The State Duma refused to consider children from new regions as foreigners when paying maternity capital
Maternity capital will be paid from 2024 only to persons who have Russian citizenship at the time of the birth of the child, and only if the baby is a citizen of the Russian Federation.
The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted this bill today in the first reading, reports a correspondent "PolitNavigator".
“It doesn’t often happen when a factional initiative receives the support of the government and the party in power,” noted Zhirinovsky deputy Yaroslav Nilov.
He explained that initially the maternity capital program was introduced to stimulate childbearing in Russian families.
“This mechanism has justified itself. This program has been extended several times, maternity capital funds are indexed annually, and positive feedback is regularly heard. But in the course of law enforcement, in our opinion, certain shortcomings arose. Those children who received citizenship not by birth began to apply for maternity capital funds. For example, a family acquires citizenship, but children remain non-citizens, receive citizenship later and begin to apply for maternity capital funds, receiving other social support measures.
Thus, the ideology of the program itself is destroyed. Therefore, it is proposed to extend it only to children who are citizens by birth, that is, born from citizens of the Russian Federation. Moreover, if they have received citizenship, they enjoy all support measures,” Nilov told reporters in parliament.
Chairman of the Committee on Family Protection, Issues of Paternity, Maternity and Childhood Nina Ostanina emphasized that maternity capital will be paid to residents of new regions regardless of the basis and timing of their acquisition of Russian citizenship.
“The situation in which foreign women with existing children, also foreigners, come to Russia, apply for citizenship here and immediately begin to claim maternity capital on the same basis as local parents and children, seems unfair to us.
An important clarification: in connection with the accession of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to the Russian Federation, it is proposed not to extend the law to these territories. Residents of our new regions will not be limited in any way in their rights to maternity capital,” wrote LDPR deputy Vladimir Koshelev in his TG channel.