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The Russian Pension Fund website has opened a new section about the Social Fund of Russia (SFR) that is to begin operation on January 1, 2023.

The Pension Fund congratulates Russians on Mother’s Day, a bright holiday dear to everyone, which is observed on November 27 this year. The holiday supports family traditions and care for the family and underlines the importance of mothers in our life.

The Pension Fund is continuing to pay monthly maternity capital benefits to families with the second child. The benefit is currently received by 280,000 families. It is available to maternity capital holders with the family income smaller than two subsistence minimums per capita.

The Pension Fund has provided about 2.5 million proactive services since the beginning of this year. The Fund is assigning benefits and other measures of support, including pensions, maternity capital, social benefits and various pension supplements, without request.

Amendments to the Federal Law on State Benefits to Parents took effect in April 2022, to enable women to receive monthly pregnancy benefit with due account of the adjusted needs assessment rules. As of this date, 225,000 women have been assigned such benefits by the Pension Fund.

The assignment of disability insurance and social pensions has been proactive this year, without applications being filed with the PFR client service or any documents being gathered. This is done on the basis of the Federal Register of Disabled Persons and information in the PFR disposal.

A pilot project of the Russian Pension Fund has kicked off in regions to open centers for communication between senior citizens.

More than 732,200 families spent their maternity capital on the improvement of living conditions in 2022. This is one of the most popular methods of spending maternity capital funds, and 53.7% of applications filed since the beginning of the year have this purpose.

The Pension Fund assigns a higher fixed payment for the insurance pension of persons with underage dependents. The supplementary payment for dependents has been envisaged by law since the beginning of 2002.

Acting head of the Russian Pension Fund Board Sergei Chirkov has reported first results of the merger between the Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) and the tasks to be addressed by the Social Fund of Russia next year at a strategic meeting in Moscow on November 9.