In Irkutsk region, foster families adopting orphans and children left without parental care will receive a one time payment of 100 thousand rubles from the regional budget. Governor Dmitry Mezentsev made the decision, stressing that if the child is later given up, the payment must be returned in full. To implement the measure, regional agencies were instructed to prepare a regulatory document and provide an additional 18 million rubles in the 2011 budget.
When adopting children-orphans and children left without parental care, foster families will receive one-time payments from the regional budget in the amount of 100 thousand rubles. This decision was made the day before by the Governor — Chairman of the Government of the Irkutsk Region Dmitry Mezentsev during a meeting with his deputies.“In taking measures of social support for adoptive parents, we must also provide for their responsibility in the event of a subsequent refusal of the child they have taken in. In particular, the return of the one-time payment received in full,” Dmitry Mezentsev emphasized.
The Governor instructed the regional Ministry of Social Development, Guardianship and Trusteeship to prepare a draft regulatory document that will establish the Procedure for one-time payments when adopting children-orphans and children left without parental care. For this measure of social support, when preparing the regional budget for 2011, the Ministry of Finance of the Angara region must provide an additional 18 million rubles. As a reminder, at present the one-time allowance when a child is placed in a family for upbringing is paid under federal legislation. In the Irkutsk Region, the amount of the payment, taking into account district coefficients, is about 13.2 thousand rubles in the southern territories and 14.3 thousand rubles in the northern ones.