Salaries of senior officials will grow again

From September 1, salaries to senior Russian officials will once again be increased. According to RBC, the earnings of government members will exceed 400 thousand rubles, ministers of the power block will approach 800 thousand. Pensions of retired officials will also increase.

All former Russian prime ministers can apply for a pension of 55–75 percent of the remuneration of the current Prime Minister, follows from the presidential decree on pensions to former senior officials from 1995. After the April increase in the salary of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev up to 570 thousand rubles, ex-prime miners may claim monthly payments in 313.5–427.5 thousand rubles. The minimum share is supposed to be ex -prime ministers who have worked from year to year to three, the maximum one whose experience exceeds three years.

The ex-prime ministers and other officials who have worked on state dollars less than a year are not supposed to be paid. The exception was made only for the former senior Soviet officials to them an additional payment is appointed for any experience, follows from the presidential decree of 1996.

According to the publication, the abandonment of the funded part of pensions for ordinary citizens on the social security of the Russian leadership will not affect.

On August 5, the government extended the moratorium on the transfer of the funded part of the pension for 2015. According to the calculations of the Ministry of Finance, the new freezing of pension savings will deprive the country of about 700 billion rubles, which already in 2015 NPF could invest in corporate securities.

In early July, the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov assured that next year the Russians will return pension accumulations seized in the present, and new contributions, as before the moratorium, will be charged to individual accounts of citizens. Earlier, the deputy head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Moiseev stated that the NPF will receive 500 billion rubles until the end of the I quarter of 2015.