scholarly journals Financial situation and social support received by families with children in Ulyanovsk oblast

POPULATION ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Elena E. Grishina
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Ulyanovsk Oblast ◽  
Households With Children ◽  
Families With Children

The aim of this work is to analyze the financial situation and the level of social support received by families with children in Ulyanovsk oblast on the basis of the data from household survey conducted in Ulyanovsk oblast. The study showed that the poverty rate among the surveyed households with children under 18 is significantly higher than the total poverty rate among the households. Many families with children cannot afford buying goods and services they need. In order to maintain their consumption level, a significant proportion of families with children have to take out loans. Analysis of the survey data shows that the coverage of families with children by social benefits is quite high. At the same time, even among the poor households with children, one quarter of households does not receive any social benefits. The surveyed families with children noted difficulties faced by them in obtaining information about social benefits and in collecting necessary documents, long waiting in queues when applying for benefits. The calculations show that provision of regional benefits, including targeted regional benefits, reduces the poverty rate among households with children only slightly. In general, regional benefits are more likely to reduce the extreme poverty of household with children. The analysis presented in the article allows determining possible directions for improving the social support system in Ulyanovsk oblast.

scholarly journals Social support for families with children in the period of coronavirus epidemic and families' need

POPULATION ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Irina Korchagina ◽  
Lidia Prokofieva
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Received Social Support ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Analytical Center

The purpose of this work is analysis of the social support coverage in Russia during the coronavirus epidemic. The paper also analyzes the impact of the pandemic on the financial situation of families. The work focused on families with children as the poorest category of the Russian population with a lot of social exclusions. The study was based on the data from population survey conducted at the top of the epidemic by the Yuri Levada Analytical Center (LEVADA-CENTER). During the period of isolation caused by the coronavirus epidemic, population significantly suffered from lack of work and reduction of earnings. Families with children lost the possibility to leave children in kindergartens and schools that had a negative effect on the welfare of the population: 35% families reported worsening of the financial situation of their families over the past year. At the same time, more than 40% of the families received social support compensating the negative effect of the coronavirus epidemic. Social support was primarily provided to families with children — there were twice as many recipients of benefits among them then among the entire population. The paper also analyzes the opinion of the population about what measures of the social support they consider the most important and what types of assistance their families need. According to the survey data, the greatest need of the population is for financial support (almost 37% of families). At the same time, the majority of the respondents believe that it is the duty of the state to provide all children with normal living standards. The analysis has shown the importance of the social support of the population and the necessity of raising its efficiency in the difficult period of the coronavirus epidemic.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Anti-Crisis Social Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Yelena I. Andreeva ◽  
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Dmitry G. Bychkov ◽  
Olesya A. Feoktistova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Support Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cash Benefits ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Household Incomes

The authors analyze the response of the Russian government to the shrinking of household incomes during the 2020 economic crisis — the social support measures that were put in place to check the increase in poverty, and the social groups that were targeted by direct federal cash benefits. The anticrisis social support measures in Russia were, on the whole, comparable in composition and scope to what the governments in other countries were doing. A special feature of the Russian approach was that the new social benefits and the increased amounts of already existing benefits were addressed exclusively to families with children and were granted irrespective of household income levels. The authors estimate that the additional social support benefits, had they been implemented before the crisis, would have reduced the pre-crisis level of poverty by almost one third, although seven out of ten Russian households were left out of this additional support because they had no underage children. This leads to the conclusion that, in the future, social support policies must change to meet new challenges not only quickly, as they did during the last year’s crisis, but also in a more targeted manner.

scholarly journals What Should Child Benefit Look Like?

