One-time payments to young professionals in 2021

The concept of a young specialist is not established in Russian legislation. From the meaning of some laws, we can conclude that young specialists in the Russian Federation are considered to be graduates of higher and secondary vocational educational institutions, who were trained at the expense of the regional or federal budget, and who are entering work for the first time in their acquired profession.

The status of a young specialist is assigned by labor legislation to a citizen for one calendar year after receiving the appropriate diploma.

Definition according to the Labor Code

According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, a young specialist is considered a person who has received a higher education and is sent to work from a higher educational institution.

In addition, such a concept is also found in the educational field. Only it differs in meaning. A young employee in the field of education is an employee whose experience is less than five years.

We can consider that a young specialist is an employee who is starting to work for the first time. Such an employee is just beginning to gain experience and work in his specialty.

Many companies enter into an agreement with a specialist of this level. It sets out separate conditions for employees without work experience.

Lifting nuances

The employer provides financial assistance, which varies depending on the type of assistance. The employer pays these funds in the first month after the contract was concluded with the employee. The employer also “wins” from this, since these funds are not subject to taxes.

However, it is worth taking into account that these payments may affect the obligations of the parties, namely the employee’s obligation to work in the organization for a certain period of time.

Important ! This can be for a period of three to five years.

As a rule, young specialists are paid allowances

If a specialist is employed by an organization other than where he lives, he must be provided with the following:

• travel reimbursement;
• reimbursement for travel to work for all family members of the employee;
• daily allowance for the number of days on the road;
• average salary for the same period of time.

Lifting benefits are provided once or are paid every year for three years. You need to find out about all the procedures for paying allowances from your superiors at the place of work.

Important information! Young professionals should receive compensation in the form of cash during the first month of employment. The amount of funds paid is affected by the position and place of work. The project is designed to motivate new specialists to work in their profession.

Young professionals should receive payments, the amount of which depends on their profession, position

If the employee wants to move, no compensation will be provided to him. According to the actions aimed at distribution, the specialist will go to the place where he lived permanently before studying at the university.

Young Specialist Program

In Russia, a special project has been developed that allows a young employee to find a job in his specialty. This program helps to attract as many students as possible to work in their specialty.

Many people know that finding a decent job after graduation is very difficult. Enterprises do not want to provide jobs for university graduates. Training a new employee requires time and additional resources.

From the point of view of the enterprise, this is a loss of losses and working time. It’s easier to find an employee who already has experience and not waste additional effort. This especially applies to residents of rural areas.

This program was developed for rural citizens. It helps to obtain comfortable working conditions. According to this program, a person has the right to receive housing and benefits for employment in government agencies. The state is trying to attract people to work in rural enterprises.

Who can take part in this program? There are points on which selection is carried out:

1. Age limit. It is important that the candidate is no older than 35 years old.
2. Completed higher education. A diploma is required.
3. Availability of a workplace.

The program allows local residents to improve the quality of their living conditions, receive benefits, and additional bonuses.

The main goal of the program is to provide housing for young graduates. First of all, this applies to workers in education and medicine. When employed by a state enterprise, the graduate is provided with housing.

State support for MS

Young public sector specialists receive very modest salaries, so many, after completing their studies, go to work outside their profession.

Unfortunately, the current federal legislation does not provide for payments to young specialists. Only labor legislation provides for a benefit when applying for a job, namely, the employer does not have the right to set a probationary period for such an employee.

In order to attract graduates to the profession at the regional level, incentives and compensation payments to young specialists were introduced.

Prerequisites

Each subject of the country establishes its own incentive programs for young professionals. In order for a citizen to be able to count on compensation and assistance from the state, as a rule, several mandatory conditions must be met:

• entering a job shortly after graduating from university (in some regions up to 6 years);
• age up to 35 years;
• “state employees” - training in budget places;
• going to work in the target direction.

Regional legislation may establish additional criteria, or some of those listed may not be taken into account at all. If there are discrepancies on at least one basis, then the status of a young specialist is not assigned, and the right to payments is lost.

After completing training, a citizen can be sent to work by referral or invitation to an organization that requires a specific specialist. An employment relationship arises between the employee and the employer, but a probationary period does not apply.

Age of the young specialist

A young employee may be someone who has not yet turned 35 years old. This status can be obtained by a university graduate who has a certificate of education.

This age limit is quite justified. Within a certain period, the employee must pay the required amount for the purchased housing.

A young worker is required to find a job in his specialty within a year after graduating from university. Moreover, you need to search for a job yourself.

