To increase the size of pensions and reduce the budget deficit of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation (FIU), legislative measures are needed to improve the existing pension system. All political forces agree with this, said the head of the Duma committee on labor, social policy and veterans affairs Yaroslav Nilov. "Discussion (bill) in the first reading and discussion on the Committee showed one thing: all factions, irrespective of cardinally opposite positions, agree that it is necessary to change something. The existing size of pensions does not suit anyone.

Measures should be taken, on the one hand, to increase pensions and to reduce the budget deficit of the Pension Fund - on the other, "he explained.. At the same time, steps that would contribute to the solution of these tasks are proposed. In particular, the LDPR insists on the abolition of the regressive scale when paying insurance premiums, on the increased identification of "gray" salaries and on the issue of self-employed citizens who are now "demotivated to form their future pension rights," said Nilov. As for the budget deficit of the FIU, it is necessary, first of all, to review the expenses of the Fund, optimize them, the representative of the Liberal Democrats. Earlier, the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes said that to cover the deficit of the FIU, one-fifth of all expenditures of the federal budget. And if the situation does not change, then by 2024. the amount of necessary tranches from the treasury in the FIU will be 5 trillion rubles, respectively, other social expenses will be seriously cut down. In June, the Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the State Duma a bill aimed at improving the pension system in the Russian Federation.

It implies an increase in the age of completion of work up to 65 years for men and up to 63 years for women. This will make it possible to index payments to pensioners higher than the inflation rate annually and relieve the FIU from the need to request funds from the federal budget. To the decision that will affect all without exception of Russians, it was the most balanced and balanced, the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin initiated large parliamentary hearings on the issue of improving the pension system. The meeting will be held on August 21.