The Social Fund started accepting applications for a new welfare benefit for families with two or more children – the annual family payout. Starting today, parents can apply for the benefit via the Gosuslugi Portal, the Fund's customer offices and multifunctional centers.
Only an application is needed; the Social Fund will collect and verify the rest of the information on its own. As per the current rules, parents will need to present certain documents themselves, for example, birth and marriage certificates issued abroad or income statements from security and law enforcement agencies.
Parents have four months to submit their applications: until October 1. The Social Fund will review them within 10 business days of submission and notify the parent of the result within one day after the decision is made. If approved, the funds will be remitted within 5 business days.
"The process for assigning this new payout is designed to ensure most parents receive it as quickly as possible and with minimal effort," explained Sergey Chirkov, Head of the Social Fund. "To achieve this, a digital application service with automated data entry has been launched on the Gosuslugi Portal. We have established a clear schedule for reviewing applications and providing updates with up-to-date statuses. The system collects and verifies most of information on its own."
When determining eligibility for the payout, income and property assessment rules apply, which are already familiar to many families who have applied for other child benefits, such as the unified allowance for children under 17 and pregnant women. A similar procedure for assessing financial status is used when granting the new family payout.
The income assessment covers salaries, pensions, scholarships, self-employment income, alimony, contract payments, bank deposit interest and the unified benefit. Payments such as maternity capital, government subsidies for purchasing housing or transport, payments for caring for disabled individuals, tax deductions, and certain others are excluded from the assessment.
Family property is evaluated based on the same criteria as are used for the unified allowance. It is allowed to own one real estate property of each type: an apartment, a house, a dacha, a garage, and a plot of land, without any area restrictions. Specific limits apply to multiple owned properties: the total area of apartments shall not exceed 24 square meters per family member, the area of single-family houses shall not exceed 40 square meters per person, and the total area of land plots must not exceed 0.25 hectares in urban areas or 1 hectare in rural areas.
Owning one car, a motorboat, a tractor, or another type of self-propelled machinery is also permitted. Large families, families with a disabled member, as well as families that received a vehicle as a form of welfare, are allowed to own two vehicles of the same type.
The right to the family payout is granted to both working parents, as well as adoptive parents, guardians and trustees raising two or more children under the age of 18, or under 23 if the child is a full-time student. The per capita income in the family shall not exceed 1.5 times the regional subsistence rate for 2025. The payout is granted only in the absence of outstanding child support.
For families whose family payout is approved, the already paid personal income tax is recalculated at a rate of 6%, and the difference is returned as a lump-sum payment.
Read more about the terms and conditions of the new family payout.