Child’s Birth Benefits-Publication

Lump-Sum Benefit after the Child’s Birth

This benefit is paid to one of the parents or any person acting in his / her place.

To receive this benefit, the employee shall submit the following documents to the employer:

a written application;
a birth verification letter issued by the Civil Registry Office,;
a statement from the second parent’s employer (or from the social protection body, if he or she does not work) confirming that he / she has not received this benefit.

If more than one child is born concurrently, each child will be subject to the benefit.

* If a child is born dead, this benefit is not paid.

The benefit shall be paid in the amount adopted as of the date of the child’s birth, i. e. neither the date of the birth verification letter, nor the date of the application for the benefit is taken into account.

Since 01 February 2018, the benefit makes 16,759.09 roubles. Note that in areas with specific climatic conditions this amount shall be increased by a regional factor applied in the relative area.

Monthly Parental Benefit for a Child under 1.5 Years Old

This benefit is paid to an employee going on parental leave. The parental leave can be granted not only to the child’s mother, but to the child’s father, grandmother or any other relative that will actually care for the child.

To obtain this leave and receive this benefit, the employee shall submit the following documents to the employer:

To obtain this leave and receive this benefit, the employee shall submit the following documents to the employer:

a written application;
a scanned copy of the birth certificate;
a statement from the second parent’s employer (or from the social protection body, if he or she does not work) confirming that he / she has not obtained this leave and has not received the relevant benefit.

The amount of the monthly benefit shall be determined based on the employee’s average salary.

In general, the benefit amount shall be calculated according to the following formula:

The formula for calculation of the average daily salary is as follows:

Base Period means two calendar years preceding the parental leave.

Number of days in the Base Period means 730, 731 or 732 days minus the days of the employee’s sick leave, maternity leave or parental leave. Payments for the Base Period: the payments to be taken into consideration shall be those on which temporary disability insurance premiums have been accrued.

The average daily salary is limited by the minimum and maximum thresholds:

— minimum threshold:

311.97 roubles – since 01 January 2018 till 30 April 2018
367.00 roubles – since 01 May 2018

— maximum threshold:

2,017.81 roubles since 01 January 2018..

The benefit amount for a full month cannot be lower than the minimum threshold to be annually set by the Government of the Russian Federation:

— since 01 February 2018 including:

3,142.33 roubles as the first-child parental benefit
6,284.65 roubles as the parental benefit for the second and each subsequent child.

— since 01 May 2018 including:

4,465.20 roubles as the first-child parental benefit (the benefit for the second and each subsequent child has remained the same).

If the average daily salary is less than the minimum threshold, the benefit for a full month shall be 40% of the minimum statutory monthly wage as of the starting date of the parental leave:

as regards the leave starting within the period since 01 January 2018 till 30 April 2018, the minimum threshold for the average daily salary is 311.97 roubles, i. e. the benefit amounts to 3,795.60 roubles (9,489 roubles x 40%);
as regards the leave starting since 01 May 2018, the minimum threshold for the average daily salary is 367 roubles, i. e. the benefit amounts to 4,465.20 roubles (11,163 roubles x 40%).

Monthly Compensatory Parental Benefit for a Child under 3 Years Old

This benefit shall be approved based on the employee’s application simultaneously with the parental leave for a child under 3 years old.

The benefit amounts to 50 roubles. Note that in areas with specific climatic conditions this amount shall be increased by a regional factor applied in this relative area.

Other Benefits after the Child’s Birth

An employer is entitled (but is not obliged) to adopt any other benefits for employees in relation to the child’s birth. For example, an employee may receive financial aid in the form of a lump-sum payment amounting to 50,000 roubles within the first year from the child’s birth, and such a benefit will be fully exempt from the personal income tax. .

Additional Payments Approved since 01 January 2018

Since 01 January 2018 the citizens are entitled to receive a monthly benefit for the first or second child under 1.5 years old due to the child’s birth (adoption).

The basic condition for allocation of the said benefit is the family’s per capita income which shall not exceed 1.5-fold amount of the minimum statutory living wage of the able-bodied citizens adopted in the relative constituent entity of the Russian Federation for the second quarter of the year preceding the year of application for such a benefit.

An application for the said benefit may be filed at any moment within 1.5 years since the child’s birth:

at the place of residence with the regional social protection body, as regards the first child’s birth (adoption);
at the place of residence with the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, as regards the second child’s birth (adoption).

Besides, each constituent entity of the Russian Federation may adopt regional laws on any other additional benefits, allowances, and in-kind aid.

Article of Natalia Morozova, Methodologist, BdO Unicon Outsourcing