Presidential initiatives make the bill to improve the pension system more socially oriented and fair. This opinion was reached by the participants of the working group set up in the State Duma specifically to finalize the government initiative. On Friday, August 31, the first meeting of the group was held in the State Duma. As the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin noted, the deputies will have a lot of work, including jointly with the Cabinet, to prepare a document that should regulate the protection of citizens' rights. "We would like to once again receive all proposals that will be received, the views of civil society institutions, representatives of professional and business circles and, of course, the opinions of political parties in the State Duma," Volodin stressed.. According to him, the first meeting of the working group discussed the proposals of President Vladimir Putin. Amendments of the head of state to the lower house have not yet arrived, but the essence of them is known - the president announced them on Wednesday, August 29, in a video message to citizens. The general opinion of the working group, which included parliamentarians, representatives of trade unions, expert community, political parties: presidential initiatives make the bill more socially oriented and fair.

"We agreed to convene on September 12 in order to study - perhaps by this time the proposals will come from the president in the form of legislative initiatives - and these amendments, as well as those amendments that continue to flow into the State Duma," said Volodin. The speaker admitted that the working group will continue its work after the bill is adopted. "We believe that the format that was held today can work in the future," he said.. - For us it will be important to see how the norms introduced into the law will work to exclude inefficiency. If we have a generalization and we get an analysis of the implementation of the norms of the law, this will allow us to get away from mistakes, "the chairman of the State Duma.