1. The right to participate in measures to support voluntary resettlement to increase the
mobility of the workforce belongs to the job seekers and (or) unemployed, candas, as well as
employers.
2. The preferential right for voluntary relocation to a new place of residence is enjoyed by
:
1) pupils and graduates of educational organizations for orphans and children left without
parental care, aged from sixteen to twenty-three years;
2) graduates of organizations of secondary, technical and vocational, post-secondary,
higher and postgraduate education;
3) persons released in connection with the liquidation of the employer – a legal entity or
termination of the activity of the employer – an individual, a reduction in the number or staff
of employees, a decrease in the volume of production and work performed and services that
led to a deterioration in the economic condition of the employer.
3. Labor mobility centers assist in the voluntary relocation of persons to a new place of
residence to ensure employment:
1) within one region – from villages with low economic potential to rural settlements,
single-industry towns, towns of district (regional) significance with high economic
development potential;
2) to the regions determined by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, within the
framework of regional quotas for admission of migrants and candas in accordance with the
legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of migration, providing for voluntary
resettlement.
4. State support for voluntarily relocating persons includes:
1) provision of financial assistance to individuals and members of their families in the
form of relocation subsidies, reimbursement of housing rental expenses, payment of utilities,
as well as certificates of economic mobility in the manner determined by the authorized state
body, at the expense of budgetary funds, except in cases where the employee’s relocation is
carried out at the expense of the employer;
2) provision of office premises or rooms in dormitories, except in cases when the
employer provides the employee with accommodation;
3) vocational training if there is an employer's need;
4) assistance in employment and entrepreneurial initiative at a new place of residence;
5) assistance in finding employment with employers participating in voluntary
resettlement measures to increase labor mobility, with the provision of employment subsidies.
5. The labor mobility center shall conclude a social contract with the parties participating
in voluntary resettlement in the form approved by the authorized state body.
6. The procedure for voluntary relocation of persons to increase the mobility of the
workforce is determined by the authorized state body.
Footnote. Article 112 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
16.05.2024 № 82-VIII (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after the date of its
first official publication).

1. Birth allowance is provided to citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan permanently
residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan, candas, as well as foreigners whose right to receive
benefits is provided for by an international treaty ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan,
having children born, adopted (adopted), as well as children taken into custody, from the date
of the child's birth.
2. The birth allowance is assigned from the date of application. If two or more children
are born, a birth allowance is assigned and paid for each child.
3. The terms of applying for the appointment of a birth allowance may not exceed
eighteen months from the date of birth of the child.

1. A care allowance is provided to citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan permanently
residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan, candas, as well as foreigners whose right to receive
benefits is provided for by an international treaty ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. Persons (families) who have children born alive, adopted (adopted), as well as children
taken into custody, step-children, if they are not registered in the family of another parent,
have the right to receive care benefits in cases where the person caring for the child is not a
participant in the compulsory social insurance system.
3. When assigning a family care allowance, children in respect of whom parents are
deprived or restricted in parental rights are not taken into account.
The care allowance is not assigned to children who are on full state support.
4. The care allowance is assigned:
1) from the date of birth of the child indicated in the child's birth certificate, upon
reaching the age of one and a half years inclusive;
2) persons (families) who have adopted (adopted) children, as well as children taken into
custody, – from the date of entry into legal force of a court decision on the adoption of a child
(children) or from the date of establishment of guardianship upon reaching the age of one and
a half years;
3) Candas – from the date of birth of the child, but not earlier than the date of
establishment of the status of candas.
5. In the case of caring for two or more children under the age of one and a half years, a
care allowance is assigned and paid for each child.
6. In case of death of a child under the age of one and a half years, payments are made by
the month of death inclusive.
7. In case of applying for the appointment of a care allowance after the death of a child
under the age of one and a half years, the care allowance is assigned by the month of death
inclusive.
8. The terms of applying for the appointment of a care allowance may not exceed eighteen
months from the date of birth of the child.

