The State Duma adopted in the first reading bills that additionally protect the housing rights of families of SMO participants. The initiative was developed at the request of relatives of fallen servicemen and is designed to eliminate significant legal gaps. It concerns the restoration of the rights of family members of a serviceman to receive housing, including orphans, as well as family members of a serviceman who concluded a social tenancy agreement and was registered as in need of improved housing conditions.
The first bill improves legal guarantees for providing housing to family members of those who died in the line of military duty (including during the SMO) from among orphans and children left without parental care, as well as those who belonged to this category and reached the age of 23. The right to an extraordinary payment for the purchase of comfortable housing into ownership or for the full repayment of a mortgage loan is granted to widows (widowers) of the deceased (who died as a result of wounds, injuries, illnesses or were declared dead/missing) from among orphans and children left without parental care, as well as former members of this category who have reached the age of 23, provided that they have not entered into a second marriage and have common children. This applies to persons called up for military service by conscription or mobilization, those who served under contract, those who were in volunteer formations and concluded a contract on voluntary assistance to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
The second bill stipulates that family members of a person who died (passed away) as a result of performing tasks during the SMO and (or) performing tasks to repel an armed invasion of the territory of the Russian Federation, during an armed provocation at the State Border of the Russian Federation and the territories of constituent entities of the Russian Federation adjacent to the areas of the SMO, cannot be removed from the register as in need of housing if the circumstances entailing the loss of grounds giving the right to receive housing under a social tenancy agreement arose as a result of the death of the said person. When determining the total area of housing provided under a social tenancy agreement, a reduction in its size due to the death of such a person is not allowed if his family members were registered as in need of housing at the time of the occurrence of the said circumstances.