The article examines general and special issues of providing social benefits and other social payments to prosecutors and their family members. The work of scientists regarding the coverage of the concept and signs of social assistance has been disclosed and analyzed, and its essential legal features have been clarified. On the basis of this, the author's definition of the category "social assistance to prosecutors and members of their families" was formed and its essential features were identified, to which the author attributed the following: 1) guarantee; 2) social benefits are material in nature; 3) addressability; 4) in order to ensure effective targeting, it is more important to provide social benefits in the established case of their actual occurrence; 5) alimony and gratuity.In the future, the existing trends in the reform of the social security legislation as a whole are determined, which directly determine the specifics of the legal regulation of the provision of social benefits and other payments to prosecutors and their family members. It was noted that the key idea of the specified changes in the system of social assistance to prosecutors is to strengthen the unity of social security, to provide its various types on uniform grounds and rules, and to abolish excessive differentiation in the law of social security. A comparative legal analysis of the previously effective and current legislation, which regulated the investigated issue, was carried out. The specifics of providing social benefits and other payments to prosecutors and their family members have been determined. It is noted that the above payments can be divided into universal and special. It is emphasized that social benefits and other additional types of social payments to prosecutors and their family members are a means of social protection, which is designed to prevent the impoverishment of the specified category of persons, adequately and effectively respond to additional (those not provided for by the system of mandatory state social insurance) social risks, including, first of all, caused by the specifics of professional activity, performance of official duties. The priority trends of the further development of social security legislation in this area are outlined.