social card" tab.
- Automatically you will be taken to a page with a description of the service and the rules for its provision. After clicking on the link "Online Card Issue" a form will open where you need to enter the personal data necessary for the manufacture of the card.
The following data is entered:
- Personal information - initials and telephone number for communication. Retirement Certificate Number.
- Addresses of registration and actual residence.
- Passport data.
- Information about the educational institution.
- You must upload a photo that was taken no more than 6 months ago.
After entering the specified data, the service will automatically verify the information. In addition to personal data, reconciliation is carried out on a single student register.
The last step is to choose a banking institution that will issue a social card and branches where you can pick it up (from the list below). In addition, you will need to set a code word in case of loss of a plastic card or its blocking.
Now you know how to get a student’s social card in Moscow.
Tariffs and cost
The initial issuance of a social student card is free of charge. In case of damage to the social network or loss of re-issuance is paid at the rates applicable for this period.
The timing
The timing of the student’s social card production is regulated by regulatory documents. The established time frame for the capital is 14 days. In addition, the time for accepting, processing and issuing a card is prescribed, the duration of one operation should not exceed 15 minutes.
Replenishment of the "social"
The recharge procedure for a social student card, as a rule, does not cause any difficulties. Activation occurs automatically upon the first deposit of funds into the account. There are many ways to replenish, consider the most common of them:
- Through the Sberbank Online application.
- Transfer of funds from a mobile bank.
- Making money at the subway ticket office.
- Replenishment through bank terminals and ATMs.
How to act in case of loss (theft) or malfunction of the travel card?
If the social travel card is not valid, the holder must call the Mosgortrans hotline 8 (495) 951-12-58.
Not sure how to make a student’s social card after theft or loss? The following procedure should be followed:
- Contact the passenger service of the Moscow Metro at 8 (495) 688-02-61 and explain the situation.
- At any ticket office in the subway, take the application form for reissuing a social card.
- In the process of filling out the form in the appropriate window, be sure to indicate the reason for the re-issue of the card (theft or loss).
- Transfer the completed application to the cashier and follow his further instructions.
Making a social card is not so difficult.