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Gift of the seventh model
Disabled war veterans will switch to Zhiguli
Disabled people from the Great Patriotic War, who are waiting in line to receive a free car , this year for the first time will receive not the usual Oka, but a Zhiguli of the seventh model. Representatives of AvtoVAZ OJSC and the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development (Roszdrav) announced the signing of a government contract for the supply of 11,347 such cars to the state yesterday. According to the deputy head of the agency, Nadezhda Uskova, this will provide 23% of the current need for vehicles for people with disabilities . By Victory Day, all those who were on the waiting list for 2005 will receive a VAZ-2107.Disabled war veterans who received a car in 2008 will be doubly lucky. They will receive not only a more valuable car than their predecessors - today the market value of the “Seven” in the basic configuration is about 150 thousand rubles, but also a more modern one. The fact is that since the beginning of last year, it was on this most popular model of Zhiguli that the carburetor engine was replaced with a more environmentally friendly and reliable injection engine. True, experts note that the VAZ-2107 is a rear-wheel drive car and without power steering, which makes driving it a difficult task even for physically strong people. But a car received from the state can always be sold or donated to relatives.
Moreover, such luck will most likely not last long - next year the rules will change. Officials of the Ministry of Health and Social Development have already said that many disabled people prefer to receive a valuable gift in money, since they themselves are no longer able to drive. If the authorities decide to meet the requests of this part of the waiting list, then the monetary compensation is unlikely to exceed 100 thousand rubles, in any case, this is the amount they are now talking about in the Ministry of Health and Social Development.
Apparently, officials understand the deep impression such a fortunate combination of circumstances can make on veterans. “It is necessary to provide for the possibility of providing emergency medical care at the time of issue. Receiving a car is very exciting and can affect your health,” Nadezhda Uskova warned representatives of regional health and social development authorities during a specially organized conference call. According to her, the procedure for transferring a car should be as simple and quick as possible. To receive a car, veterans will need to provide a passport and a certificate confirming their disabled status. If the veteran’s relatives come to pick up the gift, they must have with them a notarized power of attorney, a Russian citizen’s passport and a notarized copy of the recipient’s passport.
Roszdrav confirms that recipients across the country will receive all cars no later than May 9. “As of this morning, about 80% of the cars have already been shipped, the supply is proceeding and will continue normally,” Sergei Boldyrev, deputy head of the department for the supply of cars to the domestic market of AvtoVAZ OJSC, reported on the intercom. A special commission of Roszdrav, which has already visited the Bryansk and Rostov regions, has been entrusted with checking how the cars are directly handed over to disabled people. Officials plan to make several more control visits to the site.
Let us recall that Law 122, which came into force on January 1, 2005, abolished the provision of providing disabled people with vehicles for medical reasons. Including war veterans. But in accordance with Article 153 of the same law, the state is obliged to fulfill unfulfilled social obligations, that is, in this case, to provide transport to those who queued up before the specified date. As of January 2005, there were more than 94 thousand people on the list of war disabled people; now the number of veterans applying for cars is 48 thousand people. “In past years, there were not enough funds to fulfill these obligations. In three years (2005-2007), a little more than 11 thousand cars were shipped,” Nadezhda Uskova told Vremya Novostey. But until 2005, the situation was even worse: funds for the purchase of cars were transferred to regional budgets, where they often disappeared without a trace.