THE POLICY OF SOCIAL PROTECTION OF THE ELDERLY IN THE NEW UZBEKISTAN AND ITS ESSENCE

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In the new Uzbekistan, care for the elderly, their social and legal support, and increased political activity were raised to the level of state policy. This article analyzes the results of the policy of social protection of the elderly for the next five years and the practical actions taken to further improve the sphere: the essence of the law, the adoption of decrees and programs and issues of their implementation. He also stressed the importance of the policy of social protection of the elderly in the new Uzbekistan. KEYWORDS:- Old age, social protection, compulsory social security, "Nurani", "Nurani monastery", old people in need, boarding schools "Saksovat" and "Muruvvat". population. I NTRODUCTION Today, about 60 percent of the state budget of M the Republic of Uzbekistan is directed to the ATERIALS AND ANALYSIS development of the social sphere. In comparison with 1991, the real incomes of the population increased by more than 12 times, salaries, During 2010-2015, 12 boarding houses pensions and social benefits increased at a "Murovvat" and "Murovvat" for the elderly and significant level. Consumer goods are rapidly pensioners were provided with a material and increasing production and meeting the demand technical base in Uzbekistan, the living of the population for them[1]. conditions of 14.6 thousand lonely elderly people, pensioners, disabled people were At the present stage of our development, improved, 5.4 thousand people were provided attention is paid to the issues of providing the with rehabilitation technical means and population with mandatory social guarantees of prosthetic and orthopedic products, 6.4 the social sphere, social protection of low-income thousand sanatoriums for the disabled and segments of the population, as well as state pensioners restored their health. The total support for the elderly and disabled, improving volume of medical and social assistance provided social services, developing public-private amounted to 132.2 billion rubles. sumov. partnership in providing social services to the In order to further improve the social protection CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGICSISSN 22 – 2767-3278 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjp CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGICS 2(9): 22-25, September 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/pedagogics-crjp-02-09-05 ISSN 2767-3278 ©2021 Master Journals Accepted 15thSeptember, 2021 & Published 20thSeptember, 2021 of the needy segments of the population in the thousand people. In this regard, it is planned to process of updating society, state support of the allocate 20 thousand to specialized medical Nurani Foundation, further improvement of the centers of the republic and more than 215 system of protection of only the elderly, thousand to medical institutions in the regions, pensioners and disabled people, ensuring its for a total amount of 178.9 billion soums. The targeting, improving the level and quality of total amount of 207 billion soums of the material medical and social assistance provided to the and technical base of 12 boarding schools elderly, people with disabilities, it also showed "Sakhovat" and "Muruvvat" for the elderly and the need to develop fundamentally new disabled in the regions was reflected in the approaches that will provide residents of execution of this decree and decision. districts and cities with the opportunity to use 688.2 billion The sum will be used to finance the modern methods of diagnosis and treatment on program developed for the implementation of the ground. these works, as well as to attract credit and grant In order to further improve the state system of funds from international financial institutions in support for the elderly, social protection of the the amount of 108.7 million US dollars[4]. elderly and veterans, increase their activity, In addition, on December 26, 2016, the law "On create conditions for their full participation in social services for the elderly, disabled people the socio-political life of the country, Decree of and other categories of citizens with social the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On needs"was adopted. measures to further improve the activities of the Fund for social Use of veterans of Uzbekistan" The essence of this law is aimed at improving the Nuroniy "dated December 28, 2016"On measures legal framework of social services provided to to further improve the system of state support needy categories of the population, determining for the elderly and disabled "[3] in order to the general requirements and main directions of increase the role of representatives of the older providing social services, as well as increasing generation in the field of social security of the role of state and non-governmental veterans of Uzbekistan". In this decree and organizations in this area, defining the basic decision, it was decided to involve the elderly, concepts in the social protection system, within elderly people and veterans in public activities, which it is prov