Social Treasury

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Federal departments are beginning to order work on the implementation of the Social Treasury concept and the integration of systems with the Unified Digital Platform in the Social Sphere (GIS ECP), the creation of which was initiated by the Ministry of Labor in 2021. [1] (more)

Putin promised to provide social support services through the "one window" on the principle of social treasury

On April 21, 2021, during his Address to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the prospects for applying the principles of the "social treasury." According to him, they should be introduced as early as 2022.

This means that all federal benefits, pensions, other social allowances, services will be issued and paid in the "one window" mode, without running through instances, but simply on the fact of creating a family, having a child, retirement or other life situation.

After three years, the absolute majority of state and municipal services should be provided to Russian citizens remotely in a mode of 24 hours a day seven days a week, that is, on an ongoing basis, the president said.

Consider in more detail what the social treasury model is, how it should work, and what benefits it has for citizens.

Social Treasury Model

To ensure the transition to the provision of social support measures without collecting documents from citizens, the provision of measures social support as soon as possible and reducing material and labor costs in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and municipalities to provide regional and municipal social support measures in March 2021, plans were announced to create an organizational and technological model for the use by all executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local authorities of a single digital platform and the possibility of transferring functions for the appointment and provision of regional and municipal social support measures to a single authorized organization at the federal level.

Plans for the transition to the Social Treasury model were announced in the concept of digital transformation of the social sphere.

"Social Treasury" is a model for the provision of social support measures, the provision of state services in the field of social protection by federal executive authorities, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments through the use of a single digital platform that ensures the implementation of the principles of client centricity of the state, targeting and effectiveness of social support measures.

Implementation of the Social Treasury model will provide social support measures based on identification Citizens have life circumstances without submitting documents, with the exception of the need to submit a statement if, for objective reasons, it is impossible to provide social support measures in a proactive format (format "Social Treasury"), for example, disposal of parent capital with the choice of direction. Also, the provision of social support measures will be carried out with minimal labor costs and in a short time. At the same time, the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies will be able to more effectively exercise their powers to establish specific measures of social support, based on the socio-economic situation, due to the availability of the necessary data for making decisions on the establishment of categories of recipients and conditions for receipt.

To move to the provision of social support measures in the format of "Social Treasury" it is planned to implement the following mechanisms:

• the possibility of using the unified state social security information system (EGISSO) as a component of a single digital platform by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local authorities to appoint social support measures, starting from the reception of a citizen's application for social support measures to its actual provision;

• the possibility of transferring certain functions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for the provision of regional and municipal social support measures carried out by executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local authorities.

In accordance with the processes implemented when using the unified state information system of social ensuring interaction with citizens will be carried out electronically through a single portal, as well as interagency interaction with state The electronic form required by bodies and organizations to exclude the collection of paper-based documents.

The possibility of using the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the bodies is provided local government of its own information resources, which will meet the requirements, to ensure interaction with citizens in electronic form.

Problems in the provision of social support measures in the regions

The organization of interagency cooperation in the provision of social support measures is properly established not all constituent entities of the Russian Federation require substantial refinement and additional financing of information systems (resources) of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the concept says.

In accordance with the Federal Law "On State Social Assistance," information on the appointment of measures to citizens social support is placed by their appointing bodies in their own information resources and subsequently transferred to a single state information system of social security, which leads to partial duplication of information, including personal data of citizens.

A significant number of executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies, Providing social support measures, there are no information systems that ensure the performance of functions for the purpose and provision of social support measures, there is a need for the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and municipalities not only to transfer information from information resources to a single state information system of social security, but also to appoint and provide social security measures support through this system.

Also, most executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies do not have the opportunity to obtain the necessary information within the framework of interdepartmental electronic interaction when providing social support measures. Thus, citizens submit documents on paper, which they need to obtain from various state bodies by visiting them.

As of March 2021, measures are being provided at the regional level social support, the number of which reaches 20 thousand and which is provided by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies, but a significant number of social support measures are not available on a single portal, which does not allow citizens to interact with the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies in electronic form when receiving social support measures.

How the social treasury should work

It is proposed to introduce an approach in which the entire process from receiving a citizen's application for social support measures to its actual provision is carried out directly in a single state social security information system as a component of a single digital platform.

The implementation of these measures is planned, inter alia, through amendments to the Federal Law "On State Social Assistance" in terms of improving the unified State information system of social security.

