Monthly payments to pregnant low-income women will amount to up to 12 thousand rubles, depending on the region, Izvestia calculated. On April 21, in a message to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin instructed to expand state support for families with children, including through this allowance.
The national average for pregnant women will be 6350 rubles per month. As the Ministry of Labor explained to Izvestia, the allowance will be paid monthly from the moment a woman is registered with a medical organization until the birth of a child. Women in whose families the average per capita income is less than the subsistence level per person in the region can count on help.
“The allowance will be half of the regional living wage of an able-bodied citizen,” the department said.
According to Izvestia’s estimates, in Moscow, based on current data, the payment could be 10.3 thousand rubles a month, in St. Petersburg – 6.4 thousand rubles, in the Belgorod region – slightly more than 5 thousand rubles, and in Kamchatka and Chukotka – about 11.4 thousand and 11.7 thousand rubles, respectively.
More than 700 thousand expectant mothers will receive additional support. These preliminary estimates are given by the Ministry of Labor.
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