OREANDA-NEWS. October 23, 2012. The Social Security Fund of the Russian Federation (the Fund) informed the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) on executing the determination, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.   

On 25th April 2012, the FAS Commission found that the Fund violated Clause 5 Part 1 Article 15 Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” by failure to change the Tentative Procedures for Fixing and Making Insurance Payments (the Tentative Procedures), approved by No.6 Fund Order of 13th January 2000, allowing citizens to choose not only credit organizations and organizations or federal postal services to get the payments but also other organizations.

Based on its decision, FAS issued a determination to the Fund to stop violating the antimonopoly law and to exercise actions towards protecting competition.

In particular, the Fund must introduce appropriate amendments to the Tentative Procedures and exercise a number of actions designed to inform citizens about their rights to get payments not only through credit organizations and organizations of federal postal service, but also through other organizations if citizens wish to use their services.

Executing the determination, the Fund reported that on 16th May 2012 the Ministry of Justice registered No.270n Order of the Ministry of Health Care and Social Development of 26th March 2012, that approved the Administrative Regulations for the Fund providing the state services for determining social security payments in accordance with mandatory social security insurance from job-related accidents and occupational diseases in the form of lump and (or) monthly payments to the insured person or the persons that have the right to receive payments in case of the claimant’s death (the Regulations).

The Regulations enable citizens to get payments not only through credit organizations, postal services organizations but also other organizations delivering and remitting monetary resources (at the wish of claimants).

The Regulations also approves the form of benefit claim that enables citizens to exercise their right.

No. 6 Fund Order of 13th January 2000, which approved the Tentative Procedures, shall be deemed to have lost force.

To execute the determination, the Fund also sent explanations to its regional branches that it would be unacceptable to refuse to make payments to the recipients through any organizations delivering and remitting monetary resources.

The Fund published information about approving the Regulations and the citizens’ right formalized by the Regulations on its official web-site.