Local executive bodies of regions, cities of republican status, the capital shall ensure
implementation of the state social protection policy by:
1) analysis, forecasting of labor demand and supply in the region and cities of republican
status, the capital and providing updates to the authorized state body;
2) approval and implementation of regional employment maps;
3) promotion of the population employment;
4) monitoring of organizations with the risks of layoffs and job cuts;
5) supporting creation of jobs through the development of entrepreneurial initiative;
6) monitoring of the social assistance to the unemployed, job seekers;
7) establishing a quota of jobs for persons with disabilities in the size of two to four
percent of the number of jobs, excluding jobs in heavy work, work with harmful, dangerous
working conditions;
8) approval of regulations on district (city) and regional committees on employment
issues;
9) monitoring of the creation of jobs within the national projects, plans for the
development of regions, cities of republican status, the capital, regional employment maps;
10) approval of the list of localities for voluntary resettlement of persons to enhance labor
mobility;
11) appointment and dismissal of the head of the labor mobility center;
12) interaction with individuals and legal entities and government bodies in special social
services rendering;
12-1) implementation:
control in the area of providing special social services in the field of healthcare;
interaction with individuals and legal entities, the authorized state body and other state
bodies on issues of providing special social services in the field of healthcare;
13) creation and activities of entities providing special social services under their
jurisdiction;
14) provision by entities rendering special social services of a guaranteed volume of
special social services;
15) analysis of the population’s needs in special social services;
16) ensuring the conduct of statistical analysis, forecasting of the population’s needs in
special social services;
17) organization of staffing of entities providing special social services, vocational
training, retraining and advanced training of social workers;
18) taking measures to develop a system for the provision of special social services;
19) development and submission for approval to local representative bodies of regions (
cities of republican status and the capital) of the list and procedure for the provision of a
super-guaranteed volume of special social services;
20) public procurement, also placing a state social order for the provision of special social
services and services for assessing and determining the need for special social services;
21) creation of state institutions and enterprises for rehabilitation of persons with
disabilities;
22) taking additional social assistance measures to persons with disabilities, prescribed by
the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
23) facilitating the creation of organizations for rehabilitation of persons with disabilities;
24) organization of vocational training (retraining) of persons with disabilities as required
by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
25) organization of training, retraining and advanced training of specialists in the
rehabilitation of persons with disabilities, including sign language specialists, specialists in
reading and writing Braille;
26) organization of medical, social, vocational rehabilitation in the respective territory
pursuant to this Code;
27) providing sanatorium treatment for persons with disabilities and children with
disabilities on an individual program;
28) providing persons with disabilities with technical auxiliary (compensatory) means and
(or) special transportation means on an individual program;
29) monitoring of the characteristics of goods and (or) services declared by the supplier,
provided to persons with disabilities through the social services portal for compliance with
the classifier of technical auxiliary (compensatory) means, special vehicles and services
provided to persons with disabilities;
30) organizing, together with public associations of persons with disabilities, cultural,
educational and other events;
31) coordination of charitable and social assistance to persons with disabilities;
32) supporting the functioning of the regional coordinating council for social protection of
persons with disabilities;
33) maintain:
monitoring of the provision of special social health services;
conduct of analysis of the population’s needs in special social services in healthcare;
34) coordination of healthcare organizations’ provision of special social services in
healthcare;
34-1) coordination of efforts to assist individuals (families) in difficult life situations,
providing comprehensive support within the competence of state bodies in the manner
determined by the authorized state body;
34-2) maintaining medical and social records in the manner determined by the authorized
state body;
34-3) reimbursement of the cost of services for the transportation of persons with
disabilities by invataxi from local budget funds in accordance with the methodology for
determining the guaranteed amount provided as reimbursement of the cost of goods and (or)
services, services for the transportation of persons with disabilities by invataxi, purchased by
persons with disabilities through the social services portal;
34-4) organization of services for the transportation of persons with disabilities by
invataxi through the social services portal or in accordance with the legislation of the
Republic of Kazakhstan on public procurement;
35) exercising, in the interests of local government, other powers assigned to local
executive bodies of regions, cities of republican status and the capital by the legislation of the
Republic of Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Article 18 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
15.04.2024 № 72-VIII (shall be enforced upon expiry of sixty calendar days after the date of
its first official publication); dated 30.06.2025 № 204-VIII (shall come into effect upon
expiry of sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication); dated 17.07.2025
№ 213-VIII (shall come into effect six months after the date of its first official publication).

