Supplement to pension from August 1. Recalculation of pensions in August for working pensioners. How to increase pensions for all Russians

Working pensioners, despite the fact that they receive wages, are also entitled to pension payments. Since 2016, annual indexation for these payments has been abolished, since citizens have an additional source of income.

general information

Canceling indexing is required for stabilization economic situation in the country. However, this does not mean that there will be no increase in pension payments for working pensioners. Indexation is determined by annual inflation and serves as a way to maintain a decent standard of living. In fact, due to indexing, the payment amount increases.

The abolition of such an increase for working pensioners does not mean that the pension will not grow. From August 1, 2019, an annual recalculation is expected, allowing the number of IPB - individual pension points to be recalculated.

Important! Recalculation means a review of the pension file. The amount of the payment depends on the number of points, which are affected by length of service. If a citizen continues to work, then his length of service continues to grow and his points increase. It is for this purpose that a recalculation is made annually on August 1.

Increase size

Since the pensions of working pensioners will be recalculated from August 1, 2019, many are wondering how much the amount may increase. The legislation sets a limit on the maximum number of points that can be earned by citizens. Since 2016, this number has been 3 points; in 2019, this value has not changed.

On average, the monthly salary must be 24 thousand rubles in order to accumulate this number of points in a year. If the salary is higher, then the calculation for pension will be taken according to the legal maximum - 3 points.

The amount of the increase consists of two indicators:

number of points earned;
the cost of one point.

So, if a person earned 2 points during the year of employment, and the cost of one point in 2019 is 87.24 rubles. , then the following will be added to the pension: 2 * 87.24 = 174.48 rubles. Important! If the salary is less than 24 thousand rubles. per month or the pensioner was not employed for the whole year, then the calculation is made based on real data. An increase in IPB allows you to increase the amount of payments, albeit slightly. Download for viewing and printing:

Recalculation conditions

In order to qualify for the pension recalculation program, the following conditions must be met:

official employment;
contribution to the Pension Fund.

In fact, the annual increase in payments due to an increase in seniority is not too large, but it compensates for the lack of indexation. Therefore, citizens should not count on a very large increase. This determines the increase in continued employment among citizens of retirement age. Although indexation is more profitable than the annual increase, which does not exceed 261.72 rubles. (3 individual points).

Attention! In order for your pension to be recalculated, you do not need to contact the Pension Fund in person. On August 1, 2019, an automatic recalculation will be made, and already in August citizens will receive the updated payment amount in a convenient way for them - through a banking organization or by mail.

After dismissal

After a person quits his job, the law guarantees him compensation for all missed indexations.

That is, after working for 3 years, receiving an increase in 1000 rub. towards retirement, a citizen can count on the fact that the final amount will be increased again by the missed indexations. This allows you to receive additional funds after finishing your working career.

In addition, postponing retirement makes it possible to earn work experience, which affects the number of individual points on which the final pension amount depends.

Nuances

If a citizen completed his labor activity before March 31, he must provide information to the Pension Fund independently. After this period, the data is transferred by the employer, and a personal visit to the Pension Fund is not required. The recalculation will be made automatically from August 1.

If, after changing the payment amount, the citizen returns to work, then indexing stops again, but the payment remains at the new level. At the same time, points for work experience will continue to accumulate. Upon termination of employment, the amount will be revised again automatically if this was done after March 31.

Last news

Indexation for working pensioners is still frozen. There is no information that for working pensioners it will be abolished completely. There is also no information that the freeze will be lifted. In fact, such a “respite” for the Pension Fund allows you to significantly save budget funds, gradually correcting the economic situation.

The government is trying to maximally stimulate an increase in the period of employment among citizens of retirement age, since the latter lose little if they are refused to retire on time. That is why an annual additional payment was introduced, based on length of service.

Important! Pension recalculation means a change in the amount of the old-age insurance pension. However, citizens who also receive a funded payment can also count on its increase.

Cumulative payments

Self-employed citizens (individual entrepreneurs, lawyers, notaries, private doctors, and so on) usually make contributions to the Pension Fund for the funded part.

