You can no longer 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 from the date of signing, and on March 20 was published on the official portal of legal information.
We present to you the top 5 key points and answers to questions about payments for families with children from 3 to 7 years old from 2020.
5. The allowance is provided only to the poor
The right to monthly payment is given to those families in which the per capita income is not higher than the subsistence level established in the region of the Russian Federation where they live.
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 a child from 3 to 7 years old, you need to summarize the income of all family members. And then divide it by the number of parents and children (grandparents and other relatives are not counted).
Let us 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 per family member will be 7 thousand rubles (21/3), and such a family has the right to receive payments for a child.
If in a low-income family there are not one, but two or more children aged three to seven years, then each of them is entitled to allowance.
The President recommended that the governors not to cancel the previously assigned regional benefits to poor families with children, and to keep them in full.
4. The average amount of payments
Families that qualify for benefits may be eligible for child allowance of 50% of the minimum subsistence level for the child that is set in their area of residence. On average in Russia, the amount will be 5.5 thousand rubles.
Next year, the amount of payment is planned to be raised to the size of 1 living wage.
3. When it will be possible to apply for payments to children from 3 to 7 years
This can be done from July 1 of this year. But do not worry, benefits will be calculated from January 1, so that poor families with children who were three years old at the beginning of 2020 will receive money for all the last months of this year.
2. Where will you need to apply for child benefits from 3 to 7 years
The Russian authorities plan to simplify the application for receiving child benefits as much as possible. It is enough to submit an application via the Internet, on the Gosuslug portal (this will be possible from July 1).
In this case, the necessary package of documents will be collected through interagency cooperation.
1. What documents will be required to receive payment for a child from three to seven years
The government is still working on a list of documents that parents will need to receive payment. It will be finally determined on April 1.
The following documents are expected to be required:
- passports of parents;
- certificate of family composition;
- statement of income.
How much does it cost to arrange
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has already calculated the approximate budget expenditures for demographic measures announced by the president. They will amount to 400-450 billion rubles. And this is only this year, next year they can significantly exceed this amount.
These expenses include not only payments to low-income families with children, but also the capital, which will be paid for the first child (466,617 rubles) with annual indexation from 2020.
