Golodets spoke about the special program of the government to combat poverty

The Russian government works under a special poverty reduction program, and measures laid down in the program are planned for 2017. This was told by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets, Interfax reports.

According to her, it is planned to increase the level of income of the population at the expense of a lump -sum payment by pensioners in the amount of five thousand rubles, as well as indexing pensions and raising wages to state employees in the framework of the “May decrees” of the President of Russia.

“Today, the Economic Bloc accepts every effort in order to change the current trends in our economy,” Golodets quotes Prime as saying.

The Deputy Prime Minister indicated that the government is working on the issue of introducing a progressive scale of personal income tax (personal income tax) in the country. Now the amount of personal income tax is 13% regardless of the income level of the taxpayer.

At the same time, Golodets added that “the real salary depends on the real economy”, so it is possible to hope for a change in the situation with salaries only in case of changing the economic situation in Russia.

According to Rosstat, in the first 10 months of 2016, the real incomes of Russians decreased by 5.3% compared to the same period last year. At the same time, in October, income fell by 5.9% in annual terms after a decrease by 1.5% in September. For comparison, in general, for the whole of 2015, the real income of Russians fell by 4.3%.

In 2016, according to the forecasts of the Ministry of Economic Development, the decrease will be 5.6%. In 2017, as the ministry expects, the real income of Russians will grow by 0.2%, in 2018-by 0.5%, and in 2019-by 0.8%.