Social Security System of Ukraine

Major: Social Welfare
Code of subject: 6.232.00.O.010
Credits: 8.00
Department: Sociology and Social Work
Lecturer: Papizh Roksolana Mykolaivna, Ph.D., Assistant
Semester: 2 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: • use oral and written communication in Ukrainian for implementation professional activity; • ability to apply statistical, methodical and normative base of the social protection system of the population; • show readiness to interact with colleagues at work, take management decisions in the organization of work of executors; • determine the conditions of socio-economic support for different categories of the population; • analyze the effectiveness of socio-economic support of the population and make appropriate adjustments within the competence; • determine the content of cooperation with organizations and institutions in order to involve them in social protection of the population; • explain actual processes in the social sphere and social welfare; • use appropriate scientific researches and apply research professional skills in providing social assistance.
Required prior and related subjects: • Theory And History of Social Welfare • Legal Regulation of Social Welfare
Summary of the subject: Basic concepts of social protection. The goal, functions and types of social protection. Social protection as a social institution. Social protection and social policy. Historical aspects of the formation of the social protection system. The main characteristics of the current stage of development of the social protection system in Ukraine. World trends in the development of social protection system. Structure, tasks and powers of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine. Regulations of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine. The department of social protection: organizational structure, tasks, directions and legal bases of activity. Social benefits and services, procedures for their provision. Individuals and families eligible for assistance. State trust funds: classification, sources of funding, costs. Organizational structure, tasks, directions of activity of the Pension Fund of Ukraine. The structure of the pension system and its legislative regulation. Compulsory state pension insurance. State pension provision. Private pension provision. Compulsory state social insurance fund of Ukraine in case of unemployment. Social protection in the field of employment. Types of social security and types of social services in case of unemployment. Social Insurance Fund for Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases, its structure, tasks, activities. Organizational structure, tasks, activities of the Social Insurance Fund on Temporary Disability. Fund of Social Protection of the Disabled. State Employment Service of Ukraine. State Labor Service of Ukraine. State Service of Ukraine for War Veterans and Anti-Terrorist Operation Participants.
Assessment methods and criteria: • Current control: (40%): oral examination, practical work, discussions, individual research work. • Final control: (60%): exam.
Recommended books: • Bolotina N. B. Pravo sotsialnoho zakhystu Ukrainy: navch. posib. – 2-he vyd., pererob. i dopov. / N. B. Bolotina. – K. : Znannia, 2008. – 663 c. •Dutchak A. V. Sotsialne zabezpechennia hromadian: suchasnyi stan ta perspektyvy rozvytku / A. V. Dutchak // Molodyi vchenyi. – 2017. – № 5. – S. 568–572. • Mokrytska N. P. Problemy prava sotsialnoho zakhystu: navch. posib. / N. P. Mokrytska; Lviv. derzh. un-t vnutr. sprav. – Lviv: LvDUVS, 2016. – 427 s. • Ukrainske suspilstvo: monitorynh sotsialnykh zmin. Vypusk 6 (20) / Holovni redaktory V.M.Vorona, M.O.Shulha. – Kyiv: Instytut sotsiolohii NAN Ukrainy, 2018. – 526 s. • Finansove zabezpechennia sotsialnoi dopomohy: pidruchnyk/ T.V. Kalinesku, T.V.Shapovalova, H.S.Likhonosova. – Luhansk: vyd-vo SNU im. V.Dalia, 2014. –360s.