Why didn't the pension increase in May? From May 1, the minimum wage will be equal to the subsistence level of the working population

On May 1 of this year, a new law will come into effect, within the framework of which it will increase minimum size wages up to living wage V Russian Federation. The issue was discussed last year, but was adopted only this year. The government planned for the law to take effect from the beginning of January 2019.

Due to the improving economic situation in Russia, the Russian authorities decided to increase the minimum wage starting May of this year. 62 billion rubles are needed for these purposes.

More than 3 million citizens will be able to receive an increase in their wages. More than half of them work in budgetary sphere. This is followed by a discussion of increasing pension payments.

At the end of 2017, it became known that this year the Russian government will index pensions in three stages. The first increase was in January of this year. Previously, this was carried out from February 1. The early indexation occurred due to lower than expected inflation last year.

From April 1 of this year, pension payments were increased for many categories of beneficiaries. Among them are disabled people, orphans, and pensioners. The next indexation will take place in August of this year.

Many media reports about the increase in pensions since May 2018. At this time, the government will increase the minimum wage to the subsistence level. In this regard, there will be a recalculation of pensions and, accordingly, an increase in payments to pensioners.

Due to the fact that the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation is in a state of collapse, there will be no significant increase in pension payments in May of this year.

This situation will not affect working pensioners. On this moment in Russia there are about 10 million citizens.

Indexation of pensions this year

Pensioners who receive pension payments based on length of service have already received indexation of payments in January of this year. Those elderly people who have a social pension had their payments indexed in April of this year. From August 1, pension payments to working pensioners will be indexed by increasing their length of service.

According to experts, in Russia there will be an increase in pensions no earlier than 2020. Now the country's Pension Fund is in a crisis situation. Because of this, it is impossible to significantly increase payments to pensioners. This year there will be no one-time payments, as happened previously.

From May 1, pensions will be increased for some categories of pensioners

The Government of the Russian Federation adopted Resolution No. 313 of March 22, 2018 on increasing the minimum wage. The increase rate is 7.3%. This indicator will be used when calculating additional payments to pensioners.

Not everyone will get this promotion. retirement age. These include only flight crew members civil aviation, as well as coal industry workers. Funds for additional payments to pensions will be taken from additional insurance contributions from enterprises in the coal industry and aviation of the Russian Federation.

Pensioners are interested in the issue of increasing pensions from May 1, 2018, the amount of the increase pension provision and payment procedure. Unfortunately, pensions are not expected to increase in May, since pension amounts for employed older Russians will be recalculated in August. The recalculation will occur due to the next cancellation of indexation.

This year, only two pension increases are planned: in February, insurance (labor) pensions increased, and in April 2018, indexation of social pension provision is planned. The final amount that a pensioner will receive directly depends on the salary and the money transferred to the country’s Pension Fund.

Pension increase in 2018

Although there are no plans to increase pensions from May 1, 2018, pensioners will expect an increase in social pension benefits in April. Employees of the Pension Fund told us how much the amount of payments will increase. Last year, there was an indexation of 1.5% for employed and unemployed Russians who retired.

Authorities reported that this year there will be an increase pension amounts by 1.2%, a little later there was talk of an increase of 4.1%. According to the latest news, social pensions will increase by 2.9%.

After the August increase, the average pension will be just over 9 thousand (an increase of 255 rubles). Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation Alexander Kurtin noted that in the next reporting periods there will be an increase in pension provision by 3.9% and 3.5%.

About recalculation of pensions

Working older people can count on recalculation. Previously, it was held in August, now some sources talk about the recount procedure, which will take place in April. This may be due to the refusal of employed pensioners to increase insurance amounts in February.

Elderly people who worked last year will receive an increased pension thanks to a non-declaration recalculation. It is still unknown how much pension provision will increase; last year the increase was 3 pension points(about two hundred rubles).

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said that the government is striving to increase pensions. The planned pension amount is about 25,000 rubles. Golodets noted that an appropriate strategy has been developed, according to which it will be possible to reach 2.5 subsistence minimums. Such pension payments are worth striving for.

