The preferential policies for disabled people in 2021 include the following:

1. Social assistance for disabled people

Families of disabled people who meet the conditions for urban and rural minimum living security should be insured as much as possible, and adult severely disabled people who are supported by their families and live alone shall be included in the scope of minimum living security according to regulations. For disabled people included in the scope of support for extremely poor people, the support conditions shall be gradually improved. For disabled people included in the scope of urban and rural medical assistance, the assistance standards and ceilings shall be gradually increased.

Mental disorder patients who still have difficulties paying medical expenses after paying medical expenses through basic medical insurance, or who cannot pay medical expenses through basic medical insurance, shall be given priority medical assistance. Social assistance agencies shall promptly accept and provide corresponding convenience conditions for disabled people who apply for social assistance.

2. Welfare subsidies for disabled people

Establish a living subsidy system for disabled people in difficulty and a nursing subsidy system for severely disabled people. The subsidy standard should be adapted to the actual local economic and social development and the basic needs of disabled people, and connected with the minimum living security system. Implement preferential and subsidy policies for electricity, water, gas, heating and other expenses for low-income disabled families.

3. Pension insurance and medical insurance

Implement the policy of individual payment subsidies for poor and severely disabled people to participate in urban and rural residents' basic pension insurance, urban residents' medical insurance, and new rural cooperative medical care. Where conditions permit, expand the scope of subsidies and raise the subsidy standards to help urban and rural disabled people generally join basic medical insurance and basic pension insurance according to regulations.

Gradually expand the medical rehabilitation projects paid by basic medical insurance. Improve the medical reimbursement system for severely disabled people and provide good medical expense settlement services for severely disabled people

4. Basic housing

Incorporate low-income urban disabled families with housing difficulties into the urban basic housing security system. Provide public rental housing or housing rental subsidies to urban disabled families that meet the housing security conditions. When implementing rural dilapidated housing renovation, local governments should give priority to disabled families with financial difficulties under the same conditions.

In accordance with the policy requirements for rural dilapidated housing renovation, take measures such as formulating and implementing classified subsidy standards to give preferential care to disabled families who are unable to raise funds on their own. By 2020, the task of renovating the existing dilapidated houses of rural poor disabled families will be completed.

5. Employment of disabled people

Small and micro enterprises and social organizations founded by disabled people will enjoy priority in the national support policies, and preferential incubation services will be provided to them. For qualified disabled people with flexible employment, tax and fee reductions and social insurance subsidies will be granted in accordance with regulations, and places with conditions can help arrange business premises and provide start-up capital support.

Government-developed public welfare posts will give priority to disabled people who meet the conditions of people with difficulty in finding employment. Support will be provided for the facilities and equipment of auxiliary employment institutions for disabled people, as well as barrier-free renovation, to absorb more people with mental, intellectual and severe physical disabilities into auxiliary employment.

Explore the provision of short-distance transportation services between urban and rural communities and subway stations and bus stops between disabled people and small cars that meet national standards, provided that they meet the driving and operating safety requirements. Employment service institutions for disabled people and public employment service institutions at all levels should provide free employment services such as career guidance and job introduction to disabled people, and provide employment assistance to disabled people who meet the conditions of people with difficulty in finding employment.

The employment security fund for disabled people can subsidize vocational training that disabled people participate in voluntarily in accordance with regulations. Strengthen labor and social security supervision, severely investigate and punish illegal acts such as forcing disabled people to work, failing to sign labor contracts with disabled workers in accordance with the law, and failing to pay social insurance premiums, correct employers' discrimination against disabled people when recruiting employees in accordance with the law, and effectively safeguard the labor and social security rights and interests of disabled people.

6. Rehabilitation assistive devices

Establish a rehabilitation assistance system for disabled children, and gradually realize that children aged 0-6 with visual, hearing, speech, intellectual, physical disabilities and autistic children receive free surgery, assistive device configuration and rehabilitation training services. Implement key rehabilitation projects to provide basic rehabilitation services for urban and rural poor disabled people and severely disabled people. Localities with conditions can provide subsidies for the configuration of basic assistive devices.

Establish a two-way referral system between medical institutions and professional rehabilitation institutions for the disabled to achieve hierarchical medical care and phased rehabilitation. Rely on professional rehabilitation institutions to guide communities and families to implement rehabilitation training for the disabled, and include community medical rehabilitation for the disabled in the assessment content of urban and rural primary medical and health institutions

7. Accessibility and service facilities

Gradually promote the construction of barrier-free environment in rural areas. Localities with conditions should provide subsidies for barrier-free renovation of poor disabled families.

Improve the information accessibility standard system, gradually promote the release of government information in an accessible manner, add subtitles to video products, and encourage food and medicine to add barrier-free identification labels. Encourage TV stations to launch sign language programs, and add sign language explanations and subtitles to major news programs.

8. Study and formulate policies to support the consumption of specific information for the deaf and blind.

Public cultural and sports facilities and parks and other public places are open to the disabled free of charge or at a discount. Public libraries are encouraged to set up reading rooms for the blind and equipped with Braille books, audio books and reading and listening equipment. Local governments should provide convenience and discounts to the disabled when taking public transportation according to actual conditions.