Registration procedure and required documents

In order for a young specialist to receive benefits upon employment, he needs to contact the relevant government body. For teachers, this is the ministry or department of education of the subject in which they are employed; for doctors - the Ministry of Health, etc.

In general, the procedure for receiving lifting payments is as follows:

1. make sure that all conditions for classification as young specialists are met;
2. get a job in your specialty at the appropriate budgetary institution within a year after graduation;
3. submit an application and necessary documents to the government authority;
4. documents are checked, after which a decision on payment is made;
5. After receiving the payment, comply with your obligations.

In some regions and departments, you need to apply for payments directly to your employer. Among the submitted documents, note an application for payments, a copy of the work record book, birth certificates of children, and a passport.

To participate in the “Young Rural Specialist” program, you need to prepare the following list of documents:

Documents are submitted to the local government authority. Review of the application takes 40-60 days, after which a decision is made. If the decision is positive, the young specialist gets in line to receive a subsidy.

In order to become a participant in the “Zemsky Doctor” program and receive a million rubles, a young specialist must prepare the following documents :

Documents are submitted to the ministry or health department of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation to which the young doctor is moving (previously they were submitted to the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund). According to the legislation, assistance under the Zemsky Doctor is financed by the federal and regional budgets.

When a positive decision on payment is made, the federal budget transfers its amount within 3 days , after which the region adds its share. In general, the law allows 30 days to transfer money to a doctor.

Registration of assistance under the Zemstvo Paramedic program is practically no different from this procedure , with the exception that the program is regional and the money is transferred from the budget of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

To obtain a mortgage loan under special programs, young professionals need to go through the standard loan approval procedure for borrowers and provide the relevant documents (passport, income certificate, information about the housing being purchased). However, if the program involves lending to specialists in a certain industry, you must provide supporting documents. This may be a diploma of education, a copy of the work record book, a copy of the employment contract.

How to obtain the status of a young specialist

A person who wants to get under the program must meet the following requirements:

1. Age limit. The program is designed for people under 35 years of age. This is an important condition for this social project;
2. Availability of work in rural areas. After graduating from a higher educational institution, you need to independently search for a job. The main condition is to work in a rural area in a government agency;
3. Do not be the owner of an apartment or house. The exception is the presence of premises that are not suitable for living. These include a warehouse. A person who is going to participate in the program must need to purchase their own housing;
4. The main place of work and residence should be the village.
5. A person must be employed in the public service: work in the field of education, medicine, agriculture;
6. It is necessary to have start-up capital when purchasing a home. Moreover, the minimum deposit amount should be 30% of the cost of the house or apartment.

If you complete all the points, you can safely take part in the “young specialist” program.

What benefits are provided by law?

The provision of social support and protection measures for young professionals in Russia occurs within the framework of federal and regional programs, as well as in accordance with industry and regional regulations. In the most general form, young professionals in various fields of activity have the right to the following support measures:

• lifting payments;
• allowances and additional payments to wages, benefits;
• assistance within the framework of special programs - “Young specialist in rural areas”, “Zemsky doctor”, “Zemsky paramedic”;
• social mortgage on preferential terms;
• other benefits determined at the regional level.

Lifting payments, allowances and benefits

Lifting payments are money that is paid to a young specialist in a lump sum upon admission to the organization’s staff. These payments can be spent on buying or renting housing, arrangement, moving and other purposes.

The amount of lifting payments depends on the region of employment of the young specialist. For example, the amount of allowance for a young teacher will be:

• in Moscow - about 100,000 rubles , and the amount depends on the “color” of the diploma (those who graduate from a university with honors receive more);
• in St. Petersburg - more than 67,000 rubles for “excellent students” and about 50,000 rubles for other young teachers;
• in the Irkutsk region - about 50,000 rubles.

In provincial cities, allowances are also paid, but in smaller amounts ( 10-20 thousand rubles ).

Young doctors also apply for raise payments; for them the amount is the equivalent of three official salaries.

Several types of benefits can be established for young professionals:

• one-time – paid, as a rule, at the end of the year;
• monthly - added to wages;
• incentives - paid based on work results (bonuses).

One-time benefits for young doctors and scientists are paid, as a rule, for three years. For example, in 2017 in the Ulyanovsk region they paid 45,000 rubles at the end of the first year, 40,000 rubles at the end of the second and 35,000 rubles at the end of the third year. The amounts are determined by each subject of the Russian Federation separately.

It is important that if a specialist decides to quit earlier than after 3 years, he will have to return all lump-sum compensation payments he received.

