In 2013, benefits for children under 3 years of age will double
This was announced by the Chairman of the Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Khristoforov, during a briefing with journalists.
The corresponding bill came into force on January 1. One of the innovations of the document is a change in the mechanism for calculating monthly payments. The amount of the benefit will be tied not to the subsistence minimum budget, but to the average monthly wages of workers in the country. Its size will be differentiated depending on the number of children raised in the family.
The main recipients of state targeted social assistance in the Vitebsk region are families raising minor children, including large families (24 percent of the total number of appointments), single-parent families (30 percent), and families raising one or two minor children (16 percent). The remaining 20 percent are single citizens.