“Under current law, the second child in the family really should appear before the end of 2021, while the family can manage the funds later than this. So in 2022 the funds were pledged to all the same areas that are provided for by the program, ”the PFR press service quoted RIA Novosti as the source.

Earlier, a member of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy Oleg Nikolaev commented on the refusal of Russian banks to accept maternity capital as an initial contribution on a mortgage.

In addition, the director of the Institute for Improving Competitiveness, a member of the working group on demographic and family policy of the expert council under the Russian government, Alexei Ulyanov, in an interview with the NSN, proposed increasing maternal capital to one million rubles.