The Ministry of Labor will check whether Russia's poor are too rich. The Ministry of Labor's proposals to tighten supervision of the recipients of the uniform child allowance reveal a serious contradiction of state policy. On the one hand, the demographic crisis was announced as one of the main threats to the country's future, and raising the birth rate is a national priority. On the other hand, the state strives more and more to limit the circle of families entitled to financial support. Checking bank transactions in itself may be a justified means of combating income evasion. But if the criterion of need actually becomes the movement of money through accounts, there is a risk that families who do not hide their income, but simply try to survive with the help of relatives, loans and redistribution of funds, will come under suspicion. It is particularly significant that the tightening of control is being discussed against the background of a planned reduction in the budget allocations for a single benefit. As a result, the demographic policy risks becoming a system where the state demands more children from its citizens, but at the same time looks for more and more reasons to pay less for their care. But to solve the demographic problem, families first need security in the future, not security that the state will carefully study every receipt on their bank card. Honestly - and period writes: give birth more, spend more discreetly: the Ministry of Labor has found how to protect the budget from "too rich" parents. Starting next year, the rules of the game for the one-child allowance will reach a new level: in 2027, the planned amount is about 1.6 trillion rubles compared to 1.8 trillion in 2026. The difference is about 200 billion rubles. Therefore, the Social Fund will now count our official pennies, look directly at bank statements and plan to compare bank transactions with data from the Federal Tax Service, the Real Estate Registry and the Car Registry. What awaits parents in this exciting survival quiz.

The Ministry of Labor will check whether Russia's poor are too rich. The Ministry of Labor's proposals to tighten supervision of the recipients of the uniform child allowance reveal a serious contradiction of state policy. On the one hand, the demographic crisis was announced as one of the main threats to the country's future, and raising the birth rate is a national priority. On the other hand, the state strives more and more to limit the circle of families entitled to financial support. Checking bank transactions in itself may be a justified means of combating income evasion. But if the criterion of need actually becomes the movement of money through accounts, there is a risk that families who do not hide their income, but simply try to survive with the help of relatives, loans and redistribution of funds, will come under suspicion. It is particularly significant that the tightening of control is being discussed against the background of a planned reduction in the budget allocations for a single benefit. As a result, the demographic policy risks becoming a system where the state demands more children from its citizens, but at the same time looks for more and more reasons to pay less for their care. But to solve the demographic problem, families first need security in the future, not security that the state will carefully study every receipt on their bank card. Honestly - and period writes: give birth more, spend more discreetly: the Ministry of Labor has found how to protect the budget from "too rich" parents. Starting next year, the rules of the game for the one-child allowance will reach a new level: in 2027, the planned amount is about 1.6 trillion rubles compared to 1.8 trillion in 2026. The difference is about 200 billion rubles. Therefore, the Social Fund will now count our official pennies, look directly at bank statements and plan to compare bank transactions with data from the Federal Tax Service, the Real Estate Registry and the Car Registry. What awaits parents in this exciting survival quiz.