Two weeks ago, at its meeting, the government approved a draft pension reform. But on May 26, "Ukrainian News" reported that the IMF mission, which worked in Ukraine since May 16, did not agree on the draft. In particular, it is against the cancellation of 15% of the tax on working pensioners' pensions and the annual updating of pensions.

This is a direct interference in the affairs of a sovereign state, if only because nowhere in the world are pensions taxed.

And by the age of retirement and the necessary length of insurance, the IMF allegedly agrees with the provisions of the bill. This is not surprising, since to fulfill these provisions actually increases the retirement age for a significant number of people who will not be able to issue pensions at the age of 60. Experts believe that this will affect 70% of citizens.

Interesting from the point of view of determining the real retirement age was the discussion on the channel "112 Ukraine" between the Minister of Social Policy Andrei Reva and the People's Deputy Oleg Lyashko. In particular, Mr. Reva, although confused between work and insurance experience, admitted that in 10 years to design a pension at 60 years will need to have 35 years of experience, of which 25 - insurance, earned since July 1, 2000. If you have an experience of 25 to 35 years, a pension will be appointed in 63 years, with experience from 15 to 25 years - at 65 A, if the length of service is less than 15 years, the social protection agencies will only assign social assistance. And only after 65 years.

Regarding the near future, from January 1, 2018, a pension will be set at 60 years to those who have 25 years of total experience, of which 15 years are insurance, which will be taken into account from July 1, 2000 to January 1, 2018. And further each year, these indicators will increase by one year until 2018.

The question arises: why the starting point is July 1, 2000? Roar believes that it has since been introduced a personal account of pension contributions. It's not quite true. After all, the concept of "insurance experience" appeared only in the law "On compulsory state pension insurance", which entered into force on January 1, 2004. A personified account until 2000 was technically impossible, because the establishment of the pension fund, in particular in Chernigov, received the first computers only in 1995.

Meanwhile, the account was also earlier, because the Pension Fund of Ukraine was established in the end of 1990, and from January 1, 1991 its organs in the districts. First, the collection of funds was carried out by authorized PFs, and from August 1994 the district departments of the Pension Fund. Until 2002, they were engaged precisely in the collection and accumulation of funds from enterprises, institutions and organizations, which in turn monthly provided reports to the PF on the payment of contributions from each insured. These reports should be kept in the archives of the Pension Fund for 75 years. And throw this data, to put it mildly, incorrectly. Moreover, they met already in the days of independent Ukraine.

Moreover, in the current law there is still a provision that stipulates that when assigning pensions it is possible to provide certificates of wages received for 60 consecutive months before July 1, 2000. And this data should coincide with the data of reports of enterprises on payment of contributions to the Pension Fund. And coincide, because in 2004 a huge number of pensioners tried to recalculate pensions in connection with the entry into force of the new law, and in some cases checks were carried out.

Therefore, it is better to expand the base for calculating the length of insurance period by searching for data and reconciling it in archives than to force people to work extra years. Are they to blame for the fact that after 2000, Khimvolokno, KSK Cheksil, CheZaRa, Nivki and many other enterprises disappeared in Chernigov? Who is to blame for the fact that in the middle of the 90s, 5,000 workers were reduced by "CheZaRe" during the month?.

And then about the obvious "blooper" in the new bill. For example, citizen A. (Or a citizen) in January 2018 is 60 or 58.5 years, respectively, and by age they are entitled to a pension. But in both there is not enough only a year of insurance experience up to 15 years. That is, according to the new bill, it is necessary to work out another year. However, from 1 January 2019, the minimum insurance experience will be 16 years, and they will have 15 and again not enough for a year. How many more years will it take to work out to get a pension?.

There is one more category of people who can not prove that they paid at least some money to the Pension Fund - individual entrepreneurs. Until 2004, they paid a single or fixed tax to the tax authorities, and the tax should pay 42% and 10% of the tax on this tax in the PF. But the data about this stuck somewhere in the archives of both departments, and people stole part of the experience.

And to Mr. Reva: after retirement, a Ukrainian woman does live 18 years, and a man is not 18, but 14. This is the data of Academician NASU Ella Libinova.