A new point pension system, thanks to which working pensioners received a mockery increase of 200 rubles from August 1, deprives the elderly of the incentive to legalize their incomes. This convinced the deputy director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yevgeny Gontmakher.

"The scoring system, deeply unfair in its essence, assumes that working pensioners will receive a maximum of 3 additional points to the pension, that is, these same 222 rubles," explained Gontmakher the growth of pension payments, officially occurred from today. Such mockery of working pensioners can lead to the fact that the salaries of the elderly will be taken to the "gray sector", and the Pension Fund will suffer from the loss of lost contributions, the expert quotes the newspaper. Ru ".

Russia switched to a point system for calculating pensions from January 1, 2015. Since that time, for recipients of old-age and disability insurance pensions, payments are annually raised in an uncertified order, depending on the amounts of contributions paid by the employer for a specific employee. However, the increase can not be more than 3 points per year. The cost of the score is adjusted annually, last year it was 74.27 rubles. That is, the maximum pensioner who continued to work in the past year, can now get at 222, 81 rubles. A month more.

According to the Pension Fund, the average size of the old-age insurance pension in 2016. Amounted to 13.17 thousand. Rubles.

Non-working pensioners have already received their increase in pensions this year. Indexation was 5.6% from February 1, 2017. The next growth in pensions should occur at the beginning of next year and be no less than the size of inflation.