At the beginning of 2024, the number of retirees registered in the Social Fund (SFR) reached 41.075 million people. It is written that the number of retirees decreased by 699.9 thousand people, or 1.7%, during the year RBC referring to funding data.
There was a three-fold increase in the rate of decrease in the number of retirees compared to 2022, but it did not exceed the figures of 2021, when the number of retirees decreased by 970 thousand people.
It was noted that SFR data does not include pension recipients in the system of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and other law enforcement agencies.
Before that, the number of retirees was estimated to increase by 1.13 million to 42.9 million in 2023, mainly due to residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. However, available data for 2023 does not take new regions into account.
In 2023, there was a cut in the old-age pension allocation within the scope of the pension reform. No one had the right to retire by age, except for those who were entitled to early retirement, such as mothers of many children. The retirement age in 2024 is 58 for women born in 1966 and 63 for men born in 1961.
The main reason for the decrease in the number of retirees in 2023 was those who received retirement pension from old-age insurance, which is the largest category. Their number decreased by 885.8 thousand people (33.38 million at the end of the year). However, the number of people benefiting from other payments that are not tied to length of service and retirement points has increased. For example, the number of disabled retirees increased by 91.7 thousand people to 2.23 million, the number of people receiving social pensions increased by 52.9 thousand people to 3.41 million, and the number of surviving pensioners increased by 12.7 thousand people to 1.44 million. .
At the Russian State Duma plenary meeting in February It is cancelled Agreement on the procedure for providing pensions and state insurance for employees of internal affairs institutions (IA) of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
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Source: Gazeta
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