Indexation of pensions for non-working pensioners in 2022

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

It was decided to index pensions for non-working pensioners in 2022 by 5.6%. The project on the recalculation of the insurance part of the pension is also being considered in the State Duma, judging by the latest news.

Pension Fund plans to increase pensions

Back in 2020, the head of the Pension Fund reported with confidence about the projected increase in pension. According to him, the average pension should have increased by 18.26% by 2022 compared to 2019. In general, in the next 5 years it was expected to increase the size of the pension by 5 times. The amount of the pension by 2022 was supposed to be 18,290 rubles.

What actually happens, how does the size of the pension of non-working pensioners increase after indexation?

Indexation of pensions for non-working pensioners in 2021

According to the Pension Fund, in January 2021 pensions were indexed by 6, 6%. On average, payments increased by 1 thousand rubles.

After the January indexation, the average pension increased from 16,400 rubles to 17,400 rubles. The increase affected 31 million non-working pensioners.

For pensioners who turn 80, the amount of the pension is automatically increased by a fixed amount. In 2020, the amount of the surcharge was 5,600 rubles.

What is the planned indexation of pensions in 2022

According to further forecasts, in 2022 the indexation will be 5, 9%. Then the pension will increase to 18,357 rubles. In 2023, an indexation of 5.6% will allow pensions to grow to 19,283 rubles.

Judging by the reports, pensions are increasing, citizens should receive more money and seem to enjoy life. But happy and contented retirees are rarely seen.

According to polls of Russians, 18 thousand monthly in the form of a pension is not at all the amount on which you can live. The wishes of the older generation were to set the size of the pension up to 40 thousand. According to officials, it would be good if the Russians themselves began to save for a comfortable old age.

The answer to the question of why the average size of payments does not please the older generation may be in recent history.

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In plans for the next years, the State Duma received a bill providing for the indexation of pensions by 14.4%.

The Government responded to the request to return the indexation to working pensioners with a promise that pensions will be indexed regardless of the problems in the economy and the ruble exchange rate.

Social obligations to citizens will be fulfilled. In fact, what is planned to be enshrined in the Constitution will be done.

Indexation of pensions in 2016-2018

Indexation of pensions was not carried out for all working pensioners in 2016-2018.

In 2016-2018, indexation for non-working pensioners was carried out not to the inflation rate, but much less.

In 2016, the insurance part of the pension was increased by 4%, and inflation was 13%.

In 2017, there was no pension indexation at all. A lump sum of 5 thousand rubles was paid. According to the Rosstat report, inflation in 2017 was 5.4%. A traditional promotion would bring in more than 5 thousand.

Those with more than the average pension should have received even more as a higher index.

Two conclusions can be drawn:

1. Elderly citizens have not received the statutory increase in pensions by the amount of inflation. The living standards of the elderly have declined due to consumer price increases.
2. If, within three years, pensions were indexed as expected, the size of payments would increase accordingly. Subsequent indexation for a larger pension would further increase its size.

Receiving pensions that increase annually by the prescribed rate of inflation, older Russians probably would not feel cheated.

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Restoration of justice

To recalculate pensions from 2016 - such a proposal was submitted to the deputies for consideration.

1 trillion 390 billion rubles is the amount that will be required to restore indexation to working pensioners and to pay indexations for previous years to all pensioners. 368 billion rubles of budget money needs to be found only in order to restore the indexation of pensions to working pensioners.

The proposal to index pensions of previous years refers to the beginning of 2016.

Then the indexation of pensions was not carried out at the actual inflation rate. The deputies propose to return all unpaid and unpaid amounts to pensioners. The inflation rate was then 12.9%, pensions were indexed by only 4%.

Non-working pensioners lost almost 9% of their pensions. A total of 1.5 trillion rubles will be required to restore justice in the pension sector.

As a result, the Government promised to pay back the money that was not paid in those years, to return the unaccounted amount.

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How Russian pensioners live now

Non-working pensioners are forced to make ends meet in order to somehow survive on a pension of 16 thousand. An increase in this amount at least twice would allow elderly citizens not to need the help of children, not to look for an opportunity to work unofficially.

A monthly payment of 35-40 thousand rubles would allow non-working pensioners to live with dignity in old age. Increasing the size of the pension for each individual citizen in the size of the state requires a cost in trillions.

Even the payments of indexations, which were not carried out in previous years, will require 1.5 trillion rubles. What can we say about doubling the size of the pension?

The average pension in the Voronezh region is 14.8 thousand rubles. In the Tambov region, pensioners receive 14, 3 thousand rubles. In Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria, pensioners on average can count on 12, 3 thousand rubles.

A high indicator, unlike other regions, pleases the pensions of the Kamchatka Territory, Magadan Region and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug - 24 thousand rubles.

Outcomes

The State Duma has received a proposal to recalculate the insurance part of the pension right now. The government promises to index pension payments no matter what.