Child allowance

The content of the article

• Types of child allowances paid in Russia
• One-time
• Monthly
• Sizes of children’s allowances in 2019
• Maternity
• When registering in early pregnancy
• Payments to a young family at birth
• When transferring a child to a family
• Maternity capital at the birth of a second child
• Child care up to 1.5 years
• Childcare up to 3 years
• Cash payments until the child is 16 or 18 years old
• State aid for large families
• What documents are needed to apply for a child allowance

Government benefits and benefits are a great incentive to give birth to children. People are more likely to become parents, knowing that in the first years the state will help, whether it is a child or not, whether he is fifth or first. Having legally guaranteed child allowance, the state gave all issues of payments to each federal district. Let’s find out what payments are due at the birth of a second child or first-born, single mothers, parents with many children, and to what age offspring parents are entitled to rely on this state aid.

Types of child allowances paid in Russia

The state pays financial assistance to parents either from its own budget or from compulsory social insurance funds. What benefits are given at birth? “Prize” for the timely registration of pregnancy, maternity leave, the transition of the family to the status of large families. When adopting children, adoptive parents are fully equalized with their relatives.

According to the frequency of payments, all subsidies from the state are divided into two main types:

1. One-time (one-time) – one-time payments made on a specific factual basis: the fact of documenting pregnancy, childbirth or adoption.
2. Periodic (monthly) accruals. These are long-term payments of money that the state continues until the termination of the grounds or a certain age of the child. So, for example, only a year and a half they pay maternity care.

The employer is obliged to make single and monthly payments to maternity workers according to the letter of the law as part of an insurance contract between him and the employee. Mom, who does not have an employer, prepares subsidies at the local (for registration, registration) social welfare department. The same organization pays money for the adoption of a baby younger than three months..

One-time

Types of subsidized lump-sum payments:

• gestation, childbirth (maternity);
• maternal capital;
• adoption or custody of the child;
• birth of a baby.

Who is the maternity allowance for? Pregnant women who have entered the gynecological register before 12 obstetric weeks; to employees insured by the employer; to students; unemployed women with confirmed unemployed status; the wives of conscripts (a separate type of subsidy). This one-time allowance is also paid to adoptive parents of infants up to three months. The right to this cash payment are:

• any adoptive parent;
• one adoptive parent;
• each guardian or trustee of children under fourteen years of age and older adolescents.

Maternal capital is a tangible one-time state subsidy for parents. It is paid for all born and adopted children except the firstborn. The right to receive is the mother or adoptive mother, the male adoptive parent (if he is the only adoptive parent). The subsidy is paid only for children born or adopted from January 1, 2007..

Monthly

Children’s monthly subsidies are:

1. Compensation for care of up to one year and six months is paid only to parents officially staying on the decree (other relatives).
2. Grants to children of conscripts. Paid to their wives or relatives following the child.
3. Payments for each newborn, starting with the third child. Regulated by legal acts of local legislators.
4. Compensation for mothers (other relatives) who monitor children under 3 years old. Addressed only to working or officially unemployed.

Sizes of children’s allowances in 2019

Guaranteed payments from the state budget are prescribed by law and are unchanged for any region: for example, additional payments to women who have registered a pregnancy early (up to 84 days). Amounts of benefits consisting of subsidies from the local and federal budgets are calculated according to a certain formula and vary in individual regions. So, payments for each subsequent newborn to a family with the status of a large family in St. Petersburg will be different than benefits in Vladivostok.

To calculate how much the allowance for the birth of a child in 2019 will be, an online calculator will allow. Such a service provides, for example, a site for children. Such a service provides a children’s site with info: here you must specify the city, the number and age of existing children, the duration of your pregnancy, the average value of your salary over the past two years. The automated system will make a calculation and display the amount.

Maternity

A woman who is about to give birth to an employed woman is entitled to receive child allowance. The amount of subsidies is calculated and accrued by the employer. Maternity leave lasts: ten weeks before childbirth and after, when carrying several babies – 12 and 16. The size of the payment is equal to the full size of the average salary for all days of the maternity leave. For the newborn a one-time compensation payment is provided for 14,497.80 rubles.

An additional fixed cash payment is also provided for the wives of conscripts (conscripts). After one hundred and eighty days of pregnancy, they are entitled to receive from the state 22 thousand 958 rubles. 78 cop. Making a payment of money is possible only upon confirmation that the pregnant woman is registered, and her conscript husband is in the service.

