On the issue of the principle of ensuring a decent standard of living in the field of social security

The article is devoted to the study of the principle of ensuring a decent standard of living as a key principle of social security law. When writing the article, the author analyzed the current national legislation, international documents on the issue under consideration, and the views of scholars who studied the principles of social security law. Attention is drawn to the important role of social security law in ensuring a decent standard of living. Ensuring a decent standard of living in social security law is proposed to be defined as a key legal requirement that develops in the context of a more general principle of state policy and the direction of development of international standards, which consists in the state assuming obligations to guarantee the legal possibility for everyone to receive the appropriate normatively defined and scientifically and economically justified, based on international standards, amount of material and non-material benefits that are necessary to satisfy basic human needs, as well as needs in their development, the level of which corresponds to human dignity. Revealing the principle of ensuring a decent standard of living, the author presents its characteristic features. Analyzing the current domestic legislation, the author draws attention to the declarative nature of the principle of ensuring a decent standard of living, the distortion of its essence and the inconsistency of the understanding of the said principle with generally recognized international standards. Therefore, the author emphasizes the need for official recognition and a clear and specific regulatory definition of the principle of ensuring a decent standard of living in the field of social security. In particular, this principle should be textually enshrined in the list of basic principles of social security law, and in the future it is necessary to detail it by enshrining in a separate article defining its essence, a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators that characterize compliance with a decent standard of living in the field of social security. It is also necessary to enshrine in each organizational and legal form of social security, for each type and payment, that the relevant benefits, services, payments should provide the person receiving them with a decent standard of living.