How to register disability?

To begin with, you need to contact a medical institution at your place of residence for diagnosis. If the doctors confirm a persistent violation of the body's functions, they will issue a referral for an expert examination at the medical and social expert commission (MSEK).

The commission (MSEK) makes a collegial decision, after which it issues a certificate on recognition or non-recognition of a citizen as a person with a disability and an individual rehabilitation program.

Medical and social expert commissions determine:

1. Group of disability, its cause and time of onset. A person can simultaneously be recognized as a person with a disability of one group and only for one reason. When the disability group increases, in the event of a more serious illness, the cause of disability is determined at the choice of the person with a disability. If one of the causes of disability is disability from childhood, two causes of disability are indicated.

2. Types of work recommended for a person with a disability due to health.

3. Causal relationship between disability and disease or disability that occurred in childhood, a congenital defect.

4. The degree of loss of working capacity for victims of an accident at work or occupational disease.

5. Degree of loss of health, group of disability, cause, connection and time of onset of disability of citizens who suffered as a result of political repressions or the Chernobyl disaster.

6. The right to receive a special motor vehicle or a contraindication to driving it.

Necessary documents:

1. completed referral form 088/o, signed by the head and members of the LKK with the seal of the medical institution;

2. passport and a copy of the passport;

3. medical card of an outpatient (ambulatory book - form 025/o);

4. employment book and its copy, certified by the personnel department of the last place of work or by a notary;

5. originals of all documents entered in form 088/c, namely: health certificates from a surgeon, neurologist, therapist and other specialists. It is important that there are documents from specialists on the disease for which the patient expects to receive a disability status. In addition, original X-ray examination and laboratory tests are required. The diagnosis of the patient according to the main disease must be described in an extract from the medical history (epicrisis).