A single mother - a woman who has no official father of the child, that is on the birth certificate contains the name of the mother of the child, and middle name written on its instructions. To be a single mother, it is not enough just to get a divorce, as in this case, the child has a father, even if he does not pay child support, or deprived of parental rights.

If a woman's husband has died or divorced her, is still before the expiration of three hundred days of this event, he is considered the father of the child and his mother, respectively, not a single mother. In another situation, if the woman is married, but her husband did not recognize her child and the child's birth certificate is not specified, a woman will be considered as a single mother, and have the appropriate privileges.

Benefits

• Non-working single mother receiving state benefits until the child reaches the age of 16 in a fixed amount of less than 2,000 rubles.
• A working single mother receives an allowance of forty percent of their average earnings. To obtain a grant should contact the Social Insurance Fund.

Employment benefits

• Dismissal

• Employer is prohibited to dismiss a single mother whose child is under the age of fourteen. The exception is when the company is liquidated, a single mother of a disciplinary penalty does not perform job duties or at least once grossly violated their (truancy, attendance at alcohol intoxication, disclosure of secrets, theft), if the employer has lost its credibility in relation to the commission her actions.
• You can not fire a single mother in connection with the reduction, the mismatch position, as a result of a change of ownership of the enterprise, due to termination of access to state secret.

• Additional leave. Each year, at the request of a single mother to her present additional unpaid leave for two weeks (fourteen days on the calendar), which can be used in parts or is connected to a paid holiday. We must bear in mind that this leave is not transferred to the next year.
• A single mother can not be put to work in excess of normal time, to work at night, on holidays and weekends, without its consent, until the child is five years.
• A single mother with a child under fourteen years of age may work part-time, paid in proportion to the time worked.
• The employer failed to employ a single mother with a child under fourteen years of age, he is required to provide in writing the reason for her refusal, for which it has the right to challenge its validity in court.
• Sick leave single mother may be issued for a longer period and is payable in a larger size.
• Twice the tax deduction available for each child up to 18 years, and per student - up 24 from March 1, 2010 is 2000 rubles.

Educational Benefits

• Privileged place in a kindergarten for the children of single mothers by federal law in 2009 eliminated and kept only some territorial entities that need to learn about the place of residence.
• Payment Payment of your stay in the children's preschool.
• Free hot breakfast at school.
• Receive free dairy products cuisine.

Housing benefits with the March 1, 2005 a single mother is not.

All of these benefits are recorded in the federal law and may be supplemented by incentives at the level of the specific subjects of the Russian Federation. Therefore, you must visit the bodies of social protection of the population and to clarify the list of payments and benefits, which relies specific single mother. I must say that there is and the status of the father alone, that is subject to all the laws relating to single mothers.

Svetlana Shimkovich