In Russia, there are several types of pensions - cash payments provided to citizens by the state in connection with the occurrence of an event. A social pension is assigned in case of disability; in case of loss of a breadwinner, as well as for elderly persons who have not received the right to an insurance pension. Social benefits are financed from the federal budget and, according to Art. 25 Federal Law “On state pension provision in the Russian Federation” dated December 15, 2001 No. 166-FZ, are indexed annually. The law determines that social pensions are increased taking into account the growth rate of the pensioner’s cost of living over the past year. The indexation coefficient is determined by the Government. Dmitry Medvedev approved an increase in pensions from April 1, 2020. How much? The latest news is that a coefficient of 1.02 has been approved).
On March 18, Government Resolution No. 271 dated March 15, 2019 was published on the official legal information portal, indicating the date of its entry into force as April 1, 2019. Therefore, there is no doubt when the social pension will increase - from April 1, 2019. The increase will not be significant, payments will increase by 2%. Current issues related to social pensions will be discussed in detail in the article below.
What to do if your pension has not been recalculated
It is extremely rare, but there are cases when the pension has not been indexed. This usually happens due to a mistake by civil servants. In this case, the first thing a citizen receiving social benefits should do is contact the Pension Fund office at the place of registration. You will need to provide personal information.
There is a service for sending the corresponding request in electronic form. In any case, the answer will be sent to your email address.
Persons receiving social pensions will practically not feel the upcoming increase due to a slight increase in payments. However, in the current economic situation, even such indexation is not so bad. They plan to allocate almost 10 billion rubles for these purposes.
Rules for registering and receiving a social pension
Currently, you can use various methods to apply for a social pension. In addition to contacting the pension fund and social security department, you can visit the MFC, where you can submit a package of necessary documents. If a situation arises where the increase and indexation did not occur, then you will need to contact the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation branch for clarification. Most often, failure to comply with conditions is the result of a mistake by the executive employee.
After the error is clarified, the citizen will receive the due amount retroactively, from the due date. To clarify the circumstances, you can use the pension portal on the Internet. A request is written with the user’s personal data attached, and after processing, a response is sent to the specified email. According to existing rules, a response from a government organization must be received no later than 30 days from the date of application.
Since the size of the social pension plays an important role for certain groups of the population, the issue is always considered on an expedited basis. If the user is not satisfied with the response received from the Pension Fund, then it makes sense to write an appeal to the court with a claim against the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. It is important to prepare a competent claim, which a practicing lawyer can always help with.
Pension increase from April 1, 2020 and how much is the latest news
The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection proposed to index social pensions of Russians on April 1. The corresponding document was published on the portal of regulatory legal acts, the portal reports.
“To approve the indexation coefficient of social pensions in the amount of 1.029,” the document says. The Russian Pension Fund has been instructed to provide regional divisions with information about the level of the coefficient, so that from April 1, 2020, social pensions will be paid indexed. As stated in the explanatory note, social pensions will be indexed by 2.9 percent.
“Based on the data on the cost of living of a pensioner in the Russian Federation for 2020 (8,315 rubles) and for 2020 (8,081 rubles), the growth rate of the cost of living of a pensioner in the Russian Federation for 2020 was 102.9 percent,” the document says .
When can you lose your social pension?
Despite the fact that for 2020 the government has allocated about 10 billion rubles for the indexation of social pensions, the allowances are insignificant in each specific case. Sometimes legal disputes arise regarding the complete cancellation of the social pension due to objective circumstances. If a citizen, by decision of the Pension Fund, is deprived of social support, then he is sent an official notification about the reason for the cancellation of the social pension.
For example, this may be when a child reaches adulthood after losing a breadwinner or the removal of a disability group. You can challenge the cancellation by providing legal evidence. For example, after the age of 18, a child’s pension was canceled, but after a year or two he enters the full-time department of the institute and again receives the right to a social pension until he turns 23. If a young person provides a certificate from an educational institution to the social service, he will be accrued a pension and given funds from the moment he is enrolled in studies.
All controversial issues are resolved by contacting social services employees. There you can find out the list of necessary supporting documents, collect the package and submit it for verification and calculation of the social pension. Sometimes additional certificates and evidence may be required, which the applicant will be informed about when accepting documents for the assignment of a social pension.
The procedure itself is transparent and does not require much effort, after which citizens begin to receive a regular social pension.
Indexation of pensions, from what date
From April 1, 2020, state and social pensions will be increased by indexation. Social pensions will change upward by 4.1%. This means that, on average, the amount of social pension will increase by up to 9 thousand rubles.
Social pensions have changed on average by an amount from 200 to 500 rubles. For those who were recipients of state pensions, monthly cash payments (MCB) were increased by 3.2%.
It is worth remembering that pension increases will be different for everyone. Those who are entitled to labor pensions - in January and August, for categories of Russians who receive social and state pensions - next month. By the way, those who are entitled to a social pension in our country, according to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, are 4 million, and the labor force is 36.6 million people. The average labor pension is slightly higher than the social pension.
Increase in social pension for disability
- Group 1 disabled people are not able to work; they need patronage care on an ongoing basis. If injury or complete loss of ability to work occurs as a result of criminal acts or alcohol/drug influence, then a disability group is not assigned. Indexation will make it possible to increase the size of the social pension to 10,360 (from 10,068 rubles).
- Group 2 disabled people can provide for their living needs independently. In some cases, partial employment is possible based on the recommendations of VTEK. Social security will be 5180 (previously 5034 rubles).
- Group 3 disabled people cannot perform certain professional duties, but can work and at the same time receive social support from the state in the amount of 4,403 (instead of 4,279 rubles).
