Meeting with Minister of Labour and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Kotyakov, I suggest that we begin this meeting by discussing the measures your Ministry is taking to bridge the gap across various regions in terms of social support.

Minister of Labour and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov Kotyakov AntonLabour and Social Protection Minister: Mr President,

I would like to begin by thanking you for declaring the Year of the Family in 2024.

Our country has achieved a lot over the past few years in terms of supporting families with children and promoting traditional family values. That said, I do believe that there are still decisions we will have to take in this regard. I do hope, and, in fact, I am certain, that we will have a lot to offer as part of this effort by working together with the Russian regions, with our social partners, as well as the civil society for coming up with effective solutions to improve our national birth rate.

Today, we are fulfilling your instructions to make the format of social support measures as easy and convenient for our people across the country as possible.

We started by focusing on the federal level, calling this initiative the Social Treasury. It has a mission to introduce simple and easy-to-understand mechanisms to enable our people to receive various kinds of support. I must tell you right away that people can receive these services by filing an application on the Unified Public Services Portal, or we provide these services proactively considering the circumstances people face in their lives.

As of today, we have already reformatted 41 federal support measures to suit this framework at the federal level and will offer 29 more measures in this format by the end of 2024. That means that by the end of 2024 we will have completed the transition to the Social Treasury principle for all federal support measures.

To be continued.