Expenditure part of the budget in the next three years will be reduced. This will help to form a reserve of tens of billions of rubles. To save the government decided on indexing pensions to working pensioners and on parent capital. Such proposals were voiced during today's Cabinet meeting.
Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov, speaking in the government, proposed in the draft budget for 2018-2020. Cut some items of expenditure by 2%. "In accordance with the tasks Dmitry Anatolyevich, you have put in reserve certain funds to address issues that will be considered by the Russian government in the framework of disagreements in certain areas and sectors, we propose to form a reserve due to failure to pay 2% of the costs for items not Having a public law character ", - quotes the official of RNS.
The reduction will affect such positions as the payment of pensions, salaries and allowances, the implementation of international treaties, interbudgetary transfers to extra-budgetary funds, the maintenance of the judicial system, debt servicing and certain closed budget items.
Of the savings, according to calculations by the head of the Ministry of Finance, it will be possible to form a reserve of 77 billion rubles. It is proposed to send it to the reserve fund of the government. This money will be spent at the discretion of the Cabinet. In general, the expenditure of the RF budget in 2018. Will be increased only by the amount of revenues not related to the export of oil and gas.
The head of government, in turn, said that next year the authorities plan to index pensions on the size of inflation. The exception will be made only for working pensioners. "The budget of the Pension Fund is determined (for 2018), taking into account that all pensions, with the exception of pensions of working pensioners, will be indexed for inflation. Accordingly, such costs are pawned, "- said Dmitry Medvedev.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, by the end of 2017, inflation in the country will fall below 4%. Now this figure is 4.1% in annual terms. Thus, pensions for non-working elderly people from the New Year should grow by about 4%.
Indexation has not yet undergone and maternity capital, the size of which at the moment is 453 thousand. Rubles. As the prime minister noted, money to help families with two or more children is included in the draft budget of the Pension Fund for the next year. "The next two years of his (maternity capital) size does not change. From 1 January 2020. It should be indexed, "the head of government said..
In a straight line on June 15, Vladimir Putin promised to return to the issue of indexing maternity capital. The Russian leader also called on the government not to be greedy when taking measures to increase demography.
The measures taken to cut spending will help to minimize the budget deficit next year, said Anton Siluanov. "Budget deficit will be in 2018 g. 1.6% of GDP, and non-oil and gas deficit - 7.2% of GDP. This is the lowest deficit in recent years. In the future, it is planned to gradually reduce the budget deficit to 0.9% of GDP in 2019 and 0.8% of GDP in 2020. "- explained the minister.
He also said that by 2019. The government will completely reject the use of the Reserve Fund and the National Welfare Fund. "We are reducing the expenditure of our reserve funds, in 2018. They will be half as much as in the current year. Starting in 2019. We completely abandon the use of the funds of reserve funds and finance the budget deficit solely at the expense of domestic sources - borrowing and small external sources, "promised the head of the Ministry of Finance.