Amount and features of payment of funeral benefits

Funeral benefit is a special social payment designed to compensate for funeral expenses. It is issued to preferential categories of citizens who cannot pay for the funeral ceremony on their own. The measure is intended to support low-income people and help them organize a worthy farewell to the deceased.

How the benefit is paid and what its amount can be found out from Law No. 8 “On Burial and Funeral Affairs,” adopted back in 1996. The minimum amount of compensation is equal to the established cost of burial at municipal expense: in 2021 it is 5,740.24 rubles. In this case, the amount of payment can increase up to ten subsistence minimums accepted in a particular region.

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Who can apply for benefits

In paragraph 1 of Art. 10 Federal Law No. 8 states that social benefits for funerals are issued to people who organized a funeral ceremony at their own expense. It does not matter whether they were relatives, friends, colleagues of the deceased or strangers. The main thing is to document the incurrence of funeral expenses.

Please note: benefits are issued in the event of the death of citizens included in one of the preferential categories:

• pensioners;
• temporarily unemployed citizens;
• WWII veterans;
• home front workers;
• participants in other military operations (Afghan soldiers, etc.);
• Chernobyl liquidators;
• persons with disabilities;
• family members with disabled children;
• members of large families;
• children under 18 years of age;
• persons rehabilitated after Stalinist repressions.

A citizen responsible for organizing the funeral of such a person may ask for compensation for his expenses from the federal budget. And Moscow residents, for example, can qualify for an additional payment from the capital’s treasury. The same support measures are provided in some other regions of Russia.

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Where to go to receive benefits

It depends on which category the deceased belonged to.

Important! Compensation must be received no later than six months from the date of death.

What documents will be required

The package of required documents will also vary depending on the place where you apply for social benefits. In any case, you will need:

• funeral organizer's identity card (passport or other document);
• stamp certificate of the death of the citizen for whose burial the benefit is requested (issued by the civil registry office);
• receipts and other papers about expenses for the funeral ceremony;
• application requesting compensation;
• account number for transferring benefits.

Note! The pension fund and other government departments may require a bank statement of the account indicating the full last name, first name and patronymic of the owner (Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov). By default, Sberbank issues a certificate indicating the first name, patronymic and the first letter of the last name (Ivan Ivanovich I.). In order for the extract to be suitable for the Pension Fund of Russia, ask the bank employee to print out a certificate indicating the full name.

What you need to apply to the Pension Fund

• pension certificate of the deceased;
• work book and other documents certifying lack of employment at the time of death;
• a complete bank statement for the account to which the funds will be transferred.

Does the employer need to draw up an order to pay funeral benefits ?

What do you need to contact the Social Security Administration?

• certificate of registration of the deceased for unemployment (for unemployed citizens);
• certificate from the place of study (in case of death of a minor child or unemployed student);
• passports of both parents and their work records (in the event of the death of a minor);
• medical certificate of disability (for persons with disabilities and families with disabled children).

What is needed to apply to the military registration and enlistment office

• veteran's certificate of the deceased;
• An extract from the Pension Fund on the amount of pension and other payments.

After payment from the federal budget, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation or the social insurance fund, the funeral organizer can apply for a supplement to the funeral benefit from the local budget. Such compensation is provided, for example, in Moscow and some other regions of Russia. Thus, residents of the capital can receive a city support measure for the funeral of a Great Patriotic War veteran in the amount of up to 38 thousand rubles.

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Is a Chernobyl survivor entitled to burial benefits?

Based on a certificate from a medical institution, obtain a “Death Certificate” from the civil registration department.7. Obtain permission to bury a body in any cemetery (including one closed for burial) - this is in Moscow. It may be different in other regions.8.

What compensation will be paid for funerals in 2021?

• annual additional paid rest - 14 days. For children born before April 1, 1987, this leave period is also provided, but it depends on the exact age of the person at the time of the Chernobyl disaster and varies between 7-14 days;
• 50% discount on paid rented/rented housing.
• extraordinary provision of: medical treatment, service in pharmacies, a new workplace, a place in a nursing home, etc.;

In May 2021, the Federal Law “On Amendments to Article 4 of the Law of the Russian Federation “On Social Protection of Citizens Exposed to Radiation Due to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster” was adopted. According to the law, social support measures provided for children are provided to children regardless of their place of birth.

• 250% of the social pension - for liquidators, disabled people of groups 1 and 2, children who lost both parents as a result of an accident (24,799.32 rubles);
• 200% of the social pension - for those living in the exclusion zone (9919.70 rubles);
• 125% of the social pension - disabled people of group 3, relatives of the deceased (5269.88 rubles).

Registration procedure and required documents

Certain categories of beneficiaries have the right to improve their living conditions through housing subsidies from the federal budget. Thus, according to Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated March 21, 2021 N 153, citizens registered as in need of improved housing conditions who were exposed to radiation due to accidents at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the Mayak PA have the right to be provided with housing.

A monthly cash payment (MCA) is paid to citizens affected by radiation, regardless of other payments. From February 1, 2021, the monthly allowance for disabled Chernobyl survivors is 2,701.62 rubles. The monthly cash payment in 2021 will be indexed from February 1st. The payment and NSS will increase by the percentage of inflation for the previous year. Presumably, the indexation coefficient will be set at 1.034 from 02/01/2021. For registration, you should contact the pension fund office at your place of residence. Read more about pension provision for citizens affected by radiation.

How much is the funeral benefit?

IMPORTANT! A sample application for payment of funeral benefits from ConsultantPlus is available here

The minimum amount of funeral benefit established after indexation in 2021 is RUB 5,740.24.

This amount is paid for the funeral of the deceased who do not have additional benefits and live in regions where the salary increase coefficient does not apply. There are not too many such subjects in the Russian Federation; in most cities the increasing coefficient is set at a level from 10 to 100%.

A minimum coefficient of 10% is established, for example, in some regions of Kalmykia. A 100% increase is valid in the Far North, Arctic regions, etc.

Despite the fact that in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar and some other regions there is no increasing coefficient, burial benefits are also provided here. For example, in the capital you can receive an additional measure of support in the following amounts:

Residents of St. Petersburg can also apply for one-time financial assistance to compensate for funeral expenses. A similar payment is valid in Krasnodar - here its amount is one and a half thousand rubles. Crimeans can apply for benefits in the amount of 3,492 rubles. For funerals of pensioners, the amount increases to 6,189 rubles.

In the next article we tell you how to reflect a funeral benefit in accounting.

Is a Chernobyl survivor entitled to burial benefits?

Important! This was done in order to prevent unscrupulous behavior of citizens who register in such territories immediately before the birth of children, and after the payment is assigned, they leave this area.

What burial benefits are provided to disabled Chernobyl victims?

Important It is mandatory to obtain an autopsy report from the morgue, where it is desirable that it be indicated that death occurred as a result of one of the diseases specified when establishing a disability associated with participation in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.

Issues regarding pensions are particularly regulated. Chernobyl survivors have the right to early retirement. The minimum insurance period is 5 years. For disabled people, the retirement age is reduced by 10 years. In the absence of one - for 5 years.