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7.4.5.1 If yes, what types of service are provided specifically for the Deaf Community by your country’s government?
7.4.5.2 What is the general opinion of the current service(s) specifically provided for the Deaf Community by your
country’s government?
Country
If yes, what types of service are provided
specifically for the Deaf Community by your
country’s government?
Republic of Armenia No Details See No 7.4.5.3
Republic Belarus
Bulgaria
Republic of Kazakhstan
Republic of Moldova
Russian Federation
Ukraine
Republic of Uzbekistan
Separate privileges for Deaf people and the
Factories of the Deaf Association
The government departments provide services
to the Deaf Community as follows:
• supplement for social integration
• free hearing aids with limitation
• big reductions for the common
transportation in the cities
• free tickets and big reductions for some
other transportation /railway
transportation
• Deaf people don't pay road taxes and
receive free tickets for the highways
1. Fee maintenance with Sign Language
Interpreters Service (30 hours per year for
one Deaf person)
2. 2) Social Support of needy Deaf persons:
provision of aid through a lump sum
1. Pension and disposable material aid
2. Maintenance with means (free of charge or
partially)
3. The right to Education: preschool, school
and higher education (10% from total for
the state budget)
4. Indemnification from payment for
municipal services
5. Aid to the factories of the Association
Pension, privileges for municipal services (50%),
preferential travel on public transport,
sanatorium treatment, a grant to children with
Disabilities, means of rehabilitation (hearing aid
- 1 time per 4 years, etc.), and so forth
1. The State TV provides free Sign Language
Interpreting or Subtitles for telecasts;
often the television news also is broadcast
with Sign Language Interpreting
2. The State provides Hard of Hearing with
hearing aids, Deaf and Hard of Hearing
mobile phones for SMS
3. A state programme allocating grants for
Deaf persons to purchase habitation is also
in effect
4. Thanks to state support, USD follows a
state order for training that allows us to
send to high and average special
educational institutions up to 50 Deaf
persons from among graduates of the
Special Schools
As a Public Organisation, the industrial
Factories of the Uzbek Society of the Deaf have
a number of privileges in state tax deductions.
What is the general opinion of the current
service(s) specifically provided for the Deaf
Community by your country’s government?
Positive
No Information Provided
No Information Provided
1. Because of the small pension Persons with
Disabilities live in extreme poverty
2. The pension should be increased to the level
of a ‘consumer's basket’ in Republic of
Moldova (about 120.00€)
3. Today’s pensions range from 20.00€ to 70.00€
Laws are good, but the implementation of actual
provision of Services is badly developed
.
• Despite positive changes, there are
insufficient state services and lack of
information (Sign Language Interpretation of
the News and Subtitles are repeatedly
cancelled)
• Housing maintenance (not less than 2,5
million Hryvnia annually is required)
(3,720,190 € on 31 August 2007)
• Granting of privileges under taxation
There is not enough.
7.4.5.3 If no, why does your country’s government not provide any service specifically for the Deaf Community?
Country
Republic of Armenia
Republic of Moldova
If no, why does your country’s government not provide any service specifically for the Deaf
Community?
Because of the absence of interest and desire
• State assists but there is not enough because of the national economy
• Deaf have low paid work and cannot meet labour market demands
• Deaf have a low educational level
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