1. The allowance for a large family is provided to citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan
permanently residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan, candas, as well as foreigners whose right
to receive benefits is provided for by an international treaty ratified by the Republic of
Kazakhstan.
2. Families with four or more minor children living together, including children studying
full-time under general education or vocational programs in organizations of general
secondary, technical and vocational, post-secondary, higher and (or) postgraduate education,
after they reach the age of eighteen until the time of graduation from educational
organizations (but not more than up to the age of twenty-three), have the right to receive
allowances for large families.
3. When assigning benefits to a large family, the family includes children born, adopted (
adopted), as well as children taken into custody (guardianship), step-children, if they are not
taken into account in the family of another parent.
At the same time, children in respect of whom parents are deprived or restricted in
parental rights are not taken into account in the family.
4. The allowance for a large family is not assigned to children who are on full state
support.
5. The payment of benefits to a large family is made for the current month and for the
period of compliance with the conditions under which this benefit is assigned, from the date
of application, in the presence of all supporting documents. In the event of the death of the
recipient, the allowance to a large family is paid by the month of death inclusive, except for
cases when the recipient of the allowance changes in accordance with Article 75 of this Code.
6. The accrued amount of the allowance for a large family, not claimed by the recipient in
a timely manner, is paid for the past time, but not more than 3 years before applying for their
receipt.
7. Cohabitation of children is confirmed by the applicant independently by specifying
children living together in the application for the assignment of benefits to a large family.
At the same time, in accordance with article 16 of the Civil Code of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, the place of residence of children under the age of fourteen is recognized as the
place of residence of their legal representatives.
In case of dissolution of marriage (matrimony) between spouses, the cohabitation of
children with one of the parents is confirmed by a court decision.
8. When assigning benefits to a large family, children studying full-time under general
education or vocational programs in organizations of general secondary, technical and
vocational, post-secondary, higher and (or) postgraduate education, after they reach the age of
eighteen until the time of graduation from educational organizations (but not more than before
reaching the age of twenty-three) are taken into account in the composition of the family,
regardless of the fact of cohabitation.

1. Citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, candas, foreigners and stateless persons
permanently residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan, who do not have a job and (or) earnings
(income), who are looking for work, are registered as a job seeker in accordance with the
procedure determined by the authorized state body.
2. The career center provides employment advice to a job seeker free of charge, provides
assistance in finding employment and (or) provides social professional orientation services in
accordance with the procedure determined by the authorized state body.
3. A job seeker who has received a job offer from a career center, including through an
Electronic Labor Exchange, must notify the career center of the consent or refusal of the
proposed job.

1. Targeted social assistance is provided to citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, candas
, refugees, foreigners and stateless persons permanently residing in the Republic of
Kazakhstan with an average per capita income not exceeding the poverty line.
2. Persons (families) have the right to targeted social assistance in the form of
unconditional monetary assistance or conditional monetary assistance.
3. The size of the poverty line in the Republic of Kazakhstan is determined by the
authorized state body based on the median income of the population, calculated by the state
body in the field of statistics, on average per capita in percentage terms, depending on the
economic capabilities of the state.
4. The poverty line for regions, cities of republican significance, the capital is calculated
quarterly by local executive bodies based on the size of the poverty line determined by the
authorized state body.
The following information is published in media:
1) the poverty line – quarterly by local executive bodies;
2) the share of the population with incomes below the subsistence minimum in the
republic, regions, cities of republican significance, the capital – annually by the authorized
body in the field of state statistics.
5. Targeted social assistance is assigned to each family member who has the right to
receive it.
To receive the targeted social assistance, the family includes cohabiting family members
connected by property and personal non-property rights and obligations arising from marriage
(matrimony), kinship, property, adoption or other form of adoption of children for upbringing,
as well as cohabiting persons who are actually cohabiting, but not married, except for persons
who are:
1) on full state support;
2) in military service;
3) in places of deprivation of liberty, on compulsory treatment.
The fact of living together is not required for:
1) persons or family members engaged in work outside the family's place of residence;
2) children living in a family and having registration in another locality at the place of
study in secondary education organizations due to the absence of an educational organization
of this level at the place of residence of the family;
3) children studying in boarding schools, except those who are on full state support, as
well as full-time students in organizations of technical and vocational, post-secondary, higher
and (or) postgraduate education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, after they reach the age of
eighteen until the time of graduation from educational organizations (but not more than before
reaching the age of twenty-three).
Footnote. Article 120 as amended by Art. 263 of this Code (shall be enforced from
01.01.2025).

