Some aspects of improvement of legal regulation of the mechanism of realization of the housing rights of staff of law-enforcement bodies

Purpose: To analyze the changes of legal regulation and practice of application of normative acts regulating the procedure of granting cash payments for the purchase or construction of residential premises for certain categories of citizens, identify their differences and formulate proposals aimed at improving the mechanism of their implementation. Methodology: The study used the comparative legal method of ascension to legal abstractions, system-structural method. Results: The article evaluates individual change implementation mechanism of the single social payments to employees of internal Affairs bodies in connection with the adoption of RF Government resolution from 11.06.2015 № 581 «On amendments to the rules of granting a lump-sum social payment for acquisition or construction of residential premises to the employees of internal Affairs bodies of the Russian Federation», the emerging court practice. The author conducted a comparative analysis of implementation of the scheme in respect of employees of internal Affairs bodies and the Federal state civil servants. Revealed some conceptual differences of the mechanism provided for cash payments for the purchase of premises and formulated proposals for its unification. Novelty/originality/value: The article has a sufficiently high degree of originality and academic rigour, as through the work examines the recent changes of the legal regulation of relations for the provision of payments aimed at improving the housing conditions of certain categories of citizens. Suggestions can be positive in the light of further improvement of the mechanism of social benefits and unification of legal regulation of these relations.