All accumulated funds are paid as a supplement to the pension. And when recalculating the payment amount, the funded part can also be increased, if there are grounds for this. All of them are regulated at the legislative level.

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Reasons for increasing

There are only two reasons for increasing savings payments:

Investing savings in a citizen’s personal account.
Changes in income amounts for urgent payments or funded pensions.

A citizen at the age of 60 continues to work and makes contributions to the funded part on a voluntary basis. In proportion to these receipts, the amount of payments also increases.

In this case, the recalculation is carried out simultaneously with the old age insurance part - from August 1 annually.

Advice! You can deposit amounts into the savings portion in any convenient way: monthly or once a quarter, half a year, or year. The larger the contributions, the larger the increase increases.

Recalculation upon application

The legislation allows for situations where the amount of monthly old-age payments can be recalculated at the request of the citizen himself. There are strictly regulated reasons for this:

A citizen lives and works in the Far North or in regions that are equivalent to it.
Dependents include family members who are disabled for any reason (for example, age or health condition).

When submitting an application, you are required to provide several documents:

passport;
work book or a copy thereof;
supporting document (for example, a certificate of disability of a dependent).

If, when a pension was assigned, a citizen did not have enough work experience to receive a “northern” pension, but he continued to work and completed it, then during recalculation this indicator is taken into account when calculating points. Accordingly, the size of the monthly amount for old age increases significantly.

Recalculation is made from the first day of the new month following the month of circulation.

Attention! You can submit an application only in person or through a representative (authorized person) directly to the Pension Fund. There is currently no option to submit an application electronically.

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But the cancellation of indexation does not entail the cancellation of recalculation - the annual adjustment of payments will be made in the same order, i.e. from August 1st.

Let us recall that since 2016, the recalculation of the amount of pensions for working pensioners is carried out in a new way: taking into account the value of the citizen’s IPC as of January 1 of the year from which the recalculation is carried out, and based on the cost of one pension point. The cost of one point from February 1, 2017 will be 78.58 rubles. At the same time, the amount of the increase in pension provision is limited to the maximum value of the IPC - 3 points or 1.875 points, thus, the maximum working pensioners in 2017 will receive an increase of 235.74 rubles.

Bill on refusal of recalculation

The Russian government came out in support of the draft law, which provides for pensioners the opportunity to choose the procedure for recalculating insurance pension payments, subject to further work.

State Duma Deputy Raisa Karmazina became the author of this bill. The bill she proposed gives working pensioners the opportunity refuse annual recalculation the amount of the insurance pension both for a certain period and without setting a specific date. In this case, the maximum value of the IPC during the next recalculation of the amount of the insurance pension is fixed in the amount that is applied for the new assignment:

6.25 points instead of 1.875;
10 points instead of 3.0.

According to calculations provided by the authors of the bill, if all employed pensioners who have an IPC of 3 points or more take advantage of this opportunity, this will save the Pension Fund budget 5.4 billion rubles in 2016, and 4.21 billion in 2017. But on the other hand, if all working pensioners who previously refused the recalculation end their careers, then in 2017 the PRF’s expenses will increase by 2.11 billion rubles.

The bill can be implemented as soon as the authors specify the sources from which the Pension Fund will receive additional funds for additional payments to working pensioners.

Is it beneficial to refuse the August pension increase?

This is not the first year that our country has had a mechanism according to which a working pensioner has the right to refuse payments for a year or more, receiving good increases in return. Over the course of a year, pension benefits will increase by about 6%; after 5 years, the increase will reach about 70%. What is proposed today by the above bill is a kind of half-measure that is beneficial to pensioners who receive relatively high wages.

Participation in this program is beneficial only for pensioners whose salary above 19,000 rubles. However, in our country such wages, especially for older people, are rare, so this innovation is not entirely relevant.

On August 1, 2016, the Russian Pension Fund will conduct an annual adjustment of pensions. First of all, the changes will affect working pensioners, who were deprived of indexation in February. How much the payments will increase, and what is needed for recalculation - in this material.

