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PFR: There are no poor pensioners in Russia
The Pension Fund of Russia announced the absence of pensioners in the country of poverty: with a monthly income below the subsistence minimum of the pensioner (PMP) in the region of residence. At the same time, almost 4 million people in the country receive a federal social surcharge for retirement.
According to the FIU, this year, insurance pensions of more than 31 million non -working pensioners were increased by 5.8% (indexation from February 1 by 5.4% and from April 1 by 0.38%). As a result, the average annual size of the old -age insurance pension in 2017 amounted to 13.8 thousand rubles (164.1% of the PMP).
Pensions on state pension provision, including social, from April 1, 2017 were indexed by both working and non -working pensioners by 1.5%. This increase affected 3.9 million pensioners, emphasized in the FIU.
As a result, the average annual size of a social pension amounted to 8.8 thousand rubles (104.1% of PMP). The average annual size of a social pension for children with disabilities and disabled people from childhood of group I is 13.2 thousand rubles.
In January, absolutely all pensioners, a total of 43.7 million people, received a one -time payment of 5 thousand rubles. 221.7 billion rubles were allocated from the budget for these purposes.
In general, in 2017, the Pension Fund sent 8.1 trillion rubles to the pension and social security. At the same time, the PFR notes that next year insurance pensions of non -working pensioners, including a fixed payment, will be increased by 3.7%from January 1. After indexation, the size of a fixed payment will be 4982.9 rubles per month.
Pensions on state pension provision, including social ones, from April 1, 2018 will also be increased by working and non -working pensioners by 4.1%. As a result, the average annual size of a social pension will grow to 9045 rubles.
Last week, the government decided to postpone the transition developed by the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank to the formation of individual pension capital ( IPC ) until the end of next year. Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov stated that his department plans to launch a new funded pension system since 2018.
In November, responding to the remark of the former Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Alexei Kudrin, who said that it was time to start raising the retirement age, since the money for pensions is over, the FIU emphasized that social benefits would increase annually.
The ex-Minister of Finance, in turn, does not see alternatives to raise the retirement age. Now the State Duma and the Government are discussing the issue of restricting payments to working pensioners - this, according to Kudrin, speaks of a shortage of funds in the FIU.
Earlier, Kudrin has repeatedly spoke about increasing the retirement age, indicating that in this case, in 10-16 years, Russia will be able to accumulate a solid economic resource. Among the critics of the idea was the business ombudsman Boris Titov, who believes that this would not solve the problem of the budget deficit of the Pension Fund, nor social problems.
Now the retirement age in Russia is 55 years for women and 60 years for men. In May 2016, a law was signed , which entered into force on January 1, 2017 and gradually increasing the retirement age of officials - state and municipal employees up to 65 and 63 years for men and women, respectively.