Agenda: The unified benefit for families with many children whose income increases, the employer-sponsored higher education quotas for 2026, and the ratification of the free trade agreement with Indonesia.
Government meeting
Government meeting
Government meeting
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues.
Before we proceed with the agenda, I want to inform you about some decisions.
The President has issued instructions to improve the approach to providing unified benefits to families with many children. This change will ensure that these families can still be eligible for the benefits even if their level of income becomes slightly higher than the general threshold.
Corresponding regulatory acts have been modified for this purpose. The President has already signed the respective bill into law. The Government has now passed the resolution to implement the law.
The required regulatory framework has thus been built to make sure that the families with many children who already receive the benefits could remain eligible for them. Even if their per capita income exceeds the set threshold by up to 10 percent, their support will be extended by 12 months.
For families whose applications have been rejected in the current year, the Social Fund will automatically review their applications. They don’t have to resubmit them. The parents will be notified via the Gosuslugi portal.
Mr Kotyakov, please monitor carefully that mums and dads with three and more children, who are eligible for these benefits, receive them without undue delay.
Another decision concerns professional training, which is one of our top priorities.
The President noted: staffing issues are of primary importance today. Workforce training is fundamental for the progress of our country and for the national projects, including for Russia’s technological leadership.
The Government has set quotas for employer-sponsored education in higher education institutions for the following academic year. More than one-third of these quotas are for healthcare and medicine. A considerable share of the quotas apply to engineering degrees, technologies, education, and agriculture.
I will stress that for the first time, these quotas have been broken down by education levels, the number of study places, and specialisations, including in research, as well as by areas of training and by the higher education institutions themselves. Most importantly, the quotas have been allocated based on requests from companies and organisations, which takes into account the staffing demands in the regions, guarantees each graduate a work placement according to their specialisation, and helps companies attract a competent and motivated professional.
Next, today’s agenda includes an issue that concerns the development of international cooperation. We will review a draft federal bill on the ratification of a free trade agreement with the Republic of Indonesia.
The agreement provides for deepening the economic partnership across the Eurasian Economic Union where Russia is also a member. The document establishes a preferential trade arrangement for the overwhelming majority of goods, covering more than 98 percent of the bilateral trade between Indonesia and the Russian Federation. Our presidents discussed the trade dynamic between our countries in detail during their recent meeting in Moscow.
We hope that the free trade regime will stimulate further strengthening of our cooperation in many areas of mutual interest, including the processing industry, agriculture and energy. Of course, the digital economy, information and telecommunication technology, research and development are also among the numerous areas of our cooperation.
Businesses can boost exports and imports, and expand the range of products in demand. Consumers will gain access to high-quality goods and, importantly, at competitive prices.