The authorized education body shall:
1) ensure that persons with disabilities receive education as required by the legislation of
the Republic of Kazakhstan;
2) implement the state policy in providing special social services in education;
3) develop and approve standards for providing special social services in education and
protection of children's rights;
4) carry out the following:
control in providing special social services;
interaction with individuals and legal entities, an authorized state body and other state
bodies on provision of special social services;
5) develop and approve, within its competence, regulatory legal acts in the social security
area;
6) exercise other powers prescribed by this Code, other laws of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the
Republic of Kazakhstan.

The authorized body for regulation, control and supervision of the financial market and
financial organizations shall:
1) develop and approve regulatory legal acts in the part of regulation, control and
supervision of the financial market and financial organizations;
2) develop and approve the rules for the activities of the unified accumulative pension
fund and (or) voluntary accumulative pension funds;
3) develop and approve the rules for transferring pension savings from the unified
accumulative pension fund to a voluntary accumulative pension fund, from a voluntary
accumulative pension fund to the unified accumulative pension fund, and also from one
voluntary accumulative pension fund to another voluntary accumulative pension fund;
4) develop and approve the rules for charging commission fees by the unified
accumulative pension fund;
5) develop and approve a standard pension annuity agreement, establish a methodology
for calculating the insurance premium and insurance payment from an insurance company
under a pension annuity agreement;
6) develop and approve the rules for concluding a pension annuity agreement with an
insurance organization and transferring pension savings (redemption amount) to an insurance
organization, the unified accumulative pension fund under a pension annuity agreement;
7) develop and approve requirements for investment portfolio managers to whom pension
assets can be transferred for trust management pursuant to Article 37 of this Code, as well as
the list of financial instruments allowed for acquisition at the expense of these pension assets;
8) maintain and place on its Internet resource the register of investment portfolio
managers that meet the requirements of the authority managing pension assets;
9) develop and approve the rules and terms for the transfer of pension assets to trust
management of an investment portfolio manager and the transfer of pension assets from one
investment portfolio manager to another investment portfolio manager or the National Bank
of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
10) develop and approve the rules for calculating the negative difference between the
nominal yield of pension assets received by the investment portfolio manager and the
minimum value of the pension assets profitability, also the rules and terms for compensating
the negative difference by the investment portfolio manager at the expense of own capital;
11) develop and approve, within its competence, regulatory legal acts in the social
security area;
11-1) exercise control over the procedure of keeping records of target requirements, target
savings and target assets by the unified accumulative pension fund;
12) perform other functions prescribed by this Code, other laws of the Republic of
Kazakhstan and acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Article 15 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
16.11.2023 № 40-VIII (shall be enforced from 01.01. 2024).

The Human Resources Development Center shall provide:
1) services to the authorized state body in:
assessing the labor market condition, forecasting the labor demand and supply;
monitoring the implementation of measures to promote the population employment,
assessing and developing proposals for their improvement;
organizing the collection of departmental and administrative statistical reporting on issues
of social protection, employment, labor migration of citizens;
acquisition of training courses for the vocational training of the unemployed through the
Electronic Labor Exchange;
methodological support of structural units of local executive bodies that coordinate the
issues of social protection and employment of the population, as well as labor mobility
centers (career centers) on employment and targeted social assistance;
information, consulting, methodological support on social protection of persons with
disabilities and analysis of prices for technical means and rehabilitation services declared by
providers on the social services portal;
information, consulting, methodological support on the issues of the National
Qualifications System;
examination of professional standards;
development of mechanisms for the provision of proactive and electronic state services to
participants in the pension system, the system of compulsory social insurance and social
security, active measures to promote employment and to recipients of social assistance
provided by local executive bodies, recipients of special professional state benefits, insurance
payments under a pre-retirement annuity insurance contract, professional payments at the
employer’s expense;
formation, maintenance and development of a personalized database of participants in the
funded pension system, the system of compulsory social insurance, the system of compulsory
social health insurance, payers of the single aggregate payment and the single payment;
2) advanced training of specialists of local executive bodies and labor mobility centers (
career centers);
3) support, system maintenance and project management for development of the single
digital employment platform "Electronic Labor Exchange";
4) support, management of development projects, ensuring information security and
access control of informatization objects of the social and labor sphere, organization of
uninterrupted operation and system-technical maintenance of software and hardware and
telecommunications networks, integration with other informatization objects, as well as social
and labor sphere analysis and data processing;
5) registration and deregistration as unemployed of family members of military personnel,
employees of special state and law enforcement agencies, civil defense agencies, as well as
persons dependent on them who are not engaged in labor activity, in the manner and cases
determined by the authorized state body;
6) rendering of information and consulting services in the social and labor area to
individuals and legal entities, with regard to the requirements of the legislation of the
Republic of Kazakhstan in the personal data protection area;
7) other powers prescribed by this Code and the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Article 16 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
21.12.2023 № 49-VIII (shall be enforced from 01.01. 2024); dated 24.06.2025 № 196-VIII (
shall come into effect upon expiry of ten calendar days after the date of its first official
publication).

