Kazakhstan will establish protected accounts for child support, providing families with enhanced financial security and ensuring timely payments.

The current legislation prohibits the seizure of funds from accounts designated for receiving benefits, social payments, child support for minors, and support for incapacitated adult children, as well as payments from housing construction savings and educational savings accounts. Additionally, the law establishes a procedure for opening "special" accounts for the deposit of these funds, reports a correspondent from inbusiness.kz.

Previously, the National Bank received complaints from consumers of financial services regarding banks deducting money that represented benefits, social payments, and alimony. Upon reviewing these complaints, it was found that the bank accounts receiving these payments were not opened by borrowers as "special" accounts, from which seizure is prohibited.

The draft resolution, published the day before in the NPA, included amendments to several legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan concerning state awards, education, and the protection of children's rights.

The document proposes the opening of a separate bank account for receiving alimony to protect these funds from seizure by banks for overdue debts on loans.

To open a current account for receiving alimony, individuals who are residents of Kazakhstan and alimony recipients must provide the bank with:

• A document verifying the identity of the alimony recipient (funds designated for the support of minors and incapacitated adult children).
• An application specifying the purpose of the current account.
• A copy of the court decision on the collection of alimony or a notarized agreement on alimony payment, executed according to the Family Code.

It is also noted that the bank may refuse to execute a payment document in the following cases:

• Depositing funds into an account opened for alimony if the incoming amount does not pertain to alimony.
• If the payment purpose code does not match the code established for alimony deposits.

The document is open for public discussion until February 5 of the current year.

According to the Ministry of Justice of the RK, the number of problematic alimony cases in Kazakhstan exceeds 31,000 cases with a total amount of over 33 billion tenge. Overall, the country has more than 322,000 alimony cases in enforcement proceedings.

Previously, it was reported that in 2025, parents of multiple children will be able to save approximately 90,000 tenge per month additionally.