Recipients of the 'Mother Heroine' order have been granted the right to a pension increase
As explained by Zhanna Turonok, Deputy Head of the Department for the Appointment and Payment of Pensions – Head of the Pension Provision Department of the Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 833 of 08.09.2012 introduced amendments to the Regulation on pensions for special merits to the Republic of Belarus. This normative legal act expands the list of persons entitled to a pension for special merits.
In particular, this right has been additionally granted to women who have given birth to and raised nine or more children and have been awarded one of the following state awards of the USSR or the Republic of Belarus: the Order of Mother, the Medal "Medal of Motherhood", the Order of "Maternal Glory", the Order of "Mother-Heroine".