According to the Decree of the Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic of December 15, 2017 No. 362 “On Amendments to the Decree of the Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic of April 29, 2015 No. 162 (as amended and supplemented)”, the amount of social payments and benefits to certain categories of citizens permanently residing in the territory of the Republic and eligible for these social benefits, increased since January 1, 2018.
Social benefits are provided for the following categories of citizens:
1) state assistance in connection with pregnancy and childbirth – 3 700 RUB (increase by 1 700 RUB);
2) one-off monetary childbirth benefit (for each child) – 20 640 RUB;
3) state assistance for children upon reaching the age of three (for each child) – 1 720 RUB;
4) child benefit to single mothers (for each child) – 1 000 RUB;
5) state assistance for children who are under custody and guardianship, including:
- Children under 6 years old (for each child) – 5 968 RUB (increase by 1 568 RUB);
- Children of the age between 6 and 18 (for each child) – 7 440 RUB (increase by 3 040 RUB);
6) state assistance for orphan children and children who are under custody and guardianship, being raised in family-type children’s homes and in foster families and payment to educators and foster parents in family-type children’s homes and in foster families, including:
- Children under 6 years old (for each child) – 5 968 RUB (increase by 1 568 RUB);
- Children of the age between 6 and 18 (for each child) – 7 440 RUB (increase by 3 040 RUB);
- Orphaned children and children deprived of parental care, who are full-time students in the age between 18 and 23 (for each child) – 7 048 RUB (increase by 2 648 RUB);
- payment to educators and foster parents in family-type children’s homes and in foster families (for each child) – 1 500 RUB;
7) Temporary state benefits are paid to children with parents who refuse to pay child support costs, who are unable to maintain the child or whose whereabouts are unknown (for each child) – 1 000 RUB;
8) state support for families with three or more children (for each child) – 1000 RUB;
9) state support for disabled children, including:
- state support for disabled children of A subgroup with the supplementary care allowance for the age under 6 – 4 906 RUB;
- state support for disabled children of A subgroup with the supplementary care allowance for the age between 6 and 18 – 5 642 RUB;
- state support for disabled children with the supplementary care allowance – 3 000 RUB;
10) State social assistance for people disabled from childhood, including:
- State social assistance for people disabled from childhood of Group 1 subgroup А with the supplementary care allowance – 5 642 RUB (increase by 2 042 RUB);
- State social assistance for people disabled from childhood of Group 1 subgroup B – 4 119 RUB (increase by 879 RUB);
- State social assistance for people disabled from childhood of Group 2 – 3 240 RUB (increase by 1 140 RUB);
- State social assistance for people disabled from childhood of Group 3 – 2 100 RUB;
11) State social assistance for persons who are not entitled to a pension and disabled persons, including:
- State social assistance for disabled people Group 1 subgroup А – 3 200 RUB;
- State social assistance for disabled people Group 1 (except disabled people of Group 1 subgroup А) – 3 000 RUB;
- State social assistance for disabled people Group 2 – 2 500 RUB;
- State social assistance for disabled people Group 3 – 2 100 RUB;
- State social assistance for persons who are not entitled to a pension – 2 100 RUB;
12) State social assistance to low-income families (per family) – 2 800 RUB (increase by 700 RUB);
13) Invalid care allowance for people disabled by reason of mental disorder (1 and 2 groups) – 2 436 RUB;
14) Allowances for funeral expenses on the death of a disabled child, a person not entitled to pension, disabled person or participant of military actions – 5 000 RUB.
