Social code of the region as a guarantee of the targeted state social assistance and support

According to the results of the auditing conducted by the Control and Auditing Chamber of the Volgograd Region in 2015, it was found that the system of the government social assistance for the population of the Volgograd region is characterized by a significant share of the costs of measures provided regardless of the recipient’s income level, as well as the presence of duplicate and ineffective measures. These results contributed to the introduction of the Social Code in the region, which introduced the principles of targeting and needs, which, in its turn, allowed redistributing previously formed reserves in favor of the most socially vulnerable categories of citizens. The adoption of the Social Code has made it possible to change the system of the government social assistance (support) of the population in the region, its structure, to apply fundamentally new approaches to the appointment of social due benefits, to establish common principles for the appointment of measures, which ultimately allowed to increase the effectiveness of social support for the citizens of the Volgograd region...