The President’s State Legal Administration is studying ways to optimize the budget of the Russian Social Fund by reducing inter-budget transfers from the federal budget. This is what he writes RBC with reference to the letter of the deputy head of the department Sergei Pchelintsev to the president of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia Mikhail Shmakov.
The proposals include using surplus funds from previous years, removing restrictions on the spending of compulsory pension insurance funds, and reducing subsidies for paying insurance premiums for some job categories over several years.
The volume of transfers from the federal budget to the SFR in 2023 exceeded 4 trillion rubles, which is about 30% of the total revenues of the fund. Of these, about 1.4 trillion rubles. were accounted for transfers related to pensions, 130 billion rubles. – for the payment of sick leave, and the rest – for the social functions of the fund.
Despite the deficit at the primary level, the total balance of SFR funds at the beginning of 2024 exceeded 1.1 trillion rubles. Due to surpluses from previous years. Part of these funds are deposited by the fund into bank deposits.
The FNPR did not support the idea of ​​directing funds to purposes other than compulsory retirement insurance.
“The proposed redistribution of insurance funds is another attempt by the financial bloc to become its own monopoly manager. Such an initiative was not and will not be supported by us,” emphasized FNPR Vice President David Krishtal.
A day earlier, it became known that the size of pensions in Russia has increased over the past 10 years due to the loss of a breadwinner grew upIt reaches 8134.88 rubles in 2024. Annual indexation is carried out taking into account inflation, and the amount of payment depends on the length of service and salary level of the deceased relative.
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Source: Gazeta
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