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So, the minimum consumer budget for a family of four from may 1 to July 31 per month will be 406,04 the Belarusian ruble (one ruble, according to the financial regulator corresponds to slightly more than 30 rubles).

government Document established and minimum per capita consumption budget of a young family of three in the amount of 437,84 Belarusian rubles; the working-age population – 513,77; retired 398,4. For children under the age of three years, this amount is 340,01; at the age from three till six years – 434,64 ruble; and for children aged 6 to 18 years – Br441,79. Average per capita minimum consumer budgets, reminds BelTA, approved in the country on a quarterly basis.

by the Way, the minimum consumer budget, said a source in the Ministry, represents the cost of acquisition of the set of consumer goods and services to meet basic human needs. The proportion of expenditure in the minimum consumer budget for a family of four in prices of March 2020, distributed as follows: food products – 48,2%, clothing, linen, shoes – 19,1%, utility services – by 8.7%, domestic services, transport and communications – 8.8%, with furniture, objects cultural-household and economic appointment with 8.8% of social activities and recreation – 1.3%, and contributions and payments – a 2.5%, drugs, items of sanitation and hygiene at 2.6%.

currently, the minimum consumer budget of a family of four, according to the Agency, serves as the basis for determining eligibility of citizens to receive preferential loans and subsidies for the construction or purchase of premises; citizens residing and working in settlements with population to 20 thousand people, soft credits on major maintenance and reconstruction of premises, construction of engineering networks, construction of economic rooms and constructions.

In connection with a change in the minimum subsistence level on average per capita (BPM) conducted by the Ministry and allocations of social pensions, allowances and promotions and payments to pensioners over the age of 75 years, reports the Agency.

Increasing the amount of the pension wait and Heroes of Belarus, of the Soviet Union, of Socialist Labor, the blockade, the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, invalids since the childhood owing to wound, contusion or injury associated with the fighting during the great Patriotic war (or the effects of hostilities), the report said.