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-69
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Considerable Proportion ◽  
National Goal ◽  
Families With Children

The article analyzes the reasons for the lack of a significant impact on poverty of the existing social assistance system and shows the need to improve the latter for families with children. The paper reveals that households with children have significant risks of poverty and constitute more than 70% of all poor households. The article notes that for a sustained increase in population income and poverty reduction, it is necessary to ensure accelerated economic growth as well as growth in real wages, pensions and social benefits. At the same time, effective tools of social protection are needed to bring certain groups of people with a significant poverty depth out of poverty. The article argues that the existing family and child allowances reduce the poverty of families with children only slightly. This is due to several reasons. Firstly, a significant part of benefits to families with children is paid without means testing. Secondly, a considerable proportion of families with children receiving targeted social benefits are not poor. Thirdly, a significant proportion of poor families with children are not covered by social assistance. And finally, the size of most targeted benefits is small. It is obvious that the preservation of the old paradigm of paying child benefits is ineffective and does not contribute to the achievement of the national goal of reducing poverty. The paper shows that the introduction of targeted benefits to low-income families with children under a social contract, bringing the average per capita family income to the subsistence minimum, would increase the targeting of social assistance and its effectiveness in poverty reduction both among families with children and among the population.

scholarly journals Epidemiological crisis of 2020: financial situation of the population and social support

POPULATION ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Elena Grishina
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Cash Assistance ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Food Packages ◽  
The Social

The paper analyzes the dynamics of the financial situation and social support coverage of various socio-demographic groups in Russia in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. The study was based on the data of three population surveys conducted in May, October, and December 2020. The spread of coronavirus had a negative impact on the welfare of the population: almost half of the respondents reported worsening of the financial situation of their families in 2020. Over half of the respondents indicated the need for cash assistance, and almost a quarter of the respondents—the need for food packages. More than a quarter of the respondents who tried to apply for social benefits in 2020 faced with some problems. In early December 2020, more than 40% of the respondents had already received the state social support in connection with COVID-19, mainly as cash payments. However, almost 60% of the respondents, including more than a half of the poor had not received any social assistance related to the pandemic. The respondents rather critically assessed the sufficiency of the state social support: almost 60% of the respondents believed that the state had not taken sufficient steps to support the population. The coronavirus epidemic has shown the importance of the social support efficiency improving through digitalization and better targeting.

Belgium: Creeping Vulnerability of Children

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Vinck ◽  
Wim Van Lancker
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Important Lesson ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Poverty Risk ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
The Impact

Belgium has been plagued by comparatively high levels of child poverty, and by a creeping, yet significant, increase that started in the good years before the crisis. This is related to the relatively high share of jobless households, the extremely high and increasing poverty risk of children growing up in these households, and benefits that are inadequate to shield jobless families with children from poverty. Although the impact of the Great Recession was limited in Belgium, the crisis seems to have had an impact on child poverty, by increasing the number of children living in work-poor households. Although the Belgian welfare state had an important cushioning impact, its poverty-reducing capacity was less strong than it used to be. The most important lesson from the crisis is that in order to make further headway in reducing child poverty, not only activation but also social protection should be improved.

scholarly journals Socio-Emotional Variables Linked to the Consumption of Drugs amongst University Students of Social Sciences: A Pilot Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4502
Author(s):  
José Luis Rodríguez-Sáez ◽  
Luis J. Martín-Antón ◽  
Alfonso Salgado-Ruiz ◽  
Miguel Ángel Carbonero
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
University Students ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Predictive Variables ◽  
Cannabis Consumption ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Mood Scale

This descriptive and transversal study, carried out on an intentional sample of 211 subjects who were split in terms of their consumption of psychoactive substances over the last month and who were aged between 18 and 28 (M = 21.36, and SD = 1.90), aimed to explore the emotional intelligence, perceived socio-family support and academic performance of university students vis-à-vis their consumption of drugs and to examine the link between them. The goal was to define university student consumer profile through a regression model using the multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale (EMAS) and the Trait Meta Mood Scale-24 (TMMS-24) as instruments, together with academic performance and gender. The results report alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis consumption rates that are above the levels indicated by the Spanish household survey on alcohol and drugs in Spain (EDADES 2019) for the 15–34-year-old age range in Castilla y León. A certain link was observed between the consumption of substances and academic performance, although no differences were seen in academic performance in terms of consumer type. There was also no clear link observed between emotional intelligence and academic performance or between social support and academic performance. The predictive contribution of the variables included in the regression model was low (9%), which would advocate completing the model with other predictive variables until more appropriate predictability conditions can be found.

