The increase in pensions from October 1 will not affect World War II veterans, blockade survivors, disabled and surviving pensioners, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans’ Affairs, Yaroslav Nilov, told socialbites.ca. In October, payments for military retirees and for other categories will be indexed next January and April.
“From October, pensions will increase primarily for military retirees, because they have their own indexation procedure, which depends on the salary increase. Indexation of military pensions will not only apply to those who receive it through the Ministry of Defense, this will apply to all law enforcement agencies. They start indexing on October 1st. Nilov said this situation will not affect people receiving insurance, social and state pensions.
According to him, insurance pensions will be indexed starting from January 1, 2024. From February 1 – benefits, maternity capital funds. Starting from April 1, social pensions will be indexed.
“Insurance pension is received by citizens who are insured for at least one day in the pension fund. When an insured event occurs, they are granted a pension. There are only three events that are insured: in case of loss of breadwinner, in case of disability, in case of reaching the incapacity age, i.e. retirement age. As for the social pension, it can also be transferred in the event of the loss of the breadwinner. For example, a child lost his father, never worked, and was never insured. In case of loss of breadwinner he will receive a social pension. A disabled person who has never worked also receives a social disability pension. A person who has not worked officially anywhere but has reached retirement age receives a social pension. However, the retirement age here is five years higher than the insured retirement age. If we take the category of World War II veterans, war veterans, front-of-house workers, then they can receive both insurance and social pensions,” Nilov explained.
It was previously known that payments to “military retirees” in Russia will be increased by 10.5 percent as of October 1, 2023. These include former employees of the FSB, FSO, Foreign Intelligence Service, Investigative Committee, FSIN, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Russian Guard, Federal Drug Control Service, Ministry of Emergencies, State Fire Service, Federal Customs Service. In total, the increase in pensions will affect more than 3 million Russians.
It was previously known that the government submitted to the State Duma a project to increase military pensions of military personnel by 4.5% from October 1, 2024.
Source: Gazeta
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