Pensionable Service And Similar Legal Institutes In The Recognition Of Certain Types Of Social Security Benefits

The article analyzes the specifics of determining and recognizing social security length of service in accordance with the principles of the general and the special legal system. In the aspect of its difference from the length of employment there are drawn basic aspects of definition and its specific features with regard to its nature, recognition by period and significance in view of principal security considerations. Specifically, there is an emphasis on the recognition of the length of service with regard to certain special hypotheses on the provision of the long - term pension payments, and also in view of specific categories of non-contributory pension schemes. With regard to the latest changes in the legal framework there is made a parallel between the general institute of social security length of service and the introduction of the requirement for the so - called real length of service, concerning particular kinds of non - contributory consideration, and the concept of teacher's length of service, connected with the pension for length of service and age, in view of which there are drawn specific conclusions and recommendations on improving th e texts and principles connected with it.