New payments to retirees in 2021

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

The latest news in the media reported on the entry into force of changes in legislation and positive transformations in the social sphere. New payments to pensioners in 2021 are not expected for all elderly citizens, but still some of them will be pleased.

What is expected from January 1

In December of the past year, much attention was paid to the positive changes that are expected with the onset of 2021. The following news appeared on the official website of the Russian Pension Fund:

1. From January 1, insurance pensions will be indexed for those who have worked their way and left for a well-deserved rest. According to the three-year economic development plan, in 2021 their size will grow by 6.3%. It is impossible to name the exact size of how much pensions will grow, since the calculation is made on an individual basis. The result depends on several components.
2. Working pensioners will receive an increase in the amount of pension coefficients earned per year. But after retirement, they will recalculate all the payments due, taking into account the earned during the period of additional labor activity.
3. New payments to retirees are expected in 2021. Two State Duma deputies, V. Milonov and S. Kalashnikov, informed the news media about this. They did not specify exactly what payments were in question, but expressed confidence that they would certainly be there.
4. In Moscow, the minimum pension is expected to rise to 20, 2 thousand rubles. This will happen at the expense of a regional surcharge. The government of the metropolitan metropolis promised such a bonus in the fall of the past year.
5. In the capital, they also intend to introduce a new category of beneficiaries, who will be paid monthly 1,600 rubles. These are citizens born in September 1927 - September 1945. They will receive a supplement like the children of war.

All these innovations are legally secured. The most pleasant news is for Moscow pensioners, who are expected to receive an increase in the additional payment to the minimum wage and one, albeit small, type of payment.

Thirteenth pension

The latest news in the media reports that the population expects a lump sum payment to cover the inflation rate. So far, there is no legal basis to expect the announced appropriation from the government.

Analysts are confident that such a payment will be, and they are strenuously convincing citizens of retirement age of this, citing arguments in favor of unconfirmed statements and unmotivated expectations:

• The government announced that even before 2024, the growth of pensions will outpace inflation, as follows from Federal Law No. 385;
• due to the coronavirus pandemic, prices have risen much higher than expected;
• in 2017, a lump sum payment was already issued, it is likely that the country's government will again take such a step;
• homegrown analysts even name the exact amount of the thirteenth pension, which is supposedly already being prepared for payment. Three years after the first, 5 thousandth, it can be 6 thousand rubles.

In September 2020, Nevskie Novosti and the online publication Podmoskovye Segodnya informed the population that some of the pensioners of the Moscow Region will indeed receive an additional payment, provided that the person does not work and permanently resides in the Moscow Region.

But it will be assigned only to those pensioners whose pension does not reach the new subsistence minimum in the region. About 160 thousand elderly citizens - recipients of insurance pensions can apply for it.

It is likely that another news publication of dubious persuasion has led some of the population to the idea of a total payment of the premium. It, informing readers about the increase in the Moscow region, announced at the beginning of autumn by the Minister of Social Development I. Faevskaya, added that its size will depend on the region of residence of the pensioner.

Will there be expected news

The PFR information website still posted a message entitled “Changes in the pension …”, in which there is not a single word about new payments to pensioners in 2021. The changes are positioned:

• indexation by 6.3% from the beginning of January 2021;
• the unchanged situation with the indexing of pensions for working pensioners (despite the repeated efforts of some deputies, they will not receive compensation for the increased inflation rate in the new year);
• increase in social pensions from April by 2, 6%;
• a one-time payment for Victory Day, which, in addition to citizens of the Russian Federation, is paid to veterans living in the Baltic States;
• change by 5 rubles in the cost of each PKI earned by a pensioner;
• transfer and crediting to the Mir payment card to all pensioners, except for those who receive money for a savings account or through the Russian Post.

There are also reports on the accrual and amount of maternity capital, a new service - redirecting information to citizens over 45 about the size of their work experience and the potential amount of pension earned. But there is not a single word that some fundamentally new payments will be made from the Pension Fund in 2021.

Major changes that are known for sure

We have collected all the information available to date about the new payments awaiting socially unprotected segments of the population in the coming year. For retirees, these are:

• indexation of insurance and social pensions (from January 1 and April 1), which is now mandatory, since it is enshrined in the new Constitution;
• an increase in payments to disabled people and war veterans;
• growth in the cost of individual pension ratios;
• a small increase from August to working pensioners;
• indexation of military pensions in October of the current year.

As for the surprise promised by V. Milonov, he said that he has no right to talk about bills that have been developed and will be submitted for consideration, but have not yet been adopted by the legislators. Perhaps, on the sidelines of the government, there is a discussion of new payments, but nothing is known about them, even from informed sources.

Outcomes

There are no reports in information sources about the government's intention to allocate funds for new payments to pensioners:

1. The annual indexation will take place as usual and on time.
2. There is a discussion of issuing a pension certificate in the form of a plastic card.
3. The deputies are preparing new bills and promise to improve life.
4. A new type of payments will appear in Moscow - children of war (monthly, in the amount of 1, 6 thousand rubles).