Maternity capital in 2017 will not be indexed

Maternity capital in 2017 will not be indexed. This was stated by the Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin, RIA Novosti reports .

“No, the matkapital will not be indexed,” the minister said. He emphasized that this decision is final.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets stated that the government approved the indexation in 2017 "almost all social benefits", but in the discussion on maternity capital "The Point is not set."

The program of maternity capital, a one -time monetary payment at the birth or adoption of the second and subsequent child, has been operating in Russia since 2007. You can use maternity capital for strictly defined goals, for example, to improve housing conditions, teaching a child and a pension for the mother.

On August 23, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced the decision to replace the second indexation of pensions by a single payment in the amount of 5 thousand rubles. The official added money, pensioners will receive in January 2017. Then the prime minister assured that from January 1, the government will return to the complete indexation of pensions to the inflation rate.

On September 8, the director of the Consolidated Department of Macroeconomic Forecasting of the Ministry of Economic Development, Kirill Tremasov, said that at the end of 2016, the real disposable incomes of the Russian population will fall by 4.7-4.9 percent . As expected in the economic department, retail turnover will be reduced by 4.2-4.4 percent this year. At the same time, real salaries will show an increase of 0.5-0.7 percent, Tremas noted. However, salaries are only part of the income of Russians. Other receipts - social payments, property income, etc. - Continue to contract.

Thus, the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development on income of the population worsened. In the forecast published in May, the department proceeded in the basic scenario from the fact that the real disposable income in 2016 will decrease by 2.8 percent. The conservative option involved a drop in revenues by 5 percent, that is, a new forecast turned out to be closer to the previous pessimistic.