01 / MONEY: PAYMENTS AND SERVICE PAY
Refusal of the injury payment
You were wounded, and the payment has been refused or held up for months.
PRACTICE / 11
Military law and registration
The practice is led by advocate Yury Valentinovich Koval — more than twenty years in the military prosecution service, colonel of justice. He knows this field from the inside.
- Practice led by
- Yury Koval, advocate
- Experience
- Over 20 years in the military prosecution service
- Rank
- Colonel of justice
SERVICES
Services in this practice
BLOCK 01 / 8 services
Money: payments and service pay
02 / MONEY: PAYMENTS AND SERVICE PAY
Insurance payment for a military injury
Compulsory state insurance of servicemen gives a payment for an injury sustained in service.
03 / MONEY: PAYMENTS AND SERVICE PAY
Payments to the family of a serviceman killed
When a serviceman is killed, the family is entitled to insurance and lump-sum payments, a survivor's pension and regional support.
04 / MONEY: PAYMENTS AND SERVICE PAY
Regional payment: refusal and disputes
Regions set their own payments for participants in the special military operation and their families, and refusals are usually formal.
05 / MONEY: PAYMENTS AND SERVICE PAY
Unpaid service pay and combat allowances
Pay has not arrived for months, combat allowances are missing or were withdrawn without explanation.
06 / MONEY: PAYMENTS AND SERVICE PAY
Deductions from pay and alleged overpayments
Your pay slip shows a deduction you were never told about, or the unit has sent a written demand to repay an alleged overpayment.
07 / MONEY: PAYMENTS AND SERVICE PAY
Compensation for harm to health and moral damage
You sustained a wound, injury or illness in service, and the payments under Law No. 306-FZ, Law No. 52-FZ and Presidential Decree No. 98 do not cover treatment and lost income.
08 / MONEY: PAYMENTS AND SERVICE PAY
Final settlement on discharge
You are being discharged, or already have been, and the settlement is incomplete: allowances, the bonus, compensation for unused leave or the…
BLOCK 02 / 5 services
Health: medical boards and military injury
09 / HEALTH: MEDICAL BOARDS AND MILITARY INJURY
Challenging a military medical board finding
The military medical board has found you fit, assigned the wrong fitness category or seen no link between your illness and service.
10 / HEALTH: MEDICAL BOARDS AND MILITARY INJURY
Injury causation: «military injury» category
Your medical board finding carries a wording that is costing you payments: ‘illness contracted during the period of military service’ instead of…
11 / HEALTH: MEDICAL BOARDS AND MILITARY INJURY
Command will not refer you to a medical board
You applied in writing for a referral to a military medical board and there is no answer, or you were told to wait until the current tasks are over.
12 / HEALTH: MEDICAL BOARDS AND MILITARY INJURY
Disability after a military injury
After a wound or a serious illness you need disability status with the cause recorded as a military injury — payments, pension and benefits all…
13 / HEALTH: MEDICAL BOARDS AND MILITARY INJURY
Denial of treatment and early discharge from hospital
You were discharged from hospital before treatment was complete, or you are being refused surgery, tests or rehabilitation.
BLOCK 03 / 8 services
Service and discharge
14 / SERVICE AND DISCHARGE
Discharge on health grounds
You need to leave the service because of a wound or illness, but everything turns on the medical board finding and the command's decision.
15 / SERVICE AND DISCHARGE
Discharge at the end of a contract or by age
Your contract has expired, or you have reached the age limit for military service, yet no discharge order appears.
16 / SERVICE AND DISCHARGE
The commander will not discharge you
You applied for discharge and the application was never registered, was lost, or was refused verbally.
17 / SERVICE AND DISCHARGE
Unlawful discharge: reinstatement in service
The discharge order has been issued, but the ground is contrived and the procedure was not followed.
18 / SERVICE AND DISCHARGE
Removal from the unit roll without a settlement
You were removed from the unit roll although the settlement was not paid, your pay was short and your documents were never handed over.
19 / SERVICE AND DISCHARGE
Transfers to another unit and leave
You are refused a transfer to a new place of service, or the leave you are entitled to is withheld.
20 / SERVICE AND DISCHARGE
Disciplinary penalty and attestation
A penalty has been imposed on you, or an adverse attestation is being prepared, and discharge on adverse grounds now threatens.
21 / SERVICE AND DISCHARGE
The contract: signing, extension, terms
Your contract decides how long you serve, what you are entitled to and when you may leave.
