What to expect pensioners?
06.08.2016 | 11:17 Azarov Nikolay
Now Groisman and Poroshenko think about the need for pension reform.
However, they themselves, in contrast to the millions of retirees living on a pension is not necessary, and therefore all their thinking is quite abstract. The first step of the reform they believe is, of course, raising the age of retirement, say 65 to 67 years (as in Europe). The second is the introduction of compulsory contributions of working citizens in the new funded system. Everything is simple. The Pension Fund deficit is huge, especially after malopodvalna reduction rate of the single social contribution. Thus, raising the retirement age is a significant reduction of this deficit, and the cumulative contributions will cover the remaining deficit of the Fund.
And this despite the fact that now the minimum pension does not cover 50% of actual subsistence minimum.
Of course, according to the plan Poroshenko, Groisman pension reform does not provide any real increase in today’s miserable pensions. Well, the use of the funds accumulative Fund for the repayment of the deficit is generally immoral against the people who will pay the premiums. Instead, these contributions work and earn to those who were listed, on additional pension Supplement, they will simply be wasted. And as these people retire, they will be by the grace of Poroshenko, Groisman nothing. The most stupid and cynical looting.
In 2003-2004 I had to develop and implement the first in Ukraine the pension reform. That’s when a Law was passed which provided for the creation of a storage system. The law stipulates three necessary conditions for its implementation:
The minimum pension should be not less than minimum wage.
In the country should be economic growth for at least two years prior to its implementation.
The pension Fund must be balanced.
And we have this Pension reform began to be implemented. In 2004, pensions were increased by 2 times, and in September 2004 for the first time in the history of Ukraine the minimum pension equal to the subsistence level. In 2003, we had an economic growth of about 10%; in 2004 it amounted to 12.6%. Surprisingly, these serious about our achievements today, no one remembers.
All our plans foiled, the “Orange revolution”. Of course, the “orange power” has put an end to the creation of the funded system.
We were able to return to it only in 2010, but much worse than in the 2004 conditions. However, here the so-called “revolution gdnet” ruined our plans.
