Who can retire early?
Males aged fifty-five and females aged fifty, working as drivers of urban public transport for twenty and fifteen years and having work experience of twenty-five and twenty years, are given the opportunity to receive early pension payments.
Bus drivers are provided with a preferential pension when they make regular trips within the locality. This is permanent transportation within the city, carried out by vehicles used for passenger transportation with more than eight seats.
Drivers must regularly transport passengers on a set schedule, picking them up and dropping them off at designated stops. Information about the route is contained in the route passport.
Elena Smirnova
Pension lawyer, ready to answer your questions.
Ask me a question
Drivers may be assigned a preferential pension if their regular employment (at least 80% of the working time) is certified by documents.
Driver employment is determined based on monthly results. The period of monthly employment includes: the period of preparation and completion of work, hours for medical examination, hours for repair work and maintenance.
Drivers who carry out transportation between cities, to the suburbs, special and custom ones, who are not regular city routes, and drivers of departmental vehicles cannot become pensioners early.
Raising the retirement age will not affect public transport drivers
Public transport drivers working on regular city passenger routes are entitled to a number of pension benefits for their hard work. The Branch of the Russian Pension Fund for the Republic of Tatarstan reminds us of this.
The following categories of drivers have the right to early establishment of an insurance pension due to special working conditions:
- men who have reached 55 years of age, who have worked as drivers of buses, trolleybuses, and trams on regular city passenger routes for at least 20 years and have an insurance record of at least 25 years;
- women who, upon reaching 50 years of age, have worked as drivers of buses, trolleybuses, trams on regular city passenger routes for at least 15 years and have an insurance record of at least 20 years.
A regular city passenger route is understood as a predetermined and approved transport route within the city, the movement along which is carried out at a certain regular frequency and with mandatory stops in specially designated places.
It is worth noting that a preferential pension is provided only if there is documentary evidence of the drivers performing regular passenger transportation within a populated area, using vehicles with more than 8 seats. In this case, periods of relevant work that took place after January 1, 2013 are counted towards the length of service. , giving the right to early assignment of an old-age insurance pension, subject to the calculation and payment by the policyholder of insurance premiums at the appropriate rates established by Article 428 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, as well as after a special assessment of working conditions - the presence of a harmful or dangerous class of conditions at the relevant workplaces labor.
Important! Working as a city transport bus driver engaged in transporting passengers on orders does not give the right to early assignment of an old-age insurance pension, since transporting passengers on orders is not a regular passenger route. In addition, in this case, it is not possible to pick up and disembark passengers along the route at every public transport stop.
“The increase in the retirement age, which has been in effect since this year, has not affected this category of workers. The limits for pre-retirement age will be set 5 years before early retirement: for female drivers, starting from 45 years old, and for male drivers, starting from 50 years old,” noted Eduard Vafin, Manager of the Branch of the Russian Pension Fund for the Republic of Tatarstan.
The Regional Pension Fund draws your attention to the fact that the increase in the retirement age also bypassed more than 15 categories of citizens.
Advertising
How to confirm your experience?
Transportation by drivers is carried out on the basis of a route sheet, on the reverse side of which they indicate: the established and real time of departure, the established and real time of arrival, which makes it possible to determine the real period of the driver’s employment.
Elena Smirnova
Pension lawyer, ready to answer your questions.
Ask me a question
If there are no route sheets, then certificates from the place of work are required, which indicate the documentary basis (orders, personal accounts, salary statements, collective agreements, etc.).
About early pension for drivers in detail
05 June 2020 10:26
Drivers of buses, trolleybuses and trams employed on regular city routes can retire earlier if a number of important conditions are met.
According to the NHS research service. The most popular profession sought by Novosibirsk residents in May of this year was that of a driver, including in public transport. It is worth noting that some representatives of this profession have the right to early assignment of an old-age insurance pension. This category includes drivers of buses, trolleybuses, and trams employed on regular city routes.
The listed citizens can retire earlier than the generally established retirement age: men at 55 years old, and women at 50. But for the right to early retirement to arise, a number of important conditions must be met. First of all, they need, like all citizens, to “collect” at least 30 pension coefficients throughout their working life (taking into account transitional provisions). The second condition for the assignment of a “preferential” pension is the length of the insurance period in the relevant jobs. So a man with a total insurance experience of 25 years must work as, for example, a bus driver on a city route, for at least 20 years. Women must have a total insurance experience of 20 years, and at least 15 years in the relevant types of work.