BLOCK 04 / 5 services
Conscription, mobilisation, registration
22 / CONSCRIPTION, MOBILISATION, REGISTRATION
The conscription board and deferment
A conscription board decides a whole year of your life in a few minutes.
23 / CONSCRIPTION, MOBILISATION, REGISTRATION
The electronic call-up notice and the register
The notice arrives in your online account, and the restrictions follow automatically: a travel ban, a block on property transactions, no…
24 / CONSCRIPTION, MOBILISATION, REGISTRATION
Military registration for individuals
Military registration is an obligation that surfaces at the worst possible moment: a move, a new job, a passport application.
25 / CONSCRIPTION, MOBILISATION, REGISTRATION
Military registration in a company
Military registration is a duty of every employer with staff on the military register, whatever its size.
26 / CONSCRIPTION, MOBILISATION, REGISTRATION
Reservation of employees from call-up
You are responsible for a company that employs men of call-up and mobilisation age, and it is unclear who may be reserved and on what grounds.
BLOCK 05 / 8 services
Criminal defence of servicemen
27 / CRIMINAL DEFENCE OF SERVICEMEN
Absence without leave, Article 337
You or a member of your family is suspected of absence without leave, and it is unclear what comes next or what the defence can rest on.
28 / CRIMINAL DEFENCE OF SERVICEMEN
Desertion, Article 338
A member of your family has been charged with desertion, and it is not clear why that article was chosen.
29 / CRIMINAL DEFENCE OF SERVICEMEN
Disobeying an order and breach of service rules
You are accused of disobeying a commander's order or of breaching the service rules of conduct, and it is unclear where a disciplinary matter…
30 / CRIMINAL DEFENCE OF SERVICEMEN
Charges of fraud with military payments
You are under audit, or already charged, over payments credited for service, a wound or participation in hostilities.
31 / CRIMINAL DEFENCE OF SERVICEMEN
Loss of military property and accidents with vehicles
If property assigned to you has gone missing, or you were involved in an accident with a service vehicle, an inquiry almost always follows.
32 / CRIMINAL DEFENCE OF SERVICEMEN
Pre-trial restraint and the guardhouse
When a serviceman is detained, the question of pre-trial restraint is decided within days, and decided once for a long time.
33 / CRIMINAL DEFENCE OF SERVICEMEN
Appeal against a military court verdict
A garrison military court verdict is not the last word.
34 / CRIMINAL DEFENCE OF SERVICEMEN
Parole and what follows the verdict
The work does not end when a verdict becomes final.
BLOCK 06 / 5 services
Status, documents, family
35 / STATUS, DOCUMENTS, FAMILY
The combat veteran certificate
Where the combat veteran certificate has been refused, or the unit cannot confirm your part in combat tasks, the question is decided by documents.
36 / STATUS, DOCUMENTS, FAMILY
Missing in action: search and status
The family has no news, and the military unit answers briefly or not at all.
37 / STATUS, DOCUMENTS, FAMILY
Establishing dependency and paternity
Payments and the survivor's pension are tied to a formal list of relatives.
38 / STATUS, DOCUMENTS, FAMILY
Inheritance after a serviceman
After a serviceman's death the family faces two separate sets of rights: the inheritance, and payments that form no part of it.
39 / STATUS, DOCUMENTS, FAMILY
Divorce, division of payments and maintenance
Military service complicates an ordinary family case: the spouse is far away, income comes from several payments, and some of them cannot be divided.
BLOCK 07 / 6 services
Housing, pension, benefits, debts
40 / HOUSING, PENSION, BENEFITS, DEBTS
Housing subsidy and the military mortgage
A serviceman's housing rights depend on registration, calculation and timely decisions by the housing authority.
41 / HOUSING, PENSION, BENEFITS, DEBTS
Service housing and eviction
You have been served with a demand to vacate your service flat, or refused a place on the housing register.
42 / HOUSING, PENSION, BENEFITS, DEBTS
The military pension and its recalculation
You have received your pension calculation and it is lower than expected: years of service are missing, supplements are absent, or preferential…
43 / HOUSING, PENSION, BENEFITS, DEBTS
Combat veteran benefits
You have been refused a combat veteran's certificate, or a benefit that comes with the status is being withheld.
44 / HOUSING, PENSION, BENEFITS, DEBTS
Job guarantees for mobilised employees
You were dismissed while serving, or on your return your former post was not given back.
45 / HOUSING, PENSION, BENEFITS, DEBTS
Debts and loans of a serviceman
While you are serving, interest keeps accruing on your loan and bailiffs take money from your account.
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