Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order on the allocation in 2018 of intergovernmental transfers to the subjects of the Federation for the payment of regional social benefits to the pension. This is reported by the website of the Cabinet of Ministers.

"Regional social surcharges to pensions (hereinafter - surcharges) are paid to support the income of non-working pensioners at a level not lower than the subsistence level of the pensioner in the subject of the Federation where this pensioner resides," the document says.. Transfers will receive 13 regions for a total of 7 billion 85.7 million rubles. The total number of recipients of surcharges will be about 424.6 thousand people. The average amount of additional payments is from 2351.4 to 8414.2 rubles. On December 18, the Russian Pension Fund announced that there are no pensioners in the country below the poverty line.

Original article: The government sent to the regions surcharges to pensions.