Alimony

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2024: The volume of alimony collected in Russia for the year increased by 38% to ₽92 billion

The volume of alimony collected in Russia in 2024 reached ₽92 billion, an increase of 38% compared to 2023. Then the amount was ₽66,5 billion. This was announced in mid-February 2025 by the director of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) Dmitry Aristov.

The largest amount of alimony of ₽100 million was paid by a resident of the Rostov region. Over the year, the number of pending enforcement proceedings decreased from 772 thousand to 723 thousand.

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Director of the Federal Bailiff Service Dmitry Aristov noted that in the absence of official employment of the debtor, the amount of debt is calculated on the basis of the average salary in Russia, which in November 2024, according to Rosstat, amounted to ₽86,4 thousand.

For the period from 2023 to 2024, the total number of documents for enforcement decreased by 18.4% - from 758 thousand to 618.7 thousand productions.

According to the publication, in Russia from May 24, 2025 it is planned to launch the register of non-payers of alimony. According to the head of the Federal Bailiff Service, the register can become not only an information, but also a regulatory tool in the provision of various government services.

The register will include information about wanted persons, brought to administrative responsibility or convicted of non-payment of alimony. Director of the Federal Bailiff Service Dmitry Aristov stressed that this tool is aimed at encouraging citizens to avoid reputational losses and potential restrictions in the social and financial spheres.

The possibility of integrating the register with credit institutions is being considered, which will allow taking into account information about alimony debts when making decisions on issuing loans.^[1]

2023: Increase in the volume of alimony collected by 40% to 68 billion rubles

In 2023, the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) collected 68 billion rubles of alimony in favor of children, which is 40% more compared to 2022 (48 billion rubles). Such figures Minister of Justice Konstantin Chuichenko cited in January 2024.

Family law specialist Victoria Danilchenko linked the increase in alimony penalties with the inability to travel abroad with debts.

FSSP recovered 68 billion rubles of alimony in favor of children

In the presence of an SVO [special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine] in the country, this measure to close the borders turned out to be very effective. Due to the number of flights, the ability to fly anywhere has decreased, a very large arrival of alimony in 2023 was precisely in connection with these measures. They also began to look better, bailiffs began, as in films, to pretend to be buyers of cars, apartments in relation to the property that the debtor had. Thus, they began to identify serious financial injections, - said the expert on the air of the radio station "Moscow speaking."

In November 2023, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the creation of a register of debtors for the payment of alimony. The register was offered to include information about malicious defaulters who were brought to administrative or criminal liability, as well as about those who were put on the wanted list. The following information will be posted in the public domain: last name, first name and patronymic, date and place of birth, amount of outstanding debt, information on enforcement proceedings. The data will be publicly available until the day of repayment of the debt or until the end of enforcement proceedings.

As indicated in the explanatory note to the bill, by January 1, 2023, about 771,2000 proceedings for the collection of alimony were being executed by the FSSP. More than 150,000 debtors were wanted for non-payment of alimony or were prosecuted for this, that is, they are potential participants in the future register.^[2]

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