“In accordance with the instructions of the President, the transfer of funds began ahead of schedule - on August 2.

Most of the parents who have sent applications to the Pension Fund have already been able to receive the funds, ”Kotyakova quotes TASS.

As noted, as of Monday evening, August 2, payments were received by parents raising 17.4 million children.

The head of the Ministry of Labor specified that the receipt of applications and their processing continues.

In Russia, on August 2, a lump sum payment of 10 thousand rubles for school-age children began.

On July 18, it was reported that the Russian government allocated more than 204 billion rubles for payments to schoolchildren.