There is no need to worry that the generous promise of Russian President Vladimir Putin to pay monthly benefits for children from 3 to 7 years old will be just words. The corresponding decree was signed, entered into force on the day of signing, and on March 20 was published on the official portal of legal information.
We present you with the top 5 key points and answers to questions about payments for families with children from 3 to 7 years old from 2020.
5. Allowance is due only to the poor
Those families in which the average per capita income is not higher than the subsistence minimum established in the region of the Russian Federation where they live are entitled to a monthly payment.
For example, in Moscow this figure is 17 329 rubles per person, in St. Petersburg - 11 363 rubles, and in Rostov-on-Don - 10 351 rubles.
To find out if your family is entitled to payment for a child from 3 to 7 years old, you need to add up the income of all family members. And then divide it by the number of parents and children (grandmothers, grandfathers and other relatives are not counted).
Let's take a situation where a family living in the Rostov region consists of 3 people (2 adults and 1 child aged 5 years), but only the father works and receives 21 thousand rubles a month. Accordingly, the income for each family member will be 7 thousand rubles (21/3), and such a family has the right to make payments for the child.
If a low-income family has not one, but two or more children aged three to seven, then each of them is entitled to an allowance.
The President recommended to the governors not to cancel the previously assigned regional benefits to low-income families with children, and to keep them in full.
4. Average payout
Families who are eligible to receive payments can count on a child allowance equal to 50% of the child's minimum subsistence level in their region of residence. On average in Russia, the amount will be 5.5 thousand rubles.
Next year, the amount of the payment is planned to be raised to the size of 1 living wage.
3. When it will be possible to apply for payments for children from 3 to 7 years old
This can be done from July 1 this year. But don't worry, benefits will be calculated from January 1, so low-income families with children who are three years old at the beginning of 2020 will receive money for all of the past months of this year.
2. Where will you need to apply for child benefits from 3 to 7 years
The Russian authorities plan to make it as easy as possible to apply for child benefits. It is enough just to submit an application via the Internet, on the State Services portal (this can be done from July 1).
In this case, the required package of documents will be collected through interagency cooperation.
1. What documents are required to receive payments for a child from three to seven years old
The government is still working on a list of documents that parents will need to receive payments. It will be finalized on April 1.
Presumably the following documents will be required:
- parents' passports;
- certificate of family composition;
- statement of income.
How much does it cost to arrange a payment
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has already calculated the approximate budget spending on demographic measures announced by the president. They will amount to 400-450 billion rubles. And this is only this year, next year they may significantly exceed this amount.
These expenses include not only payments to low-income families with children, but also maternity capital, which from 2020 will be paid for the first child (466,617 rubles) with annual indexation.