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2.3 Russia's population policy action plan to 2025 about to start
The action plan for Russia's population policy program until 2025 is about to start. The plan is the final step in the population policy guidelines adopted by President Putin in 2007. In addition to the measures for the whole population, the measures at the current stage are aimed in particular at families with children but also at the elderly, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) reports.
As before, extensive areas of action are e.g. enhancing health monitoring throughout the health care system, developing health monitoring in the workplace and improving health care, especially for cardiovascular disease.
“The most concrete are the targets for social benefits, which focus on families with children. The aim is to slightly increase the number of families receiving childbirth allowances from the current just under 2.5mn. This is mainly due to an increase in the number of recipients of one-off maternity benefits, which currently stands at just over one million. The aim is also to make it easier to apply for child benefits and to grant benefits without an application procedure to cover 60% of families with children,” BOFIT said in its weekly update.
As bne IntelliNews reported in the feature “Putin’s babies” Russian President Vladimir Putin has put dealing with Russia’s demographic crisis at the top of his agenda since his first day on the job. The Kremlin successful reversed the
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