1. The State Corporation shall perform the following functions related to the state
monopoly:
1) interaction with the authorized state body in accepting documents, forming layouts of
cases for appointment, reviewing the decision on appointment (rejection of appointment),
suspension, termination, renewal and recalculation of the state base pension payment, old-age
pension payments, benefits, lump sum, social and other payments, transfer, suspension,
renewal and termination of payment of special professional state benefits, transfer or return of
insurance payments under a pre-retirement annuity insurance contract, professional payments
at the expense of the employer;
2) filling and updating of automated centralized databases and personalized accounting of
recipients of the state basic pension payment, pension payments, benefits, lump-sum, social
payments and other payments;
3) filling and updating of these information systems in the areas of social security,
compulsory social insurance;
4) filling and updating in the authorized state body’s information systems of the data on
individuals for which mandatory pension contributions, mandatory pension contributions of
the employer, mandatory occupational pension contributions are paid, and recipients of
pension payments from the unified accumulative pension fund;
5) personalized accounting of mandatory pension contributions, mandatory pension
contributions of the employer, mandatory occupational pension contributions and (or)
penalties;
6) formation of monthly requirements, schedules for the pension payments, payment of
benefits, lump-sum and other payments and filing an application to the authorized state body
for the need for budgetary funds;
7) formation of a monthly need and a schedule for the social payments, sending an
application to the Fund on the need for funds;
8) formation of monthly needs, schedules for targeted social assistance, other payments
and sending an application to the authorized state body on the need for budgetary funds;
9) formation and submission to the authorized body managing the receipt of taxes and
other obligatory payments to the budget, of registers of payment documents of agents on the
amounts of mandatory pension contributions transferred to the account of the State
Corporation and returned to the agent from the State Corporation, mandatory pension
contributions of the employer, mandatory occupational pension contributions and (or) penalty
interest on them;
10) organization and implementation of the state basic pension payment, pension
payments by age, pension payments for long service, payment of benefits, lump-sum and
other payments as required by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
11) organization of social payments from the Fund;
12) organization and implementation of pension payments from the unified accumulative
pension fund resources;
13) payment of targeted social assistance and other payments as required by the
legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
14) transfer to the unified accumulative pension fund of additionally established
mandatory pension contributions, subsidized from budgetary funds, to social benefits
recipients in the event of income loss in connection with caring for a child upon reaching the
age of one and a half years;
15) interaction with agents, the unified accumulative pension fund on issues of accounting
, transfer, return of pension contributions and (or) penalties on them;
16) interaction with the unified accumulative pension fund on issues of accounting,
transfer, return, termination of pension payments;
17) determination of the size of the difference between the amount of actually made
mandatory pension contributions, mandatory occupational pension contributions, with
adjustment to inflation rate and with regard to the pension savings amount in the unified
accumulative pension fund;
18) transfer of mandatory pension contributions, employer's mandatory pension
contributions, mandatory occupational pension contributions and (or) penalties from agents to
the unified accumulative pension fund;
19) organization and transfer to the unified accumulative pension fund of mandatory
pension contributions deducted from social payments at the expense of the Fund;
20) supplying information from information systems in the field of pension provision to
the authorized state body and its departments;
21) return to the agent of mandatory pension contributions, mandatory pension
contributions of the employer, mandatory occupational pension contributions and (or) fines of
persons whose details are incorrect;
22) return to the agent and (or) the State Corporation of mandatory pension contributions,
mandatory pension contributions of the employer, mandatory occupational pension
contributions and (or) penalties from the unified accumulative pension fund upon his
application;
22-1) the distribution and transfer of amounts paid by the Internet platform operator, as
defined in subparagraph 1) of paragraph 2 of Article 102 of this Code, to the Fund, the Social
Health Insurance Fund, the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund, and the respective budget at
the location of the payer, in the manner and cases determined by the authorized state body;
22-2) the refund of erroneously (excessively) paid amounts of social contributions,
mandatory pension contributions, and/or penalties for their untimely and/or incomplete
payment to the internet platform operator, as defined in subparagraph 1) of paragraph 2 of
Article 102 of this Code, in the manner and cases determined by the authorized state body.
