The labour Ministry has proposed to introduce the norm of the law on insurance pensions, which involves a rapid increase in fixed portion of pensions to rural residents who have worked in agriculture for 30 years and more. To freeze the proposed law for three years – until January 1, 2020. Government Commission on legislative activities endorsed the proposal, if the initiative approves the Cabinet, it will be submitted to the state Duma, RBC reports.
The rule of law, which proposes to postpone the Ministry of labor, implies an annual increase of 25% fixed portion of old age benefits and disability for rural pensioners with more seniority. The norm was to come into force from 1 January 2016, but then its action was suspended due to a difficult economic situation.
The size of fixed payments to insurance pensions in General, which by law must be indexed annually for inflation of the previous year, for the same reason in 2016 was increased only by 4% (although inflation in 2015, 12.9%). As a result, the size of this payment is now 4559 RUB.
If the law on the accelerated increase in payments to rural pensioners began to act in time, the fixed fee for them this year would have amounted to almost 5.7 thousand RUB By the year 2020, a fixed payment to the “rural” of a pension would have to increase 2.5 times – up to 11,1 thousand rubles (excluding annual indexation for inflation).
As explained in the press service of the Ministry of labor, the rate of increase in fixed payments to rural pensioners “is in fact pending measure,” and the bill of the Ministry of labor “actually keeps the legislation in force today.” Another postponement of the entry into force of the law to increase the fixed payment of pensions to rural residents already included in the draft budget of the Pension Fund (PFR).
Savings the Federal budget for the transfer of the FIU due to the stop of action of the law for the next three years the Ministry of labor estimated nearly 55 billion rubles – RUB 17.5 billion in 2017, RUB 18.3 billion in 2018 and RUB 19.1 bln in 2019, follows from the materials to the bill.
Against the bill were made by the Ministry of agriculture, the initiative has also criticized the Institute of legislation under the government and the chamber. Talking about the category of the citizens especially requiring social assistance, it includes the disabled of groups I and II. The chamber has urged not to introduce a bill to the state Duma before the introduction of the draft Federal budget for 2017-2019. Pensions many people touch the bill of the Ministry of labor do not reach the subsistence minimum of a pensioner, the authorities have to pay them to bring the size of their benefits to the minimum wage, says the Federal official. As a result, no budget savings from the freeze of the law may not be able to: payments to subsistence minimum to pensioners can be spent more than the annual increase in fixed payments of 25%. The Ministry of labour on the question of the method of calculating budget savings did not answer.
