THE ARCHETYPES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE PRINCIPLES ARE EXEMPLIFIED BY IMPROVING THE TARGETING OF SOCIAL BENEFITS

Abstract

The article deals with the basic approaches to the appointment and payment of targeted social assistance in Ukraine. Attention is drawn to the fact that, despite the improvement of targeted social assistance, the effectiveness of their payment remains a problem.

Therefore, the purpose of the article is to attempt to improve the principle of social justice in providing targeted social assistance in terms of moral and ethical approaches. Attention is drawn to the principles of practical implementation of targeting, which guides the Ukrainian state in providing social assistance.

From a sociological point of view, the disadvantages and advantages of implementing the first targeted social program in Ukraine, namely, the implementation of a subsidy program for housing and communal services, which began to operate since 1995, have been examined. It is emphasized that in Ukraine there are already cases of return of social payments to the budget for the unfair nature of their receipt.

Ukrainian scientists, O. S. Bukhtiyarov, O. I. Danylyuk, S. M. Didyk, E. M. Libanova, O. M. Makarova and others are unanimous in that the system of the social payments and benefits in Ukraine needs to be improved in order to achieve social efficiency of the society. The ambiguity is only in how to achieve this improvement.

Positive examples of moral, ethical and cultural approaches to self-determination in addressing targeted social assistance have been considered.

It is concluded that it is necessary to apply a moral and ethical approach to the citizens who claim to receive targeted social benefits, in particular, at the request of law enforcement agencies. If social behaviour does not meet generally accepted standards of behaviour, it is proposed to replace targeted social assistance with unattractive work for educational purposes, to comply with the principle of social justice and to provide livelihoods.