How to register disability for a bedridden sick pensioner? Everyone needs to know the answer to this question. No one is safe from accidents, so you should always be fully equipped. It is important to know about your rights and obligations.
Benefits for people with disabilities
Making disability is very important for the future fate of a person who can not do without outside help. After all, medicines (especially vital ones) are, to put it mildly, not cheap, and you also have to pay for nursing services. But the presence of disability makes it possible to receive free medication, and medical devices necessary for life, and devices for walking (crutches, walkers, canes), and even wheelchairs.
Act correctly - and everything will turn out
This article will describe the procedure for registering disability for a bedridden patient, following which it will be easier to cope with this difficult matter. Important issues such as:
- Does a pensioner need to register disability?
- What is worth doing first?
- How to contact ITU correctly, and what documents are needed for this?
- What to do next?
- What are the reasons for disability?
- How to register disability for a bedridden sick pensioner?
- How to correctly apply to a pension fund?
- How to apply for a disability pension for military personnel?
- Why do I need a re-examination?
- How to make a disability after a heart attack or stroke?
Does a pensioner need to register disability?
As you know, all the necessary devices and medicines are very expensive, but a disabled person can get all this on preferential terms. In addition, people with disabilities can be assigned free operations out of turn, as well as trips to medical sanatoriums, which, of course, is important.
And the disability supplement, benefits for utilities and travel by public transport will make life even easier. Therefore, obtaining this status is an important process for an old pensioner who is sick and unable to take care of himself. If a person has lost his ability to work or is terminally ill, disability pension must be issued as soon as possible.
What is worth doing first?
To begin with, you need to visit your local therapist or attending physician, and if this is not possible, invite him to your home. If you became disabled after a stroke, you need a neurologist, and the consequences of a heart attack should be studied by a cardiologist.
If a pensioner served a few months ago in the Ministry of Internal Affairs or in a military structure, then he has every right to apply for a medical referral to a medical unit or hospital.
In any case, the doctor is obliged to conduct an examination and send you for further examination with other specialists, as well as for the delivery of the necessary tests. This is necessary in order to get a complete picture of the patient’s health status. Be sure to visit such doctors as:
- ophthalmologist;
- neuropathologist;
- orthopedist;
- surgeon;
- ENT;
- cardiologist;
- endocrinologist.
If you need an examination with other specialists, the local therapist will supplement this list. It all depends on the disease that led to your disability.
For bedridden patients, it is advisable to undergo examination in a hospital. Most likely, you will need to undergo procedures such as MRI, ECG, ultrasound, fluorography and x-ray.After going through all of the above, you will need to pass general tests of feces, urine and blood. After receiving the results, pass them on to the doctor as soon as possible, since some of them are relevant only for ten days.
At a specialist appointment, do not forget to ask all the necessary questions regarding rehabilitation tools that can be provided as part of the IPR after disability is completed.
When the medical examination is completed, all the results must be brought to the attending physician, who will make an entry in your card and send it to the medical and social examination (ITU). Then you need to look into the office of the head doctor to sign the required papers and stamp, and only then contact the aforementioned body at the place of residence.
How to contact ITU correctly, and what documents are needed for this?
In order to register disability for a pensioner as a bed patient, you will need to collect a weighty folder of papers. Here is a simple list of them:
- pensioner's ID;
- direction to ITU;
- certified photocopy of the work book;
- passport and its photocopy;
- Medical Card;
- discharge from the hospital with a photocopy;
- Act on an existing occupational disease or injury sustained in the workplace (if necessary).
Having this pile of documents in hand, you can safely go to ITU at the place of residence and submit an application. After that, you will be assigned the day and hour to undergo a medical examination.
It will be necessary to come to the commission strictly by time, because if you are late, the application will be postponed indefinitely. Be sure to bring a diaper and shoe covers with you, as in such an institution they will come in handy. The Disability Commission usually consists of four doctors, each with their own specialization. They will carefully study the medical history, the results of examinations and analyzes, as well as the conclusions of their colleagues from the clinic, after which they themselves will examine you and issue a verdict on the assignment of disability.
What to do next?
After passing the medical examination you will be given a certificate in which the disability group will be indicated, and an individual rehabilitation program (IPR) will be developed. There are prescribed the necessary medicines, a ticket to the sanatorium, as well as vital aids, without which a person with disabilities can not do. All that will be indicated there, a pensioner can get absolutely free. In addition, the certificate must clearly and clearly spell out the validity of the disability, at the end of which a re-examination will be required.
What are the reasons for disability?
