State Duma deputies voted to include in the draft law on improving the pension system of the Russian Federation the proposals of President Vladimir Putin. At the plenary session on Wednesday, September 26, 385 parliamentarians voted "yes", abstaining and opposing were not. "We have found a consensus on this issue with you, and everyone supported the president's amendments," the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin summed up the vote.. Consensual decision-making on this issue is especially important, as previously representatives of the Communist Party fractions, the LDPR and A Just Russia criticized the government initiative. The Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the modernization of the pension system in June this year. The lower chamber adopted the document in the first reading, but urged legislators and public organizations to make their amendments before the second reading. In late August, the president expressed his opinion on this matter.

During the telecast to the citizens, he made several proposals, which were then submitted to the State Duma in the form of a package of amendments. In particular, Putin proposed raising the retirement age for women not for 8 years, as stated in the government project, and 5 - as for men. At the same time, mothers with many children have the opportunity to receive an early insurance pension (if there are 3 children - 3 years earlier, 4 children - 4 years). In addition, the president proposed to reduce the length of service, the achievement of which gives the right to retire, up to 37 years for women and 42 years for men (in the document of the Cabinet was for 3 years more). For non-working pensioners living in rural areas, Putin proposed to make a 25% premium to insurance pensions.

The amount of unemployment benefits for citizens of pre-retirement age will increase from 4 thousand. 900 rubles to 11 thousand. 280 rubles. The President also offered to give an opportunity to issue a pension six months earlier to those people who under the old pension law were less than 2 years before they left for a well-deserved rest. On the eve of the deputies adopted in the third, final, reading of the amendment to the Criminal Code, introducing the employer's responsibility for unjustified dismissal or refusal to hire persons of pre-retirement age.