Families with a low income are eligible for free meals for babies up to 2 years old. For this it is necessary to provide a number of necessary documents to the social service.
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You will need
income statements, prescription from the local pediatrician on the appointment of food, other documents
Instruction manual
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To get free dairy products for the baby, collect the package of necessary documents. Prepare in advance the passports of all family members, birth certificates of children and documents confirming your marital status. If you are married, bring a certificate of marriage with you. If at the time of applying for free food you are divorced, provide the divorce document to the social service specialists.
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Contact the accounting department at the place of work for a certificate of income for the 3 months that precede the month of circulation. The same certificate must be provided by the spouse. If you have a divorce certificate, you must provide documents confirming the amount of alimony payments.
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If the head of the family does not work, he must either join the labor exchange or provide documents confirming his disability. Take care to be able to justify a temporary lack of work. Otherwise, representatives of the social service will refuse to issue a certificate giving the opportunity to receive free food.
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Find out where you can get help for free meals. Most often, such documents are issued by the Committee for the Protection of Maternity and Childhood. In some regions, they are issued in the Single Window Service.
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After receiving help, contact your local pediatrician. The doctor will issue a prescription for food in accordance with the age and needs of the baby. Children after 1 year of life, as a rule, are no longer prescribed a milk mixture, but are replaced with cereals.
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With a prescription for the appointment of food, contact the point of delivery of dry milk formula and cereals. As a rule, they are located in the children's clinic at the place of residence.
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If you have any problems with getting food, refer to the clinic's manual. It is the chief physicians who are authorized to resolve all issues related to the issuance of dry dairy products, since it is carried out through the medical institution they manage.
note
You will have to reaffirm your eligibility for free meals every 3 months. 3 months after applying to the social service, make sure to provide specialists with income certificates for the past period.
Useful advice
Before the initial application for information on the appointment of food, go to the social services website and find out which documents need to be provided only in the original, and which copies should be taken.