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Disabled people in wheelchair may now book special seats on intercity trains online. The online booking option is available owing to integration of the Russian Railways system and the Federal Register of Disabled Persons operated by the Pension Fund. The register gives constant access to information about disabled persons to the transport company and makes it unnecessary to confirm disability with documents.

The proactive assignment of insurance and social disability pensions began this year. Nowadays, they are assigned on the basis of information from the Federal Register of Disabled Persons without the provision of additional documents. Some 83,000 disabled persons have received payments in the proactive format since January.    

An online seminar for teachers and organizers of Internet ABC, a joint program of the Russian Pension Fund and the Rostelecom company aimed at computer training of pensioners, took place in 55 regions of Russia today. More than 1,500 applications for attending the seminar were filed.

A new benefit for families with low income, established on the orders from the president, has been received by parents of 1.6 million children aged from eight to 17. In all, 24.3 billion rubles have been paid to the families.

Do you have any questions about the new benefit for children aged from eight to 17 in families with low income? Have you received the decision but have objections? Contact the online office of the Pension Fund.

Some 1.2  million Russians have received notifications about their future pensions, which the Pension Fund has been proactively sending since this year to men older than 45 and women older than 40.

Client services of the Russian Pension Fund and the unified call center stayed open on weekends and holidays in May to receive applications from families for a new benefit for children aged from eight to 17. The submission of applications began on May 1. Besides the public services portal, the applications were accepted at 2,000 territorial divisions of the fund. On May 1-3 and May 7-10, territorial offices were working on a special schedule and receiving applications for the new benefit for parents’ convenience. Service was provided by 4,000 PFR specialists on holidays.

Some 55,000 families spent maternity capital on building or renovating their home last year. Except for Moscow, the option was most frequently used by residents of the Krasnodar Territory where over 3,000 applications of the sort were filed.  Residents of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region also preferred building a house to buying one. Some 2,400 families spent the money that way.

Since May 1, the call center has received over 10,000 calls about the new benefit for children aged from eight to 17. Most frequently, the callers asked about the procedure of benefit assignment and the way of evaluation of family needs. Parents also asked how to file the application correctly and how documents certifying the right to the benefit can be presented.