General information
The Social Policy Department ensures implementation of state guarantees for social protection of citizens of Lutsk.
The main goals of the Department are the following:
- ensuring, within the competence and in compliance with the legislation on pension provision, a social protection and social services for population, including citizens affected by the Chornobyl disaster and during the Revolution of Dignity, internally displaced persons, participants of Anti-Terrorist Operation/Joint Forces Operation and the members of their families;
- monitoring the compliance with the law during the appointment (recalculation) and payment of pensions by the bodies of the Pension Fund of Ukraine;
- granting and paying the social assistance, compensation, social payments established by law, providing the subsidies for reimbursement of costs for housing and communal services, purchase of liquefied gas, solid and liquid furnace household fuel;
- developing and implementing the urban programs on improvement of social services delivery for persons with disabilities, pensioners, single incapacitated people, the elderly, other socially vulnerable persons and provide them with comprehensive assistance in obtaining social services;
- fulfilling the functions of the main manager of city budget funds on implementation of state programs on social protection;
- conducting information communication campaign on social protection for citizens.