ON THE QUESTION OF SOCIAL ESSENCE OF SOCIAL SECURITY LAW

Abstract

The article examines the essence of social security law in conditions of the independent Ukrainian state development. In view of this, it was concluded that the social security law as a branch of national law is designed to satisfy the needs of public relations members, lifelong potentially subjected to social risks due to their natural properties. These needs are predetermined by the objective impossibility of the person to overcome the negative character of the life circumstances on their own and, therefore, there is a need of the third party assistance. Also, the article elucidates the legislative activity in the sphere of provision of social needs and interests of human and citizen, that was carried out under the influence of the international community and reflects the phased and systematic legal regulation of social security relations. This activity corresponded to the tendencies of that time to expand the complex of social rights and freedoms of human and citizen in modern democracies, which aimed to provide decent living conditions. In this connection, most of international prescriptions on social security issues are reflected in the Constitution of Ukraine. Even despite the fact that in international instruments has been a structural regulation of the similar in their content groups of public relations in the sphere of social protection, the authors of the Constitution of Ukraine were able to provide fundamental provisions of social security of human and citizen. Moreover, the article established that the existence of specific features of legal norms of social security law beside the other branches of law (labor, medical, educational law) serves the formation of integrated legal formation of a higher order in the system of law, which is denoted by the term "social law" so that there is a unification of the areas of law that have similarities in the subject, functions and methods of legal regulation. Therefore, the social security law belongs to social law, which is an independent structural formation in the legal system along with such legal structures as private and public law. The external legal relations of social security law (such as position in the legal system, the relationship with other branches of law) and its internal legal relations (such as object, method, system, principles and functions) indicate on the social nature of that brunch of law.