WWII veterans and home front workers will receive lump sum payments in April-May

Lump-sum payments to veterans of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) and home front workers in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Victory will be made in April-May. This is evidenced by the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, posted on the official Internet portal of legal information on January 15.

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

It follows from the document that the payment in the amount of Br80 thousand will be received by disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War, former juvenile prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, ghettos and other places of forced confinement, widows and widowers of servicemen who died during the Great Patriotic War, the war with Finland and Japan, as well as widows and widowers of deceased disabled veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, former adult prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, prisons and ghettos will receive a lump sum payment of 55 thousand rubles.

At the end of December 2024, Putin declared 2025 the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland. The decision was made in honor of the participants of the special military operation and in memory of the feats of all ancestors. Along with this, he called to promote as a global value the victory over Nazism in 1945.

In 2025, May 9 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. In January 1945, the USSR army launched an offensive on Berlin. At the end of hostilities 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.