State support comes far from all low-income Russians, without it every fifth poor resident of the country remains. The head of the Accounts Chamber in the Council of Federation presented the head of the department Alexey Kudrin, reports TASS.
According to him, more than 20 percent of citizens who can apply for help are not covered by any programs. At the same time, they are in terms of living level below the subsistence minimum. “
Kudrin approved the decision to pay benefits for children aged 3 to 7 years, explaining that they played a big role in the fight against poverty. If they were not, the head of the joint venture would notice, poverty would be more than two percentage points.
At the same time, the official stressed that in force to achieve the targets for combating poverty impossible. Kudrin reminded that the Accounts Chamber handed over to the government own offers for evaluation.
Earlier, the head of the department during the meeting of the Committee of the Federation Council on the budget and financial markets indicated that the benefits should be paid on the basis of the general income of the family, and all those in need of families, and not only those in which there are children.
And last week Kudrin spoke about the proposals of the Accounts Chamber at a meeting with the President of the country Vladimir Putin. Apparently, such payments were one of them.