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More than 500 billion rubles will be spent on Putin payments to pensioners after elections to the State Duma

For one -time payments to pensioners and military personnel announced by Putin, more than 500 billion rubles will allocate from the budget. This was stated by the head of the State Duma committee on budget and taxes Andrei Makarov (United Russia), Interfax reports .

According to him, financing will be carried out from additional budget revenues. The Russian economy has practically recovered after the crisis caused by Pandemia, which made it possible to support the “most unprotected categories of citizens,” he said.

Member of the Council of the Federation Council, Valery Ryazansky,specified RIA Novosti that the money will most likely be paid from one of the pensions. The military will receive assistance with one of the payments. Plan payments will be made before the end of the year.

Vladimir Putin announced new payments on August 22 at a meeting with candidates for deputies from United Russia. The president proposed to pay 10 thousand rubles to pensioners, including those working, military personnel “according to the results of the year” - an average of 15 thousand rubles. “I would ask for United Russia when it forms a faction in the Duma, to react,” he said.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov later clarified that payments will be made not by raising taxes. “In this case, the budget balance, the balance of all expenses - of course, is very important, and this is an absolute constant for the Cabinet of Ministers,” he said.

The elections to the State Duma will be held this year from September 17 to 19. The last time the composition of the lower house of parliament was chosen in 2016. According to the VTsIOM, the electoral rating of the united Russia in the country in mid -August was 27.3% - this is one of the lowest values since 2006. According to the FOM, 30% of Russians are ready to vote for the party in the party. According to the Levada Center, only 28% of those who, in principle will go to the polls, will vote for the party.