One-time payments also include compensation for moving, which includes both the money directly spent on moving and daily allowances for this time, and one salary is added to the first salary.

The amount of monthly additional payments is also determined by regional authorities. In Moscow, for young teachers, a bonus is paid in the amount of 40-50% of the salary, and in St. Petersburg this measure is not used, but compensation is paid for travel on transport.

For young doctors, the monthly additional payment is 30-40% of the salary, and in some regions bonuses are paid even before medical students finish their diplomas.

"Young specialist in the village"

The state program “ Young specialist in rural areas ” is designed to encourage young specialists to move to work in rural areas. In order to take part in the program, a young specialist must meet the following conditions:

• have a diploma in a relevant field (or a final year student);
• be no older than 35 years old;
• have a certificate of absence of ownership of residential premises;
• after receiving assistance, live in a village and work in your specialty for at least 5 years;
• have enough money at your disposal to cover 30% of the cost of housing.

As part of the program, young teachers and doctors apply for a subsidy from the budget covering up to 70% of the cost of a house, apartment or the cost of building their home. This amount is allocated in the form of a loan at a reduced rate of 5% per annum for a period of 10 years. Repayment of this loan is usually made by writing off part of the specialist’s salary.

The main condition is to live in the village for at least 5 years after receiving assistance. Otherwise, the money will be collected back, including by seizing the property.

“Zemsky Doctor” and “Zemsky Paramedic”

Under the federal program “ Zemsky Doctor ,” a specialist moving to work in a rural area can qualify for a payment from the state in the amount of 1,000,000 rubles. Such assistance can be used to purchase a house or apartment, or to purchase land and build housing.

The “Zemsky Doctor” program is regulated by the legislation on compulsory health insurance (CHI), the relevant law describes the conditions and procedure for a doctor to receive a million rubles when moving to a village.

Main conditions for receiving money:

• the specialist must have a diploma of higher education and completion of a residency or internship (good academic performance and grades in the diploma are important);
• age – no more than 50 years (accordingly, this also includes young specialists);
• desire to work in rural areas on a permanent basis ( at least 5 years );
• lack of your own home.

This program is being implemented in different regions of the country; in some, vacancies for doctors in rural hospitals have already been almost completely filled. Therefore, before moving to the village and applying for participation in the program, you need to make sure that such participation is possible.

There is a regional program “Zemsky Paramedic” for paramedics. The terms of the program are similar to the program discussed above, with some exceptions:

• the program is regional - valid only in those constituent entities of the Russian Federation that have implemented it;
• the amount of payment to the paramedic is 500,000 rubles;
• the age of the applicant is not older than 35 years (certain constituent entities of the Russian Federation increase the maximum age to 50 years);
• Secondary medical education is required.

After receiving funding, a paramedic must work in a rural area for at least 5 years.

Housing programs

As part of the subprogram “Providing housing for certain categories of citizens,” the state provides assistance with the acquisition of their own housing by young professionals.

Public sector employees, if recognized as needing housing, may qualify for the following support measures:

• compensation of 30-40% of the cost of purchased housing;
• lower mortgage interest rate
• possibility of paying the down payment on a mortgage loan with a subsidy from the state, loan term from 5 years.

Young professionals can receive these benefits regardless of whether they buy housing in a new building, on the secondary market, or are building their own home. Financing is provided from regional and federal budgets with the coordination of JSC DOM.RF (formerly AHML).

JSC "DOM.RF" also helps young doctors and teachers obtain a social mortgage:

• for teachers no older than 35 years : loan rate from 5.75%, the ability to attract co-borrowers, a minimum down payment that can be made through a subsidy;
• for young doctors: the interest rate is about 8.75%, the rate is halved upon the birth of a child, payment of the down payment through a subsidy.

There were additional mortgage lending programs for teachers, but all of them have now closed.

Payments to young professionals

The young worker claims to receive additional payments. Payments are conventionally divided into two types.

The legislative framework

According to the decree of the government of the Russian Federation, a project was drawn up that indicated payment to the young specialist for the first place from the day he was hired and signed the contract. These payments are called lifting payments . They depend on the specialty and place of work. The objective of this project is to attract specialists to apply for their acquired specialty.

An additional benefit provided to specialists is a housing program. To be an applicant, you must work in one organization for five years. It is easier to use this program for specialists who remain to work in rural areas.

Young specialist in the educational field

Young specialists in the field of education are teachers. Moreover, the period of work should not exceed five years. Then the employee may qualify for additional payments.

