The Social and Legal Nature of Benefits for Children in Low-income Families

Abstract

Under present conditions the Soviet state is in a position to raise the people's living standard systematically and in planned fashion and to harmoniously improve all aspects of the life of broad strata of working people. Every Soviet family feels this. In carrying out the task posed in the Program of the CPSU of assuring material abundance to the entire population, the state, while regulating payment for work, benefits, and services from public consumption funds, pays special attention to low-paid workers and low-income families, particularly those with minor children. The more rapid improvement of the living conditions of such persons expresses one regularity of raising the living standard: reduction in the difference in incomes among various groups of families. As noted in the decree of the CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers of September 12, 1974, the introduction of grants-in-aid for children in low-income families is a new socioeconomic measure that is aimed at raising the standard of living of the Soviet family and strengthening it and that testifies to the constant concern of the socialist state for the upbringing of the rising generation. (1)