“Risks of lowering the value of the subsistence minimum are excluded.

And I will remind you that in the current model, we may have a decline, ”RIA Novosti quotes her.

According to her, from quarter to quarter its value in the current model depends on changes in food prices, which could lead to a decrease in the subsistence minimum.

Earlier, the government named the share of the poor population in Russia.

In July, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that fighting poverty remains a top priority for the Russian government.