ABSTRACT

The serious problem of the state social policy pertaining to disability and the reaction of society in this respect in the transformation countries is a phenomenon of the so-called "escape to disability" that can be especially observed in difficult life situations and intensification of social changes. Underdevelopment of educational care and nursing institutions motivating women to take advantage of disability pensions faced with the necessity to provide nursing and educational care to the family. Although disability pension benefits are more attractive than unemployment or pre-old-age pension benefits they loose in relation to wages due to the changes in the indexing rules introduced in the second half of the 1990s. Social policy with respect to the disabled has elements of a policy with problems to leave the "magic circle" of difficulties. The change of social policy with respect to employing the disabled in the direction of differentiated and individually tailored programmes of social inclusion requires some promotional and educational work.