Pensions will overtake inflation by half

21 June 2018, 14:53 | Economy
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Retired people can be calm. Next year they will not be afraid of inflation. In accordance with the presidential decree, payments to pensioners will be indexed above the level of price growth. So, in 2019 year. pensions will rise by 7%, Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov shared his government plans. "Our task next year is to increase the average pension by a thousand rubles. Undoubtedly, this is a significant growth, this growth is higher than inflation, just as the president instructed in the messages. This growth will make up the growth of pensions at about 7% against the level of the current year, "RIA Novosti quotes the minister as saying at a meeting of the State Duma on Thursday, June 21. According to Siluanov, the expected inflation in 2018. - approximately 3%. Accordingly, the growth of pensions will outstrip it by half. Such expenses the state can afford. "The necessary resources and measures will be taken into account in the Law on the Pension Fund and, accordingly, in the law on the federal budget that is associated with it," promised the Deputy Prime Minister.

He said that the government's proposals on the main areas of the budget, tax and customs tariff policy for 2019-2021. will be brought to the State Duma in the near future. Thus, the deputies will be able to consider them in July, before the close of the spring session. Last week, the Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the State Duma a bill on pension reform, which includes raising the age of retirement to 63 years for women and 65 for men. Now their assessment of the document is being prepared in the regions.




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