“The Social Fund already assigns and pays unified benefits for children and pregnant women.

In the new Russian regions, parents of 22 thousand children have already received such assistance, ”TASS quoted him as saying during a plenary session in the State Duma.

Pudov recalled that branches of the Social Fund of Russia have been created and are functioning in the new regions.

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the Russian authorities had prepared a bill on a special procedure for establishing an average subsistence level in new regions.

Viktoriya Shakina, PhD in Law, Attorney-at-Law, Chairman, Managing Partner of ICA YurCity, Deputy Chairman of the Commission on Social and Economic Issues of the Russian Bar Association, in an interview with the FAN, said that from January 1, 2023, a single monthly allowance will be introduced in Russia in connection with the birth and upbringing of a child.