Local executive bodies of districts (cities of regional status) shall ensure implementation
of the state social security policy by:
1) analysis, forecasting of labor demand and supply in districts (cities of regional scale)
and providing updates to the local executive body of regions, cities of republican status and
the capital;
2) proposals to the local executive bodies of the region, the city of republican status, the
capital on measures to promote the population employment;
3) implementation of the regional employment map and active measures to promote the
population employment;
4) monitoring of the creation of jobs within the national projects, development plans for
the region, the city of republican status, the capital, the regional employment map;
5) support for the creation of jobs in the district (city of regional scale) through the
development of entrepreneurial initiatives;
6) proposals to the local executive bodies of the region, city of republican status, the
capital on selecting the localities for voluntary resettlement of persons to enhance labor
mobility;
7) monitoring of organizations with the risks of layoffs and job cuts;
8) interaction with labor mobility centers for the promotion of the population employment
;
9) creation and activities of entities providing special social services under their
jurisdiction;
10) provision by entities providing special social services of a guaranteed volume of
special social services;
11) organization of staffing of entities providing special social services, vocational
training, retraining and advanced training of social workers;
12) conducting analysis of the population’s needs in special social services;
13) public procurement, as well as placement of a state social order for the special social
services and services for assessing and determining the need in special social services;
14) taking measures to develop a system for the provision of special social services;
15) interaction with individuals, legal entities and government bodies on the provision of
special social services;
16) provision of social assistance and coordination in the provision of charitable
assistance to persons with disabilities;
17) provision of sanatorium treatment for persons with disabilities and children with
disabilities on an individual program;
18) providing persons with disabilities with technical auxiliary (compensatory) means and
(or) special transportation means on an individual program;
19) providing an individual assistant services to persons with disabilities of the first group
who have difficulty in moving, a sign language specialist for persons with hearing disabilities
on an individual program;
20) additional social assistance measures to persons with disabilities, as required by the
legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
20-1) coordination of efforts to assist individuals (families) in difficult life situations,
providing comprehensive support within the competence of state bodies;
20-2) organization of services for the transportation of persons with disabilities by
invataxi through the social services portal or in accordance with the legislation of the
Republic of Kazakhstan on public procurement;
21) exercising, in the interests of local government, other powers assigned to local
executive bodies of districts (cities of regional scale) by the legislation of the Republic of
Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Article 19 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
15.04.2024 № 72-VIII (shall be enforced upon expiry of sixty calendar days after the date of
its first official publication); dated 30.06.2025 № 204-VIII (shall come into effect upon
expiry of sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).

1. The labor mobility center shall:
1) analyze, forecast the labor demand and supply, update the population, local executive
bodies and the labor resources development Center on the situation in the labor market in the
region, cities of republican status and the capital;
2) submit to the local executive body of the region, the city of republican status, the
capital for the population employment issues proposals on measures to promote employment
and a draft regional employment map;
3) keep records of the creation of jobs within the national projects, development plans for
the region, the city of republican status, the capital, the regional employment map of the
region, the city of republican status, the capital;
4) request from the structural units of local executive bodies for education, educational
organizations, training centers at organizations with the right to educational activities that
carry out vocational training, information on the employment of graduates, information on the
occupations (vocations) for which training is conducted, the number of trained and planned
for the training and graduation specialists in specific occupations (vocations);
5) request information from employers on the forecasted need for labor force;
6) keep records of vacancies posted by employers on the electronic labor exchange on
current vacancies and the forecast of jobs created in projects implemented within the national
projects and plans for the development of the region, the city of republican status and the
capital, as well as private sector initiatives;
7) implement active measures to promote employment;
8) interact with local executive bodies of districts (cities of regional scale) on promoting
the employment of targeted social assistance recipients;
9) interact with employers to create special jobs for the employment of persons with
disabilities;
10) carry out outsourcing of services in the population employment area in the manner
determined by the authorized state body;
11) monitor and control implementation of the agreement on outsourcing of services in
the population employment area;
12) register applicants as job seekers and unemployed;
13) provide professional development and advanced training for employees of career
centers;
14) provide other measures to promote employment pursuant to this Code and the laws of
the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. The labor mobility center shall perform its functions through career centers established
in districts, cities of regional and republican scale, the capital in the form of branches.
To ensure the coverage of the population with measures to promote employment, the
labor mobility center shall create mobile career centers.
3. When implementing its functions, the labor mobility center shall use information and
communication technologies, including the electronic labor exchange.
The labor mobility center shall provide applicants with free access to the electronic labor
exchange in self-service zones.
4. The labor mobility centers shall be financed as required by the legislation of the
Republic of Kazakhstan.

