"Channel One" issued a rally against raising the retirement age for a rally against the indexation of pensions

On July 28, news about the Rage of the Communist Party in Moscow against pension reform was released at the First Channel. The first to pay attention to the politician Alexei Navalny.

“The rally against changes in pension legislation took place in Moscow ... The bill that began to consider the State Duma will allow to index pensions to the level much higher than inflation annually,” the plot said. The fact that this initiative is primarily in raising the retirement age was not said a word.

Recall that the myth that pension reform will allow us to accrue 12 thousand rubles annually for non-working pensioners, based only on the unfounded approval of the Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, which was almost immediately after announcing an increase in retirement age. The fact that this automatically index it to a level above inflation, she did not say that it is not surprising: to predict what inflation will be in two, three, five, ten years simply impossible.

As for the promised growth of pensions, as the economist Vladimir Milov noted in his column , no such guarantees have any such guarantees about the published government bill on raising the retirement age. The current order is preserved in which the government decides to index pensions “on the situation”.

“For example, in 2015, the indexation of pensions amounted to 11.4%-despite the fact that the increase in prices for food products, according to the Federal State Statistics Service, in January-December 2015 by January-December 2014 amounted to 19.1%. In 2017, there was a one -time surplus of a pension of 5 thousand rubles, this year - no. All this is not regulated by any laws, and the decision is completely in the hands of the government, ”Milov explains.