If possible, it is necessary to launch additional measures to support Russians, especially families with children, said Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on economic issues. The President noted that it is also necessary to create a comfortable environment for the life of citizens and “pull people out of the slums.” Mr Putin also promised that the increase in pensions will continue in the future.
Mr Putin believes that it is necessary to promptly make adjustments to the draft budget and, if possible, launch additional measures to support citizens, especially families with children. As examples of such measures, he cited allowances for schoolchildren, who by the beginning of the school year received 10 thousand rubles each, as well as lump-sum payments to pensioners and the military (also 10 thousand rubles each).
The President clarified that such targeted support “exactly complements, is part of the systematic work aimed at increasing the incomes of citizens.” “In the coming years, we will continue to increase pensions. Funds for such indexation are included in the budget, “the president said, quoted by the Kremlin press service.
Vladimir Putin said that in 2023 all military personnel and law enforcement officers will increase the indexation of salaries by 5%. Also, in the next two years, the salaries of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Federal Customs Service, the National Guard and others will increase annually by 9%, he added.
The President called an important task “the creation of a modern, comfortable environment for the life of citizens.” First of all, according to him, it is necessary to accelerate the resettlement program for emergency housing and launch a new one. “I have said many times, I want to emphasize again: we need to get people out of the slums. In this regard, it is necessary to launch a new program, which will include houses recognized as emergency in January 2021. Citizens living here should begin to receive high-quality, modern housing as early as next year, “Putin instructed.
The President added that it is necessary to fully realize the potential of the federal budget for the next three years “as a development budget.” “Precisely as a development budget, as a powerful instrument for achieving national goals in the field of the economy as a whole, infrastructure, ecology, social sphere, and increasing the incomes of citizens,” Vladimir Putin stressed.
At the end of August, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that new payments to citizens were not planned. According to the estimates of the Accounts Chamber, the well-being of Russians has not yet recovered to the level preceding the crisis of 2014, and it was possible to slightly reduce the level of poverty only thanks to social benefits. Mr Putin sees poverty as the country’s main enemy, as well as health, education and infrastructure problems. In his opinion, the authorities still “have something to work on”.
This week the government approved the draft federal budget for 2022-2024. The Pension Fund said that in 2022, some categories of citizens will have their pensions indexed by 5.8% and its size will average 18,521 rubles. Matkapital for the first child will also be indexed, and by 2024 its amount should exceed 544 thousand rubles.
More details about the draft budget – in the material “Kommersant” “Blooming nesting”.
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