The Government of the Irkutsk Region set the subsistence minimum at 4,570 rubles per person. The material gives separate figures for working age residents, pensioners and children, and differences for southern districts and the Far North. The lowest consumer basket cost in the third quarter was recorded in the Ust Ordyn Buryat District.
The subsistence minimum in the Irkutsk Region has been set at 4,570 rubles per capita. The regional government published such an order on Wednesday.The subsistence minimum is an estimated indicator reflecting the cost of the minimum set of food products, non-food goods, and services necessary to sustain human life. This indicator is used to assess the standard of living of the population (for the purpose of providing targeted social assistance to low-income people). As a normative value, it is used in the development of social programs. In addition, a forecast estimate of the subsistence minimum is necessary for the competent formation of the expenditure side of the budget.Its amount for the working-age population of the Angara region is 4,940 rubles. For pensioners - 3,490, for children - 4,310 rubles. For residents of the southern districts, the cost of the consumer basket is the same; it is higher only for children - by 10 rubles. As for residents of the Far North and areas equated to them, there the subsistence minimum per capita amounts to an average of 4,610 rubles. As noted in the decree, the lowest cost of the consumer basket, based on the results of the third quarter of the current year, is in the territory of the Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug. This is reported by "Sibirskie Novosti".