Volgograd residents were offered to identify babies during registration in the registry office
Schemes with the registration of “virtual” children for obtaining maternity capital and social benefits are readily used by fraudsters
Registration of non-existent children on fake documents for the sake of receiving payments is an egregious crime, said the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family Protection Rosa Chemeris.
In an interview with TASS, she noted that the existing fraudulent schemes became possible due to the lack of a requirement to show the newborn to the registry office. In this regard, the MP proposed to move away from paper formalities and introduce a system of objective identification, in which the child will be either physically presented to specialists or registered on the basis of clear digital metrics, including photographs and medical reports.
Earlier, the Ministry of Justice also proposed to fight fraud, excluding the practice of establishing maternity at the request of persons present at childbirth, and relying solely on official certificates from doctors.
