What documents are needed to obtain maternity capital in 2020?

The Maternity Capital program in the Russian Federation is known as extremely useful and large-scale assistance to young families with children. Its conditions vary in different regions, but its essence is defined at the federal level. A maternity capital certificate gives a family the right to receive one-time financial support from the state, which the family can spend on specific needs such as improving their living conditions.

This article will describe the principle of maternity capital, its main provisions, requirements for parents or adoptive parents who wish to obtain a certificate, as well as information about the documents that are needed to obtain maternity capital. Let's take a closer look at all these aspects of the bill.

The legislative framework

State support is provided by law to all Russian families who welcomed a second child between the beginning of 2007 and the end of 2016.

Moreover, the law does not make any difference - the child has become a new member of the family or the parents took him from the orphanage.

If your baby has just been born, you do not need to rush to apply for government assistance, trying to make it before the end of 2016.

You can write an application and bring documents later - in a few months or even in a few years! When the time approaches, use the funds that the state has allocated to you from its budget.

Who is checkmated? capital?

Help in this case can be obtained:

Most often, a young mother comes with an application for a subsidy.
In some cases, this is done by the father of the second child.
Such cases are associated with sad events in the life of the family, the death of the baby’s mother or the deprivation of her parental rights. Only then does the father receive the certificate.
When a child turns 18, he can come and receive a certificate himself. This can be done if the father and mother died without having time to process the money due for the child.
Since the young mother has her mouth full of troubles, a representative for whom the mother will issue a power of attorney can come to collect documents for the payment of budget money.

Important! Maternity capital is issued to a family only once! A certificate can be obtained for the third, fourth or fifth child only if the mother did not come for the certificate required for the second child.

About the bill "Maternity capital"

This bill began its work in 2007 after this initiative was approved by law. Since then, many Russian families have been provided with financial support from the state, which has allowed them to improve their living conditions and pay for the education of their children.

A certificate for receiving financial assistance is evidence of your right to receive the amount of maternity capital. It is provided to families in which a second or subsequent child was born or adopted. In some regions, for example, in Bashkiria and Ufa, payments can also be made for the first-born. In this example, you can receive a certificate for your first child if you adopted him or her.

Such additional conditions, financed from the regional budget, are special measures to improve the demographic situation in regions with a particularly difficult situation. However, in this article we will not delve into regional conditions, but will consider the bill from a federal point of view - the way it operates throughout the country.

So, maternity capital can be received by parents for their second and subsequent children, and it is not necessary that the child be their own - a certificate is also provided for adopted children. What other requirements are imposed on those who are going to receive a certificate for financial assistance from the state?

Where to get and who issues the certificate?

The certificate will be issued to you in accordance with the Rules for issuing certificates for maternity capital, approved by Decree of the Russian Government of December 30, 2006 No. 873.

The main department that issues documents for receiving family money is the Pension Fund of Russia.

To receive a document for your capital, you need:

visit the nearest branch of the Russian Pension Fund;
or come to the multifunctional center of state and municipal services, which greatly simplifies life for citizens;
or send a package of documents to the Pension Fund by mail;
if your family is familiar with electronic document management, then you can use the Pension Fund website and send an electronic package of documents through your personal account services.

Applying for benefits is not at all difficult, and in the absence of queues at the Pension Fund, it will not take much time.

While you submit your application, your assistants can take the stroller for a walk nearby.

What documents are needed to obtain a certificate?

To take and receive this certificate, you need to collect a package of necessary documents, and then take them personally, or send them through a representative of the law and make sure that they get to the regional office of the Russian Pension Fund.

Documents for receiving benefits are a standard list for each category of persons entitled to receive capital. But there are also small additions, which will be discussed below.

Here is a mandatory list of documents that need to be collected and attached to the application:

To apply for maternity capital you will need a passport.
If you do not live at your place of registration, you must attach a document confirming your current place of residence.
Birth certificate of all children present in the family.
A court decision regarding the adoption of a baby, which gave rise to the right to receive maternity capital.

The maternity capital obligation is certified by a notary. Read about what documents are needed to receive 20 thousand from maternity capital or how to withdraw funds from a family subsidy here, and find out what points a sample certificate from a bank for maternity capital contains in this material.

Documents for money for a second child

The list of documents required for registration of family capital is approved by order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development.

First of all, you will need to fill out an application. It's easy and fits on one page. The application must be accompanied by documents that you always have at hand:

birth certificates of the first and second child;
court decision on adoption, if you adopted a second child;
your passport, your spouse’s passport;
your certificate of compulsory pension insurance;
documents confirming the Russian citizenship of you and your second child.

Maternity capital is accrued only upon your application. If you do not come to the pension fund or MFC and write a statement that you want to be the owner of the family capital, it will not be automatically credited.

To assert your rights to government assistance, you must write an application in your own hand.

Illegal! If employees of the Pension Fund or MFC suddenly want you to bring them an extract from the house register or other certificates, then you can safely tell them that the law does not provide for this. And you know your rights, don't you?

If the child’s father comes for family capital, he will need to bring:

Certificate of death of the mother or court decision depriving her of parental rights.
A court decision confirming that the mother committed a crime against the child.

Children, having become adults, can themselves come for documents for maternity capital.

They must bring death certificates of both parents to the Pension Fund and also write an application.

Monthly payments

Since 2020, it is possible to use maternity capital funds in the form of receiving monthly payments for the second child born after January 1, 2020, these are the so-called “Putin payments”. Payment of benefits from maternity capital funds occurs in the amount of the subsistence minimum per child established in the region of residence.

Low-income families can take advantage of this opportunity. Families who have already received the right to maternity capital, but have not yet applied for a certificate, can submit two applications to the Pension Fund or MFC at once: for a maternity capital certificate and a monthly payment from its funds in the amount of the subsistence minimum for the child.

