"Fears are exaggerated." An expert on the offer of the Ministry of Finance to reduce pension costs by 51 billion rubles.

The Ministry of Finance proposed reducing pension costs by 51.5 billion rubles in 2018. The Insider asked the head of the finance direction and the economy of the Institute of Modern Development Nikita Maslennikov to explain how this will affect pensioners.

I think that fears are exaggerated here. Firstly, this is a preliminary decision, it has not yet been made. Secondly, these amendments are largely technical in nature.

This year, almost all pensions were indexed, which are possible: insurance and social. At the same time, the effect of an additional budget deficit arose of the Russian Pension Fund, which was recently compensated by the transfer from the federal budget. And these transfers exceed those 50 billion that the Ministry of Finance offers to remove.

I think that from the point of view of the real content of pension provision, there is no threat here. And from the point of view of budget postings and the frequency of budget operations, I think that this straightening is connected with this: if we added one article, then let's reduce the other, otherwise we have a double account effect, an incomprehensible arithmitex.

I think in the coming days we will see some ranging from the Ministry of Finance that this is all technical in nature.