FINANCIAL AND LEGAL PROTECTION OF MILITARY PERSONNEL IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article examines the current state of Ukrainian legislation on the social protection of servicemen, analyzes the basic principles of proper social security for servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, types of their social security, and the effectiveness of the implementation of the social security system. The issue of social protection of military personnel has always been extremely important and required the close attention of the authorities and society, but now this topic has become especially relevant. Despite the constant development and improvement of Ukrainian legislation in this direction, the formed system of normative and legal acts that regulate issues of social and legal protection of military personnel, constitutional rights and freedom, guarantees regarding their implementation, many issues still need to be resolved. Unfortunately, we have to state that at present there is no systematic approach to the legal regulation of social protection of military personnel and there is a lack of a single legislative act, according to which the standards and principles of building the entire structure of social security in the researched area would be determined. And this is the basis for the conclusion that the existing system of social protection needs a radical reorganization, because inattention to the social protection of military personnel will not lead to the non-fulfillment of the declared standards and the lack of a consistent and clear policy for the formation of social norms, which reduces the combat effectiveness of the armed forces, and the activity in their professional training disappears and moral qualities fall. It was determined that the financial and legal protection of military personnel as a system financial and legal relations, consists in consequence ensuring the social rights of military personnel and should be based on legal principles that reveal the financial activity of the state in the field of distribution and the use of public expenditures, as well as on postulates of the social policy of the state.