In the amount of the subsistence minimum for all schoolchildren in the country
On Tuesday, 11 members of the LDPR faction, including Senator Elena Afanasyeva, will submit to the State Duma a draft law «On annual cash payments to families with children in connection with the start of the school year.»
We are talking about introducing an additional annual payment to families with children aged six to 18, as well as families with disabled children and students with disabilities aged 18 to 23.
The so-called «first of September capital» in the amount of the minimum wage (15,453 rubles) is supposed to be paid before the start of the school year and until the end of the year (from August to December).
– Together with colleagues from the LDPR, we have prepared an initiative aimed at additional support for families with children, called “September 1st capital” for all schoolchildren, – Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Social Policy Yaroslav Nilov shared with MK. – We propose introducing an annual payment in the amount of the federal subsistence minimum for families with children aged 6-18 and where there are disabled people and students with disabilities aged 18-23.
Preparation for school, uniform, office supplies, textbooks – for all this, it is possible and necessary to extend a financial hand of state assistance to parents. Especially when there are several schoolchildren in the family.
We have been promoting this topic for a long time and, as Vladimir Zhirinovsky once instructed, we continue to strive for its implementation. What is important is that the payment will not be taken into account in the family's income, therefore it will not affect the provision of other benefits, — concluded deputy Nilov.
The authors of the initiative refer to the positive effect of the 2021 Presidential Decree «On a one-time payment to families with children», which established a one-time payment of 10,000 rubles for school-age children and students with disabilities aged 18 to 23 years old — for all Russian families, regardless of income level and standard of living.
In the current conditions of ruble devaluation, rising prices and falling incomes, parents are asking State Duma deputies to continue making cash payments at the beginning of the school year.
«The bill provides for the right to one of the parents (adoptive parents, guardians, trustees) to receive an annual cash payment in connection with the beginning of the school year in the amount of the subsistence minimum for children in the Russian Federation as a whole. «At the same time, the student and the disabled person must have Russian citizenship,» follows from the explanatory note to the draft federal law.
Financing of the expenses of the «First of September capital» is planned at the expense of the federal budget. If the bill is approved, the law will come into force on January 1, 2025.