Ensuring a decent standard of living for the population and the development of Kazakhstan as a socially oriented state is one of the main priorities. The head of state proposed state initiatives on a new procedure for providing targeted support to low-income and large families, which will have an effective impact on improving the well-being of the population. Based on these initiatives, the following changes have been made since April 1 last year: First, the criterion for the provision of targeted social assistance has increased from 50% to 70% of the subsistence minimum, or increased from 14,849 tenge to 20,789 tenge. second, when assigning targeted social assistance, state benefits for large families and mothers with many children awarded with "Kumis alka" and "Altyn alka" pendants, as well as disability benefits for children and scholarships will be excluded from the total family income. thirdly, children from low-income families (up to 18 years old, with their education - up to 23 years old) will be paid monthly guaranteed assistance in the amount of 20 789 tenge. As a result, if earlier these measures in Aktobe region covered 20083 people (4113 families), now it is planned to cover 29237 people (5983 families). At this time, 903.8 million tenge was allocated to pay targeted social assistance from the republican and local budgets. On the instructions of Elbasy, 3585.1 million tenge was planned additionally from the republican budget to support low-income families for this purpose.