The government decided to extend the moratorium on pension savings

The government decided to extend the moratorium on funded pension contributions in 2016, Interfax reports with reference to the vice speaker from United Russia Andrei Isaev. He emphasized that he considers such a decision correct.

Assistant Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets Aleksey Levchenko, for his part, said that decisions on freezing pensions and the parameters of social payments will be finally executed next week. "Today, the budget process is not completed, there are no decisions. Everything should be clear next week, when the Ministry of Finance enters the government draft budget," he said.

Frozen funds of pension savings, most likely, will not be aimed at financing the deficit of the pension fund, but to the reserve. “There will be freezing, but they will not give this money social block, they will reserve,” the federal official told the agency.

On September 4, Golodets said that the government would decide on the funded part of pensions by the time the budget was completed. Then the issue of indexing pensions and social payments will be resolved. The financial and economic block of the government believes that only the refusal of indexing part of the expenses and the reduction of conditionally approved expenses will allow you to balance a three-year budget. According to the Ministry of Finance, if you satisfy all the requests of ministries and departments, the budget expenditures in 2016 will amount to 18.3 trillion rubles. In this case, the entire reserve fund will be wasted over the year, while another 836 billion rubles will not be enough.

In mid -February, the Ministry of Labor proposed to introduce a moratorium on the formation of the funded part of pensions for 2016 and subsequent years "by analogy with the moratorium introduced in 2014 and extended in 2015." Fifting pensions were proposed to develop outside the state pension system.

Meanwhile, the financial and economic block of the government opposed abruptly against the abolition of the funded part of pensions, noting that this would deprive the economy of a significant part of the "long" money. At the same time, the Central Bank stated that a protracted discussion of the pension system would discredit the authorities in the eyes of business and citizens.

In mid -March, the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin, commenting on the results of the meeting of business representatives with Vladimir Putin, said that the issue of the complete abolition of the funded part of pensions on the agenda is no longer . "The president supported our position and said that there is no intention to cancel the obligatory funded pension," said Shokhin. At the same time, however, he added that another fundamental question - about the extension of freezing the funded part of pensions - remained unresolved. Putin did not express a clear opinion on this score at the meeting.

In April, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the funded part of pensions would not be canceled . “The decision has been made,” he said. “The accumulative element will be preserved. Such a solution is supported by most experts, and - most importantly, by the citizens of our country.”

The decision to freeze the funded part of pensions for 2014 was made in September 2013. A moratorium on the transfer of pension savings of citizens to non -state pension funds was extended for 2015.