“The new payment for families with low incomes, which was introduced on behalf of the President, was received by the parents of 1.6 million children aged 8 to 17 years.
Families have already been paid 24.3 billion rubles, ”the PFR website says.
Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the government would allocate about 1.7 trillion rubles for benefits and pensions.