Social protection of ATO participants and their families in Ukraine: an analytical review and promising measures

The current situation in Ukraine concerning the guarantee of social protection and providing social services for ATO participants by state and non-governmental organizations is analyzed. Legislative strengthening of social protection of ATO participants is revealed. The current state of the providing of social services for ATO participants and their family members, the effectiveness of the use of resources (financing) for 2014–2016 on the basis of a comparative analysis of the costs on social protection in the expenditures of the Consolidated Budget of Ukraine and presented as a share of GDP, in Ukraine and the European Union countries for 2011–2014, are evaluated. The problems in the field of social protection for ATO participants and and promising measures in this field such as the evaluation of the effectiveness of national and regional social programs for ATO participants and the evaluation of the public expenditures for the social protection of ATO participants and the evaluation of the quality of social services for ATO participants are grounded.