MOSCOW, February 9 (RAPSI) – A temporary simplified procedure of disability confirmation has been extended once more until October 1, 2021. A corresponding decree has been signed by Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

The procedure envisages tacit extension of the earlier confirmed disability, permits recognition of incapacity of work without an applicant’s appear in person for the first time and use of electronic system. A problem of provision of disabled persons with rehabilitation equipment is also to be also solved without appear in person, the document reads. 

Moreover, according to amendments to the document, persons applying for disability for the first time will avoid additional health surveys, as ordered by the President.

Such measures reduce the risk of the COVID-19 contamination and simplify receipt of required documents by people with disabilities. In future, this distance procedure may become standing, the Head of the Government stated earlier.