Deputies of the lower house of parliament finally approved changes in the pension legislation of the Russian Federation. With the corresponding initiative in June, the government. After approval of the draft law on July 19, the State Duma launched a broad discussion of measures to improve the pension system in the regional legislative bodies and the expert community. At the initiative of the speaker of the State Duma on August 21, in the building on Okhotny Ryad, large public and parliamentary hearings took place on this issue, and on August 29, President Vladimir Putin expressed his opinion on pensions. As a result, by the second reading, more than 300 amendments to the government bill came to the State Duma, including several proposals from the president. I must say, the presidential amendments, which made the law more lenient, supported all factions of the State Duma. This was highlighted by the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. "The faction of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, too, fully supported them. That here there was no discrepancy: we fully supported all presidential amendments, "the politician emphasized.. For his part, the head of the United Russia faction Sergei Neverov said that the deputies who did not attend the meeting for good reason also expressed their approval of the presidential amendments. As a result, the main parameters of the updated pension system in the Russian Federation are as follows: - women get the right to an insurance pension at 60 years, men - at age 65; - the increase in the retirement age will be gradual; - Citizens who were supposed to retire in the next two years will have the opportunity to become a pensioner six months earlier than is required by the new legislation; - mothers with many children will be able to retire early. A corresponding privilege is also provided for indigenous peoples of the North and others.. categories; - minimum length of service for retirement - 37 years for women and 42 years for men; - Unemployment benefit for persons of pre-retirement age increased to 11280 rubles. ; - indexation of old-age insurance payments will be carried out on January 1 of each year in the period from 2019 to 2024. The average increase will be about 1 thousand. rub. annually;

- women will be able to receive the accumulative part of pensions after 55 years, men - 60 years. According to the speaker of Volodin, the State Duma will keep on control the implementation of legislative standards for the improvement of the pension system. In particular, the specially created working group of the State Duma "will continue to improve the pension legislation and study law enforcement practice, receiving feedback from citizens so that the adopted laws work effectively for the result," stressed the chairman of the lower chamber.