Family support: Putin signed the law on child benefits

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law raising monthly payments to the first or second child for families whose income does not exceed two living wages per parent. These changes will take effect on January 1, 2020.

The corresponding document is posted on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The law will expand the list of families who can receive payments for children. Previously, monthly allowances were paid to those families in which the size of the average per capita income does not exceed one and a half times the subsistence minimum for the working-age population in the region.

The new order states that payments will be relied upon to those families in which the average per capita income was lower than twice the subsistence minimum.

In addition, payments can be received within three years from the date of birth of the child, and not one and a half, as it was before.

Note that now the amount of this benefit is 50 rubles, but in the future this amount should grow to the size of the subsistence minimum adopted in the region.

The corresponding measure was included in the list of presidential decrees following a straight line held in June 2019. The list of these instructions was published on the Kremlin website.

According to the document, from January 1, 2020, monthly payments should be made to citizens “on leave to take care of a child aged between one and a half and three years, in an amount equal to the subsistence minimum for children defined in the subject of the Russian Federation”.

Appropriate measures, as noted in the document, should be taken if the size of the average family income does not exceed twice the subsistence minimum of the working-age population, defined in the subject of the Russian Federation.

As Putin said during the direct line, innovations will allow these support measures to be extended to 70% of families.

Spy devices

Along with the law on payments to families, Putin signed a number of other documents. In particular, the head of state approved laws explaining the concept of “special technical means intended for secretly obtaining information”.

According to the document, such devices do not include free-flowing devices, systems, complexes, devices, household tools that have the functions of audio recording, video recording, photographing and geolocation, unless they intentionally by means of refinement or otherwise add new properties that allow them to obtain or to accumulate information constituting a personal, family, commercial or other secret protected by law, without the knowledge of the owner.

Prerequisites for these changes were also outlined in a straight line with the president, but earlier, in 2017. Then the correspondent of RT Ilya Petrenko asked the head of state a question about the Kurgan farmer Yevgeny Vasilyev, who was tried for the illegal circulation of special equipment.

Recall, Vasilyev purchased a GPS tracker in the Chinese online store, with which he was going to track the movement of his cow. Later it turned out that the design of the device has a hidden microphone. The investigative committee accused Vasilyev of illegal trafficking in special technical equipment intended for secretly obtaining information.

When the president was told about this story, he admitted that he did not understand the essence of the claims against the farmer.

“I don’t even know that there is such an article. I will definitely look into the relationship and the article as a whole, and these specific people that you mentioned. About the fact that you can not attach to the cow. The first time I hear. To the cats, I know, even the GPS and GLONASS are screwed in so that the cat is not lost. I do not understand what the problem is with the cow ... We need to somehow adjust this, I will try to do it, ”Putin said, answering a question from a RT correspondent.

Residence and temporary residence

Another document Putin approved the changes in the federal law "On the legal status of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation", which provide for the simplification of a number of existing procedures.

In particular, the document included citizens of Ukraine in the list of persons who may receive a permit for temporary residence in Russia, regardless of quotas established by the government.

Thus, a temporary residence permit in the Russian Federation can be issued without a government quota, if it is requested, by citizens of Ukraine or stateless persons permanently residing in Ukraine, as well as persons recognized as refugees or granted temporary asylum in Russia.

In addition to this, the law shortens the period for processing applications for temporary residence permits from six to four months.

In addition, the law expands the list of categories of foreigners who can obtain a residence permit without a temporary residence permit. This list includes people born in the RSFSR and who had USSR citizenship, children born in Russia, adopted by foreigners who permanently live in Russia, foreign citizens whose relatives are in a direct ascending line or were deported from the Crimean ASSR themselves.

This procedure will also apply to highly qualified specialists and their families, as well as to qualified specialists who have worked in Russia in the specialty for at least six months.