The department explained whether this will affect social support measures.
The Ministry of Labor announced that it is planned to change the accounting of the level of poor Russians.
According to Kommersant, which has a draft decree of the Government of the Russian Federation at its disposal, the agency is going to use the poverty line indicator as an accounting tool.
The indicator is the living wage, which was fixed in the 4th quarter of 2020. At that time, it amounted to 11,300 rubles.
As the media explains, if the document comes into force, the poverty line will be calculated by Rosstat, taking into account the so-called “chain index” of consumer prices for a certain quarter.
The Ministry of Labor emphasizes that the indicator will be purely statistical, and social support will continue to be provided according to the indicators of the subsistence minimum.
The media explained that the Ministry of Labor needs a new calculation to set indicators of poverty in the Russian Federation in its dynamics, and to prevent a situation in which the indicator follows economic growth and median income of the population.
At the moment, the document has been submitted to the Russian Trilateral Commission for discussion.
Earlier, Topnews wrote that two departments, the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Health, have prepared new parameters for which payments to medical workers will be calculated.