“The Accounts Chamber of Russia has assessed the impact of six government policy measures on achieving national goals for real income growth and poverty reduction ... These measures lead to a decrease in the poverty level by 2.32 percentage points,” the department noted.
It is clarified that they analyzed monthly payments to certain categories of the population, an increase in wages to employees of the public sector, a bonus for class teachers in the amount of 5 thousand rubles, as well as payments to families with children, an increase in unemployment benefits to the minimum wage, social allowances to pensions.
"In the absence of monthly cash payments (monthly cash payments. -
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), the average per capita income of Russians in 2019 would be lower than the actual level by 0.68%, and real disposable income - by 0.89 percentage points," the materials say.
In addition, it is noted that without benefits for the third and subsequent children under 3 years of age, the poverty level in Russia would have increased by 0.433%.
The ministry stressed that an increase in the size of unemployment benefits should reduce the poverty level by 0.35 percentage points.
and promote income growth by 0.06%, real disposable income growth - by 0.08 percentage points.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, at a joint meeting of the State Council and the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects, spoke about plans to reduce poverty in the country by 2030.