On Tuesday, March 22, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) Elena Grigoryeva announced the indexation of social pensions and state pensions by 8.6% from April 1.
The specialist clarified that this measure will affect 4 million Russians.
According to her, social pensions are received, in particular, by disabled children. At the same time, a number of citizens are entitled to two payments – among them are participants in the Great Patriotic War and disabled people due to military trauma.
“The effectiveness of the pension system is a priority task of the state, enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation (part 6, art. 75). Such efficiency is ensured, among other things, by regular indexation of all types of pensions, ”the agency quotes the economist as saying.Prime“.
She also noted that the indexation of social pensions takes place annually on April 1, taking into account the growth rate of the pensioner’s subsistence minimum over the past year.
Earlier, on March 19, the indexation of social pensions by 8.6% was announced in the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. For these purposes, 33.7 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal budget by the end of this year.
On March 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that all social benefits, including benefits, pensions, minimum wages and salaries of state employees, would be increased in the near future. He stressed that this task is not only economic in nature, but also “is a matter of social justice.”
On February 1, a law on the indexation of pensions by 8.6% came into force in Russia. The average insurance pension increased by about 1.5 thousand rubles compared to the previous year and amounted to 18,984 rubles.
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