When registering in early pregnancy

An additional one-time payment of this category is 543 rubles 67 kopecks. Officially unemployed women, private entrepreneurs receive this subsidized assistance as compulsory social insurance. The amount paid to working women is paid by the employer, while full-time students, contract servicemen are paid in the form of state social insurance. The condition for receiving a subsidy is a certificate of registration with a pregnancy of not more than 12 obstetric weeks.

Payments to a young family at birth

Regional (local) subsidies include financial assistance to a young family. This, for example, is a governor’s payment in Moscow, Sevastopol, Nizhny Novgorod region. How much do young parents pay? The amount of subsidies in subsistence minimums is:

• 5 minimums for the first-born;
• on the second newborn – 7;
• for all other children – 10.

The calculation of the amount is carried out taking into account the official current living wage. The amount of the benefit is transferred to a social card or to a savings book. Conditions for receiving money:

• father and mother must be under thirty;
• so that one of them (or both) has a permanent registration;
• applications for benefits are drawn up one year from the date of delivery.

When transferring a child to a family

The basis for registration of maternal care from the state is adoption and guardianship. The due allowance is equal to the amount of payment at the birth of a child in 2019 (one-time compensation subsidy). It increases from 14 thousand 497 rubles. 80 kopecks up to 110 thousand 775 rubles. (November 2019) if the family accepts several siblings, a child from eight years of age or a disabled person. The right to receive money has guardians, adoptive parents, trustees, adoptive parents.

Maternity capital at the birth of a second child

This is a monetary certificate, the right to which is retained at the birth of each subsequent baby (third, fourth, etc.). The subsidy in 2019 is 453,026 rubles, it is spent only by cashless funds. Parents have the right to form a funded pension from this money, they can teach them all the children in the family or spend on housing (buy, build). To begin the implementation of this mother aid is possible only after the heir’s third birthday. Family income does not affect the size of this subsidy..

Child care up to 1.5 years

Maternity benefits include non-fixed care benefits. Employees of enterprises (public, private) receive forty percent of their average at the rate of two years of earnings. Payment to non-working parents is calculated in the Social Security Administration, its minimum size in the current year is 2718.35 rubles, that is, there will be no less than this subsidy. 19855.78 rubles – the maximum possible help.

Childcare up to 3 years

Material support up to 3 years is not provided for by domestic laws: they stop paying subsidies for care after 1.5 years. Parents who continue to be on maternity leave are given monthly compensation (rather, conditional!) – 50 p. In many regions, local legislation provides for other amounts that are paid in addition to state compensation..

Cash payments until the child is 16 or 18 years old

Only single mothers should count on this help. Payments are charged from the local budget of a particular county. The estimated range in the subjects of the Russian Federation varies from three hundred rubles to one and a half thousand, subsidies continue only with the annual confirmation by a single mother of her status. In April 2013, the Federal Law established yet another material assistance – a monthly pension for children with disabilities (the first group) from three to eighteen years old (8704 rubles)..

State aid for large families

The family acquires the title of a large family, replenished with a third heir. Along with the new status, she receives the right to special maternal care (the degree of protection of the poor). Issues related to the volume of payments and possible benefits are left to the federal districts, and the list of state aid is formed from the list that is given in presidential decree No. 431 of 1992:

1. 30% discount on utility bills.
2. Priority in admission to kindergartens, hospitals, health camps.
3. Gratuitous treatment in public institutions, the provision of medicines to children under the age of six.
4. Free city transport passes.
5. School, sports uniform for a year (except June-August).
6. For schoolchildren and students, food in the educational institution is free of charge.
7. Per month 1 free day of cultural events.
8. Gratuitous provision of land.
9. 50% discount on children traveling with one parent to the place of treatment.
10. Tax benefits.
11. Early retirement pension for mothers.

What documents are needed to apply for a child allowance

Any allowance is issued only upon application, at a personal visit and the provision of a package of supporting papers. A list of all certificates and documents (copies) for registration of state subsidies should be taken in the district department of the Social Security Administration. There are additional requirements for certain categories of applicants: single mothers, persons with disabilities, students, non-working parents, wives of military personnel, therefore only specialists will give the exact number of required documents. They will also give methodological recommendations on how to calculate the due payments from the state..

What should single mothers, adoptive parents, guardians, wives of conscripts, low-income families count on? How old are children? How to calculate the amount due to parents independently, what data and formula to take as a basis? Why do some organizations refuse to pay these benefits? All answers are best known to representatives of the Social Security Center..

They explain the mechanism of action of laws on benefits at the local level, give advice on renewing pensions in Sobes, receiving benefits, and increasing payments. They say what and how many documents will be needed to complete each type of state aid, in what time frames it should be charged, where to apply to working and unemployed parents. In the video presented, look at all this in more detail: