Duma Budget Panel Backs 2026–2028 Social Fund and OMS Budgets for Second Reading

Overview

• Lawmakers scheduled the second-reading vote for November 18 after the Budget and Taxes Committee endorsed both drafts.
• The Social and Pension Insurance Fund plan sets 2026 revenues at 19.086 trillion rubles and expenditures at 18.748 trillion, with a 7.6% insurance pension indexation and a 156.76‑ruble pension coefficient.
• The package defines family benefits, including 2026 maternity capital of 737,205 rubles for initial eligibility and 974,189 rubles for second-child cases, and raises the lump-sum birth payment to 28,773 rubles in February 2026.
• The OMS budget projects 2026 revenues of 4.712 trillion rubles and spending of 4.794 trillion, a deficit of 82.058 billion, and 3.992 trillion in subventions to territorial funds.
• Starting in 2026, OMS subventions factor in programs for Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, and Chair Ilya Balanin said updated allocation coefficients ensure no region sees a reduction versus 2025.