The households not having income providing them with an opportunity to meet the basic needs are addreessed with benefits from social aid. Does really social aid go to those in need? What is the scope of social financial transfers and to what degree are they addressed to poor population? In the article, let's see what is a real importance of benefits from social aid — mainly social benefits and benefits for the unemployed — in households' income, and let's make more precise the data on households that are beneficiaries of this source income.