The Russian government has approved the rules for lump-sum payments to WWII veterans

The Government of the Russian Federation has approved the rules for lump-sum payments to veterans of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) and home front workers in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Victory. The relevant resolution was published on March 20 on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The document was signed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The payments were established earlier, on January 15, by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

It is specified that they concern Russians who live in Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria.

It follows from the resolution that the payment in the amount of 80 thousand rubles will be received by disabled people and WWII veterans, former minor prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, ghettos and other places of forced detention, widows and widowers of military personnel who died during the Great Patriotic War, the war with Finland and Japan, as well as widows and widowers of deceased disabled people and WWII participants.

WWII veterans, former adult prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, prisons and ghettos will receive a one-time payment of 55 thousand rubles.

"Citizens who are entitled to receive a lump sum payment for several reasons, it is carried out on the basis that provides for a higher amount," the document says.

Precise measures: Putin announced payments to veterans of the Great Patriotic War

In the year of the Victory anniversary front-line veterans, home front workers and other categories will receive from Br55 thousand to Br80 thousand.

At the end of December 2024, Putin declared 2025 the Year of Defender of the Fatherland. The decision was made in honor of the participants of the special military operation and in memory of the exploits of all the ancestors. At the same time, he called for promoting the victory over Nazism in 1945 as a global value.

In 2025, May 9 marks the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. In January 1945, the Soviet army launched an offensive against Berlin. As a result of the fighting, at 00:43 Moscow time on May 9, the commanders-in-chief signed the act of unconditional surrender of Germany, which served as the end of the Great Patriotic War.