The student’s social card is still a qualitatively new project for Russia, which is still active in a small number of cities. The most widely and successfully it was implemented in the capital, therefore, let us consider on the example of Moscow all the features of this card, the benefits for the young holder, as well as important points regarding its design.
Project "Student Social Card"
In Moscow, social cards for schoolchildren appeared in 2014. There are two main tasks of such an instrument - to be a kind of business card for a child and its convenient means of payment. The card not only allows you to quickly identify the child, if necessary, but also helps him to pay for the metro, school lunch, additional courses. This eliminates the need for parents to trust him with pocket money. All the money that they put on the student’s card is stored on it in the form of points. Parents can monitor in real time where and how much their child spent.
Also, this registered plastic social card is an important multifunctional tool - from paying for the metro to getting discounts in the store specifically for students. Any student (regardless of the place of permanent residence) who is studying full-time in an accredited state organization that implements the program can receive a student’s social card:
- primary, basic and secondary general education;
- secondary vocational education.
Registration of a social card in Moscow is absolutely free.
Application of a social student card
Let's figure out why a student’s social card is needed:
- Payment for travel in the subway and suburban electric vehicles.
- Use on a par with the policy of compulsory medical insurance in medical institutions.
- Paying for a call at MGTS payphones.
- Admission to the full range of banking services: crediting funds (scholarships or pocket money), bank transfer, payment of housing and communal services.
- Obtaining social benefits and discounts at more than a hundred points selling various goods and providing diverse services.
Additional features at school
A social card for a student in the subway and at school will come in handy. With its help, the following is possible:
- In educational institutions where the system "Passage and Nutrition" operates, the card is used by the student as a pass to the turnstile. This feature helps you track when your child has come to school how much time he spent there. This information is transmitted to the parents in any chosen way: via SMS message, email, using command requests from a smartphone.
- The social card also helps parents find out if the child received a preferential school lunch on a particular day.
- A student can buy paid school meals using the same card. Parents can replenish her balance in the "Electronic Services" section on the Moscow public services portal (MOS.RU). The method of delivering data on the state of the child’s balance and his spending can also be selected in this topic of the service.
Note!
Before you start drawing up a social card for a student in Moscow, pay attention to the following:
- If a similar card has already been issued for the child by social security agencies, then the student no longer needs to issue a social card for him.
- The applicant can be both the student himself and his legal representative - the parent, guardian, trustee, adoptive parent.
- After the child has received the card, it is necessary to activate it in order to make it valid. This operation is carried out in your account on the MOS.RU portal. You need to activate the card no later than 30 days after its delivery to the school or the MFC.
Applying for a student’s social card
To receive this student’s card, among other things, providing him with social benefits, you need to fill out an application form:
- Students from secondary schools in Moscow from December 1, 2015 can apply only in one way - remotely through the portal MOS.RU.
- Pupils who are not citizens of the Russian Federation, as well as students from educational institutions that are not subordinate to the Moscow Government (federal schools, private institutions, etc.) are authorized to fill out such an application at the IFC office - the My Documents center.
The necessary package of documents for obtaining a card
The following documents are required to make a schoolchild’s social card:
- Birth certificate (under 14 years old) or passport (after 14 years).
- MHI policy.
- Photo format "per document".
- For visiting citizens - a certificate of temporary registration.
- Certificate from the school (for applicants in the "My Documents").
The requirements for photography are as follows:
- JPEG format
- color;
- in full face;
- size 30 x 40 mm;
- made no later than 6 months to date.
If the student submits an application not through the portal, but in the My Documents department, then in this case a paper version of the photo is allowed - it is done free of charge directly at the office.
Schoolchild social card: sample application form
The received application form should be filled in in block letters, indicating each symbol in a separate cell and using dark ink. Space - one cell, the punctuation mark is written in a separate cell. The questionnaire on the social card of the student should indicate:
- FULL NAME.
- Registration (registration) address: zip code, name of settlement (use the abbreviation, for example, Moscow), street, house, if available - building and apartment number.
- The address of actual residence is indicated according to the example of clause 2. If the registration address matches the address of residence, then the information in this section is copied from clause 2.
- Contact phone - after 7, without "+".
- Date of Birth.
- Gender is m or g.
- Series and number (after "No.") of the policy of compulsory medical insurance.
- Citizenship - checkmark "V" in Russian or otherwise.
- Type of identity document - the code fits here (21 for the passport).
- Series, number, who issued the document, when, unit code - information is recorded exactly as in the passport, birth certificate, etc.
- If you replace the card in the appropriate section, indicate the reason code number.
- In the appropriate window, without going beyond its borders, put your signature. If you have not yet invented it, then it is permissible to write your name in words.
- Invent a code word consisting of at least four characters - numbers or letters of the Latin alphabet.
The rest of the information is filled in by officials. Be sure to save the tear-off ticket given to you from the application form before receiving the card!
Getting a student card
The student’s social card is issued at the place indicated when applying for the application — at school, at the My Documents office, etc. To receive it, you must have a passport or other identification document with you, as well as a tear-off ticket from the application form . Readiness of the social card - 30 days after the date of application or even earlier.
In the envelope with the card, the student also receives a memo-instruction for its use and a PIN code for access to an individual bank account, which opens automatically when a social card is issued at partner banks - Bank of Moscow (VTB), MinBank.
You can top up such a card in one of the convenient ways:
- through ATMs of the issuing bank with the possibility of receiving cash;
- via a connected Internet bank on a smartphone, laptop, personal computer;
- using instant transfer - you only need a plastic card of any Russian bank;
- through the cash desk of the issuing bank of the social card;
- by transfer from a branch of any banking institution;
- by money transfer sent using the "Russian Post".
Unlock Banking Application
The full readiness of a social card is open access to the banking application attached to it. You can unlock it in the bank that issued this social card. To do this, you need to contact his office with a finished card and write a statement. Pay attention to the subtleties associated with the last document:
- If the child is less than 14 years old, then this application is filled out by his parents or legal guardians. The very presence of a student is optional.
- For children aged 14-18 years old, their parents or legal representatives can also apply. However, students can apply to the bank with an application themselves, providing a written application from parents or guardians.
- If the student is over 18 years old, then only he can apply for unlocking the bank application to the card.
The main reasons for the refusal to issue a student card
A refusal to apply for a schoolchild's social card can only be motivated. Its most common causes are as follows:
- Information about the applicant is not present in the Student Register.
- The photo provided does not meet the requirements for it.
- The applicant already has a student social card.
- In case of a card replacement, incorrect details of the previous one were indicated.
- A similar questionnaire has already been submitted on behalf of the applicant, the consideration of which was not completed at the time of the second submission.
- There is no confirmation of the information specified in the student's identity document.
- The data of the compulsory medical insurance policy is not confirmed in MGFOMS.
- Information about the student's SNILS is not confirmed in the relevant structures.
A schoolboy’s social card is a convenient tool for a modern student, which includes many useful functions: a metro ticket, a school pass, a medical insurance policy, a personal e-wallet, a quick identification tool, and a school discount card that allows you to get a good discount. In addition, such a card frees parents from unnecessary worries - they know when their child came to school and when he left it, how much pocket money and what he spent. After reading this article, you also learned how to quickly fill out an application form, where to get a card, and how to activate it and its accompanying banking application.