It has become known that as a result of the annual adjustment, pensions for working pensioners will increase from August 1, 2016. The latest news on this matter states that payments will be recalculated in accordance with the new points accrued for the year. It is noteworthy that officials have not yet begun to change this established procedure, while indexation for older people who continue to work has been canceled this year. What is the difference between adjustment and indexation, and what increase in pensions will be made to working pensioners from August 1, 2016?

Pension from August 1, 2016 for working pensioners

On August 1, the Russian Pension Fund accrues insurance points to all insured persons for the year worked. This accrual is individual for each citizen and depends on:

salary amount;
work experience;
actual time worked;
age of the insured person;
rights to benefits.

It is done not only for those citizens who have not yet retired, but also for working older people. As a result of this adjustment, everyone will be awarded a certain number of points. In the case where a person has already reached retirement age, these points will be converted into monetary value. This is a brief principle for calculating the increase.

Unlike indexation, when all payments are increased by a coefficient calculated by the Russian Government based on the annual inflation index, the adjustment depends on many factors. Therefore, the final increase will be different for each pensioner. There is no need to submit an application or write any statement for recalculation; this service is provided by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation on a non-declaration basis.

Will there be a pension increase?

Recalculation of pensions for working pensioners from August 1, 2016 will be made in relation to all recipients due to old age or disability, in respect of whom employers accrued and paid insurance contributions to the Pension Fund during 2015 and the first quarter of this year. The longer the insured person is in retirement, the fewer years there are by which the amount of contributions received from the employer should be divided. Therefore, in theory, the increase should be greater. In practice this is not entirely true. Every citizen, including those who have already retired but continue to work, can receive no more than 3 points per year.

In 2016, from February 1, the cost of one point is 74.27 rubles. This means that the maximum increase will be only 222.81 rubles. Regardless of the amount of current payments. It should be noted that the maximum number of points can only be obtained if you have a salary of 20 thousand rubles or more. If its size was lower in 2015, then there will be fewer points. This means that it will increase not by 222.81 rubles, but by 148.54 rubles or even less.

In addition, if the pensioner continued to work throughout 2015, then the cost of the point for him will be lower - 71.41 rubles. Consequently, the increase will depend on various circumstances.

Saving officials

Even such meager additional payments made officials want to save on raises. The government introduced a bill to parliament, according to which working pensioners were invited to refuse current pension adjustments, taking advantage of this right after the end of their working career. The officials' arguments are as follows:

While working, a retired insured person receives a maximum of 3 points per year.
An insured person who has not reached retirement age receives up to 7.83 points per year in 2016.
In 2017, the maximum points will increase to 10.

This means that if a working pensioner now refuses an increase, then after stopping work, he will be able to receive 2.5-3 times more. Savings from the bill will amount to about 12 billion rubles. This is in addition to the savings that the government has already received as a result of eliminating the annual indexation of payments.

Will there be indexation of pensions?

The question of indexation of pensions from August 1 - whether it will happen or not, worries many pensioners. Some of them even asked it to the head of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers, Dmitry Medvedev. The Prime Minister answered honestly: “There is no money!” Therefore, officials do not plan any indexation either on August 1 or until the end of 2016.

In addition, working pensioners have been completely excluded from this system since 2016. Indexation can only be carried out at the time of termination of employment. Thus, this date is individual for each of them.

Is it planned to index pensions for working pensioners in 2019? Should we expect changes in connection with the increase in the retirement age in Russia? See the latest news on this page.

Changes in pension legislation in Russia

In connection with the increase in the retirement age to 60 years for women and 65 years for men, a sharp increase in pensions is planned in our country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin noted in a televised address that “ already in 2019, the indexation of old-age pensions will be about 7 percent, which is twice as high as the predicted inflation at the end of 2018».

Naturally, older people, who today live very poorly, are happy with such an increase. And it is also quite understandable that working pensioners do not want to be left out of the upcoming major indexation.

