Council reviews draft budget Social and defense spending

Oct 5

Vremya reports Federation Council parliamentary hearings, the zero reading, on the coming three-year draft budget. Anton Siluanov lists social obligations, defense/security and national development priorities, describes benefit and maternity-capital indexation and says insurance pensions will be indexed twice next year. Valentina Matviyenko calls for a social and family-centered budget, gives ten trillion rubles for the children's budget over three years, and discusses family support, education buildings and healthcare. The report calls the draft balanced. These are source assessments and proposed allocations, not enactment.

At the October 5 Federation Council zero-reading hearing, Matviyenko and Siluanov discuss the draft's social and family commitments, alongside defense and development priorities. The existing Vremya account describes social obligations, family support, education and healthcare over the next three years, twice-indexed insurance pensions and a ten-trillion-ruble children's budget. These are proposed priorities and official assessments, not enacted spending. Matviyenko and Siluanov describe the draft's social and family commitments: a children's budget around ten trillion over three years, indexed benefits and maternity capital, twice-adjusted pensions, higher wage and subsistence minima, family housing and child-dependent subsidized loans, and education and health investment. Siluanov gives proposed February/April pension increases of 6.8% and 3.3%. Vremya relays compatible excerpts that evening. These are hearing statements about proposed provision, not enacted appropriations or implemented mortgage terms.