Budget of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for 2018. , despite the fact that it was approved recently, has already been adjusted. As a result of the revision, the deficit grew 2.4 times and reached 257 billion rubles. Most experts answer the situation alone - with the current deficit of raising the retirement age can not be avoided. This view is held, in particular, by Professor of the Department of Economic Theory of the Russian Economic University named after G. Plekhanov Vyacheslav Bobkov. Among his arguments: "rapid increase in life expectancy", as well as "the possibility of transferring knowledge and experience, which is now poorly practiced". At the same time, in an interview with RIA FAN, he noted the difference in the working capacity of young people and the elderly: "The extension of working life will require the creation of special jobs for senior employees," he stressed.. He is in favor of raising the retirement age and vice-rector of the Financial University under the Russian government Alexei Zubets. He believes that this will benefit the very old people: they will be able to maintain their habitual way of life longer at the expense of higher salaries compared to the size of the pension. Consequently, their satisfaction with life as a whole will be higher. However, a number of experts in general doubt that late retirement will actually help solve the country's financial and economic problems. According to Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Sorokin, we need not raise the retirement age, but labor productivity.

"In his message to the Federal Assembly, the president set the task of increasing labor productivity by 5% a year," recalls Sorokin. - If we solve this problem, like other leading countries, the problem of raising the retirement age will disappear. And if the problem is solved through the work of retired people, this will only slow down the development of the economy, because older people can not as effectively perform many types of work as young people, "the expert believes.. At present, women in the Russian Federation go on deserved rest at 55, men in 60.