Increase in pensions in 2020 in Moscow
From January 1, 2020, insurance pensions (including fixed payments) for non-working pensioners have been increased by 3.7%, which is higher than the forecast inflation rate for 2020. The size of the fixed payment after indexation will be 4,982.9 rubles per month, the cost of the pension point will be 81.49 rubles (in 2020 – 78.58 rubles). The average annual old-age insurance pension will eventually increase to 14,075 rubles, the average annual old-age insurance pension for non-working pensioners will increase to 14,329 rubles.
The average annual old-age insurance pension for non-working pensioners will increase to 14,329 rubles in 2020
Regarding the further increase in pensions in 2020, state pension pensions, including social ones, will be increased by 4.1% for working and non-working pensioners from April 1. As a result, the average annual social pension will increase to 9,045 rubles. The average social pension for disabled children and people with disabilities since childhood of group I will be 13,699 rubles.
In August 2020, the Pension Fund will adjust the insurance pensions of pensioners who worked in 2020.
From February 1, 2020, the size of the monthly cash payment (MCB) received by federal beneficiaries will be indexed by approximately 3.2%.
The legislative framework
The assignment and payment of social pensions are regulated by Federal Law No. 166. Such content is received from the state in accordance with Art. 11 FZ-166:
- citizens who have reached a certain advanced age and do not have the right, in accordance with the law, to an insurance pension;
- disabled people of all groups, including those citizens who have been disabled since childhood;
- disabled children;
- orphans, as well as children whose parents are unknown, up to 18 years of age, as well as up to 23 years of age, if they are studying full-time;
- representatives of small peoples of the North, men and women, upon reaching the age of 55 and 50 years, respectively, if they permanently reside on the day of assignment in the areas of traditional settlement of their peoples.
There are several types of social pension:
- on disability;
- by age (or old age);
- for loss of a breadwinner;
- children whose parents are unknown.
Social security by age is assigned to those citizens who do not have enough length of service to receive an insurance pension. This year, in connection with the reform to raise the retirement age, changes have been made to the conditions for assigning social pensions. They affected only those who receive an old-age pension. The retirement age for receiving a social pension has increased by 5 years, it will be 70 years for men and 65 for women, but the age will increase gradually.
According to paragraph 5 of Art. 11 FZ-166, payment of maintenance from the state is terminated for the period of any activity when the citizens receiving it are subject to compulsory pension insurance.
Article 25 of Federal Law No. 166 contains a provision that every year from April 1, social pensions are indexed taking into account the rate of increase in the cost of living over the past year. The increase coefficient is determined by a separate act of the Government of the Russian Federation. Thus, this year, in accordance with the law, the social pension will be indexed from April 1, 2020. The latest news notifies the public that the increase rate has been set. The next section contains details, the data is presented in the table.
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What types of pensions are there?
Indexation actually took place in early April, but it did not affect the entire population. The thing is that citizens receive different types of pension contributions. They are usually divided into three types:
- Labor pension . According to the law, it is provided exclusively to those Russians who have a certain work experience. Relatively speaking, it is intended for the population who worked officially. Moreover, the labor pension itself is further divided into 3 types: old age, disability and loss of a breadwinner. An old-age pension is awarded to citizens who have officially worked for more than 5 years; they begin to receive cash payments upon reaching the age of 55 and 60 for women and men, respectively (be careful, the minimum age has been increasing in the last few years, so the situation may change by the time they retire) . The other two types of pensions require disability or loss of a survivor, as is clear from the name.
- State pension . This type of security is not available to all citizens. The state pays funds only if there is some basis for this. Moreover, the presence of work experience does not affect whether such a pension will be issued or not. State support also has several varieties. For example, a long-service pension is provided to federal officials, military personnel and other categories of citizens. State old-age pension is provided to people who have become participants in man-made disasters and received illnesses or injuries as a result. In terms of disability, state support is provided not to ordinary disabled people, but to former military personnel, astronauts, as well as participants in the siege, World War II, or victims of disasters. In this case, the survivor's pension is awarded to the families of the listed persons.
- Social pension . This payment format is available to citizens who do not have work experience. If a person worked officially, it is more profitable for him to receive a labor pension. The social pension is provided to pensioners aged 60 and 65 years for female and male persons, respectively, disabled people, disabled children, and minor citizens who have lost their breadwinner.
Indexation of pensions usually concerns a certain category of citizens. For example, the last increase, which took place on April 1, did not in any way affect those who receive a labor pension. Therefore, it is important to understand what kind of pension a person receives, when and in what amount the payments due to him are indexed.
Who will get a pension increase?
The increase from next month will affect social payments . Indexed pensions are available to the following categories of citizens:
- disabled people;
- disabled children;
- small northern peoples;
- children without a breadwinner;
- pensioners (men over 65 and women over 60).
They will also increase state support , which is available to special categories of citizens:
- military;
- employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
- WWII veterans;
- Chernobyl victims;
- pilots;
- astronauts;
- civil servants.
The Ministry of Labor has already talked about the indexation of pensions in April 2018. According to the department, it was initially planned to increase the EDV by 1.2%, but later this figure increased to 2,9%.
Old age pensions
According to department statistics, compared with previous periods, the growth rate of the expected cost of living of a Russian pensioner reached 102.9%, respectively, the growth of pensions will be 2.9%. Payments to elderly representatives of small northern ethnic groups will be raised by exactly the same amount.
Indexed payments to pensioners | sovets.net
A foreign citizen of retirement age has the right to claim such a payment only if he can prove that he has lived in Russia for at least 15 years.
