Article 120. The right to targeted social assistance of the Social Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1. Targeted social assistance is provided to citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Candace, refugees, foreigners and stateless persons permanently residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan, with an average per capita income not exceeding the poverty line.
2. Individuals (families) have the right to targeted social assistance in the form of unconditional monetary assistance or conditional monetary assistance.
IZPI's note!
Paragraph 3 is effective from 01.01.2025 in the wording provided for in Article 263 of this Code.
3. The size of the poverty line in the Republic of Kazakhstan is determined by the authorized state body on the basis of the average subsistence level per capita in percentage terms, depending on the economic capabilities of the state.
4. The poverty line for regions, cities of republican significance, and the capital is calculated quarterly by local executive bodies based on the size of the poverty line determined by the authorized state body.
Information about:
1) the poverty line – quarterly by local executive bodies;
2) the proportion of the population with incomes below the subsistence level in the republic, regions, cities of republican significance, and the capital – annually by the authorized body in the field of state statistics.
5. Targeted social assistance is assigned to each family member who is eligible to receive it.
Family members living together who are bound by property and personal non-property rights and obligations arising from marriage (matrimony), kinship, property, adoption or other form of adoption of children for upbringing, as well as cohabiting persons who are actually cohabiting but not married, are included in the family for targeted social assistance., except for persons who are:
1) on full state support;
2) in military service;
3) in places of deprivation of liberty, on compulsory medical treatment.
The fact of cohabitation is not required:
1) persons or family members engaged in work outside the family's place of residence;
2) children who live in a family and are registered in another locality at the place of study in secondary education organizations due to the absence of an educational organization of this level at the place of residence of the family;
3) children studying in boarding schools, except those on full state support, as well as full-time students in technical and vocational, post-secondary, higher and (or) postgraduate education institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, after they reach the age of eighteen until the time of graduation from educational institutions (but not more than before reaching the age of twenty-three).
President
Republic of Kazakhstan
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