To qualify as a person with disabilities, you must have criteria such as:
- Serious pathologies related to health - both congenital and acquired, in which the body cannot function normally.
- The need for social protection, as well as the need for rehabilitation.
- Lost the possibility of self-service and the presence of limited movement (full or partial), as well as the loss of self-control and the inability to work and earn a living.
How to register disability for a bedridden sick pensioner?
What should be the actions of a person who is physically incapable of running around doctors and laboratories? And where to begin registration of disability bedridden patient? In this case, you just need to call the local doctor and call him at home, especially since this is his responsibility. After the inspection, he will give a referral and invite you to all the necessary specialists, and maybe even put him in a hospital where all the necessary actions for the examination will be performed.
In the application for medical and social examination, it will be necessary to indicate that the patient is not able to appear for examination.After that, on the appointed day and hour, the commission will come to the house and hold a consultation there.
If it is impossible to move, the question of how to make a bedridden person disabled is decided by his immediate family (children, grandchildren). True, this requires a power of attorney.
How to correctly apply to a pension fund?
After all the necessary papers have been collected, you should contact the PF at the place of residence. Without this, recognition of a person as disabled is impossible, because it is there that you can obtain the status of a person with disabilities, obtain a certificate and apply for a pension.
Here is a list of what you will need for this:
- Passport with photocopy.
- An application for retirement benefits from the state, a sample of which is posted on the PF website.
- The work book (together with a copy), in which the length of service must be indicated. Or another document, certified by the seal of the head of the private organization in which you worked.
- Certificate issued by the medical board after ITU.
All papers must be collected in a folder and handed over at a time, and if this is not possible, then at least have time to do it within three months from the date of application. Otherwise, the application is canceled, and you have to start all over again.
However, it is important to know that if your health condition allows you to engage in any kind of labor activity, then you can continue to work calmly. Moreover, both the pension and disability payments will not disappear anywhere, and their size will not be affected in any way. For example, many people may well work with diabetes or with congenital deafness. And the design of the 1st disability group for the bed patient, of course, will have to deal with the next of kin by proxy. It is assigned to people with especially severe violations of the body's functionality.
How to apply for a disability pension for military personnel?
The procedure for obtaining this status is somewhat different from the generally accepted one. Disability can only be issued to those liable for citizens whose health (as a result of completing the service and completing tasks specific to the profession) was irreparable.
It goes without saying that the status of a person with disabilities will necessarily be assigned in the event of a serious injury or contusion, but only after the end of a military service or contract.
To apply for a pension, in addition to standard documents, you will need:
- an application for a pension according to the status of “disabled person”;
- military card with photocopy;
- conclusion of the military medical board.
The preliminary procedures are practically no different, but instead of the PF, you will need to contact the pension authority under the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
What to do in case of failure?
If you or a close relative are denied the status of "disabled person", do not despair! Just apply for a medical examination again. After all, you have every right to:
- Submitting an application to the same bureau, be sure to indicate that you should be examined by other doctors.
- Submission of an application for re-examination to a regional or regional office.
If, after two ITU commissions, you are not satisfied with the decision, you can file a lawsuit to grant you disability. But only if they refuse, they will have to come to terms, since the court decision is not subject to appeal.
Why do I need a re-examination?
Unfortunately, assignment of the status of a person with disabilities, as well as registration of a disability group to a bedridden patient, is short-lived. For invalids of the first group it is 2 years, and for the second and third - only 1 year. When the validity period expires, it is necessary to reappear at the ITU Bureau for re-examination. Sometimes after this, a person is assigned another group (both lighter and vice versa), and in some cases, disability is even removed.
The procedure for running around to doctors and collecting tests is exactly the same as the first time. After it, an application for a medical and social examination will again be required. The main documents will need to be accompanied by a certificate after the previous commission.
However, disabled persons by birth must not prove their status and undergo a re-examination. After all, they received a disability due to:
- Irreversible changes associated with congenital disease.
- Born with serious malformations.
- They have pathological changes in the work of various organs and systems.
How does a bedridden pensioner register disability after a stroke or heart attack?
The procedure for assigning this status practically does not differ from the standard, with the exception of some points:
- Disability registration can be done even four months after the discovery of the medical history.
- Documents are handed over and submitted to ITU, after which the commission should consider the case and assign a disability for a period of 1 year.
- Upon expiration, a re-examination is required. In most cases, the body recovers and functions quite normally, so the group is removed or assigned a third.
For a bedridden patient or pensioner, disability is a vital measure on which its existence directly depends.