The procedure for obtaining a certificate and what documents are required for this are discussed in the following video:

Registration procedure

So, the young dad met you on the threshold of the maternity hospital, accepted the baby from the hands of the nurse and looked into the face of your second child for the first time. The feeding schedule has already been established, and you have begun to sleep at night, and in the mornings you enjoy walking with the stroller in the park.

You are joined by your grandmother and the older child you meet outside the school.

You need to contact the Pension Fund to apply for maternity capital. And grandma will take a walk with the stroller.

Here are step-by-step instructions for issuing a certificate :

Step one . We receive a birth certificate for our second child. You do not have this document yet, but it is the main one for receiving help.
Step two . We collect a package of documents. All of them are kept in your home, including now the birth certificate of your second baby.
Step three .
We go to the Pension Fund branch or to the “My Documents” MFC. We are writing a statement. You don’t have to worry about copies of documents; they will be taken by the employees of the Pension Fund or MFC themselves. We arrange maternity capital.
Step four . We are waiting for a call from the Pension Fund or MFC: their employees will tell you when you can come and pick up the finished certificate. According to the law, the wait will last no more than a month.
Step five . We go to the Pension Fund or MFC. We receive a certificate.
Step six . We decide what your dreams and aspirations are to spend your money on.
Step seven. We collect a package of documents, go to the Pension Fund, and inform where we have decided to send the family money. The pension fund will fulfill your request strictly.

We remind you! If your second child has confused day with night, and you only dream of sleeping and dozing on a bench in the park, leaning your head on the handle of the stroller, don’t worry! The law doesn't rush you.

You can receive a certificate in a few months, in a year, and even in a few years - closer to the time when you make a firm decision at the family council on where to spend the money.

Obtaining maternity capital for a second child

Advice from lawyers:

1. The girl registered herself and the child before the birth of the second with a stranger through. He discharged her for three months. Will this affect the receipt of maternity capital?

1.1. No, this will not in any way affect the receipt of MK and other payments.

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2. I recently had a second child, we want to apply for regional maternity capital, but at the time of the child’s birth I have been registered in the Jewish Autonomous Region for less than a year (although I have been living here for almost 15 years), can I be denied regional maternity capital? (federal maternity capital has been issued)

2.1. This is not a reason for refusal, especially since you received federal maternity capital.

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3. I want to issue a certificate for receiving maternity capital, my second child was born on April 8, 2020, he is not registered anywhere yet, I have Russian citizenship, registered in the Volgograd region. I wanted to use maternity capital for a down payment on a mortgage and then register it, how can I do this? Thank you.

3.1. To obtain a certificate for maternity capital, you should contact any territorial body of the Russian Pension Fund of your choice, regardless of your place of residence (stay) or actual residence in the MFC. An application for a certificate can be submitted either independently or through an authorized representative, sent by mail or through the “Personal Account of a Citizen,” either immediately after the birth or adoption of a child, or later, at any time convenient for you. In addition to the application, it is necessary to submit the following documents: - passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation; - birth certificate of all children (for adopted children - adoption certificates); - identification and authority of the legal representative or authorized representative.

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4. I live in China. I have a Russian passport. A second child is due. Do I have the right to receive maternity capital?

4.1. Good evening, Natalya. A woman, a citizen of the Russian Federation, who has given birth to her second and subsequent children, the last of whom is also a citizen of the Russian Federation and was born after January 1, 2007, has the right to maternity capital. In accordance with paragraph 4 of the Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation dated October 18, 2011 N 1180 n “On approval of the Rules for filing an application for a state certificate for maternal (family) capital and issuing a state certificate for maternal (family) capital (its duplicate) and the form of a state certificate for maternal (family) capital" (Registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on March 6, 2012 N 23417) to obtain a certificate, you have the right to apply to the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation at your place of residence (stay) or actual residence at any time. Those. Your child must also be a citizen of the Russian Federation and you must have registration at your place of residence or stay in the territory of the Russian Federation.

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5. My second child and I received Russian citizenship in 2020; before that we were citizens of Uzbekistan. (the child was born in Uzbekistan in 2015). At the time of his birth, I was not a citizen of the Russian Federation. In 2019, I moved for permanent residence in the Russian Federation. Do I have the right to receive maternity capital for my second child?

5.1. Good afternoon No, the right to additional Additional measures of state support arise if there is citizenship of the Russian Federation on the date of birth (adoption) of the child, both for the woman who gave birth (adopted) the child, and for the child, with whose birth (adoption) the law connects the emergence of this right (Review of judicial practice in cases related to the implementation of the right to maternal (family) capital (approved by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on June 22, 2020) Article 3. The right to additional measures of state support 1. The right to additional measures of state support arises at birth ( adoption) of a child (children) having citizenship of the Russian Federation from the following citizens of the Russian Federation, regardless of their place of residence: 1) women who gave birth to (adopted) a second child starting from January 1, 2007; 2) women who gave birth (adopted) a third child or subsequent children starting from January 1, 2007, if they had not previously exercised the right to additional. comprehensive government support measures; 3) men who are the sole adoptive parents of the second, third child or subsequent children who have not previously exercised the right to additional adoption. additional measures of state support if the court decision on adoption entered into legal force starting from January 1, 2007; 4) women who gave birth (adopted) their first child starting from January 1, 2020; 5) men who are the only adoptive parents of the first child, who have not previously taken advantage of the right to additional adoption. Additional measures of state support if the court decision on adoption entered into legal force starting from January 1, 2020 (Federal Law “On additional measures of state support for families with children”).

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6. Another question. We did not receive a certificate for maternity capital and did not receive any payments from it, because we forgot about it altogether