The government increased the disability pension from May 1, 2018.

It is known that the next indexation of pensions will occur on May 1, 2018, or rather the pensions of disabled people, that category of people who have no other sources of income besides it. This category of pensioners is less protected.
To whom and by how much will pensions be raised from May 1, 2018?
From May 1, 2018, the government must increase the minimum wage and bring it to the minimum subsistence level, that is, to 11,163 rubles, now it is 9,489 rubles. For ordinary “ordinary” pensioners receiving an old-age pension, an increase in the cost of living will have virtually no effect on their pension, except for those receiving minimum social security. Their labor pension is calculated based on their individual pension coefficient, the amount length of service, as well as the presence of disabilities and dependents.
The increase in pensions in May is due to the government’s decision to increase the minimum wage from May 1, which will now be 11,163 rubles. Therefore, the payments of those citizens who receive a pension less than the minimum wage will be equal to this amount. So some pensioners will experience an increase in their pension as early as May 1, 2018.


The size of the social pension for disabled children and people with disabilities from childhood of group I will also increase. From April 1, it amounted to 13.17 thousand rubles. In addition, disabled children have the right to a one-time cash payment in the amount of 2,397.59 rubles, and their parents will be paid 5.5 thousand rubles.
Starting from 2018, special payments to disabled people will be indexed by 3.2%, and pensions will be increased by 4.1%.
The government also plans to increase pensions for disabled people and social assistance for children with disabilities
A law was introduced to the State Duma on the standard of financial costs per month in the form of provision of medicines, medical devices and special medical nutrition products. In 2017 it was 807 rubles, in 2018 it will increase to 832.2 rubles.
In 2018, the first stage of development of the “Accessible Environment” program, aimed at improving the living standards of people with disabilities, will end. Last year, 48 billion rubles were allocated for it, and this year the amount will increase by another 5 billion rubles. As for benefits that can be replaced by monthly cash payments, disabled people of group I and non-working disabled people of group II should receive medicines prescribed by doctors for free.
Social pension is assigned to disabled citizens permanently residing in the Russian Federation and not entitled to insurance pension. The social disability pension is established for disabled people of groups 1, 2 and 3, including disabled people since childhood and disabled children.
A social pension in the event of the loss of a breadwinner is established for children under the age of 18, as well as for those older than this age. Full-time students are entitled to it until they graduate educational institutions, but no longer than until they reach the age of 23, who have lost one or both parents, or children of a deceased single mother.
Since 2018, the social pension, in addition to the disabled, is also established for children whose both parents are unknown
The old-age social pension is established for citizens of the Russian Federation who have reached the age of 65 (for men) and 60 years (for women), as well as foreign citizens and stateless persons who have permanently resided in the territory of the Russian Federation for at least 15 years and have reached the specified age.
Fact of paid labor activity does not affect the payment of social pensions, with the exception of the social pension assigned to citizens who have reached the ages of 65 and 60 years (for men and women, respectively).

In Russia, the traditional procedure for indexing pensions will be changed - now they will increase annually from January 1 at a rate higher than inflation(that is, faster than prices for consumer goods and services rise). Now the Government’s guideline when carrying out indexation will be to increase the average size of pensions annually for 1000 rubles. Since in 2018 the average pension in Russia is 14,414 rubles, this increase from January 1 will result from indexation by 7.05%(for comparison: inflation in 2019 is forecast at 4%).

Indexation of pensions from January 1, 2019 by 7.05% will provide an increase average pension in Russia for 1000 rubles. Thanks to this, the annual income of the average Russian pensioner

However, unfortunately, one thousand rubles towards pension in 2019 - such an increase will affect only non-working pensioners. For working citizens, indexation of pension payments has been suspended since 2016, and the Government does not intend to change this approach in the coming years -.

What does raising the retirement age have to do with it?

