132. Social Welfare Work in Russia.
Considering its activities as a whole, the Soviet Power, in its welfare work, has achieved for the workers in the case of all kinds of incapacity for work, including unemployment, what has been achieved nowhere else in the world.
Here is a list of the measures which apply to persons of the first category:
- All persons living by “wage labour” are exempt from any expenditure for social insurance.
- Entrepreneurs are completely excluded from the work of organising social welfare and labour protection; all the instruments of this work are based upon the representation of labour organisations.
- Social welfare benefits apply to all cases of loss of capacity for work and to all cases of unemployment.
- Social welfare benefits apply to members of a worker’s family in case of any worker’s death.
- Allowances are given at the full rate of a worker’s earnings in cases of illness, accident, quarantine, and other causes of temporary incapacity for work.
- A life pension of 1800 roubles per month (in Moscow city) is payable to all who are permanently incapacitated for work, irrespective of the cause of the incapacity (whether old age, crippling, occupational disease, etc.), and regardless of the number of years of work.