scholarly journals Local Corruption and Popular Support for Fuel Subsidy Reform in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 1472-1503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Kyle
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Fuel Subsidies ◽  
Local Politicians ◽  
Subsidy Reform

This article examines the role played by local governments in shaping resistance to reforming fiscally and environmentally disastrous fuel subsidies. Shifting from universal-access social programs, like fuel subsidies, to targeted programs requires vesting authority with local politicians and bureaucrats, whom the state relies on to identify poor households and to deliver benefits. Where local governments are corrupt, citizens find promises to replace fuel subsidies with targeted spending less credible and resistance to reform is higher. Using household survey data from Indonesia, this article finds that corruption in the implementation of targeted transfer programs increases resistance to fuel subsidy reform among the poor citizens who consume the least fuel and who stand to benefit the most from targeted programs. Findings suggest that improving capacity within subnational governments to deliver social programs is important in developing public support for reform.

scholarly journals Food insecurity in families with children under five years of age on the Brazil-Peru Amazon border

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alanderson Alves Ramalho ◽  
Saulo Augusto Silva Mantovani ◽  
Humberto Oliart-Guzmán ◽  
Fernando Luiz Cunha Castelo Branco ◽  
Athos Muniz Braña ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Children Under Five ◽  
Under Five ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Wood Floor ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Households With Children ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Main Factor

Food and nutrition security is the regular and permanent access to quality food in sufficient quantity. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in households with children under five in the Amazon frontier Brazil - Peru. The study was conducted in 352 households in Assis Brasil (Brazil) and 89 households Iñapari (Peru), finding a prevalence of food insecurity of 40.6 % and 38.2 % , respectively ( p = 0.856 ) . In Assis Brasil, having domicile with wood floors or land increased by 2.47 times the odds of food insecurity compared to cement fl oors, ceramic or quarry tiles . Belonging to the poorest tertile increased the chance of food insecurity in 6.04 times ( p < 0.001 ), and the increment of each new resident increased by 37 % the chance of food insecurity in the household . In Iñapari, only living in house made of wood or with a wood floor was associated with food insecurity, showing that income is still the main factor associated with food insecurity in the Amazonian borders.

scholarly journals Improvement of the targeted social support of low-income families with children: Vologda Pilot Project

POPULATION ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-121
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav Bobkov
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
Lump Sum ◽  
Subsistence Minimum ◽  
Regional Budget ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Guaranteed Minimum Income

The article deals with the theoretical, methodical and practical principles of forming a new model of targeted social support of low-income families with children on the basis of guaranteed minimum income. Approbation of the new approaches to targeted social support of low-income families with children was implemented in Vologda oblast. The target representative sample was 70 families. It has been found out that after the targeted social support under the current legislation (lump-sum payments excluded), basic income in these families averaged 35.3 per cent of the differentiated equivalent subsistence minimum, thus being evidence of the inefficient state social assistance. The author has substantiated introducing additional monthly targeted social payments to parents besides the set regular payments (additional family poverty benefit) that will enable families to improve their economic sustainability. He substantiated a number of threshold values of the guaranteed minimum income that would ensure current consumption ranging from the cost food basket up to the size of the differentiated equivalent living standards of families, depending on the financial capacity of the regional budget. The guaranteed minimum income of low-income families with children averaged 54.6 per cent of the regional differentiated equivalent subsistence minimum. There have been developed methodical recommendations for identifying untapped socio-economic potential of families as a source of raising income from employment, as well as criteria for removal of families from the recipients of targeted social assistance in the form of cash benefits. Proposals on correcting the current legislation on the state social support have been formulated.

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