The need to increase the incomes of Russian pensioners at a rate faster than the inflation rate was provided for by Vladimir Putin’s new “May Decree” dated May 7, 2018 No. 204. However, due to a decrease in the number of working citizens who pay, and an increase in the number of pensioners in Russia, in the coming years a situation will arise when it will not be possible to increase pensions at all and their size in real terms will begin to decline.

The government sees a solution to this problem in. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev initially outlined the main goal of this reform increasing the income of pensioners. The government promises to use all the money saved from sales to increase pensions and support pension system Russia. The corresponding law No. 350-FZ has already been adopted by the State Duma, the President signed it on October 3, 2018.

It is worth noting that the planned increase in the pension amount by 1000 rubles annually from 2019 will be possible only taking into account the increase in the retirement period up to 65 years for men and 60 years for women.

The Government did not support maintaining the retirement age at 55/60 years, since more conservative options in the current economic conditions will not allow solving the problems facing the pension system. This increase is dictated by the following factors:

• Due to demographic waves, the number of working-age population in Russia is rapidly decreasing, and the number of disabled people is increasing. This will continue for several more decades, and eventually there will be one pensioner for every working Russian. In such conditions, a solidarity pension system cannot exist.
• There are no resources for additional financing of the Pension Fund from the state. budget. The government does not intend to deviate from the insurance principle of the pension system, in which pensions for current pensioners are paid from mandatory insurance contributions collected from the working population.
• In the current conditions, insurance contributions paid by working citizens to the pension insurance system (PIS) cannot fully provide payments to current pensioners, much less allow them to pay increased pensions. And increasing the tax burden on employers will only have the opposite effect.

For these reasons, the authorities decided for Russians to “keep at work” part of the population for a while, thereby reducing the number of pensioners and increasing the number of working citizens. All additional income that the Pension Fund will receive as a result of such a reform is planned to be directed to increase payments to current pensioners, to .

Who will have their pension increased by 1,000 rubles - all pensioners or not?

An increase in pensions by 1000 rubles, as noted earlier, will be made as a result indexation by 7.05% from January 1, 2019. Since for working pensioners since January 2016, such an increase in payments will not affect them - they will still receive fixed size pensions without indexation.

Thus, the planned increase from 01/01/2019 will be carried out only for non-working pensioners. However, that's not all. It is also worth noting that:

• The additional payment will be made not in a strictly fixed amount (per 1 thousand), but in the form of an increase by a certain percentage from the pension already paid to the citizen (in 2019, this average increase corresponds to an indexation of 7.05%). Therefore, for every pensioner the amount of the increase will be individual.
• In fact, get an increase of exactly 1000 rubles. Only those pensioners whose pension will be able to equal to the national average(in 2018 this is 14,414 rubles). If the amount of a citizen’s pension provision is now less than 14,414 rubles, then the amount of the increase for him will be less than 1 thousand. And vice versa: if the pension is greater than the average, then from 2019 it will be increased by more than 1 thousand.

For reference

For working pensioners, all indexations missed over the years of work (including the increase “by 1000 rubles” from 2019) will be taken into account when determining the final amount of the pension payment. And during the period of their employment, payments for them increase only after the annual payment.

Is it true that the pension supplement will be 1000 every month?

For the first time, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova spoke in detail about changes to the usual procedure for indexing pensions since 2019. On June 16, at a meeting of the Russian Tripartite Commission on Labor Relations, she announced that the average increase in pensions in 2019 would be 1000 per month, or 12,000 rubles in annual terms.

This statement turned out to be not entirely clear to Russian pensioners, many of whom did not understand that there would be increase in pension by 1000 rubles per year or per month?

In fact, the increase of 12,000 rubles a year voiced by Tatyana Golikova means that it will increase by this amount total annual income the average non-working pensioner. Due to the fact that the size of his pension from January 1 it will be 1000 rubles. more than in the same period last year, for the entire 2019 a Russian will receive additional income 12 thousand rubles. But all this is given in relation to the average pension in Russia (14,414 rubles).

