The Cabinet promised to simplify and make targeted 74 social payments by 2025

By the end of the year, eight support measures will be transferred to the social treasury system, a representative of the Ministry of Labor assured in response to a request from Vedomosti. These will include, for example, payments to military personnel, members of their families, benefits to victims of the Chernobyl disaster and a number of others, the interlocutor promised. He claims that by 2025, 24 more measures will be included in the system.

The social treasury implies, firstly, the targeting of payments, i.e. the amount of support depends on income: less well-to-do citizens receive higher amounts. Secondly, the minimization of bureaucracy when applying, i.e. in fact, this is a one-stop shop. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin proposed to President Vladimir Putin to create a social treasury to improve the targeting and effectiveness of support in the context of the coronavirus crisis in 2020. From 1 rub. Only 25 kopecks of social benefits and payments reach the poor, experts at the World Bank and the Research Financial Institute of the Ministry of Finance estimated at the time.