But should they expect an increase in their pensions in 2019, since for several years they have remained without an increase?

Here's what experts on Russian pension legislation say about this.

Indexation for working pensioners has not been cancelled, but “frozen”

“Indeed, for working pensioners, the annual indexation of old-age insurance pensions by inflation is now “frozen.” But this does not mean that their pensions are not recalculated, like other pensioners. The following rule has simply been introduced: while the employee who has received a pension continues to work, he receives it without taking into account indexation during this entire time. But when a citizen resigns, his pension is recalculated taking into account all missed indexations.

Example

Let’s say that a pensioner, after the deadline for retirement, continued to work for three years. This means that when he stops working, his pension will be indexed with the total coefficient for all these three years.

This principle of “deferred indexation” (simultaneously for all “reworked” years) is expected to be maintained for working pensioners in the future. But since the government promises to increase the amount of indexation from 2019, this group of pensioners will also benefit in the end, because the increased coefficients will apply to everyone.”

What does it mean?

This answer to the question about the indexation of pensions for working pensioners was recently given in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a publication established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

How should we understand the logic of this answer? Probably, the specialist wanted to say that there will be indexation of pensions in 2019 for working pensioners. But they will only be able to start receiving an increased pension when they quit.

Pension increase for working pensioners in August 2019

Let us remind you that, regardless of indexation, pensions of working pensioners increase annually in August. Since employers continue to pay contributions to the Pension Fund from the salaries of such citizens, their pensions are recalculated annually taking into account the amount of insurance contributions received. This usually happens on August 1st of each year.

In August 2019, the insurance pensions of working pensioners will also be recalculated. There is no need to apply anywhere for this; the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation will do everything without a citizen’s application.

How much will they increase?

The amount of the increase is calculated individually for each specific case. But, judging by the experience of past years, the maximum increase will be about 220-230 rubles.

Can pension payments to working pensioners be cancelled?

Rumors that working pensioners may be forced to choose between a pension or a salary have been actively circulated recently. They especially intensified when they began to discuss raising the retirement age.

But, as Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova assured, the incomes of working pensioners will not decrease amid changes related to the reform of the pension system.

“Working pensioners continued to receive pensions and wages, and will continue to receive both pensions and wages,” she said in the “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” program on the Russia 1 TV channel.