Technically, the process proposed by the Government to increase pensions annually by 1000/12000 rubles will be carried out according to the following scheme:

• From January 1, 2019 pension payments will be indexed by 7.05%, which will provide an increase in pension by an average of 1000 rubles. This increased payment amount non-working pensioner will receive until the next indexation (i.e. throughout 2019, since such indexation will be carried out once a year).
• From January 1, 2020 Likewise, pensions will be increased in the same way, which will provide an additional increase of an average of another 1,000 rubles, which will be paid until the end of the year. Approximately indexation for this will be carried out in the amount of 6.6%.

This indexing scheme will continue and in the following years. Specific ones have already been published, but the Government is not going to stop there - pensions will continue to be indexed annually at a set rate of at least until 2024 inclusive. According to the Government’s plans, this will allow increasing the average pension size over 6 years from 14 to 20 thousand rubles.

How will the pension increase during the pension reform?

According to the current pension legislation, until 2019, pensions in Russia were increased as follows:

1. From February 1 depending on the level of inflation, they index and ( , etc.).
2. Happy April, 1 depending on changes in the pensioner’s cost of living, they are indexed and .

According to the old rules, in 2019 the pension would have been indexed by about 4%(since, according to the Central Bank’s forecasts, actual inflation for 2018 will be approximately this value). Those. in relation to the average pension (14.4 thousand rubles), indexation for inflation would give an increase on average 570 rubles(which is almost 2 times less than that What the Government has been proposing since 2019 is to increase pensions annually by an average of 1,000 rubles).

For this the usual indexing schedule has been adjusted so that from January 1 and throughout 2019, pensions to current pensioners will be paid in an increased amount - by 1000 rubles. The document containing all the proposed changes was adopted in parallel with the law on raising the retirement age.

The government proposes to index pensions at a given pace in the future. Based on the fact that Vladimir Putin’s new “May Decree” is planned for the period until 2024, plans have already been announced to bring the average size of pensions up to 20 thousand rubles. by 2024.

According to the law on the PFR budget for 2019-2021, pension increases in Russia over the next 3 years will occur at the following rates (above inflation):

Remarkable that in 2018, insurance pensions also increased by 3.7%, with actual inflation for 2017 amounting to 2.5%. This is due to the fact that inflation was predicted at a higher rate, so in the PFR budget was originally provided the amount for indexation in an increased amount. For this purpose, additional law No. 420-FZ dated December 28, 2017 was adopted.

From the table above it can be seen that new scheme Indexation of pension payments will allow:

• Index pension payments by almost twice the value provided by the old rules (twice the inflation rate of last year).
• To ensure an increase in the average pension size by 1 thousand from 2019, which will provide an additional increase in the average annual income of a pensioner by 12 thousand rubles.
• At this rate, pensions will increase over the course of several years.

The only downside is that you have to pay for it.

Also, do not forget that pension growth in real terms is determined as the difference between the percentage of planned indexation and the inflation rate. And, as can be seen from the table, this difference will be maximum only in 2019, and will decrease noticeably in subsequent years.

Those. real growth of pensions will slow down year by year, since the real purchasing power of this “addition of 1000 rubles” will decrease annually. The real increase in pensions in 2019, net of inflation, will be 2.85%, that is, about 410 rubles., and this will be the maximum increase for the coming years.

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved and signed a bill to increase the minimum wage to the subsistence level, so many pensioners are wondering whether this will affect their pension payments. Whether we should expect an increase in pensions, and from what date by how much they can be indexed, everyone needs to know.

Despite the fact that from May 1, the category of working citizens will begin to receive wages taking into account the increase in the minimum wage, pensions for non-working citizens will not be indexed. This is due to the fact that the planned increase social payments already took place in February of this year, 2018 and in April. The next indexation should now be expected no earlier than August.