1. The regional population employment Commission shall be established by the local
executive body on the territory of the region (cities of republican status, the capital) (
hereinafter -the regional commission).
2. The regional commission shall be formed from members of local representative and
executive bodies of the region (city of republican status, the capital), territorial trade union
association at the level of the region, the city of republican status, the capital and regional
chambers of entrepreneurs of the region, the city of republican status, the capital, other
concerned state bodies and other organizations.
3. The regional commission shall coordinate the activities of state bodies and other
organizations located on the territory of the region (cities of republican status, the capital), on
the implementation of the regional development plan in terms of employment, the regional
employment map and social assistance.
4. The regional commission’s activities shall be pursuant to the aim of efficient
implementation of measures to promote the population employment and development of
proposals for their improvement in the region (city of republican status, the capital).

1. The district (city) population employment Commission (hereinafter - the district (city)
commission) shall be established by the local executive body on the territory of the district (
city of regional scale).
2. The district (city) commission shall be formed from members of local representative
and executive bodies of the district (city of regional scale), the territorial trade union
association at the level of the district, city and branches of the regional chambers of
entrepreneurs in the districts of the respective regions, cities of regional, republican scale, the
capital, other concerned state bodies and other organizations.
3. The district (city) commission shall coordinate the activities of state bodies and other
organizations located on the territory of the district (city of oblast scale), akims of cities of
district scale, villages, towns, rural districts on the implementation of the development plan of
the region in terms of employment, the regional employment map and social assistance.
4. The activity of the district (city) commission shall be pursuant to the aim of efficient
implementation of measures to promote employment of the population and development of
proposals for their improvement in the territory of the district (city of oblast scale).

Violation of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on social protection entails
liability in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

1. Professional rehabilitation of persons with disabilities includes professional guidance,
vocational training (retraining), employment and is implemented in accordance with Chapter
10 of this Code.
2. The employer, at his own expense, in accordance with this Code, provides persons with
disabilities received from labor injury and (or) occupational disease through the fault of the
employer, with vocational training or retraining, creates special jobs for their employment.

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).

Unconditional monetary assistance is provided to:
1) single and (or) low-income persons living alone with limited opportunities to
participate in employment promotion measures in connection with:
reaching the retirement age established by paragraph 1 of Article 207 of this Code;
disability of the first or second category;
the presence of a disease in which a temporary disability period of more than two months
can be established;
2) low-income families, in which there are no able-bodied persons or the only able-bodied
member takes care of a child under the age of three, a child with a disability, a person with a
disability of the first or second category, the elderly, who needs nursing care and assistance.

1. Conditional monetary assistance is provided to single and (or) low-income able-bodied
persons living alone, as well as low-income families with an able-bodied member(s),
including individuals who are individual entrepreneurs whose activities have been suspended
in accordance with subparagraph 1) paragraph 1 of Article 213 of the Code of the Republic of
Kazakhstan "On Taxes and other mandatory payments to the Budget" (Tax Code), subject to
his (their) participation in measures to promote employment and (or), if necessary, social
adaptation, with the exception of the persons (families) specified in paragraph 4 of this article.
2. Conclusion of a social contract is a prerequisite for the appointment of the conditional
monetary assistance.
A social contract with the recipients of the conditional monetary assistance is concluded
for the period of appointment of the conditional monetary assistance.
The forms of social contract and the individual assistance plan are approved by the
authorized state body.
3. A social contract with the recipients of conditional monetary assistance is terminated if
a low-income person (family) fails to fully fulfill the terms of the social contract and
individual plan activities, including participation in employment promotion and employment
measures, as well as the submission of false information and (or) false documents that
entailed illegal appointment and (or) payment of conditional monetary assistance.
Termination of a social contract is the basis for termination of payment of conditional
monetary assistance to a person (family).
4. Participation in employment promotion measures is not a prerequisite for payment of
conditional monetary assistance to:
1) persons with disabilities of the first and second category;
2) pupils, students, trainees, cadets and undergraduates of full-time education;
3) persons with diseases in which a period of temporary disability of more than two
months may be established;
4) one of the parents caring for a child under the age of three, persons caring for a child
with a disability, persons with disabilities of the first and second category, the elderly over
eighty years old who need nursing care and assistance.
Only one able-bodied family member can be considered as a person caring for a child
under the age of three, a child with a disability, persons with disabilities of the first and
second category, the elderly over eighty years old who need nursing care and assistance;
5) persons who have a permanent job.
Footnote. Article 122 as amended by Article 263 of this Code (effective from 01.01.2024)