ROLE OF SOCIAL GUIDANCE IN DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF SECURITY OF RUSSIAN CITIZENS BENEFITS FROM THE STATE BUDGET TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE EXPERIENCE OF BELARUS AND KAZAKHSTAN
The article is devoted to some problems of legal regulation of providing the population with benefits from the state budget (budget benefits) in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The author focuses on the unfavorable situation associated with insufficiency, and in some cases the decrease in the level of maternity benefits, child care, child unemployment, etc. The comparative legal analysis of the national legislation of the countries led to the conclusion that the basis for determining the size of such benefits is a state - defined social standard (standard): in Russia - a solid sum of money; in Belarus - the largest value of the budget of the subsistence minimum and the base value; in Kazakhstan-the monthly calculation indicator. The article notes that these standards in Russia and Kazakhstan (the base value in Belarus), for the most part, do not reach the subsistence minimum, the so-called physiological minimum, comparable with such a social reference point as “acceptable standard of living”. The views of Russian scientists on the need for regulatory consolidation of social guidelines - “sufficient” and “decent” standard of living. The author proposes to develop a social standard for the Russian children’s benefits-the minimum consumer budget of the family, which would exceed the subsistence (physiological) minimum by the content of the provided benefits, and could be correlated with the social orientation of the “sufficient” standard of living. For unemployment benefits and maternity benefits in the absence of other social standards, it is proposed to use the amount of the subsistence minimum of the able-bodied population in the whole country. The author also suggests the need for developing a uniform act on budgetary allowances, including within the framework of the CIS and EAEC (the Model law), which could contain a single social benchmarks (standards, regulations) for budget allowances.