From today, the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation on increasing social pensions by 2.9%.
The increase will affect 3.9 million pensioners and will be 255 rubles. The average size of the pension, taking into account the increase, will be 9062 rubles.
The increase will affect those citizens who did not have the experience for a working pension, the Izvestiya newspaper specifies..
To index social pensions from the budget will be sent about 9.6 billion rubles before the end of 2018.
In addition, from April 1, will be indexed pensions of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, military and other categories of beneficiaries, as well as increases in payments to disabled children and those who lost one or two parents.