Impact of State Support Measures on the Socio-economic Situation of Families with Children

Inequality in the incomes of various groups of the population and the implementation of government support measures continues to be an urgent problem in foreign and domestic scientific research. One of its important aspects is the study of the income of families with children, who make up a significant part of poor households in the Russian Federation. In accordance with this, reducing the poverty of families with children is one of the most important directions of state policy. The purpose of this article is to analyze the impact of government support measures on the socio-economic situation of families with children in the Russian Federation. The study uses such methods as document analysis, statistical data analysis, mass survey of families with children. The results of the study indicate that the measures of state support for families with children existing on a regional scale do not have a significant impact on the socio-economic situation of families. The main reasons may be the following: the inability to obtain existing support measures for many categories of families with children, the small, insignificant amount of monetary forms of support and the determination of the right to benefits. The families with children who took part in the study are mostly dissatisfied with the existing and provided measures of state support.