Monthly allowance for children under 3 years old: size, accrual, important points

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

The birth of a child is a very important and responsible step for any family. All the worries and troubles of parents cannot be counted. And the financial issue is especially acute, since raising a child takes a lot of time, and mothers rarely manage to send their child to kindergarten or leave them in the care of grandparents, and return to the workplace themselves. The state provides financial support to young parents. Citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to apply for assistance for the first child or for the second child up to 3 years of age. Families who were lucky enough to raise three or more children can also receive financial support from the state, and in a larger amount than in the first two cases.

Types of child support

There can be more than one allowance for 1 child under 3 years old, mothers have the right to count financial assistance from the moment they become registered at the clinic. Let's look at all possible types of benefits:

1. Payment upon registration of pregnancy up to 12 weeks. The amount of this allowanceaccording to 2017 is 613.14 rubles.
2. Maternity benefit in connection with pregnancy and childbirth. It is 100% of the average daily wage for two years of work, or in the minimum allowance in the amount indicated in paragraph 1.
3. One-time payment to the pregnant wife of a military man on active duty. The amount of this payment is quite large - 25,892.45 rubles.
4. One-time allowance when a baby arrives. The amount of this benefit is 16,350.33 rubles
5. Payment upon adoption of a child or establishment of custody over him has the same amount as in paragraph 4. The amount increases significantly if parents take responsibility for raising an adopted child with a disability or a child who has already reached the age of 7, as well as two or three children who are brothers and sisters to each other. In this case, one-time assistance will amount to 124,929.83 rubles. per child.
6. Maternity capital, or as it is also called family capital, remains unchanged during indexation and amounts to 453,026 rubles.
7. Payments for a child under 18 months of age. It is calculated based on the average daily wage for the previous 2 years at the place of official employment. It is paid in the amount of 40% of this amount. Or the minimum set by the state - 3,065.69 rubles. for the firstborn and 6,131.37 rubles. for the birth of a second child.
8. Support for children under 3 years old - 50 rubles plus the regional coefficient. The amount does not change with the birth or adoption of another child in the family.
9. Payment to a child, one of the parentswhich is a military conscript, is 11,096.76 rubles. This financial assistance is paid to the family on a monthly basis.
10. Support for the third child up to 3 years and the next children in the family. It is paid monthly and amounts to one subsistence minimum, depending on the region where the place of residence is registered.
11. The monthly allowance for the child of a deceased serviceman until he reaches the age of majority, that is, 18 years old, is 2,240.32 rubles. All these figures are given taking into account the indexation carried out in early February of this year.

For the indicated amounts, the indexation coefficient is 1.054 from the last year's figures.

One-time allowance

In addition to the allowance for child care up to 3 years old, young parents can receive a one-time subsidy. Any of the parents can apply for such compensation within six months from the date of birth. In 2017, one-time financial assistance amounted to RUB 16,352.33. To receive this type of compensation, if both parents are officially working, one of them should apply with the necessary documents and an application at the place of work. Accordingly, if only one of the parents is officially employed in the family, then he should submit an application and documents. And only if both are unemployed, you need to contact the social security department of your region.

Today, a pilot project called "Direct Payments" has been launched on the territory of our state. The essence of this experimentis that the lump sum payment for the baby is issued by the Social Insurance Fund. That is, the employer sends an application and data on the insured employee to the FSS. And the applicant receives funds directly from the Insurance Fund. This speeds up the process of receiving funds and reduces the so-called paperwork when assigning a lump sum.

The project does not operate throughout the state, but only in a few regions. Among the republics take part: Tatarstan, Mordovia and Karachay-Cherkessia. 14 regions go to the program "Direct payments". More precisely: Bryansk and Belgorod, Kurgan and Kaluga, Lipetsk and Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod and Novosibirsk, Ulyanovsk, Astrakhan, Tambov, Rostov and Samara regions of the Russian Federation. In addition, the Khabarovsk Territory and the most remote corner of our homeland, the Kaliningrad Region, also took part in the pilot launch of this new program. And the Republic of Crimea, which has recently joined Russia, along with the city of Sevastopol, also participates in Direct Payments.

Child Benefit up to 18 months

In Russia, maternity leave lasts 1.5 years from the moment the baby is born. An officially working mother can apply for an allowance for children under 3 years old, but financial assistance will no longer be paid in full. Until the baby reaches the age of 18 months, mothers receive an allowance in the amount of 40% of the average daily wage. This amount is determined based on the average for two years of work. If athe mother's average income is not higher than the subsistence minimum in the region where she is registered, or the work experience is less than six months, in which case she is assigned the minimum monthly subsidy. In 2017, this amount is 3,065.59 rubles for the first child, and 6,131.37 rubles for the second, third and subsequent babies.

Amount of assistance for the care of a child under 3 years old

The monthly allowance for a child under 3 years old was established back in 1994 by Presidential Decree number 1110, it indicates the amount of 50 rubles per month. To this day, no one has changed it yet. Naturally, with the current level of prices, this amount is simply ridiculous and it will not be enough for the full or at least partial maintenance of the child. By law, a regional coefficient is also added to this amount, but it does not significantly affect the amount of payments to the parents of the child. From time to time, bills to amend the law of 1994 are put forward by officials and activists, but so far no changes have occurred.

