“From January 1, the minimum amount of pensions with city supplements will be increased to 20,222 rubles a month.

Children's allowances and social benefits for the older generation will be indexed, ”the Moskva 24 website quoted him as saying during a speech with an annual report in the Moscow City Duma.

In mid-October, Sobyanin signed a law to increase the living wage for pensioners in Moscow in 2021 to 13,496 rubles.

Vyacheslav Egorov, a lawyer and member of the Public Council for the Rights of the Child under the Russian President's Commissioner, commented on the situation with social benefits in an interview with Life.ru.