The basis for granting the right to pension benefits to drivers of buses, trolleybuses or trams is full-time work only on regular city passenger routes. For bus drivers, the period of work is included in the required special experience when employed in bus regular urban passenger transportation. This fact must be documented. Orders for appointment as a driver of regular city passenger routes, waybills, personal accounts, pay slips, collective agreements and other documents containing the necessary information are considered as supporting documents.
Regular urban passenger transportation includes transportation on a regular route that runs within the city limits; the traffic schedule on such a route is approved and agreed upon with local authorities in the interests of all city residents. On such routes, transportation is carried out at certain intervals according to a schedule with passengers boarding and disembarking at stops provided for on the route. The bus must proceed to all intermediate checkpoints on the route according to the schedule.
Urban passenger bus transportation includes regular transportation, which is carried out by a vehicle intended for the transportation of passengers, with a number of seats (in addition to the driver) of more than 8.
Work on urban passenger regular routes can be organized with semi-express, express or regular traffic modes, or a combination of these modes during the day.
Such drivers enjoy the right to pension benefits subject to documentary confirmation of the requirements for city passenger regular bus routes.
Drivers working on suburban, intercity, specialized routes, as well as drivers carrying out custom transportation of passengers on routes other than regular city routes, or drivers of departmental transport transporting enterprise employees are not entitled to pension benefits.
If, during working hours, along with work on regular city passenger routes, a bus driver combines work on suburban routes or carries out custom transportation on routes not classified as regular city routes, then the question of his right to early assignment of a pension is decided depending on what percentage working time consists of work that gives the right to this pension. If it is documented that employment on regular city passenger routes is at least 80% of the working time, then in this case they can be considered employed in jobs that give the right to early pension provision.
When recording working time in aggregate, working time confirming the employment of bus drivers on regular city passenger routes is determined based on the results of the month. The working time for a month includes the total time of work on the line on a regular city route, time for carrying out preparatory and final work, conducting pre-trip and post-trip medical examinations, eliminating operational faults of the bus while working on the route, and scheduled maintenance.
In addition, periods of work of drivers on regular city passenger routes after January 1, 2013 are counted towards special length of service, taking into account which the right to an early old-age pension is determined, only if the employer pays insurance premiums at additional rates. After a special assessment of working conditions has been carried out at the workplace, periods of work will be counted towards special experience only if, based on the results of the special assessment, a harmful class of working conditions is established at the driver’s workplace.
In the Novosibirsk region, there are 686 recipients of early pensions from among drivers employed on regular city passenger routes.
Registration procedure
The pension is assigned from the day the documents are submitted, not earlier than the right to retire. All necessary documents are given to the pension fund office or sent by mail. The stamp on the letter will be considered the date of submission of documents.
Elena Smirnova
Pension lawyer, ready to answer your questions.
Ask me a question
If any documents are missing, they can be submitted no later than 3 months later.
Documentation is reviewed within ten days. If a person is denied a preferential pension, he must be notified within 5 days, indicating the reasons for the refusal and how he can appeal.
Where to go?
In order to retire early, you must go to the Pension Fund office at your place of residence or send documentation by mail.
List of required documentation
To receive a preferential pension for city bus drivers, the following documents are required:
- application;
- identification document;
- military ID;
- document confirming work experience;
- SNILS;
- Salary document for any five years before 2002. They can take into account salary information based on a personal account for the years 2000–2011.
The following additional documentation may be required:
- a certificate certifying the changed personal data;
- a document confirming the presence of disabled persons and dependent persons;
- document certifying activities in the northern region;
- reference. Confirmatory activity in hazardous conditions;
- certificate of disability.
The legislative framework
Benefits for bus drivers upon retirement are provided on the basis of the following legislation:
- Law No. 00-F3 dated December 28, 2013 “On pension insurance”;
- government decision No. 665 of July 16, 2014;
- government decision No. 781 of October 29, 2002.
Attention! Due to recent changes in legislation, the legal information in this article may be out of date!
Our lawyer can advise you free of charge - write your question in the form below:
