Who will be paid child care benefits under 3 years of age in 2021?

Maternity payments up to 3 years

Maternity leave up to 3 years is paid from the Social Insurance Fund. Which categories of persons are entitled to support:

• working insured citizens;
• unemployed;
• disabled;
• full-time students;
• IP;
• persons who are left without work due to the termination of the employer’s activities.

The monthly benefit is calculated based on the income for the last 24 months preceding the year in which the mother went on maternity leave. The amount of security is 40% of the average salary for 2 years. If there are several children under 1.5 years of age in a family, then the payments are added up, but their amount does not exceed the full average earnings for the last 2 years.

It should be borne in mind that the maximum amount of income on which the payment is calculated should not be greater than the maximum rate for calculating insurance premiums. In 2021, this maximum is 912 thousand rubles.

Funds are paid within one and a half years after birth. Then, from one and a half to three years, the mother or guardian receives monetary compensation at the place of work.

The truth about payments for children under three years of age

These are not the same payments that were 50 rubles. Here's how it really is:

1. The compensation payment for children under three years of age has not been increased. It will be 50 rubles per month, as before. The employer pays it at his own expense.
2. The changes apply only to what are called Putin payments - for the first and second child.
3. They are only available to families in which children were born starting in 2021.
4. Starting from 2021, payments will be given to families whose average per capita income is no more than two subsistence minimums per person per month. In 2021 - no more than one and a half.
5. Payments will be provided until the child’s third birthday. In 2021, up to one and a half years are prescribed.
6. You can apply for benefits at any time until the child turns three years old. If you are not currently eligible for state support due to income, it may become available in 2021.
7. An application with a package of income documents will need to be submitted every year.
8. The amount of the benefit will not change - one subsistence minimum per child per month.
9. There are no payments for the third child. Even if he was born in 2021 or later.

Child benefit for a child from 1.5 to 3 years old

The state has canceled monthly compensation payments in the amount of 50 rubles for child care, which are paid from one and a half to three years.

The document invalidates Presidential Decree No. 1110 of May 30, 1994, which states that benefits of 50 rubles are awarded to mothers who are in employment relationships with organizations, regardless of organizational and legal forms, and to female military personnel on leave for child care up to three years old.

At the same time, citizens to whom these payments were previously assigned will receive them before the end of the established period.

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All benefits for children under 3 years of age

Let's consider all payments up to 3 years that are due to mothers and guardians on parental leave.
Payments for child care up to three years of age

Some regions of the Russian Federation provide additional financial support and benefits.

Monthly payment for the first and second child

What has changed: the term for assigning these payments has been increased to three years, the limit on average per capita income has been increased to two subsistence minimums, and the amounts by region have changed.

Starting this year, this payment is due to families whose average income over the last 12 months does not exceed two regional subsistence levels per person. Today, it is possible to receive such money until the child turns 3. At the same time, the first-born or second child should be born no earlier than 2021. If the child is the third, fourth or subsequent child, this option of state support does not apply.

The amount of the monthly payment is equal to the subsistence minimum per child established in a particular region for the second quarter of the previous year. For the first child, money comes from the federal budget, for the second - from maternity capital.

Temporary benefits

1. Allowance for children born between 04/01/2017 and 06/30/2021 – 5 thousand rubles per month

for April, May and June 2021. The payment is due only for those months when the child actually falls within these age limits, that is, if the child is born in June of this year, the family is entitled to only 5 thousand rubles.

2. Benefit for children born between 05/11/2004 and 06/30. 2017 – 10 thousand rubles at a time.

3. Allowance for children from birth to 16 years – 10 thousand for July.

Vladimir Putin promised this payment to families during his address to the nation on June 23. Those parents who have already received one of the two benefits that I mentioned above will receive the July one automatically.

The above 2 benefits are available to ALL families without exception, the main condition being the age of the child and his citizenship of the Russian Federation. You can read more about this in this analysis.

You can apply for benefits until October 1, 2021,

on the State Services portal, in person at the Pension Fund or on the website pfrf.ru.

3. All minor children of citizens who are registered with Employment Centers are entitled to a payment of 3 thousand rubles per month

for April, May and June. The main condition is that the parent (or both parents, it doesn’t matter) must lose their job after March 1, 2020. 3 thousand for children will be accrued along with the required unemployment benefits (12,130 rubles + regional supplement). If you don’t believe me, read this article of mine.

Benefits for those in need

Let me clarify right away: the official status of “poor” has nothing to do with these benefits. Payments to low-income children come from regional budgets; they differ in different regions. In this article I describe “means testing” - a new concept in law.

1. Monthly payments for the first or second children from 0 to 3 years old, born after 01/01/2021, in the amount of the subsistence minimum for a child in the region, the national average is 11 thousand rubles.

Rely only on families where the average per capita income does not exceed TWO subsistence levels of the population in the region. To calculate it, you need to add up the family income and divide it by the number of family members. (All about this abstruse calculation here). It is issued at the State Services, or at the MFC or the center for social protection of the population.

2. Monthly payments for children from 3 to 7 years old (inclusive), in the amount of half the subsistence minimum for a child in the region, the national average is 5.5 thousand rubles. Rely only on families where the average per capita income does not exceed ONE subsistence level of the population in the region. I described how to correctly calculate income and receive benefits as a result here.

You can apply for benefits at the State Services, or at the MFC or social protection center from June 1, but you will be paid for the entire year retroactively for all months of 2021 (of course, if the child has already turned 3 by that time). That is, in June you can get 33 thousand rubles at once.

Full instructions for obtaining here.

Benefits for everyone

1. Maternity benefit. In fact, this is payment for sick leave. It is entitled only to working women, in the amount of the average monthly full earnings before tax for the 2 years preceding the year of sick leave, but not more than 322,191 rubles and not less than
55,830 rubles.
You can apply for it from your employer.

2. One-time benefit for women registered with medical organizations in the early stages of pregnancy – 675 rubles

and a one-time payment at the birth of a child -
18,004 rubles.
It applies to everyone who takes sick leave to care for a child. Apply at State Services or at the MFC.

3. Childcare benefit for a child up to 1.5 years old in the amount of 40% of earnings for the last 2 years, but not more than 27,984 rubles and not less than 6,751 rubles.

The unemployed and students receive the minimum wage. The employed make payments to the employer, the unemployed – to the social security of the population. An article about loopholes in the law that will allow you to get more maternity money is here.

4. Maternity capital.

Families in which their second children were born before January 1, 2021, or their first child was born after January 1, 2021, can receive a certificate for
466 thousand rubles.
Families in which the second child was born after January 1, 2020 will receive a certificate for 6
16 thousand rubles
, families in which both children were born after January 1, 2021 will receive
first 466 and then 150 thousand rubles.
Registered with the Pension Fund.

Important:

The amount of maternity capital depends not on the year of birth of the child, but on the year the certificate was used. That is, if a child was born this year, and you use the certificate in 5 years, its amount may still increase.

5. Families in which the 3rd child is born between 01/01/2021 and 12/31/2022 can take advantage of mortgage loan compensation in the amount of 450 thousand rubles.

That is, the state will repay this part of the loan for you. If there is no loan, you will not be able to use compensation. It is issued at the bank where you have a mortgage agreement. Instructions for obtaining are here.

6. Families with children studying in grades 1-4 of primary school, regardless of income or place of residence, will receive daily free hot lunches from 2021. Residents of Moscow or St. Petersburg will be able to save about 1-3 thousand rubles per year per child on them.

Replacing the 50 ruble benefit

From January 1, 2021, instead of an allowance of 50 rubles, a new allowance will be paid in the amount of the child’s subsistence level in the region.

To receive this benefit, you must obtain a certificate of average earnings. Low-income families are entitled to a new child benefit.

Families whose average per capita income is no more than twice the subsistence level of the working-age population of their region for the 2nd quarter of the previous year will receive additional social support.

Who is entitled to benefits for up to 3 years?

Mothers can apply for child benefits:

• those performing military service;
• disabled people of groups 1 and 2;
• unemployed as a result of the termination of the organization in which they were employed;
• unemployed people who are undergoing retraining courses;
• correspondence students of universities;
• individual entrepreneurs;
• those who care for a disabled child of group 1.

In addition to mothers themselves, the following people have the right to apply for this type of compensation for child care:

• second parent;
• children's guardian;
• the person who took the child in for adoption;
• grandmothers;
• grandfathers;
• other categories of citizens who are relatives of the children’s parents and who provide day-to-day care for the child.

Summarizing, when the mother returns to work, but if a place in the nursery is not provided, it is possible to save government cash payments by transferring them to someone who will look after children under 3 years of age during the mother’s absence. Payment of compensation will also take place monthly.

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What documents are needed to receive benefits?

The rest of the list of documents has not changed. As before, you need to fill out a lengthy application, consent to the processing of personal data and attach the following documents:

• applicant's passport;
• birth certificate;
• certificates of income of all family members for the last 12 months;
• account details.

The federal cost of living in 2021 for a child will be set at 11,004 rubles. Most Russian regions are guided by this amount. Therefore, for most parents, the benefit amount for up to 3 years in 2021 will be exactly 11,004 rubles.

Please note that Federal Law No. 418-FZ only applies to children born after January 1, 2018. Therefore, parents of children born in 2021 cannot claim benefits until they are 3 years old, despite the fact that their children have not yet reached this age.

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How to apply for benefits?

Registration procedure:

1. You must submit an application and documents at your place of work. If a woman is registered as an individual entrepreneur or unemployed, then she needs to submit papers to the social protection authorities.
2. The documents are reviewed by the employer within 10 working days, after which benefits are assigned.
3. If payments were made through the employer, they will be credited to the card on the day the salary is issued. When registering compensation with the social security authorities, funds can be transferred to any account specified in the application or issued in cash via mail at the request of the applicant.

After the birth of a child, you can apply for compensation from the employer and maternity benefits with one application at once.

Child benefits up to 18 years of age in 2021

From 2021, financial support for low-income families will be individual. Citizens whose average per capita income is below the subsistence level will be able to receive this benefit, provided they timely contact the social protection authorities and present a full package of documents.

It is too early to talk about the size of the benefit. The payment may be increased taking into account inflation over the past year, or it may remain at the same level.

You should not expect any new payments for children in 2021. Whether benefits will be increased and in what amount will become known only at the beginning of 2021.

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Application for benefits

The document must indicate:

1. Name of the organization and full name of the general director.
2. Your details (full name, position).
3. In the main part of the document, you need to provide the data of the decree on maternity payments and formulate a request for compensation.
4. Date and signature.

Sample document:

Application deadline

Documents must be submitted no later than 6 months after the date the woman goes on leave. If the deadline is missed, you will only be able to receive payments for a period not exceeding six months.

Termination of payments

There are situations in which payments are suspended for up to 3 years:

• the woman resigned of her own free will;
• receives unemployment benefits;
• early exit from vacation;
• a woman goes from maternity leave to maternity leave;
• the child was taken to a boarding school;
• the mother was deprived of parental rights.

The termination of child benefit payments occurs from the next month after the occurrence of these circumstances.

What kind of extension?

The peculiarity of these payments for children is that they are assigned from the moment the application is submitted until the child turns 1, 2 or 3 years old. That is, if you submit an application when the child is 3 months old, benefits will be received in the next 9 months, after which the application will have to be submitted again.

This is not the easiest procedure - in addition to the fact that you need to go to the MFC or social security, every year you need to collect documents confirming your low level of income

. And these incomes are now calculated differently than usual - for the year (12 months), which ended 6 months ago. And if the family is truly in need, parents will have to confirm income with documents up to 3 times:

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• at the time of the first application for benefits;
• when the child turns 1 year old;
• when the child turns 2 years old.

But it is impossible to extend the payment through State Services

(because the social security department of a particular city is responsible for the registration), and in 2021 there is a coronavirus pandemic. What to do?

In the spring, the government found a solution for those families who need to extend the payment of benefits from April 1 to October 1, 2020

, these payments were extended automatically. This means that the payment of benefits was extended to families, even without confirmation of their income. In fact, the state decided that these families still needed money - and automatically approved the payment of benefits for the year.

True, in October the coronavirus in Russia spread even faster than in the spring. And then the government again decides to extend payments - this time until March 1, 2021

. That is, all families whose period of payment of “Putin” benefits ends from October to March will also receive an extension for a year.

Other benefits and benefits for children

What, in addition to benefits, can families with children under three years old count on:

• utility benefits;
• the right to a free plot of land;
• housing subsidies;
• survivor's pension;
• caring for a disabled child;
• for families with many children: tax benefits, housing, utilities, free food according to a doctor’s conclusion, free medicines, purchase of children’s goods.

Receipt of benefits is not automatic after childbirth. Funds are paid only on the basis of the application and provided papers.

Benefits for conscripts' wives

Pregnant wives of conscripts will begin to receive one-time assistance in the amount of 28,511 rubles . Eligibility for benefits does not depend on family income. However, it is worth noting that only the legal wives of conscripts whose pregnancy is at least 180 days can receive the payment.

Help will also be provided to those families of conscripts who have already given birth to a child. The benefit amount will be 12,219 rubles . These amounts are subject to indexation like other social payments. This resolution came into force on September 8, 2020.

Answers to frequently asked questions

Below we will look at the most common questions and their answers.

Is it possible to receive benefits for up to 3 years in several years at once if you have not received benefits before?

No, it will not be possible to receive benefits for several years; this is not provided for by law. After completing an application and submitting a package of documents, you can receive benefits a maximum of six months before the date of application. That is, if you submit documents in November, and the child is already 2.10, they can pay benefits for June-November. If you apply at the beginning of the year, you can only receive money for the current year; they will not pay for the previous year.

If the right to benefits has not arisen before - if the child has just turned 1.5 years old, then it will not be possible to receive benefits.

Can I get benefits for up to 3 years if I don’t work anywhere?

Yes. The benefit is assigned to the mother or other guardian who cares for a child under 3 years of age. Therefore, it is realistic to receive benefits if you do not work anywhere.

I receive an allowance of 50 rubles, can I get a new allowance for children under 3 years old?

If a child was born before January 1, 2020, then he is entitled to receive the benefit that he already receives. For children born after January 1, 2020, a new allowance is issued for children under 3 years of age. Therefore, if you already receive an allowance of 50 rubles, it will most likely not be possible to convert it to a new one, since the child does not fall under the new support measures.

Is it possible to receive benefits for up to 3 years if maternity capital is used up?

If you plan to receive benefits for your second child, but maternity capital has already been spent, then no. The funds go to the mother from maternity capital funds.

For the first child, funds are allocated from the federal budget. This payment does not yet apply to the third, fourth and subsequent children.

Can the amount change due to taxes or other fees?

No. Benefits are not subject to taxes and are not subject to any fees or other monetary penalties. The entire amount should arrive on approximately the same date every month.

Is this benefit reported as income?

This benefit is not documented in any way if it is necessary to collect income certificates in order to receive additionally any other type of support. This money is not considered income that would interfere with receiving other types of benefits.

What changed?

A new benefit for child care under 3 years old will not be introduced in 2021. The changes affected benefits for the first or second child, which is currently paid only up to 1.5 years of age (Federal Law dated December 28, 2017 No. 418-FZ “On monthly payments to families with children”). Its size has not changed - this is the children's subsistence level of the region in which the family lives.

Not only did they extend child care benefits up to 3 years in Russia in 2020. The changes also affected the list of documents required to obtain it.

First of all, this applies to a certificate of family income and the procedure for submitting it. Currently, the payment of benefits is determined by the criterion of need. It is received only by those families whose income per person is less than one and a half times the subsistence level in the region. From January 1, the criterion for receiving benefits will be an income less than twice the subsistence minimum. Thus, the number of families who will receive child care benefits for up to 3 years should increase significantly from 2021.

The frequency of confirmation of need for this benefit has also changed. Currently, you only need to re-verify your income once. The procedure for assigning benefits is as follows:

• when applying before the child is 6 months old, the benefit is assigned from birth;
• when applying for benefits after the child is 6 months old, the benefit is assigned from the date of filing the application.

In both cases, the benefit was assigned for 1 calendar year. After this period, documents were required to be resubmitted to confirm family income for the past year.

Now there will be a different system for benefit payments. The new law from 2021 provides for twice resubmission of documents. And within strictly defined periods: when the child is one year old, and then two years old. Thus, regardless of the deadline for the initial submission, parents will have to re-submit income certificates in 1 year and 2 years. If the parents initially applied when the child was 9 months old, then the certificate must be submitted again not at 1.9 months (as in 2019), but already at 1 year. If a family’s income is significantly lower than the required norm, then such a change will not affect them much. But those families whose income is very close to twice the subsistence level and varies from month to month may lose several months of benefits due to strict deadlines for submitting documents.