Cards for the poor may appear in 2011-2012

As the head of the Association of Retail Companies (ACORT) Lev Khasis, the proposal for the introduction of cards for the poor received the support of "high enough", so they can appear as early as 2011-2012. Such programs have long been applied in developed countries, said Khasis These subsidies enable low-income families receive free food. True, this does not apply to alcohol and tobacco. Last September, the Public Chamber on the development of social standards has already proposed to introduce in Russia, food stamps and an allocation of budget funds to purchase food for these cards at the farms. In addition, in late August 2010 the leader of the socially conservative club's "United Russia" Andrei Isayev also made a proposal to issue monthly certificates to the needy citizens to purchase goods worth 1,5-2 thousand rubles. According to estimates Isaeva, recipients of such cards could be about 3 5 million people, which would cost the state about 100 billion rubles.