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2004

January 27
2004

It is no longer sufficient to mechanically increase financial investment in the social sphere – it is important to noticeably increase the quality of services that the social sphere provides to citizens, President Vladimir Putin announced at a meeting of the State Council on problems of social welfare for pensioners. To do this, a fully-fledged market of social services needs to be formed, and innovative forms of social aid need to be brought in more actively.

The mechanism of financing the social sphere needs to be modernized. Money should go to social institutions not simply because they exist or receive money from the budget, but because they provide specific people with specific services of the proper contents and quality.

At the same time, the task lies ahead to develop a network and improve the material and technical base of social service institutions. Special attention needs to be given to developing the social infrastructure in rural areas.

New legal and organizational forms of provide social housing for pensioners also need to be worked on, including for single pensioners, and a system of subsidies for needy pensioners to pay municipal services needs to be developed.

The State Council meeting should become the starting point for systematic work in the sphere of social support of pensioners.

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