POLICY OF SOCIAL SECURITY OF COMBATANTS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

The article examines foreign models for the formation and implementation of the social security policy for combatants. In the article, based on the analysis of foreign experience, the task of preparing recommendations for improving the domestic state social veteran policy was solved. In the course of the study, a comparative method was used, as well as structural-functional, methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, modeling, and others. The article illustrates the features of social policy in relation to combatants in countries such as Croatia, South Korea, the United States and Israel, representing veteran social policy in different regions of the planet. Foreign experience in the formation and implementation of the social security policy for combatants indicates a variety of models - from the creation of a separate central executive authority - to the functioning of individual units within the defense or social ministries. A joint characteristic of foreign models of veterans' social policy should be recognized as the involvement of local authorities in the implementation of meeting the social needs of combatants on the ground and the widespread introduction of public-private partnership mechanisms. We recognize as excellent characteristics the involvement of the resource potential of the state and the private sector – from concessional lending to activate veteran businesses and social adaptation – to direct financial social payments, which depends on the level of economic development of the state and the focus of social attention on this particular category of the population. This approach provided an opportunity to formulate evidence-based recommendations for improving the national veterans' social policy in two directions: 1) strengthening the institutional capacity of the central executive authority (Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine) and 2) developing a policy of local communities on social security and stimulating entrepreneurial activity of combatants actions in the prospects of research on this issue, attention is paid to the legislative support of the above-mentioned areas.