Benefit up to 3 years: who is eligible?

In Russia, maternity leave, as you know, is set for up to 1.5 years. After this time, citizens can apply for benefits for children from 1.5 to 3 years old. This type of financial assistance is permanent and only mothers can receive it, due to the fact that they do not have the opportunity to go to work.

Civil servants, military personnel on a permanent andcontract basis; women with disabilities of groups 1 and 2; studying in a higher educational institution in the correspondence form. Also mothers who are unemployed either due to liquidation of an enterprise or due to retraining. If a woman is caring for a child with a disability of group 1 or an elderly person over 80 years old, then she can also apply for benefits.

In addition to the mother, adoptive parents and guardians can receive benefits. The father, grandmother, grandfather can also take care of a child of 3 years old, if the mother was deprived of parental rights. To do this, you should collect a package of necessary documents and send it to the regional department of social protection or your employer.

You can apply any day before the child reaches the age of 3, but there is one caveat. If the application is submitted immediately after the child turns 18 months old or within 6 months after, then the allowance is paid in full for all months. If six months have already passed since the child's 18th birthday, the payment will be made only from the date of application.

List of documents at the place of work

Payment of allowances for children under 3 years old is provided upon submission of such documents at the place of work as copies of the work book and passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, copies of the order indicating the beginning and end of maternity leave to care for a child. In the original, you must provide the child's birth certificate and the application for financial assistance itself. The application is made in the name of the head of the organization or enterprise.

List of documents to the social security authorities

To apply to the local authorities or to the social assistance service for the population, it is necessary to provide an official document indicating that the applicant is not paid unemployment benefits. As in the previous case, you need the original birth certificate and a copy of the passport. And, of course, the application itself, it should indicate the method of receiving funds - mail or bank account.

You can submit all documents in person, by mail or via the Internet on a special portal for the provision of various state or municipal services. This can also be done by a legal representative. After receipt of the documents for the appointment, the decision is made for up to 10 days. The decision is provided to the applicant with the full benefit amount and due date.

Features of compensation calculation

As mentioned above, the child allowance for a child under 3 years old has a fixed amount and amounts to 50 rubles a month, a regional coefficient is also added to it. Most often, these payments fall on the employer, they are not taxed. If such compensations are not provided for at the applicant's place of work or have not been previously carried out, then according to the law of the Russian Federation, the employer is obliged to pay them.

Suspension of benefits

Payment of child benefit is suspended automatically from the day the child reaches the third birthday or in the event of the applicant's dismissal from the official place of work. Also, the grant is no longerwill be paid if the parent returned to the workplace and started working in a regular mode, that is, a full-time job. The exception is part-time or work from home. Another reason may be the deprivation of parental rights and the formation of the child on full state support. There are a number of circumstances of a private type that are not specified in the legislation of the Russian Federation. All these reasons for stopping the payment of monthly compensation are established by paragraph 17 of the Presidential Order No. 1206 and Article No. 256 of the Labor Code (Article 3).

Families with 3 or more children

For parents who are raising three or more native or adopted children, additional subsidies from the state are provided. The allowance up to 3 years for the third child and each subsequent child corresponds to the minimum established in the region in which the family is registered. According to 2014 data, the largest allowance is paid in the Kamchatka Territory - 16,253 rubles, and the lowest - in the Belgorod Region, here the amount of compensation was only 6,432 rubles.

Terms of receipt

It is not so easy for a large family to receive benefits for a third child under 3 years old. In order to apply for such a financial grant, certain conditions must be met. Namely, the birth rate in the region where the family lives should be less than average. These statistics for each region are updated every year.

Since the law on the possibility of receiving such benefits came into force only on the last calendar day of 2012, thenthe child, accordingly, must also be born no earlier than this date. If a child is adopted starting from the first day of 2016, and is also the third of the parents, he is en titled to financial assistance in the amount of the living wage.

It must be officially confirmed that the family needs state assistance. That is, the average official income per person in a family should not exceed the value of one living wage in the region where it is registered.

List of documents

The following is a list of the documents that must be submitted along with an official application for child support for children under 3 years of age. Such appeals are accepted by state bodies of social protection of self-government, as well as in a single Multifunctional center.

So, what is needed for this? Of the originals, you need the parents' passports, both of them are required, and the birth certificates of each child in the family or, accordingly, adoption certificates. You also need to get a certificate from the place of work for the last three months of the reporting period and a certificate of family composition. In addition, a certificate from the place of permanent or temporary registration. Be sure to provide the bank details of the card account or the account of an individual, where the funds will be paid.

Parents with many children need to confirm their right to receive financial subsidies from the state every year. This happens by re-submitting the application with all the accompanying list of documents.

Due to the fact that the allowance for a child under 3 years old is critically small, and there is no way to support a child on it, mothers most often return to work when the child is 18 months old. It is up to this period that they can receive a full cash subsidy for child care. These legislative acts are often reviewed, and it is quite possible that soon parental leave will be extended to 3 years in all regions of the Russian Federation.