The structure of the Polish system of support for people with disabilities

System of the social security is particularly important tool in implementa-tion of a social ? economic policy. Its task is to provide benefits for the hu-man individual to ensure safety in many different practical circumstances, e.g. threat or losses of health, fortuitous incidents, involuntary financial de-terioration, loss of revenue, disability. Sense of security is regarded as one of basic human needs, as the essential human right. Polish system of the social security for persons with disabilities consti-tutes configuration of a few elements, collected around the entity i.e. the per-son with disabilities. Such a configuration explicitly determines the signifi-cance of individual elements and points its ancillary functions. These ele-ments by virtue of performed functions have diverse tasks, entitlements and competence