Fathers-bonds

The state takes care of people. All ears were drunk: from February 1, pensions are raised by 10 %. Pension growth is good. True, it must be borne in mind that this increase applies only to those pensions that are calculated without taking into account the ICP (individual pensioner coefficient). In addition, not a pension payment is indexed as a whole (what is issued to a person in hand), but only the pension itself (allowances, compensation and various kinds of surcharges of pension are not considered). Well, of course, working pensioners (and there are 17 % of the total) do not fall under indexation. But all the same, the extra 30, 60 or even 100 rubles per month on the road do not lie. Is there a joke - as many as 3 packets of kefir additionally, or even seven!

For those who receive a pension calculated on the basis of the ICP, an increase is also expected. For this category of pensioners, the level of payments depends on the average wage around the country, more precisely, on the average salary that the government announced quarterly. The last figure, published on January 16, amounted to 1523 rubles. per month. In the previous quarter there were 1383 rubles, which means that the highest paid pensioners will be added to 100 rubles, the rest - smaller. All this applies only to non -working pensioners. Working people almost certainly shine. Pensioners - those who have the right to increase - are still happy. But the government rejoices even more, just rejoices. It seems as if this unfortunate steward is a historical event. And this cannot but amaze. After all, indexation does not occur because we have such good officials, but because it should be so. There is a law "On the procedure for indexing and recalculating pensions." It says black and white there that pensions appointed by the 1990 law (that is, without a ICP) are subject to indexation or compensation at least once every three months. Everything is also simple with “ICP pensioners”: according to the law “On the procedure for calculating and increasing state pensions of July 21, 1997, the government is obliged to increase their pensions four times a year - from February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1 -“ In connection with the growth of wages in the country ”.

There is another gift to pensioners, which all officials in the post solemnly announced at least somewhat touched by pension provision. From the same on February 1, they will increase the minimum pension - up to 200 rubles. While it is set in the amount of 153 rubles. 15 kopecks. This is since November 2000. From August to November, the minimum pension was 139 rubles. 23 kopecks.), And before that for a long time it was slightly higher than the minimum salary - 84 rubles. The numbers are terrible, so for the faint of heart I inform you that the minimum pension is used as an account, and they pay to pensioners more, in Moscow, for example, at least 453 rubles. 13 kopecks. With this good deed is completely strange. The fact is that under the law on state pensions, the minimum pension in the country cannot be less than the minimum salary. With the minimum salary, this is the case: the one in which the fines are measured is now exactly 100 rubles, but the one, which cannot be charged, by the way, from January 1, I jumped up to 200 rubles. And where, one wonders, January money? On a scale of the country - and the country has 38 million pensioners - the amount turns out to be wow.

The only super -planned step of power is the president’s promise to increase the minimum pension payment (pension with all compensation) to 600 rubles. Now the real minimum in Moscow is a little more than 450 rubles, in the regions - differently, depending on the district coefficient. But, by the way, the head of the Pension Fund Mikhail Zurabov does not promise to immediately introduce a new minimum .

In general, the authorities are doing in relation to the old people no more than what is included in its direct duties. And the joyful cries that accompany completely routine solutions are the usual PR. The state wants people to be grateful to him for doing his work. And then you can not pay pensions in general for months - as it was accepted everywhere in "well -fed" pre -crisis times.

From January 1, the minimum pension will be increased - novosti.ru, 03/03/2001

In 2001, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation will increase the pensions on quarterly - Strana.ru, 01/17/2001