At the same time, after the upcoming recalculation, the final amount received by the pensioner will directly depend on the size of the salary and those listed in Pension Fund RF money. It is worth noting that last year the indexation of payments to Russians who retired was 1.5%. This year, an increase in amounts of 1.2% was expected, after which information appeared about an increase of 4.1%. And here last news pensioners are not happy at all, since some sources report an increase of 2.9%. Thus, after the summer recalculation, the pension will be 255 rubles more and its amount will be approximately 9 thousand.

The minimum wage can and will only affect the size of pensions assigned under another pension law, where pensions are assigned based on average earnings, length of service and the category of the recipient of such pensions, these are, first of all, officials / civil servants /, as well as military personnel, participants in the Great Patriotic War. Patriotic War victims of man-made disasters. For “ordinary” state employees, an increase in the minimum wage will also not bring an increase in either wages or pensions, unless if they received a pension or a salary below the minimum subsistence level, then they will be brought up to the established minimum wage level from May 1, 2018.

Analysts greeted these actions of the authorities very coldly, where again officials are on the “horse”, whose pensions are not bad anyway, and besides, all this will not, in their opinion, lead to a reduction in poverty in the country, writes the Rosregistr website. For some reason, they don’t say that the same income tax - 13% - is taken from the minimum wage as from other salaries exceeding the minimum wage. It turns out that if the minimum wage is set at 11,163 rubles from May 1, 2018, and a tax of 13% is withheld from the minimum wage, then the employee will receive only 9,772 rubles, which again will not be one hundred percent of the minimum subsistence level, but only 87 percent! There are proposals from deputies and other officials to introduce a tax on pensions as well.

Problems of pensioners, lack of funds are always a pressing and painful problem for the authorities and the government.

As you know, the next indexation of pensions for pensioners will be on April 1, 2018. As usual, social pensions are increased in April, or rather pensions for disabled people, that category of people who have no other sources of income other than pensions. This category of pensioners is less protected.

At the same time, the next increase in pensions will take place in 2018, also from May 1. This increase is connected with the government’s decision to increase the minimum wage from May 1, which will be 11,163 rubles. Therefore, the pensions of those citizens who receive a pension less than the minimum wage will be equated to this amount. So some pensioners will experience an increase in their pension as early as May 1, 2018.

Planned Promotion social pensions passed in April 2018, and it seemed that the next increase would have to wait a long time.

From the first of May 2018 By decision of the government, the cost of living will be increased to 11,163 rubles, in connection with this the amount minimum pensions will also change, it must be no lower than the minimum wage, thus, for pensioners who received pensions in an amount below 11,163 rubles, the pension will be increased to the minimum wage with the help of special additional payments.

Unfortunately, this increase will not apply to working pensioners.

The next pension indexation will be April 1. The next one will be in a month, although before that it was planned to be held only by 2019.

For the first trimester of this year, the minimum wage is 9,489 rubles.

From May 1, 2018, the minimum wage will be the same as the subsistence minimum for able-bodied citizens, which means 11,163 rubles.

After these changes, the minimum wage will “comply with the requirements of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.” After an increase in income, the number of pension points will also creep up.

However, those pensioners who are forced to continue working will remain without recalculation; indexation will bypass them. I hope that at least by the end of the year they will remember them too.

Pension increases are always eagerly awaited, because few people have enough of this payment to live on.

Not long ago there was an April increase. And from May 1, 2018, the cost of living increases from 9,489 rubles to 11,163 rubles. Consequently, the size of pensions will be increased in proportion to the minimum wage.

Back in January of this year, a three-time indexation of pensions was announced, which is planned to be carried out in stages. The first stage, for pensioners receiving an insurance pension, was carried out in January 2018 (usually this is carried out from February 1). Earlier payment of pensions to those who receive it in the insurance version became possible due to the fact that the inflation rate in 2017 was a lower percentage, and the pension could be indexed without waiting for the results of the State Statistics Service.

On April 1, the indexation of social pensions began for quite a large number of categories of pensioners, disabled people, orphans, and representatives of nations Far North and some others. The third stage of indexation will begin in August of this year.