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100 billion, but in a few years: Putin called the costs of paying pensions in the DPR and LPR
Russia thinks to simplify the receipt of citizenship for all citizens of Ukraine, and not only for residents of the DPR and LPR, said Vladimir Putin. The growth of social obligations does not scare: about 100 billion rubles for several years may be required to pay pensions in unrecognized republics, but “this is not critical for us,” the president said.
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What's happened. Vladimir Putin gave a press conference following the results of the “one belt-one path” forum in Beijing. One of the questions was about expenses for the execution of the presidential decree signed this week on the simplified provision of Russian citizenship to residents of the DPR and LPR.
What Putin said
- “This is not a spontaneous decision, it was not made with a condach. Before signing this decree, we all calculated. And the number of possible applicants for our passports and the number of pensioners from this number are about one third of the contingent that we believe, can apply for our citizenship. ”
- “There will be no serious load for the Russian budget, it is absolutely excluded.”
- “Some horror stories are thrown by those forces who do not want Russia to support the people living in the Donbass.”
- “Indeed, next year and in subsequent years, expenses can reach a figure of 100 billion rubles, but not in one year, but for several years. This is not something critical for us, something that can call into question the fulfillment of our obligations to Russian pensioners. ”
- “Regarding the fulfillment of our social obligations to citizens in Russia: everything will be fulfilled, there is no doubt.”
Context. This Bell this week asked economists to evaluate the possible expenses for the execution of this decree and, in general, the economic effect for Russia from this decision.
In total, about 3.6 million people now live in the DPR and LPR, of which about 1 million people, according to RBC , are pensioners.
- According to the law, a pension of a citizen of the Russian Federation cannot be less than the subsistence minimum established in the region where it is registered. The federal cost of living is now 8846 rubles. If we assume that Russian citizenship and registration will be designated by all pensioners of the DPR and LPR, then only pension deductions will have to be from 100 billion rubles (when paying the minimum pension) to 175 billion rubles a year (based on the average Russian pension), the leading analyst of the pension and actual consultations, Evgeny Biyzbardis, estimated the BELL.
- However, it is also possible to call this enlightenment with a stretch: since July 2014, Kyiv stopped working on the treasury and the National Bank of Ukraine in a territory under control of separatists, ceasing to pay pensions and social security, as well as salaries of state employees.
- The financing of pensions and salaries in the DPR and the LPR took over Russia, wrote in 2015-2016 in their investigations Reuters , Bloomberg and RBC . From the calculations of the agencies it followed that transfers from Russia should have been about 50 billion rubles a year - and this is only in the DPR. Officially, these figures are not disclosed anywhere, the Ministry of Finance claimed that they have nothing to do with the federal budget. The Bell did not answer the request of The Bell.
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Detail. The Russian Pension Fund has already warned that only those citizens who can move to Russia will be able to apply for Russian payments. But, answering the question of Interfax, Putin admitted that citizens of the DPR and LPR “theoretically” will be able to receive a pension in Russia and Ukraine.
Quote: “Do you know the level of average old -age pension in Ukraine? - said Putin. - Almost three times less than in Russia, in any case, based on what we see in open sources. So, if someone also receives a Ukrainian pension, well, God forbid, in Russian rubles it is about 6 thousand. ”
“People there still live under bullets, and they have shells in the gardens from time to time. I think that our pensioners, many of whom have passed and remember the years of the Great Patriotic War, understanding the conditions in which people live there, will not think that we are dealing with some kind of social injustice. And people need to be supported. ”
Russian passports for all Ukrainians. Putin also admitted that the decision to simplify the provision of Russian citizenship will be extended to all citizens of Ukraine.
Quote: “After all, we are not only to people who live in the DPR or LPR provide such a way of obtaining our citizenship. Now we are thinking about granting citizenship in a simplified manner to all citizens of Ukraine, ”the president said.