What benefits and rights are given to orphans?

The state provides full support for orphans and children deprived of parental care, as well as persons from their number. Also, orphans and children deprived of parental care under the age of eighteen and persons from among orphans and children deprived of parental care, if they continue their education until the age of 23 or until they graduate from the relevant educational institutions, have the right to full state support in educational institutions .

Orphans and children deprived of parental care who are studying are entitled to:

• full state support in educational institutions (orphans and children deprived of parental care, under the age of 18 and persons from the number of orphans and children deprived of parental care, when continuing their education until the age of 23 or until graduation from the relevant educational institutions);

• payment of annual assistance for the purchase of educational literature in the amount of three social scholarships. Payment of the specified aid is carried out within 30 days after the beginning of the academic year at the expense of the funds provided for educational institutions in the relevant budgets;

• retention for the entire period of the academic leave (when the academic leave is granted based on a medical opinion) of full state support and payment of the stipend. The educational institution contributes to the organization of their treatment;

• providing graduates of educational institutions at the expense of the educational institution or a corresponding institution in accordance with the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, with clothing and footwear, as well as a one-time financial aid in the amount of at least six subsistence minimums for persons of the appropriate age.

Social guarantees:

• social support of the child;

• annual free rehabilitation;

• orphans and children deprived of parental care retain the right to the housing in which they lived with their parents, relatives, etc. before placement in the appropriate institutions;

• orphans and children deprived of parental care, after they reach the age of 18, one-time assistance is provided in the amounts and in the order determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;

• the state guarantees the employment of orphans and children deprived of parental care, after their return from children's institutions, from guardians or custodians, from family-type children's homes and foster families, after graduation from state and communal educational institutions.