The Social Fund appointed a single allowance for 140,000 children under 17 years of age. In total, the fund has received 730,000 applications for a new payment so far. Their reception began on December 28 on the public services portal.
Consideration of the applications submitted by the branches of the Social Fund began on January 3 and has already approved payments for 140,000 children under 17, as well as for 3,000 pregnant women. Given the current deadlines for the provision of a single allowance, families will receive payments within the next week.
In addition, in the first days of January, the Social Fund also approved payments for 42 thousand first-born children under 3 years old who appeared in families before the end of last year. Now the payment for such children is included in the single allowance and is issued according to the new rules. At the same time, if the child was born in the family before 2023, parents can receive a payment under the previously existing conditions. That is, without taking into account property and if the family has higher incomes - within the limits of two living wages per person, and not one, as in the case of applying for a single allowance.
Recall that the new allowance replaced five previously existing support measures for needy families. These are two monthly payments for the first and third child under 3 years old, two monthly payments for children from 3 to 8 years old and children from 8 to 17 years old, as well as a monthly payment for pregnancy. A single allowance is assigned to families with incomes below the regional subsistence level per person. Children and parents must be Russian citizens and permanently reside in Russia. When assigning a payment, a comprehensive assessment of the income and property of the family is applied, and the employment of parents is also taken into account.