23) is valid until 01.01.2024 in accordance with Article 263 of this Code;
24) is valid until 01.01.2024 in accordance with Article 263 of this Code;
25) is valid until 01.01.2024 in accordance with Article 263 of this Code;
26) is valid until 01.01.2024 in accordance with Article 263 of this Code;
27) provision of information services to individuals and legal entities by activity types of
the State Corporation, as required by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan to ensure
the safety of the pension savings secrecy;
28) personalized accounting of participants in the compulsory social insurance system,
their social contributions and social payments;
29) transfer of social contributions and (or) penalties for late and (or) incomplete payment
of social contributions from payers, refund of excessively credited (paid) amounts of social
payments and mandatory pension contributions withheld from them to the Fund no later than
one business day following the day of their receipt to the State Corporation account;
30) refund to the payer of the social contributions amounts, paid for the participant of the
compulsory social insurance system in the manner and in cases determined by the authorized
state body;
31) ensuring refund to payers of excessively (erroneously) paid amounts of social
contributions and (or) penalties for late and (or) incomplete payment of social contributions
no later than one business day following the day when the Fund's means were credited to the
State Corporation account, in the manner and cases, determined by the authorized state body;
32) submission to the state revenue body of registers of received and returned social
contributions of payers;
33) provision of information to payers on the status and movement of social contributions,
as well as to participants in the compulsory social insurance system on the amount of the
assigned social payment or on the refusal to assign it in the manner determined by the
authorized state body;
34) provision of statistical and other reporting information to the authorized state body;
35) exercise other powers prescribed by this Code, other laws of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the
Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. The State Corporation shall interact and exchange information with the Fund on
accounting and transfer of:
social contributions and penalties for late and (or) incomplete payment of social
contributions;
refund of excessively (erroneously) paid amounts of social contributions and penalties on
them;
social payments and mandatory pension contributions deducted from them;
refund of excessively credited (paid) amounts of social payments and mandatory pension
contributions deducted from them.
2-1. The state corporation shall interact and exchange information with insurance
organizations on accounting and transfer of insurance payments under pre-retirement annuity
insurance contracts.
3. The state corporation shall have the right to receive, as prescribed by the legislation of
the Republic of Kazakhstan, budgetary funds for the provision of services as stipulated by this
Code.
Prices for goods (works, services) produced and (or) sold by the State Corporation shall
be set by the authorized state body, determined by the resolution of the Government of the
Republic of Kazakhstan from among the central state bodies, in agreement with the
authorized state body and the antimonopoly body.
4. The state corporation is obliged to:
1) accept and verify completeness of the documents required for appointment, review of
the decision on appointment (denial of appointment), recalculation, suspension, renewal,
termination of the state basic pension payment, pension payments by age, benefits, social and
other payments, form models of cases for appointment and transfer them to the authorized
state body, the Fund;
2) notify the recipient of the need to return the excessively credited (paid) amounts of
social payments;
3) ensure equal conditions of service for applicants;
4) ensure the timely and complete transfer to the recipients of the state basic pension
payment, pension payments by age, pension payments for long service, benefits, social and
other payments;
5) ensure confidentiality of information on the status and movement of social
contributions, social payments, professional payments at the expense of the employer,
insurance payments under a pre-retirement annuity insurance contract, except for cases
provided for by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
6) carry out, suspend, resume and terminate social payments based on the decision of the
Fund;
7) supply information to participants in the compulsory social insurance system on the
status and movement of social contributions in the manner established by the authorized state
body;
8) give the necessary explanations on the compulsory social insurance issues;
9) when forming an electronic layout of the case for the appointment of social benefits, it
shall not take into account the amounts of social contributions received from income
recognized as illegal on the basis of judicial acts and acts of the pre-trial investigation body,
paid for the period previously taken into account when determining the social benefits amount
.
Footnote. Article 17 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
21.12.2023 № 49-VIII (shall be enforced from 01.01.2024); dated 01.07.2024 № 104-VIII (
shall be enforced upon expiry of sixty calendar days after the date of its first official
publication).