Golodets: In 2017, pensions will be indexed in full

In 2017, the usual, defined procedure for indexing pensions for actual inflation will be restored in full, the funds in the budget have already been laid down. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, Interfax reports .

"A one -time monetary payment is a single measure. From January 1, 2017, the usual, legal procedure for indexing pensions is restored. Indexation in 2017 is laid in full, as it should be - by actual inflation," Golodets said. "These funds are now taken into account in the budget. The indexation will be as usual - in percentage of the last year."

On Tuesday, the government decided to replace the second indexation of pensions in 2016 by a lump -sum payment of five thousand rubles . Pensioners will receive it in January only more than 200 billion rubles will be required, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. He added that he instructed the Ministry of Finance to find these funds.

Earlier it became known that the average amount of pensions in real terms with the adjustment for inflation decreased in May by 4.3 percent compared to May 2015. According to Rosstat, in nominal terms, the average amount of the assigned monthly pension in May 2016 amounted to 12 thousand 419 rubles. This is 2.7 percent more than in May 2015. The average amount of the appointed pensions in May was 34 percent of the average accrued salary in the country against 35.2 in May last year.

In January, compared with the same period last year, the real size of the pension increased by 0.8 percent. However, then it began to decline - by 4.7 percent in February, by 4.2 in March and 4.3 in April.

In 2016, pensions were indexed by 4 percent. According to Rosstat, the inflation rate in 2015 amounted to 12.9 percent. The government announced a possible second indexation of pensions in 2016, depending on the economic results of the first half of the year.

In May, Medvedev, speaking of a pension with a resident of Feodosia, said that the state has no money to raise pensions. “The prices are frantic,” one of the women complained to the premiere. According to her, pensions in the region are incorrectly calculated and indexed, and it is impossible to live for 8 thousand rubles a month. “What is eight thousand? We wipe our legs about us! We have worked for 45 years, we have nothing to pay,” the woman asked.

The prime minister replied that the indexation of pensions is now "nowhere to nowhere." “There is simply no money now. We will find money - we’ll make an indexation,” Medvedev explained. “You keep here, all the good, good mood and health.”