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177 comments

Tuesday, 22 January 2019 20:35 written by Natalya
Pensioners go to work not because they have a good life, but because this pitiful pension is simply not enough to live on. The utility payments are 7,400, and the pension is 8,900. Let our deputies teach how to live on this money. In the Soviet Union, the state paid me an excellent scholarship at the university of 56 rubles, despite the fact that people received a salary of 65-85 rubles. And what is happening now? Why did you need to get a higher education, work all your life and receive such a pension!!! What a shame to show on television like ours
Show business spends crazy amounts of money on parties, parties, their palaces, they talk about how much they spent on the wedding, where their houses, apartments are, how they spend their vacations and how their children live. And from the TV screen, continuous Shows, where the same the same characters. How long will all this continue?
Sunday, 28 October 2018 08:10 wrote by Alexander
what can be written about our officials and the government, not to mention the State Duma, everything has been written and rewritten, but what will our ministers from united Russia tell us or do something useful for the lives of our low-income pensioners, but it’s just a lie, and the Russian Pension Fund will never tell the truth and will do everything in a way that is beneficial to “THEM”.
Sunday, 19 August 2018 10:34 written by G.d.sh.
The state pensioners who work should say thank you, they pay 13% taxes if they work illegally like this, you need it
Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:03 written by Vladimir
The pension fund is preparing another robbery of working pensioners. If you are a working pensioner and worked the entire year 2017, then you will be counted in the pension fund for only 5 months (from August to December). Checked by me and my colleagues on the government services website upon request for information about the status of an individual personal account in a pension fund. The recalculation in August 2017 took into account income to the pension fund for 2016. The money that was transferred to the pension fund by your employer for January - July 2017 to your pension account is simply not taken into account and the pension fund does not provide information about it in statements for 2016 and 2017. If the earnings from August 2017 to March 2018 are not enough for 3 points, then you will not be given even a measly 214 rubles in August. 23kop. (Estimate for yourself how much money was transferred to the Pension Fund for 1 ruble increase in pension; last year I got 326 rubles. What is it like to listen to arrogant and unscrupulous faces from the box after that, talking about the Pension Fund deficit).
This is digitalization and a breakthrough into the pockets of working pensioners
Friday, 25 May 2018 06:45 written by Svetlana
Thanks to our government, they again elected those who were at one with the deputies. It’s very interesting to me that we don’t have money in our budget for pensioners, but they somehow find it to help Syria and other countries. Where is the logic? Let our people live in poverty, but we will help other countries. A shame.
Friday, 20 April 2018 13:21 wrote by Alexander
Personally, I have a feeling of disgust towards Russian deputies and the government, or something... From the category of “I won’t shake hands” and “I wouldn’t go on reconnaissance with them.” A complete lack of honor, dignity and decency, it all comes down to the principle of "grab it while you can." The law on pension provision for officials already speaks volumes.
Monday, 02 April 2018 20:32 written by Marina
I’m a working pensioner, I don’t work full-time and have a shorter working day, my salary is half as much as it should be, my daughter has been disabled since childhood, if I leave work, my daughter and I won’t be able to live on two pensions, there’s no one to help us. This year my daughter will be 23 years old, the payment for the child and from the budget will end minus another 12,000 tr and how can I not work here, but my pension is not indexed, what can I expect from the state??? We are a low-income family. What should we do next?
Wednesday, 28 March 2018 15:32 written by Galina
Our deputies, receiving a huge salary, believe that they can live on 10,000 rubles, while they do not forget about themselves, constantly adding to their salaries. And working pensioners are punished for our work, without adding a pension, as if we were paying taxes to another state, and it turns out who he deserves it if he doesn’t work. Many pensioners struggle with all their strength to get to work, which sometimes you can’t force young people to work for.
Sunday, 25 March 2018 21:56 written by Marina
I would like to look at these people, deputies who sit in the Duma, how they would live on retirement in St. Petersburg 8650, worked for 40 years. It’s not because of a good life that you have to work even after retirement. This will probably continue until the grave. Do people in such a rich country, as everyone says, not deserve a decent pension? The children cannot help; they have to make ends meet themselves. Everyone has families. They pay the mortgage, this bondage. You will often remember the USSR, when they provided free housing and a decent pension.
Sunday, 25 March 2018 17:04 written by Maria
Shame on our government... My pension is 7,000 rubles, teaching experience is 28 years. How to live on such a pension?
Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:05 written by Sasha
The deputies do not forget about themselves, they want their salaries to be doubled (400,000 is not enough for them). And for working pensioners, not from a good life, horseradish with butter.
Tuesday, 07 March 2017 10:03 written by Svetlana
It’s embarrassing to even read about what INCREASES pensioners can receive: 100 - 200 rubles. We spent our whole lives working, we paid high taxes, because... worked hard and conscientiously. And now we receive a pension almost equal to those taxes. And there is no one to ask. Working pensioners work precisely because it is impossible to live with dignity on retirement. Of course, I would like to relax, but how can I afford it? Stay at home, receive a penny handout, pay utility bills and wait for the next handout? These people should be thanked for the fact that they do not bury their experience and talent in the ground, but continue to share it with society. And in response to them - a reproach: you have grown old, which means you are staying at home. And who will take care of them, except themselves?
Saturday, 04 March 2017 10:57 written by Natalya
Shame on the government on whom they want to go to heaven on their mothers, pensioners receive pennies, so think about what they work for? With the last of their strength, their legs can no longer walk and they drag along. And retired entrepreneurs work, because the state didn’t give them a penny, but every year they take 25,000 money from them as if they haven’t earned a pension yet, and you cancel the mandatory payment to individual entrepreneurs for pensioners. But no, how then can you live? Conscience You are lost, gentlemen!!!
Wednesday, 22 February 2017 11:48 written by Natalya
Dear Lyudmila and Tatyana Ivanovna! I am also a penniless pensioner, but let’s not lie. What 132 rubles are you talking about??? My mother retired due to disability, received 92 rubles, winner of social competitions, master of “Golden Hands” and so on ...When I went out to work part-time in a home-based workshop employing the work of disabled people, my pension was revised, it became 80 rubles, and this despite the fact that I had a minor child in my arms. Have you ever tried to live on that kind of money together??? Clothes could only be a dream, the neighbors gave something away! Milk and kefir were a luxury! We never bought cottage cheese. We won’t talk about meat and sausage.., from the Moscow region we went to Moscow for bones. A teacher’s salary at that time was from 70-120, in on average 100 rubles. Maybe you can buy a car for a few thousand?? The cleaning lady’s salary is the same, pensions didn’t go far from kopecks, there were even 40 rubles. Don’t praise your terrible scoop! It’s good, of course, that Brezhnev helped you, and we like this
We were not honored, although, I repeat, there were enough rewards for valiant work. The only scary thing is that just as we lived in the city, so we live. Only now they steal “according to the law” and live legally according to their concepts.
I never write comments, but here... it’s not good to lie to children! Stop with these myths!
Saturday, 24 December 2016 07:19 written by Elena Nikolaevna
New Year is just around the corner, in the refrigerator there is 1 kg of minced meat, 3 pork legs, 300 rubles on the card, 3 weeks until the next pension. Pension 8200, utilities 5100. Debt 31 thousand. Hurray, comrades! Happy New Year! With new happiness! God forbid you get sick, there won’t be enough for medicine. All that remains is to return to the sheet and quietly crawl away to the cemetery.
Wednesday, 16 November 2016 16:12 written by Svetlana
I worked all my life for one and a half to two jobs as a teacher. I have no health. I retired due to my length of service; it turned out that I earned 11,300 a month. I was born and live in Moscow. I don’t understand...I always worked hard, and they regularly took deductions from us down to the penny. Why do I have such a tiny pension that I can’t even take a break and improve my health a little?(((((((((((((
Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:09 wrote by Vladimir
I answer Marina.. I had a house and a garden and a well and I was happy.. Muscovites came.. they said the village was to be demolished.. half the village was demolished.. and they froze everything.. everything they wanted to build.)... and my hands got used to it carry water from the well, heat the stove, rake out the ashes.. plant a garden.. where can I get it now?! many others too...
Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:42 written by Marina
I worked for 35 years and am now working, and my pension was assigned 8,359.18!! A native Muscovite. For six months, not a single increase. Who even came up with these incomprehensible points? Why is work experience not taken into account and why is 2002 taken into account when assigning a pension, and not any 5 years?
Why should I go vote for someone?...will they increase my pension, or maybe improve my living conditions?
Friday, 09 September 2016 19:28 wrote by Valentina
Shame on you, gentlemen from the government and United Russia deputies, with our pension you would not live even one day
Friday, 09 September 2016 09:34 written by Larisa
Everyone who receives 7 thousand rubles should not live. The state tirelessly takes care of this. Everyone who is striving for power is eager to protect your meager pensions? Don’t tell me my hooves. They are thinking about how to quickly tidy up all of you poor pensioners together to the churchyard.

