37.3 billion rubles are planned to be allocated to provide disabled people with technical means of rehabilitation over the next three years, and additional expenses for sick leave will amount to 125 billion rubles. This was stated by the acting chairman of the Social Insurance Fund Alexey Polikashin at the plenary session of the State Duma on October 28.
Following the meeting, the Chamber adopted the draft budget of the fund for 2022 and for the planning period of 2023 and 2024 in the first reading.
300 million rubles will be allocated from the federal budget in 2022-2024 for the provision of comprehensive rehabilitation services for disabled children.
The budget takes into account the uncertainty factor due to the spread of a new coronavirus infection, Polikashin added. "Additional expenses for sick leave will amount to 39 billion rubles in 2022, 42 billion rubles in 2023, 44 billion rubles in 2024," he said.
In addition, expenses in the amount of 4.7 billion rubles in 2022, 5.1 billion in 2023 and 5.4 billion in 2024 are projected for the payment of temporary disability benefits for caring for a sick child up to 8 years old.
Expenses for payments of temporary disability benefits due to maternity in 2022 will amount to 757 billion rubles in 2022, in 2023 and 2024 — 819 billion and 876 billion, respectively.
Compulsory social insurance against industrial accidents and occupational diseases has been taken into account, the costs for this will amount to about 120 billion rubles in 2022, 124 and 130 billion in 2023 and 2024.
The fund will receive transfers for sanatorium treatment for privileged categories of citizens in the amount of: in 2022 — 5.9 billion rubles, in 2023 - 6.2 billion and in 2024 — 6.5 billion.
It is planned to spend 14.3 billion rubles in 2022, 14.6 billion rubles in 2023, and 14.2 billion rubles in 2024 to pay for birth certificates, that is, medical care for pregnant women, and preventive examinations of children during the first year of life.
In general, the budget of the Social Insurance Fund was formed with a surplus in 2022 in the amount of 44 billion rubles, in 2023 - 142.7 billion and in 2024 — about 49.3 billion rubles.
According to Polikashin, the project was developed on the basis of indicators of the forecast of socio-economic development of Russia until 2024 and the forecast of the birth rate according to the average variant.
