"We order: to recognize as invalid the order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia and the Federal State Statistics Service of March 11, 2013 No. 93n / 91" On approval of the list of food products - representatives for determining the level of consumer prices for food when calculating the subsistence minimum " , - says the published draft.
Since 2021, the procedure for calculating the subsistence minimum has changed in Russia: earlier it was calculated on the basis of quarterly data from Rosstat on the cost of products included in the consumer basket, and now - through the median salary and the coefficient to it.
On April 7, the head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin, speaking with a report in the State Duma, said that "the government is considering another criterion for the level of poverty."