Food stamps in Russia: From January 1 in Russian They will be in the Królewiecki District food stamps were required. The region is returning to this solution, it operated there for three months, between April and July 2022. Food stamps are to be distributed first to retirees and pensioners with incomes below the subsistence minimum. Large families and other needy groups of citizens are also to receive support. He supports this solution and would like to extend to the entire country head of the Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov. He added that the state could also subsidize food suppliers.
The value of food stamps: Dmitry Yanin estimates that food stamps would be a success if each person received PLN 3,000 per month. rubles (about PLN 116) to buy food. This would cost the budget 720 billion rubles. Such an amount could allegedly be included in the Russian budget. However, Nikita Sennikov believes that the value of the voucher should be around PLN 5,000-6,000. rubles. And then the budget would have to organize from 900 million to 1.2 billion rubles.
Growing poverty: Experts point out that extending the program to the entire country would require determining the actual number of low-income people and calculating how much would be needed to support them. IN Russia 11.8 million people live below the minimum subsistence threshold, and number of poor people is estimated at 18 million. It puts Russians into poverty inflationwhich according to the authorities is 9.2 percent. Alternatively, calculations indicate faster growth prices. Romir estimates that CPI inflationi.e. the increase in prices of goods most frequently purchased by households only in the period from January to September amounted to 13.7 percent
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Sources: : The Moscow Times