Nearly 300 million rubles of benefits for firstborn children have been paid in Bashkiria year to date

UFA, 14 November 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Galina Bakhshieva/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. As of November 13, more than 4.6 thousand families of Bashkortostan have received an allowance for their first child, born or adopted this year.

As noted by the Ministry of Labor of the region, over the past three months, the number of recipients of this type of benefit has increased by 1.7 thousand. The total amount of payments for the first-born was 293 million rubles from the beginning of the year.

“More than 4.5 thousand families of the republic are currently beneficiaries for each child born the third or subsequent in 2018. The growth over the last three months amounted to almost 2,000”, said Rosa Kuzmenko, the press secretary of the Ministry of Labor of Bashkortostan. “Total, these families have been paid 238 million rubles since the beginning of the year”.

As reported by the Bashinform News Agency, from January 1, 2018, residents of Bashkiria have the right to two new measures of social support. It includes a monthly payment in connection with the birth (adoption) of the first child, as well as a monthly payment in connection with the birth of the third or subsequent child.

The amount of the monthly allowance for the first child is 8892 rubles (paid until the child reaches one and a half years), for the third and subsequent children - 8993 rubles (paid until the child reaches three years of age).

The monthly allowance for the firstborn is assigned in the case when an average income per family member amounts to 14,247 rubles. Families whose average per capita income does not exceed 9,182 rubles have the right to receive monthly payments for the third and subsequent children.

The funds for payments for firstborn children are allocated from the federal budget. Payments for the third and subsequent children born in 2018 are subject to co-financing from the federal and regional budgets.