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The real amount of pensions in Russia will decline for another three years, despite the restored annual indexation procedure. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Labor of Russia Maxim Topilin, Interfax reports .

“Despite the fact that we restored the indexation, if we see the forecast, then we have real pensions - they are still reduced in the future for three years,” Topilin said on Saturday at the Congress of United Russia in Moscow.

According to the minister, in order for the income of Russian pensioners to grow, the country needs to develop a system of pensions. “From the point of view of pension provision, we need to move forward, this is not only the task of 2017 - this is a very long prospect. It is necessary that we feel that this is a problematic issue from the point of view of pensioners' income,” Topilin said.

The press service of the Ministry of Labor explained to journalists that a decrease in the real size of pensions "is explained by the fact that pensions for working pensioners have not been indexed since 2016." They recalled that a citizen will receive a pension in an increased amount, taking into account all indexations only upon termination of work. This order was introduced last year.

In October, Topilin said that the restoration of Russians income to the pre -crisis level will occur no earlier than by the end of 2018 . According to him, we are talking about real indicators of salaries and pensions.

According to Rosstat, the number of citizens with income below the subsistence minimum in the first half of 2016 amounted to 21 million 400 thousand people or 14.6 percent of the total population of Russia. Real disposable cash income is considered to be deducted by mandatory payments adjusted to the consumer price index. In Russia, they have been declining for the third year in a row.

In early September, the director of the combined department of macroeconomic forecasting of the Ministry of Economic Development, Kirill Tremasov, said that according to the results of 2016, the real disposable incomes of the Russian population will fall by 4.7-4.9 percent . As expected in the economic department, retail turnover will be reduced by 4.2-4.4 percent this year. At the same time, real salaries will show an increase of 0.5-0.7 percent, Tremas noted. However, salaries are only part of the income of Russians. Other receipts - social payments, property income, etc. - Continue to contract.