The Ministry of Labor proposed to adjust the payments of child benefits to needy families with children from three to seven years old. This was reported by the Kommersant newspaper.
It is noted that if a family has property, which includes houses, cars and motorcycles, but the level of official income is low, such assistance from the department will be limited. With the help of these innovations, assistance to those in need will be most effective.
For those caring for a child under three years old, a disabled child, a disabled person or an elderly person over 80 years old, the right to receive payments in the absence of official income is retained. In addition, compulsory military service, as well as official unemployment status and full-time training for family members under 23 years old are also a valid reason for this field.
In case of non-compliance with the new criteria, families will receive payments for children from three to seven years with the preservation of the already assigned amount until the end of the specified period.
The day before, the Ministry of Labor announced that the size of “children’s” payments is planned to be increased by 50-100% of the subsistence minimum in the subject per child, if the basic amount of payments does not allow the family to cross the poverty line. The basic level of payments is 50% of the regional subsistence level per child. The corresponding decree was signed on the same day by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to the current conditions of the program, in order to receive assistance from the state, family income must be below the poverty line established in the region. Because of this, the recipients of payments were often formally unemployed people with high “gray” incomes.