Investing in the Future: Adult Kazakhstanis Used More Than $22.29 Million Under the National Fund for Children Program

Investing in the Future: Adult Kazakhstanis Used More Than $22.29 Million Under the National Fund for Children Program

15.10.2025 18:41:41 37

As of October 1, 2025, since the program's launch on February 1, 2024, authorized operators have processed 156,956 applications totaling over $22.29 million. Funds have been transferred to authorized operators for deposit into applicants' bank accounts. Of these, 98,046 applications totaling $14.14 millionwere processed for housing, and 58,910 applications totaling approximately $8.15 million were processed for educational services. As a reminder, recipients of targeted savings (TS) have the right to use the entire amount or a portion of it. Any unused balance is stored in a targeted savings account (TSA).

When using funds to improve housing conditions, the main areas were: replenishment of the contribution to housing construction savings for further accumulation (95,786 applications were completed for a total of approximately 13.85 million US dollars), making a down payment to obtain a mortgage loan for the purchase of housing - 755 applications for a total of 101.44 thousand US dollars, acquisition of housing in ownership through civil law transactions (final settlement) - 553 applications for a total of approximately 69.88 thousand US dollars.

Key areas for using funds for educational purposes include payment for educational services at educational institutions located in the Republic of Kazakhstan, either in installments (for each academic period or academic year) or in a lump sum (for the entire term of study) (52,574 applications completed, totaling $7.38 million), replenishment of educational savings deposits under educational savings deposit agreements (4,477 applications completed, totaling approximately $527,670), and payment for educational services at foreign educational institutions, either in installments (for each academic period or academic year) or in a lump sum (for the entire term of study) (1,526 applications completed, totaling approximately $194,540).

Detailed informationon targeted savings payments for the purpose of improving housing conditions and/or paying for education, broken down by authorized operators and regions, is available on the enpf.kz website.

 

As a reminder, under the National Fund for Children  program, 50% of the investment income from the National Fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan is distributed annually among children of the Republic of Kazakhstan citizens born in 2006 or later. All recipients of the TSwere awarded$100.52 in 2023 and $129.38 in 2024. Children who received their first National Fund payments in 2023, with the exception of those born in 2006, were awarded$3.04 in investment income this year. As a result, the target savings for a child born in 2006 are $100.52, and for a child born in 2007, $232.94.

Adult citizens must independently obtain information about their targeted savings through their personal account on the UAPF or e-government websites. They can then contact an authorized operator to open a US dollar bank account and submit an online application for targeted savings payments to improve their housing conditions and/or pay for education.

To receive targeted savings payments, the recipient or their legal representative must contact an authorized operator with whom UAPF has a corresponding agreement. Applications can be submitted through the website or mobile app of one of the following authorized operators: JSC Otbasy Bank (for improving housing conditions and paying for education), JSC Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan, or JSC Bank CenterCredit (for paying for education).

You can learn more about the program terms, get instructions, and receive answers to your questions on the website kids.enpf.kz and on the БЖЗҚЕНПФ YouTube channel. We also note that a video instruction on the implementation of the National Fund for Children program, and the algorithm of actions before and after the child reaches adulthood, is posted on the БЖЗҚЕНПФYouTube channel at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQNAxfskX8.

 

 

UAPF was founded on August 22, 2013 on the basis of GNPF APF JSC. The founder and shareholder of the UAPF is the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan represented by the State Institution Committee of State Property and Privatization of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Trust management of UAPF pension assets is carried out by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In accordance with the pension legislation, the UAPF attracts compulsory pension contributions, employer’s compulsory pension contributions, compulsory occupational pension contributions, voluntary pension contributions, as well as carries out enrollment and accounting of voluntary pension contributions formed at the expense of the unclaimed amount of guaranteed compensation for the guaranteed deposit, transferred by the organization carrying out mandatory guarantee of deposits, in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On mandatory guarantee of deposits placed in second-tier banks of the Republic of Kazakhstan", ensures the implementation of pension benefits.The Fund also carries out accounting of target assets and target requirements, accounting and crediting of target savings (TS) to target savings accounts, payments of TS to their recipients in bank accounts, accounting for returns of TS in the manner determined by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan within the framework of the National Fund for Children program (More details at www.enpf.kz)

 

 

 

           

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/kostanai-rudnyi-kalasy-akimat/press/news/details/1087179?lang=kk