Under information openness of Social Insurance Fund for Temporary Disability, we understand the process of providing maximum access to information, at its disposal, and encouraging the active involvement of citizens in direct communication and regular dialogue on social insurance for temporary disability.

The results of the monitoring of informational openness of Social Insurance Fund for Temporary Disability by parameters of general, compulsory and additional information revealed absence of unified requirements for informing the public on the official websites about executive bodies of Social Insurance Fund for Temporary Disability.

Typical violations of information support of some regional offices of the Social Insurance Fund for Temporary disability were: absence of bibliographic information about management staff; lack of informative content for major users on single social tax; the size of the average wage, informational reports; lack of access to the Regulation on the separation of the Social Insurance Fund for Temporary Disability; incomplete information on the budget for the current year and information on the performance of previous years; lack of content tabs “Documents of department”; incomplete coverage of official chronicles, news, announcements of official events and meetings, official reports and declarations, interviews and speeches by leaders; not provided with the possibility of feedback for the participant of the social insurance.

It was established that the amount and method of disclosure of official information, defined by each regional office of their own, do not contribute to proper awareness about the possibilities of social insurance of temporary disability. The above circumstances, primarily arose because of the lack of coordination requirements on of information support of of social insurance for temporary disability.

Taking this into account, recommendations are offered for providing the informational transparency of Insurance Fund for Temporary Disability in terms of ensuring a single ordered structure of placement of information, the need for mandatory reporting on ensuring of communication channels, setting the frequency of informing by the direction of work, introduction of the instrument for feedback connection. 

Social Insurance Fund for Temporary Disability, information maintenance, information openness