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Source: Moscow Government – Moscow Government –
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Moscow's developed digital ecosystem helps residents with disabilities easily, quickly, and successfully handle everyday tasks. For example, the mos.ru portal offers nearly 40 types of online services related to labor and social security. From the comfort of home, people can apply for social support programs to pay for housing and utility bills, access necessary documents, make doctor's appointments, and more.
On mos.ru, you can easily apply for a Muscovite card, a key tool for the city's social support. It allows residents to receive socially significant services, discounts on goods and services from loyalty program partners, free public transportation, and much more.
In addition, the portal operates charity service, which allows you to help the beneficiaries of verified non-profit organizations (NPOs) and foundations working for individuals with disabilities. Currently, the "People with Disabilities" category offers 14 programs. Donations can be made to foundations supporting individuals with mental disabilities, orphans with disabilities, deaf-blind individuals, seriously ill individuals in hospitals, and other beneficiaries. All NPOs listed on the service regularly report on their activities, are listed in the Moscow registry of charitable organizations, and share stories made possible by the compassion of Muscovites.
Direct access to services and facilities
On the mos.ru portal, services and facilities needed by people with disabilities are presented in the tab "For the disabled" section "Social support". Here, for example, you can submit an application for the provision of technical rehabilitation aids. These include wheelchairs, prosthetics, and other items, which are provided free of charge. Alternatively, you can simply apply through the portal monetary compensation for rehabilitation equipment independently acquired before January 1, 2025.
Muscovites with special needs can receive assistance from the city social support measures for payment of housing and communal services and communication services in the form of a discount.
It's easier with a Muscovite card
Both adults and children with disabilities, as well as their parents, registered in Moscow, can apply Muscovite cardIt allows you to use free travel on public transport, make doctor's appointments through information kiosks in clinics and receive discounts from more than nine thousand partner enterprisesThe website makes it easy not only to find great deals but also to set filters by benefit type and barrier-free accessibility.
The Muscovite card can be used as a single library card for checking out books from Moscow libraries, as well as a "Moskvenka" identification card for school entry and payment for cafeteria meals, which is especially important for schoolchildren. Additionally, social certificate points are added to the card for payment of certain goods included in thesocial programThe Muscovite Card for people with disabilities of the first and second groups is issued in a specially developed inclusive design: it features the inscription "SKM" (for "Social Card of a Muscovite") in Braille, along with the card series and number, its expiration date, and a hotline number.
"City residents who have been assigned a permanent disability status will automatically receive a new card before the current one expires. There is no need to apply for a replacement. And starting in March 2024, residents with a temporary benefit will no longer need to reissue their Muscovite card each time the benefit is extended. If the holder passes the medical and social assessment on time, the card will remain valid automatically. For adults, the card is valid for seven years, and for children with disabilities, it is valid for seven years or until they reach 18 years of age," said Olesya Kuzmina, head of the "Muscovite Card" project.
Department of Information Technology of the City of Moscow.
Applying for a Muscovite card is easy and convenient on the portal mos.ruThis will require a standard or full accountYou can check the card production status in the "Applications and Notifications" section of your personal account on the mos.ru portal using the service Checking the readiness status of the Muscovite card, by calling the hotline: 7 495 539-55-55, as well as on the official pages of the "Muscovite Card (social)" on social networks VKontakte And"Classmates".
The card will be ready within 30 days of submitting your application. You will be notified of its availability in your personal account on the mos.ru portal and by email. You must pick up your Muscovite card at a convenient "My Documents" government services center. This can be done by a representative of the disabled person with a simple written power of attorney (handwritten). You must also bring documents confirming the cardholder's disability (these documents are included in the notification sent to your personal account).
More information on the procedure for providing social services is available atmos.ru.
December 3rd is celebrated annually as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It aims to draw public attention to the problems of people with limited mobility and the inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
Moscow is home to over 950,000 people with disabilities, approximately 60,000 of whom are children. Comprehensive support and improving the quality of life for residents with disabilities remain among the top priorities of the capital's social policy.
Today, the focus is not simply on adaptation, but on the full integration of such people into all areas of urban life. Sergei Sobyanin has instructed that implementation continue. current projects in the field of social integration of people with disabilities.
The creation, development and operation of e-government infrastructure, including the provision of mass socially significant services, as well as other services in electronic form, are consistent with the objectives of the national project "Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State" and the Moscow regional project "Digital Public Administration." More information about Russia's national projects and the capital's contribution can be found atspecial page.
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