SOCIAL PAYMENTS, COMPENSATIONS AND BENEFITS AS A RANGE OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF THE POPULATION IN UKRAINE

The article presents a theoretical justification and empirical verification of the effectiveness of social payments, compensa-tions, and benefits in Ukraine as ranges of social welfare. An analysis of social assistance to families with children performs. The ways of improving the social welfare system indicated: legal (streamline the regulatory framework of social security in Ukraine, generalize the types of assistance, compensation and benefits, eliminate duplication); financial (to provide funding from the State Budget of Ukraine as a separate item of social expenditures, to audit the effectiveness of the use of budget expenditures; topro-vide for the possibility of transferring budget funds to non-state actors, etc.); personnel (increase salaries of specialists, set sur-charges for complexity (responsibility) and scope of activities; social (increase the prestige of the profession, audit and certifica-tion of personnel according to quality standards of social assistance); educational (introduce unified models of professional training, retraining and advanced training) specialists in the field of social work in accordance with the specialization), prognos-tic (provide a targeted order for training with their subsequent employment), organizational (establish effective interaction be-tween social assistance entities, educators, representatives of international organizations), information technology (providefree and technically convenient access of the population to information on social benefits, services, benefits, entities that provide them), information and advertising (use web pages, websites, "personal e-offices", telephone "hot" / consultation lines, on-online and offline consul etc.); management (granting, appointment and control of payments to concentrate in the powers of one central entity; providing assistance to the territorial offices of the main entity).The developed recommendations, among others, are proposed: to create based on legal documents of Ukraine "Unified information base of social assistances, services, and benefits" provided to the population indicating sources of funding (state budget funds, funds of non-governmental organizations, local communities), and "Unified Register of Beneficiaries in Ukraine" which in joint data processing, will provide an opportunity to compare: information on the amount of funding for assistance and the needs of consumers in this aid.