Additional payments are calculated based on the amount of the stipend the employee received. An educational specialist may qualify for the following allowances:

1. One-time benefit. It is awarded to young workers who are employed for the first time. The amount of such payments ranges from 20,000 to 100,000 rubles. The maximum amount can be obtained by working in big cities;
2. Monthly increase in earnings. Specialists who have completed their studies with honors can apply for an increase in earnings. The increase in earnings can reach 50% of the total salary. Those who have received a regular diploma can count on an increase in earnings of up to 40%.
3. Teachers may qualify for a mortgage on preferential terms.
4. Sometimes the state compensates a certain part of the money for the purchase of housing.

To attract as many specialists as possible into the field of education, the state is creating additional incentive programs.

Latest changes in legislation

In recent years, activities to support young professionals have undergone some changes. Until 2014, there were special regional programs to provide housing for teachers - “House for Teacher”, “Teacher’s House” and others. At the moment, due to rising wages for education workers, these programs have been stopped.

Changes have also occurred in the Zemsky Doctor program. In particular, from 2021, this program applies to doctors under 50 years (previously, the age was limited to 35 years). Also, starting from 2021, the list of settlements in which the program operates has been expanded.

Since 2021, the Zemsky Doctor program has been transferred from the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund to the Russian Ministry of Health. Accordingly, funds are now also allocated directly from the federal budget and regional budgets. The program was extended to small towns with a population of up to 50 thousand inhabitants.

Mortgage programs for young professionals, which were implemented through AHML , were transferred to the jurisdiction of the regions with the reform of the agency. Mortgage interest rates are reviewed regularly, as the benchmark for them – the key rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation – changes.

The concept of “young specialist” in healthcare

A young doctor in the healthcare system is considered to be an employee who, after graduating from college, goes to work.

Important! You must go to work no later than three months from the date of graduation. Otherwise, additional payments will not be accrued.

The legislation of the Russian Federation contains a bill that provides for the payment of compensation to doctors who are employed in rural areas. These are quite impressive payouts. They amount to one million rubles. To receive this benefit, you must sign an agreement with the local authorities where the doctor arrived to work.

Cash payments may be received under certain conditions. A young doctor must have five years of work experience in rural areas. That is, after the conclusion of the contract and official employment, five years must pass for the employee to be able to receive the money in full. In case of dismissal, before the expiration of the term, the specialist is obliged to return previously received cash payments to the state in full.

In addition, the state must provide housing for the doctor. Important! The state has the right to choose to provide either housing or land or repay part of the loan funds for mortgage housing.

The million rubles that a specialist will receive for carrying out his activities must be spent on improving his living conditions. If the apartment is under a mortgage, the money received can be transferred to repay the loan.

Motivating tools

In the event that a health worker is sent to a rural area during assignment, he will be paid incentives for three years.

The amount of funds paid to health workers is regulated at the regional level, like other types of relief.

On average, the price of a motivational benefit is one million rubles.

The amount of funds provided to young specialists is determined by the regional government

This right is granted to citizens who are specialists in the field of science and healthcare and only if the conditions for assignment to employment in the appropriate place are met.

Important ! If a citizen refuses distribution, he will be denied support from the state.

What kind of help can doctors still receive from the state?

In addition to one-time payments, doctors may receive additional benefits from their local authorities. Thus, by decision of local authorities, an incentive program for employees is being introduced in some regions of Russia.

The size of payments ranges from 30 thousand rubles to one hundred. It all depends on the position held.

In order to obtain the necessary advice on the amount of payments, specialists need to contact local authorities to obtain more detailed information on payments. The lack of money in the state treasury is not a valid reason for refusing to accrue funds.

Features of registration and receipt of benefits

Problems that arise when registering for participation in the “Zemsky Doctor” program, unfortunately, are not uncommon . Since the register of specializations for which specialists are attracted is formed at the regional level, narrow specialists interested in relocating spend a lot of time searching for a possible place of work. Problems also arise with the fact that after registration for a job, a doctor’s specialty may be excluded from the list of priorities for the program. Accordingly, the doctor will not be able to receive a payment of a million rubles.

In some regions, payments under the program are delayed. Since the payment is transferred from two budgets, the share of the regional budget may be delayed. Despite the fact that, by law, payment must be made within 30 days, in fact only the “federal” part can be transferred, and the rest is delayed.

There are few cases of non-payment of allowances to young doctors or teachers, and they usually have a legal basis. Thus, refusal of payment is received by those who studied by correspondence, for whom this is not the first job, or the educational institution where the specialist works has federal status. In the case where the employer directly refuses payments without sufficient grounds, it is advisable to contact the labor inspectorate, the prosecutor's office and the court.

