The subject of the study is a public demand for the transformation of state social support for citizens of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the work is to identify the motives of public inquiry as a reaction of the population to negative environmental factors and to determine its importance for improving state social support for citizens. The main reason for the deployment of the work of state bodies to modernize social support for the population was the need to synchronize its goals with the strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation against the background of the increasing effect of external geopolitical factors as a result of the introduction of sanctions restrictions on the export and import of goods to Russia. The article substantiates the need to study public demand as a motivator of technological progress – the process of continuous development of science, technology, technology, improvement of forms and methods of labor organization. with the ultimate goal of improving the economic and social situation of citizens by changing all spheres of the internal life of the state, namely business, education, healthcare, law enforcement, finance, the use of natural resources, social security of Russian citizens to improve state social support for the population. The article presents the main results of a public opinion study on the provision of state social support to the poor, and concludes that there is a public demand for its change for the better. One of the reasons for the public demand for improving the social situation of citizens, identified as a result of the study, is dissatisfaction with a number of categories of citizens with their financial situation and the state social support in relation to them. The paper describes the positive and negative aspects of public demand and makes proposals to change the current state social support for the population, taking into account the influence of external geopolitical factors.