Head of the Accounts Chamber Alexey Kudrin in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia called a way to defeat poverty in Russia in three or four years.
In his opinion, it is possible to achieve a decline in poverty levels. Not by 2030, as the government plans, and for several years due to the address social support of low-income citizens. At the same time, Kudrin spoke in support of the approach to the introduction of requirements for beneficiaries, including property qualifications. “If a person has two homes, two cars, then it is clear that he can no longer claim payments. If we exclude such recipients, the people will remain to help raise the standard of living,” he explained.
Now the rules are provided by a fairly large amount of property, which can own the family in aggregate: apartment, residential building, cottage, land, garage, car, motorcycle, tractor and boat. At the same time, apartments and homes are not included in the calculation of the need, recognized as uncomfortable, as well as the property obtained as a measure of social support, and Far Eastern hectares. According to Alexey Kudrin, these requirements could be tightened. At the same time, he believes, social reforms should be carried out “without revolutions, including taking into account the preservation of certain stability.”
Previously, Kudrin said that the government consider the possibility of introducing a new criterion to determine poverty. He specified that in the Accounts Chamber, these developments have not yet seen. He also offered to pay social benefits to all needy families, and not just those in which there are children. He explained that it was only so possible to achieve the goals to reduce poverty, which Putin President Vladimir Putin put.
At the end of March, it became known that every fifth poor Russian remained without the help of the state. Then 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.