Mixing with the Lapid thread here. We get 750 NIS a month from the Mir. We have ba”h 7 kids. I don’t know what it is based on or if it gets higher depending on how long you’ve been there. I also don’t know if that is just the Mir, or if other kollels get the same.
Of course, there are “better paying” kollels, but that is not money from the government, that is private donors giving money to support a kollel.
For the record, for today’s dollar, that amounts to: approximately $200, as Yael pointed out.
It is not enough for anyone, no matter how simply they live, to live on.