The warning of former Finance Minister, head of the Center for Strategic Research Alexei Kudrin that the government has run out of money to pay pensions has ended, and therefore he considers it necessary to raise the retirement age, sparked a heated discussion. Did not stay away from it and the economist Igor Nikolaev. In his opinion, it was necessary to raise the retirement age in more prosperous years - in 2006 or 2007. Now for this is not the best time: the country has an economic crisis, real incomes of the population fall for the fourth year in a row, so this measure is inappropriate, explained the expert URA. EN. "The state is not able to provide decent wages to people, can not ensure the growth of pensions, so at least do not take it away!" - said Nikolaev. And he added that the state can improve the efficiency of spending budget funds in other ways, so you do not need to take the most unpopular decisions that will obviously hit people.

In general, the expert is pessimistic, he believes that the working Russians already now need to accept the idea that they will not have pensions. "We must proceed from the fact that your welfare at the retirement age will depend solely on you - how much you will have time to accumulate by this time, so you will live," Nikolayev stressed.. On the eve of the Pension Fund of Russia did not agree with the forecast of Alexei Kudrin and stated that they have retired money.