Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has instructed the responsible officials to take immediate steps to remedy the situation with a "children's assistances." The corresponding task the PM announced during a weekly meeting under his chairmanship.

The Prime Minister has strictly posed a question on the inadmissibility of delayed payments. Thus he stressed that no long weekends can not be an excuse of officials' footdragging, which have not provided that families with children receive money on time.

Mykola Azarov charged the Ministry of Social Policy and the Ministry of Finance to take immediate steps to remedy the situation, adding that the inflow of money to the families - the direct responsibility of the ministries and their heads.

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