The State Duma offered compensation for part of the costs of housing and communal services to families

Boris Chernyshov proposed introducing compensation in the amount of 30% of housing and utility costs for families during the first 12 months of a child’s life.

Compensation is offered for one residential premises - at the child’s registered address.

The initiative is aimed at complementing the existing system of support for families with children and improving conditions for the implementation of demographic policy.

MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. The head of the State Duma Committee for the Development of Civil Society, Boris Chernyshov (LDPR), proposed introducing compensation for part of the costs of paying for housing and utilities for families during the first 12 months of a child’s life.

The corresponding appeal addressed to the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Anton Kotyakov is available to RIA Novosti.

“I ask you to consider the possibility of introducing compensation for part of the costs of paying for living quarters and utilities for families during the first 12 months of a child’s life. It is proposed to establish compensation in the amount of 30 percent of housing and utility costs for one residential premises - at the child’s registered address at the place of residence,” the letter says.

In his address, Chernyshov noted that the birth of a child significantly changes the structure of family expenses: in the first months, parents simultaneously bear the costs of essential goods and the child’s medical needs, and family income often temporarily decreases due to one of the parents going on parental leave.

According to him, the current social support system provides a single benefit for families with low incomes, subsidies for housing and utilities when the established share of expenses in the family budget is exceeded, as well as benefits for housing and communal services for certain categories of citizens, including large families.

However, the head of the committee emphasized that there is no universal measure that would help a family with mandatory housing and utility costs in the most expensive first year after the birth of a child at the federal level.

He believes that it is advisable to provide the right to compensation from the month the child is born until he reaches the age of one year. And information about the birth and registration of a child, as well as the data necessary to assign a payment, according to the initiative, can be confirmed through interdepartmental information interaction.