INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
births, Labor Minister Anton Kotyakovsaid Monday.First-time mothers will receive a lump sum of 677,000 rubles ($7,000) starting in 2025,
than 1 million people to receive maternity payments next year
A draft budget currently under consideration in parliament would allocate 536.71 billion rubles ($5.57 billion) to the benefits program next
small to motivate women to have more than one child and that they fail to keep up with inflation.The program was set to end in 2026, but
President Vladimir Putin extended it until 2030 during his re-election campaign earlier this year.
