The Ministry of Labor has developed a new methodology for assessing the level of poverty in the country

According to Kommersant , the draft government decree, which introduces an additional tool for assessing poverty in the country, will be submitted on November 26 for consideration by the Russian Tripartite Commission.

“According to the document, the“ poverty line ”will be an indicator that complements the subsistence minimum," the message says.

This indicator will take into account not the change in the narrow “minimum” set of consumption, but the inflation rate in the country. It will be calculated quarterly. In this case, the basis for calculating benefits will be an indicator linked to the median income.

Such an assessment model, the ministry believes, will allow the indicator to be determined in dynamics and exclude cases when the measured poverty level in the country grows as the economy grows and the median income grows.

According to IA Regnum , in 2020, the Ministry of Economic Development proposed to change the approach to accounting for the level of poverty in Russia. The ministry planned to compare its data on the level of poverty with information on the income of the population, which is available to the Federal Tax Service and the Pension Fund of Russia.

Earlier it was reported that 57% of Russians surveyed by the Public Opinion Foundation assessed their financial situation as normal, 24% consider it bad .

According to the survey results, 18% called their financial situation good. 67% of respondents did not notice any changes in their financial situation, 24% stated deterioration, 7% noticed improvements. 18% of survey participants assume that they will be able to improve their well-being in the near future, the same number are inclined to deteriorate, and 44% do not expect changes.

Recall that at the beginning of the year, 47% of the respondents to the VTsIOM poll said that they were not satisfied with the financial situation of their families. 17% of the respondents chose the answer “completely dissatisfied”.

At the beginning of 2021, about half of the children in large families were below the poverty line, their parents' incomes are below the subsistence level. In 2018, almost a quarter of Russian children under 18 lived in families with an income below the subsistence level.