Not only maternal: the State Duma wants to introduce grandparents' and grandparents' capital

The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for the Protection of the family Tatyana Butskaya proposed to introduce Russia "grandmother's and grandfather's capital". The parliamentarian said this in an interview with TASS.

According to Butskaya's plan, the payment should work by analogy with the maternity capital, the amount of which for the first child is currently about 729 thousand rubles.

The goal of the initiative is to encourage older people to help young parents more actively. The deputy recalled that women used to retire precisely in order to nurse their grandchildren. In modern realities, children are born later, and grandmothers are forced to work to the last and simply do not have time to deal with grandchildren.

"The capital of the third generation," according to Butskaya, should solve this problem and turn Russian families from just having many children into multigenerational. The deputy has not yet named a specific payment mechanism and exact amounts, specifying only that the options for using money may be different.