A WW2 veteran dances in front of the Bolshoy Theater, the traditional place for Russian WW2 veterans to gather to celebrate the victory over the Germans.
Photo: Alexander Miridonov
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Conditions for Veterans Better by 11 Billion Rubles
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The presidential decree “On Measures to Improve the Material Conditions of Several Categories of Citizens of the RF in Connection with the 60th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945” came into effect on May 1. Various categories of citizens who are veterans of WWII will receive between 500 and 1000 rubles per month.
According to the decree, invalids from the war and veterans who were imprisoned while underage in concentrations camps, ghettos or other places of forcible confinement set up by the Fascists or their allies will receive an additional 1000 rubles per month.
Veterans who served no less than six consecutive months in military units, agencies or training facilities without seeing action between June 22, 1941, and September 3, 1945, and veterans who were awards orders or medals by the USSR for service during that period will receive an addition 500 rubles. Widows of servicemen who died during the war with Finland, the Great Patriotic War of the war with Japan, or widows of invalid veterans of the Great Patriotic War will also receive 500 rubles. Also survivors of the blockade of Leningrad and former prisoners of the Nazis will receive an additional 500 rubles.
The Ministry of Health and Social Development counts 1,970,000 recipients of the new benefits. More than 11 billion rubles from the federal budget will be spent on them.
This is the first increase in benefits that those citizens have had in more than ten years. Before this increase, they had received one-time bonuses, however. For example, on the 51st Victory Day in 1996, veterans received an addition minimum pension payment.
Dissatisfaction with the monetization of benefits was likely a motivation for the president this year.
All the Article in Russian as of May 03, 2005
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