In Latvia, more than 11% of the population has a disability / day

Last December data show that 54% of the total number of people with disabilities were women and 46% men. Of the total number of 4%, or 9651 are children.

Of the people with disabilities, 48%, or 105,117, were between the ages of 18 and 63, or the ability to work, and slightly less 104,530 people over 64. Last year, 45 201 of all persons with disabilities were employed by the working age.

13% of the registered unemployed were unemployed with disabilities in the country, according to last December.

Trends show that very few decisions on disability status have been made for a short time – a year or half a year – in fact, there were actually no such case, Ausekle said. Most disability status is given for life.

Ausekle pointed out that changes to the disability assessment approach are currently planned for both children and adults, including reviewing the predictable status of disability and the causation of disability. It is planned to change the procedure for evaluating and determining decisions of occupational diseases, as well as developing new criteria for the application of the disability leaves.

She also stressed that the concept of disability is not a static phenomenon, as its understanding of human rights is currently changing. If the disability has been more status so far, all trends at the moment show that it is increasingly being perceived and integrated as a right of rights, the VDEVK specialist said.

It has already been reported that this year's shortest period of recurrence and ability to work will be one year.

According to the Ministry of Health (MoE), this will reduce the administrative burden for both the disabled persons themselves and other specialists involved in the process, who must prepare the necessary documents for the examination of disability.

Invalidity and capacity expertise will be able to be carried out before that time limit, if the person is unjustifiable, the functioning restriction created is considered to be stable and is evidenced by medical documents. The disability status is generally related to stable functioning restrictions, which objectively conclude that the treatment applied for at least six months has not produced the desired results, the MoE noted.

The previous rules stipulated that « a person with a disability or loss of ability to work has the right to request a repeated disability and capacity expertise at any time if the person's health has significantly deteriorated and the functioning restriction it causes is considered stable and certified by medical documents ».

In determining the period of disability, the National Commission shall take into account the forecast of the stability of the restrictions on health disorders and the restrictions on functioning. Children disability is determined for six months, one, two or five years, and for the age of 18 – this deadline is determined by classified anatomical defects or health disorders, and less than a year left or if the child has stable and irreversible functioning restrictions on the disability.

On the other hand, a person over the age of 18 is determined by the disability for six months, one, two or five years, and without a re -examination of disability for life. Such a deadline is determined by classified anatomical defects or health problems, or in the case of stable and irreversible functioning restrictions, which have resulted in the same disability group for at least five years.

The current rules stipulated that the person has the right to ask for repeated disability and capacity expertise at least every six months. The six -month treatment period was intended to form a conditional borderline between 'temporary' and 'stable' functioning restrictions, which is already the basis for disability. In case of temporary health disorders, support for a person working age is primarily provided within the sickness benefit.

Given that citizens and possibly family doctors may not be immediately clear as referral to preparers, in which time can be taken to a re -examination of disability in the National Commission and which are cases where the citizen can refuse such a refusal, submitted to the National Commission for repeated disability. Effective until 31 December.