Deputy Alfiya Kogogina, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship, member of the UNITED RUSSIA faction, commented on the initiative.: "During the personal reception of citizens in the region, My colleagues and I were approached by parents and guardians of children with disabilities with a pressing question about the unfair deprivation of an increased supplement to an insurance pension in the event that their small incomes did not allow the child to remain in the status of a dependent. Earlier, the Constitutional Court ruled that such situations should be interpreted in favor of parents of children with disabilities, and now we have fixed this provision in law."
State-owned In the third reading, the Duma adopted a provision according to which parents and guardians of disabled children from childhood who continue to raise incapacitated children after they reach adulthood will be entitled to receive an increased fixed payment in addition to an old-age insurance pension.
In Russia, there are about 15,000 families eligible for such payments in the amount of 7.5-11 thousand rubles. The federal budget provides about 32 million rubles for these payments.