The Russian government is going to allocate about 100 billion rubles from the state treasury for additional pension payments. This was announced at the meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev by the head of the board of the Pension Fund of Russia Anton Drozdov.
The Russian government is going to allocate about 100 billion rubles from the state treasury for additional pension payments. This was announced at the meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev by the head of the board of the Pension Fund of Russia Anton Drozdov.
Photo: ITAR-TASS / Alexander Ryumin According to the head of the pension department, thus it is planned to bring benefits in 69 subjects of the federation to the necessary minimum subsistence level. Also, budgetary dating will affect social payments to low-income citizens, the press service of the government reports..
"For 3.9 million people in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, we bring the pension to the subsistence minimum in the entity and pay a federal social supplement. Its size is somewhat reduced, and this shows that the level of welfare of pensioners is growing, "said Drozdov.
Thus, according to the official, in 2017 the size of pensions in Russia will rise by 4.5%.
As the head of the Pension Fund, the state continues the policy of supporting families in which there are two or more children. Certificates for maternity capital are allocated to eight million citizens. About 60 percent of them fully used this measure of state support.
Anton Drozdov highlighted the interaction of the Pension Fund with multifunctional centers. The work of the MFC in the field of social payments reduced the workload from the department.
That allowed socially dependent categories of Russians to receive state payments on time.
At the end of summer, the size of pension benefits from the state and working pensioners. Since August 1, it has increased by 200 rubles. The increase has affected about 14.3 million elderly people and disabled people.
In Russia, the number of people of retirement age is about 43 million people. The average size of benefits in 2017 is 13.7 thousand rubles.