In I quarter 2018 the total amount of social payments from the SSIF was more than 43 bln.

State Social Insurance Fund paid to its recipients 43.7 billion. Tenge for the I quarter of 2018.

The most popular are payments related to motherhood and childhood. Nearly 51,000 women were paid maternity leave and child care payments up to 1 year received 250 thousand. Citizens. Total 37.7 billion. Tenge was spent on these purposes.

. However, during this period, 71.5 thousand people received payments for loss of earning capacity, 40 thousand people - payments for children without one or both parents, 14 thousand people -. Payments related to job loss. To this it was allocated 6 billion.

Social payments from the SSIF shall be covered by social security contributions that employers pay for its own account. From 1 January 2018 the social contribution rate reduced from 5% to 3.5%.