“304 thousand low-income pregnant women applied for a new social support measure to the Pension Fund.

The statements of single low-income parents who are raising children between the ages of eight and 17 are nearly 1.6 million, ”the United Russia website quoted her as saying.

Batalina noted that documents can be submitted on the portal of state services and at the offices of the Pension Fund of Russia.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said in June that the Cabinet of Ministers would allocate more than 36 billion rubles for new benefits for single parents with children between the ages of eight and 17.