Medvedev: The government will not reduce social obligations

The government will not reduce social obligations. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Congress of United Russia, TASS reports .

“Solving global economic tasks, let's remember that Russia is primarily a social state. And we will not go to reduce our obligations,” the prime minister said. “In any case, we will continue to support people, despite the difficulties with the budget. Our goal is to help pensioners, to provide them with a decent life.”

At the same time, the second indexation of pensions Medvedev led to the state of the economy. "Now we need to work out the issue of the second indexation of pensions, we will make a decision on the results that the economy will show in the first half of the year," he said.

From February 1, 4 percent were indexed by insurance pensions to all pensioners, except for workers. The State Duma adopted the corresponding law on December 15. On October 7, Medvedev said that the pensioners will not index working pensioners. According to him, a pension is a state cash allowance that is paid due to the fact that a citizen has lost a labor function. “If a person still works, then we can conclude that he has not lost his labor function completely and, therefore, he replenishes some of his additional needs at the expense of work. And then we could justly think that such a category of citizens did not receive indexation,” the premiere said. “Naturally, as soon as they terminate labor relations, they can fully have the right to indexation. It seems to me quite fair.”

On January 15, it was reported that the Ministry of Economic Development has developed an updated version of the forecast of the socio-economic development of Russia in 2016. It involves a deterioration in the main indicators . So, according to the forecast, GDP will be reduced by 0.8 percent against expected growth by 0.7 percent; The average annual ruble exchange rate will be 68.2 rubles per dollar; The price of Urals oil is $ 40 per barrel, inflation - 8.5 percent; The outflow of capital is 50 billion dollars.

As follows from the calculations, the Russians will continue to poorly. The real salary will not be reduced by 0.2 percent, but by 3.5 percent, incomes of the population - by 4 percent, and not by 0.7 percent, unemployment will increase to 6.3 percent instead of 5.8 percent.

On January 17, it became known that the government is preparing a 10 percent sequestration of the budget . It was explained that the current budget is a reversal at the rate of $ 50 per barrel. Meanwhile, back in December, the Ministry of Finance warned that the conjuncture in the oil market makes this budget impossible. Even at the price of oil, $ 40 for a barrel, the budget will not take 1.6 trillion rubles, and the deficit will be equal to 5.2 percent of GDP. Meanwhile, the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov noted, you need to prepare for a price of $ 30 per barrel.