It is important that, under the conditions of receiving assistance from the state, in most cases it is necessary to work for some time in a budget institution. Those who did not take this into account and quit their jobs receive demands to return the money, including through the courts.

Amount of lifting payments

The amount of cash payments depends on the conditions of the regional program to help young workers, as well as on the profession itself. For example, aspiring doctors, getting a job in a hospital in Moscow, will receive up to 100 thousand rubles, and teachers can count on at least 20 thousand.

It is worth checking directly with the employer what amounts are due in each specific case, but on average the benefit is 3 tariff rates of the first category.

Disadvantages of a young employee

Company managers are forced to spend their time and the time of their subordinates on training a young specialist. Ideally, a young employee turns out to be smart, quickly adapts to everything and grows before the eyes of the manager. In the opposite case, a young employee takes up valuable time from the company, money is spent on his training, but there are no tangible results from his work.

It will take a long time for a young employee to learn to apply his theoretical knowledge in practice, and this will again cause damage to the company. In addition, the work of a young employee must be checked, which means again wasting time and money, paying extra to senior employees for guardianship. In order to select a competent employee from the crowd of people willing to learn, it is necessary, at a minimum, to create a number of test programs, which again cost money.

About compensation

The Labor Code of the Russian Federation (including regional legislative acts) contains Article 96, which regulates the issue of calculating compensation for young professionals, as well as members of their families, who are sent to work in accordance with the distribution plan at the location of the educational institution where they completed their training. In this case, due to a change of place of residence, compensation is paid in full, but on the condition that before training their permanent place of residence was another area.

Provided that by the time of assignment to a place of work, the applicant for benefits has received permanent registration at the address in the locality where the educational institution is located and where he has been assigned to work, then receiving benefits is impossible.

Unfortunately, many employers do not always correctly understand the term young specialist. A teenager is applying for a job; the legal aspects of registering cooperation with a minor are completely different concepts.

So, a boy or girl, having arrived or called their parents after the next interview, joyfully announces the approval of their candidacy for the coveted position. In this case, what should attentive and caring parents and inspired teenagers pay attention to? Below are some fairly important facts:

For the provided list of documents

A teenager will not be accepted for a vacant position if he (she) does not have:

• legally certified written permission from parents, guardianship services or guardians (this document is relevant for minors aged fourteen to sixteen years);
• passports or birth certificates;
• a certificate or certificate from the institution where the teenager is studying (college, external and home study, evening school);
• inn and snilsa;
• certificates of medical examination and medical record (an extremely important document, without which they are not issued and are not allowed to work either).

A work book, on the contrary, is not required; as a rule, the employer prepares it himself according to all the rules.

To the workplace and working conditions

It must comply with all Sanpin standards. established for a teenage worker. So, for example, in a catering establishment there should be no small pests (rats, cockroaches), there should be a minimum frequency and there should be no possibility of lifting loads above the physical norm established for the child.

Conditions and duration of a teenager’s work shift

According to the rules, children between the ages of fourteen and sixteen cannot work more than three hours a day (which includes twelve prescribed hours during school hours, and twenty hours during the summer months and holidays). From sixteen to eighteen years of age, no more than four hours (which includes seventeen hours a week during school and thirty-five during the summer and holidays).

Among other things, children and their parents should also take note that a probationary period for a teenager after being hired is not legally established. Among other things, cases regarding collective or individual payment of material damage (except for cases of intentional damage to the employer’s property by minors) cannot be brought against a teenager under sixteen years of age.

It is worth understanding that honest companies and individual entrepreneurs greatly value their “white” reputation in their field. They, the employers, have absolutely no need for proceedings with the labor and tax inspectorates, or claims from reasonably angry parents whose children have suffered undeservedly.

Such employers of minor workers register immediately either under an employment contract or according to a work book, without waiting for the end of three legal working days.

Do I need to pay financial compensation?

Many people ask the question, and this is especially true for managers, whether it is necessary to pay financial compensation in connection with a change of place of residence of a young specialist, provided that he is sent to his place of work in a locality of permanent residence? The answer is clear - no. In this situation, financial compensation is not awarded and is not even considered.

At the same time, in case of assignment, the place of permanent residence is recognized as the locality (city, village) where the future applicant lived before entering the educational institution. Today, every large company, as well as small organizations, wants to hire competent specialists as employees. Initially, it is worth deciding what these companies mean by “competent specialists.”