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Adoptive parents gave seven children to guardianship authorities after moving to Moscow. The city authorities refused to pay them wages
The spouses, who moved to Moscow from Kaliningrad, gave seven adopted children to the guardianship authorities because of the refusal of the Moscow city authorities to pay them salaries as foster parents. This was announced to journalists by the director of the Center for Assistance to Family Education "Our House" Vadim Menshov.
The eldest of the returned children is 12 years old, the youngest is three years old.
Menshov explained that the Moscow authorities refused to "register a 'foster family' and pay them a salary" as "out-of-town". According to him, the family received payments in the amount of 18 thousand rubles a month for one child, while remuneration for foster parents in Moscow can reach 85 thousand rubles per child.
Vladimir Petrosyan, the head of the Moscow Department of Social Protection, told reporters that there were "a lot" of such cases, and explained the refusal of the authorities to draw up an agreement on a foster family in such situations by the need to allocate housing to foster children after the 18th birthday.
“They came from the regions to Moscow, why should Moscow keep them here in Moscow? Seven children, to whom in five years I had to give seven apartments in Moscow. Why is this? - TASS quotes him.
“They were not paid Moscow money, they wanted to receive Moscow money, but they paid only regional money, but then, if he took it not at the call of his heart, but for business, you will excuse me…,” added the head of the Moscow department. <...> “At the age of 16.5, a child is suddenly brought and left in Moscow. Imagine a child in 1.5 years to get an apartment in Moscow. Guys, that's not how it's done. We write letters to the regions, they do not take their children back. Why?" Petrosyan said.