At the same time, parliamentarians are proposing new ways to protect the financial interests of older people

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From August 1 of this year, the pensions of working pensioners will increase - the Pension Fund will make the appropriate adjustments. Elena Bibikova, a member of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy, told the Parliamentary Newspaper who will be able to qualify for increased payments.

- Elena Vasilievna, according to current legislation, pensions for working pensioners are not indexed. What kind of adjustment are we talking about in this case?

This adjustment applies to those pensioners who worked during the past, in this case 2016, received an official salary, and payments were made from this salary to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. Obviously, if the amount of income from these people’s salaries to the Pension Fund has increased, then they have the right to recalculate their pension. The amount of the adjustment depends on the amount of funds that were transferred to the personal account of a particular person in the Pension Fund. The recalculation will take place without an application, that is, the pensioner himself does not need to contact either the Pension Fund authorities, or the social security departments, or the human resources department.

However, I note: since 2015, some restrictions have been applied when adjusting pensions - this applies to those working pensioners who receive high salaries. When recalculating the amount of your pension, not all contributions made to the Pension Fund will be taken into account, but only the amount that allowed you to gain no more than three pension points. And one point, let me remind you, is awarded for a salary of one minimum wage.

People have the right to indexation of pensions only after they quit their jobs. Last week, the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs recommended adopting in the second reading a bill that would shorten the time frame for such indexation. How quickly does this document require the process to occur?

When restrictions on the indexation of pensions for working pensioners were introduced in 2015, a rule was provided that while a person is working, his pension is not indexed, but if he quits, for example, 2-3 years after 2015, then when calculating the amount of his pension All indexes passed during this time will be summed up. That is, if in 2016 indexation was 4 percent, and this year - 5.8 percent, then a person who quits his job now should have his pension indexed by the amount of these indices - 9.8 percent. But it takes some time to recalculate. What are we actually facing? For example, a pensioner resigns on June 1, but the index is not given to him immediately after dismissal, but three to four months later, and the person loses the indexation amount during this time. And since August last year, both our Committee on Social Policy and I personally began to receive complaints from pensioners that they had not been working for several months, and their pensions were not being indexed. After this, my colleagues and I began to develop amendments to the law that would stipulate that the pension is indexed from the month following the month of dismissal. That is, if a person quit on June 1, then his pension should be indexed from July 1. Let me draw your attention - if he quit on June 30, then his pension should also be indexed from July 1. This will also happen without a declaration. Yes, the adjustment will not take place immediately, but at approximately the same time, in three to four months, since the administrative procedures that are currently in effect will remain in place. That is, the Pension Fund needs to receive the necessary data, process it, and calculate the amount of payments. But it is very important that pensioners’ money will not be lost, and after 3-4 months they will receive the entire amount due to them, taking into account indexation from the month following the month of dismissal. The Government supported our bill. The only question concerned the timing of the entry into force of this law. We proposed that the norm come into force on July 1, 2017. However, an amendment by the Ministry of Labor was adopted to postpone this deadline to January 1, 2018.

- Why was such a delay needed?

The first reason is purely technical. The first of July will come very soon, and, of course, it will not be possible to rebuild the system so quickly. The second question is financial. When the law on the budget of the Pension Fund for 2017 was adopted, these funds were not included in it. At first glance, it seems that the money required to implement this law is not so much: not so many pensioners are leaving, and the deadline is shifted by only 2-3 months. However, this amendment required almost four billion rubles. These are significant financial resources, and the Government, justifying its position to us, indicated that since these funds are not included in the budget, it would be advisable to adopt the law now, but stipulate that the norm will come into force in January 2018. I believe that there is nothing wrong with this. In the near future, I think the law will be adopted, and January is just around the corner.

Elena Vasilievna, several pensioners from Moscow have already contacted our editorial office and told us that at the entrance of their houses there are some notices with information that in the near future employees of the Pension Fund will be going around their apartments to fill out an application for registration of applications for pension certificate. Is this really true?

Yes, I also have such information, people have also approached me with a similar question. I would like to draw the attention of all our citizens! Recently, our Pension Fund turned 25 years old, and during all this time, not a single territorial body of the state Pension Fund has ever sent its employees to visit apartments with any surveys or statements. Be carefull! Employees of the Pension Fund come to a pensioner’s home only in one case: if for some reason he himself cannot get to the Pension Fund, and has personally asked specialists to come to him. The same advertisements are posted by scammers in order to get into a pensioner’s apartment. Under the guise of filling out an application for an attachment to something, they even draw up loan obligations and guarantees. Such advertisements must be treated with great caution. And if you have any questions for the Pension Fund, contact them directly - by phone, through electronic services.