Gave birth too early: mothers of many children are denied benefits because of preterm birth

The mother of many children, Olga Rozenko, who lives on Sakhalin, cannot make a social payment for the purchase of housing for her large family, which now brings up five kids. The reason for the refusal of social workers to issue a benefit was the fact that one of the children was born prematurely.

The birth occurred long before the deadline set by the midwives, when the pregnant woman was far away from home, on a trip to her mother-in-law, in Belarus. The fact that the child was born not in the territory of the Russian Federation, and became the basis for refusal to calculate the benefits due.

The rules for lump-sum allowance for large families of Sakhalin families do contain a strange wording about the fact that a large family is considered to be a family in which each of the children was born in Russia.

Officials are not at all embarrassed by the fact that four other children were born on Sakhalin. After premature birth on the territory of a foreign state, the family returned to their homeland, the child did not receive Belarusian citizenship.

The verdict of local social protection mother of many children tried several times to appeal in different instances, but so far nothing has been achieved.

All officials point to the very local law on large families and its more than strange formulation, which the members of the regional government who adopted the document could hardly have thought about at all.

Therefore, now a large woman resident of the island cannot find help either in the local prosecutor's office, or in the regional Duma, or in the regional government.

Now Olga has appealed to the court, the first hearing has already been scheduled for this autumn.

For reference: on Sakhalin there is a program whereby families with four or more children can receive a lump sum financial payment for the purchase of an apartment.

But the wording of the charter itself, as it turned out, is imperfect and not thought through to the end. Of course, the best option would be to make changes to the formal wording of the document, but the officials do not want to do it and say that they will revise the local law only if there is a corresponding court decision.

Experienced lawyers say that a vicious circle is being created - officials are waiting for a court decision, and the court cannot make a decision that would conflict with current legislation. If Rosenko succeeds to win this process by some miracle, it will create a precedent of national scale and open the way to the courts for other residents of the country who are faced with ridiculous formulations of local laws.

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