Overview
- Maria Lvova-Belova asked the State Duma to accelerate amendments setting the procedure for awarding insurance survivor pensions to children conceived via assisted reproductive technologies after a father's death.
- The report specifies that paternity for children born more than 300 days after the father's death should be established by a court.
- A group of senators led by Vladimir Yakushev has already submitted a bill to guarantee survivor pensions for such children.
- The Constitutional Court previously found parts of the insurance pension law unconstitutional where they excluded posthumously conceived children from eligibility.
- Separately, the report recommends allowing early retirement for fathers of large families and counting childcare leave from 1.5 to 3 years toward pensionable service.