Karelia's Legislation asked not to deprive ex-law enforcement officers of the pension due to mobilization

The legislative assembly of Karelia will send an appeal to the government and the Ministry of Defense of Russia, in which he will not be required to deprive a pension for the seniority of former law enforcement officials for mobilization. Such a decision was made at a meeting of the parliament of the republic on October 27, the correspondent of North Rails reports.

According to the law, the lifetime pension is assigned to people who have been military service in the internal affairs bodies, the Ministry of Emergencies, the State Directory, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Russian Guard. But the law has a clarification-if the ex-employees of these departments fall into military service, then the payment of pensions is suspended. The law does not say whether the pension is paid in case of mobilization.

After September 21, the inhabitants of Karelia began to write on social networks that their mobilized relatives, who had previously received a seniority pension, lost these payments. At a meeting on October 3, the chairman of the Petrozavodsk Council of Deputies, Nadezhda Draisis, proposed to appeal to the Karelia Legislative Assembly so that it put this issue before the federal authorities.

The Committee on the Legality and Law and Order of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia supported the draft appeal to the deputy chairman of the government Tatyana Golikova and Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Pankov. The deputies are asking for "former law enforcement officials to make changes to the federal law" in order to protect the rights and legitimate interests "and do not deprive them of their already appointed pensions.

"In the context of a partial mobilization, the application of this norm will entail the suspension of the payment of assigned pensions for a significant number of" military "pensioners, the experience and knowledge of which are now in demand in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the period of a special military operation, which will lead, including, to the deterioration of the financial situation of their families, which need special support from the state during this period," the text of the appeal said.

The Parliament of Karelia at the meeting on October 27 unanimously accepted this appeal.

The North correspondent. Reali asked employees who may lose payments what they think about it.

“Of course, this is wrong. I have worked for 24 years, and now I would have been deprived of a pension! And not only with me, all this causes, of course, a negative reaction. Well, the law has the law, but it was adopted back in the 90s. The other situation is now completely,” said the ex-employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who asked to maintain his anonymity.

“The main thing here is the issue of money. How much will they pay [mobilized]? We don’t have very large pensions, 30 thousand. Therefore, if 300 thousand are paid there, then this is decided,” the ex-employee of the Ministry of Emergencies said.

In his opinion, now the question of the deprivation of pensions of mobilized ex-silovites is not too acute. Most pensioners of this category are already at 50, many by age did not fall into the first wave of mobilization. But if there is a second wave, and they will also begin to be called up, then the number of dissatisfied then will already "be calculated by thousands."

• Mobilization in Russia began on September 21. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that up to 300 thousand people will be mobilized to participate in the war in Ukraine. "New Gazeta. Europe" claims that up to a million people can be sent to war.
• The authorities promised to call only reservists with military experience, however, during the mobilization, numerous mistakes were recorded: they called those who did not serve, and those who had grounds for delay - including medical reasons.
• On October 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in the near future, approximately within two weeks, mobilization measures in Russia will be completed. According to him, now more than 220 thousand people have already been called on mobilization.