Deputies from the LDPR faction, headed by Deputy Speaker Igor Lebedev and Senator Sergei Leonov, are submitting to the State Duma a bill providing for the payment of maternity capital for the third and subsequent children for another category of citizens. The text of the bill was published on his Telegram channel by the deputy head of the faction, Yaroslav Nilov.
Matkapital at the birth of the third child is proposed to be set in the same amount as when paying for the first.
The bill provides for payments of maternity capital for the third and subsequent children from January 1, 2022 in regions with low fertility, if the family has not previously exercised the right to additional measures of state support. It is also proposed to extend the measures to men who have not previously used the right to state support, who are the only adoptive parents of a third child, fourth or subsequent children, if the court decision entered into force on January 1, 2022.
“Maternal (family) capital fully justifies its functional purpose. But it is possible and necessary to use these funds more widely than is now fixed. If we talk about the need to correct the demographic situation in certain regions, where fertility rates are noticeably lower even than the average statistics, we need specific measures “, – wrote Nilov.
Earlier in Russia, it was proposed to allow maternity capital to be invested in securities with minimal risk and pension reserves of Non-State Pension Funds (NPF). The corresponding idea was discussed at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov.
In September 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to index maternity capital every year. From January 1, 2021, the payment amount increased by almost 23 thousand rubles, to 639,432 rubles. The size of the capital for the first child was almost 484 thousand rubles.