Continuing to work for the elderly will increase old-age payments. Recalculate pensions will be made on August 1. This was told in the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR), adding that there are 42 million such citizens in the country, that is, about a third of all non-working.

At the same time, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection clarified that "recipients of old-age and disability insurance benefits are eligible for recalculation, for which their employers paid insurance premiums in 2016". Applications for recalculation will not be required, and you do not need to apply for it, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta,.

The size of the increase for payments for a working pensioner, unlike the usual indexation, is individual and depends on the level of his salary in 2016. , Namely - from the amount paid by the employer for insurance premiums and accrued (maximum three) pension points, the Ministry of Labor explained.

Last year the cost of the change varied, but for the majority of the elderly citizens who continue working, "the cost of 74.27 rubles per point will be taken," so the maximum increase will be just over 222 rubles, "the PFR noted.. To get three points in 2016 g. , Would have been enough to pay 19,900. Rubles.

Pensions to unemployed older citizens, like all social payments, will be indexed "on actual inflation" from February 1, 2018. , Said earlier the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Maxim Topilin. This concerns the monthly payments provided for families with children, for various preferential categories, he said..

All public obligations, according to the current legislation, remain, emphasized Topilin. "Taxes and other revenues are enough to ensure that they have undertaken their obligations to citizens," the minister assured..

Indexation of pensions and sotsposoby unemployed Russians produced every year on 1 February, recalled "the Russian newspaper" in the Ministry of Labor. And their amounts rise to the level of actual inflation for the previous year.