Low salaries and rising unemployment lead to the fact that citizens are forced to turn to social protection authorities to apply for benefits, allowances, subsidies in order to somehow feed themselves and their families. In order for a person to be recognized as poor, he needs to provide a certificate of very low income. After assigning this status to a citizen, he will be able to receive various benefits and privileges. If the family is recognized as poor, then the children living in it will receive coupons for free meals at school.
Definition
Who are such poor citizens? How to get such a status if there is not enough money even for food and clothing? These questions are asked by many people whose average income does not reach a living wage. But this is the minimum amount of funds that is needed to purchase food, clothing and utility bills.
Poor citizens are people who have an income below the subsistence minimum established by the entity and who need material support from the state. In order to obtain the status of a low-income person, you need to come to the social protection authorities of your locality and provide certificates, documents confirming a small income.
What you need to do at the very beginning
It is necessary to calculate all the income in the family. Which include:
- pension;
- scholarship;
- alimony;
- salary;
- other funds received from commercial activities.
If, in the total calculation, it turns out that the cost of living of the whole family does not reach the set limit, you can safely apply for state support. Here you also need to remember that if a person lives alone, then only his income will be considered. And if he has a family, then all the proceeds.
Poor citizens are only those people whose income does not go to the whole family, equal to the cost of living. This is what will need to be proved in social protection bodies.
Obtaining Status
So, poor citizens are those whose incomes do not even reach the established minimum necessary for a normal, human life. If the family wants to acquire such a status, then it will be necessary to collect certificates of income for all its members. In the case when a person is single, he needs only a document confirming his small income. Here we should not forget that a poor citizen is a person whose income does not reach a living wage. But this fact must be documented.
You also need to remember that only those citizens who are in a difficult life situation, and not just people who do not work without specific reasons, can apply for state support. For women on maternity leave, this does not apply.
So, if a person decided to acquire the status of a poor, the first thing he needs to do is to come to the social protection authorities for help. After consultation with a specialist, a list of housekeeping items to be provided is handed out.
List
In order for citizens to be recognized as poor, they need to personally come to an admission to the social protection authority of their settlement. There you need to provide a specific list of documents:
- certificate of all residents;
- identity documents of adults and children, their copies;
- unemployed citizens provide a certificate from the employment center and the pension fund stating that they are not engaged in commercial activities;
- documents on marriage, as well as on its dissolution, the death of a husband or wife;
- application (filled out directly on the spot).
The procedure for recognizing citizens as poor is quite simple, you just need to collect the necessary paperwork and hand it over to a specialist working in the social protection authority. Then wait 10 days. During this time, specialists calculate income according to the submitted documents. If necessary, they make special requests. If it turns out that the income of citizens does not reach a living wage, they are recognized as poor. Then appoint benefits and allowances.
Poor citizens are those who have very low incomes that do not even reach the minimum established in the region. It is for this reason that the state supports such citizens and provides them with material assistance.
Differences
What benefits can a low-income, lonely citizen apply for? How do they differ from those provided to low-income families? These questions are often of interest to people who apply for social support to social protection bodies, but are lonely.
First of all, it is worth noting that a poor citizen is one whose income does not reach the minimum established in his place of residence. A lonely person with low wages, who does not have a family and children, cannot apply for the benefits provided by the state to support low-income families (trips to health camps, free meals at school). Nevertheless, he has the right to demand a subsidy to reduce payments for utilities, and also has the right to help in the purchase of medicines and food.
And a poor family can claim to receive material support from the state for collecting children for school, providing subsidies for food in educational institutions, and getting permits to health camps. In addition, if the living conditions of the family are not good enough, then people have the right to apply for other housing. Also, do not forget about the subsidies provided to low-income citizens.
Legal regulation
In Russia, the number of low-income citizens exceeds several million people. In order to somehow help this category of people, there are laws in the state that provide for the procedure for providing material support to these people. These include:
- Federal Law "On the Living Wage in the Russian Federation";
- Federal Law "On Social State Assistance";
- other legal acts adopted at local and regional levels.
People who are in financial difficulties and have incomes below the established minimum are poor citizens. The laws in force in Russia have been adopted in order to help overcome the financial difficulties of this category of people. After all, people who find themselves in a difficult financial situation cannot afford to pay utility bills, purchase clothes and good, wholesome food. Therefore, the state in this case provides them with little support.
Social Assistance to Poor Citizens
After citizens receive this status, they have the right to:
- enrollment of children in kindergartens (first of all);
- subsidies at school;
- free legal assistance;
- tax benefits;
- getting tickets to health camps and sanatoriums;
- to receive free medication for needy family members.
Benefits
State assistance to poor citizens consists in the fact that one of the parents, who is unemployed and not a member of the labor exchange, has the right to receive a lump sum payment on the occasion of the birth of a child. In addition, benefits can be assigned to the mother or father of the baby until the last one and a half years. But if the parent goes to work or acquires a different source of income, he is obliged to inform Social Security about this to stop payments.
It should be noted here that only the father or mother of the child, who are considered officially unemployed and have no other income, can receive such an allowance. In addition, you need to provide a certificate in social protection that the second parent does not receive funds for the child at the place of work.
This year, the state plans to revise some benefits for people whose income does not reach the necessary minimum. The category of poor citizens in this case will not lose anything, they will also receive free drugs for sick members of their families, half pay utility bills and have discounts on travel in public transport. The state also plans to exempt these persons from certain taxes.