In particular, it is planned that a single state social security information system as a component of a single digital platform will provide the task of ensuring the appointment process and providing social support measures.

The executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies, state extrabudgetary funds, organizations under the jurisdiction of state bodies and local self-government bodies, when appointing and providing social support measures, have the right to use their own information systems.

The components of a single digital platform can be used entirely by the constituent entities of the Russian Federation as a replacement for their own information systems for the purpose and provision of social support measures or partially. In the latter case, the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are able to connect to the necessary components of a single digital platform for the implementation of the necessary processes in their own information systems.

At the same time, the used own information systems should provide:

• Mandatory transmission to the unified state information system of social security of the information provided for by the Federal Law "On State Social Assistance";
• obtaining from the unified state information system of social security information necessary for the appointment of social support measures;
• The use of directories, registers and classifiers used in the unified State social security information system;
• interaction with information systems of bodies and organizations using a single system of interdepartmental electronic interaction.

Uniform requirements for such information systems for ensuring information interaction with a single state social security information system are established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Why the Social Treasury Provider has chosen the Pension Fund

The possibility of transferring certain functions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation to provide regional and municipal social support measures is due, inter alia, to the fact that the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation already has experience in providing various social benefits (pensions, maternity (family) capital, monthly cash payments, payments to families with children) in an unannounced order or with a minimum number of documents (information), said in the concept of digital transformation of the social sphere.

The pension fund implements the principle of one window by ensuring interdepartmental interaction, which significantly reduces the burden on citizens.

The executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, along with the exercise of their own powers in the field of social protection (within the framework of the obligations of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation), bear additional costs related to the maintenance of the staff of employees and the financing of organizational measures when implementing the powers of the Russian Federation transferred to them in this area.

In addition, the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation bear an additional burden in collecting and summarizing reports on the use of federal budget funds provided for by them in the form of subventions, as well as in sending an application for the transfer of these funds.

The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation has its own territorial bodies in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and independently, without involving the authorities, provides citizens with these measures of social support and performs the functions of the chief manager of the federal budget allocated to it for these purposes.

The existence of territorial bodies allows the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation to synchronize the provision of pensions and other social benefits to citizens, avoid citizens from contacting various authorities (bodies and services), and exclude temporary and material costs for them.

In this regard, the transfer to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation of certain functions for the provision of relevant regional and municipal social support measures will simplify the procedure for applying for their provision, as well as provide prompt information to citizens, which will create conditions for the further appointment of a number of social support measures in an unapproved manner and in a proactive mode.

Stages of transition to social treasury

Taking into account the organizational and technical readiness of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the readiness of information systems, as well as the peculiarities of providing some measures of social support and the contingent of their recipients, the transition to the format "Social Treasury" is planned in several stages.

Phasing will allow you to prepare for the corresponding work in a timely manner, including eliminating or minimizing existing risks, and most effectively organize work in the future.

In order to test these approaches for the implementation by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation of certain functions for the appointment of social support measures provided by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, as well as in order to optimize the processes of interaction with citizens when providing social support measures in 2021, an experiment is planned on the transition to the implementation by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation of certain functions for the appointment of regional social support measures.

At least 7 pilot subjects are planned to participate in the experiment of the Russian Federation.

The implementation of the experiment will make it possible to form measures to realize the possibility of switching to the implementation by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation of the appointment of social support measures with the creation of the following conditions:

• exclusion of the need for citizens to submit documents and information available to state bodies and organizations;
• reduction of temporary expenses of authorized bodies for provision of social support measures;
• Ensuring interdepartmental electronic interaction to provide social support measures.

The implementation of the experiment will be ensured by concluding an agreement with the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation by the highest executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation participating in the experiment on the transfer of certain functions for the appointment of social support measures by agreement with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation.

An important step is the improvement of the legal and regulatory framework in the field of social security, within the framework of which it is necessary to consolidate at the legislative level:

• transition to the appointment by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation of separate social support measures currently implemented by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation within the framework of the powers transferred to them by the Russian Federation, the financial support of which is carried out at the expense of subventions from the federal budget to the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;
• The right of the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to transfer to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, on the basis of the agreements concluded, the exercise of part of the powers to appoint individual measures of social support at the expense of the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

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