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The state benefit for the birth of a child will be increased in 2012, as it depends on the minimum wage, as do other kinds of benefits, the head of the state social policy department of the Social Policy Ministry, Vitaliy Muschynin, has said.

In an interview with the Social Status TV program on Tonis Chanel, he said that the Social Policy Ministry is planning to increase the payment for the birth of a third child to Hr 115,000 by the end of 2012, compared to Hr 104,400 as of the end of 2011, and respectively the material aid for both the first and second child will also increase.

The official said that in 2011 the benefit for the birth of a third child was 10% up year-on-year.

"We will increase the living wage four times during the next year, respectively, this aid will be increased four times," Muschynin added.