If they decide to cash out their social package entitlement (which covers health services and transportation to the place of medical treatment), then they receive an additional RUB 450 (USD 40). Payment rates vary per beneficiary category (see below): disabled WWII veterans can receive up to RUB 2 000 per month (USD 80) if they cashed out their social package, while survivors of disabled WWII veterans would get far less (Table 3.4). In nominal terms, payments more than doubled, and together with the substantial increase in pension payments (Chapter 4), this contributed to the eradication of poverty among pensioners, at least when the latter is measured in absolute terms against the prevailing minimum subsistence level.