How much will pensions increase for non-working pensioners in 2021

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

The latest news in the media regularly raises the question of how much will the pension increase in 2021 for non-working pensioners from January 1. Indexation at the beginning of the year occurs only among non-working pensioners who are recipients of insurance pensions. The rest of the categories of senior citizens of Russia are promised an increase in pension payments on April 1 and even October 1.

Raising pensions in the new year

The indexation of pension payments in Russia is carried out annually, but this norm worked in manual mode until the moment of its legislative consolidation. After the adoption of amendments to the Constitution of the country, they will be indexed annually. Already three years in advance it is known when and in what volume the amount of funds in payments to each category of pensioners will increase.

Compared to the year when the pension reform was adopted, the percentage by which pensions will increase for those who left the labor activity will gradually decrease.

The table presents data on the growth of payments for those who have earned the right to receive insurance payments. Consider the payments already made earlier and fixed in the plan of the country's economic development for the next few years:

Year	Indexation size,%	Notes (edit)
2019	7, 05%	After the adoption of the Pension reform
2020	6, 6%	According to the planned level
2021	6, 3%	Three-year plan
2022	5, 9%	Three-year plan
2023	5, 6%	Three-year plan
2024	5, 5%	So far, tentatively, according to Federal Law No. 350
2025	Not less than 4%	Detailed information will be in 2022

The real addition will be calculated in the country's Pension Fund, both parts of the pension will be increased. The above figures do not indicate by how many percent the pensions will increase in 2021 for non-working pensioners from January 1. The calculations made by the recipients in relation to the total volume handed out will be incorrect.

In fact, in the coming year, the fixed payment will increase by 6, 3%. Its size for everyone who has an insurance pension will rise from 5686.25 rubles to 6044.48 rubles.

However, the cost of the IPC (the second part of the paid pension benefit) will also increase, but on an individual basis, the amount of the increase will be determined by the number of earned pension coefficients. Their cost will rise from 93 to 98.86 rubles. Knowing the number of honestly earned IPCs, you can multiply them by this figure and add the result obtained to the PV and the previously available cost of individual coefficients.

Calculation innovations

The latest news reported on the new procedure for determining the size of the pension benefit. Elderly people, whose accrued pension is less than the officially fixed subsistence minimum, receive a social supplement that brings it to the PM. With the annual calculations of the new pension amount, the sum of the FV and the cost of the IPC did not significantly exceed the PM, and the pensioner was deprived of the right to a subsidy from the state.

Now almost 4 million pensioners will receive livelihoods calculated according to a different principle. First, the previous volume is assessed according to the subsistence minimum established in the region. If it is lower, the social surcharge remains, even if the indexation and increase in the cost of all pension coefficients made it slightly higher than the subsistence minimum.

Pensions below the regional subsistence minimum will certainly increase, not decrease, because there is a rise in prices and the cost of essential goods. Previously, this rule did not apply, and some senior citizens were deprived of the right to social benefits after the indexation was carried out.

The latest news also reported on the measures taken by the government in order to deprive regional authorities of the ability to manipulate the PMP, artificially underestimate it, as was the case in some regions earlier. Determination of the level is now taking into account several indicators:

• figures for two quarters of the last year for the region;
• the size of the subsistence minimum in the Russian Federation as a whole;
• the forecast basket, which takes into account not today's, but potentially possible prices, taking into account the possible inflation rate according to Rosstat data.

The difficulty in determining by what percentage the pensions will increase in 2021 to non-working pensioners from January 1, precisely because the percentage increase applies only to the fixed benefit. There are pensions to which regional allowances were applied, there is the value of the PKI (it can be different and depends on the salary and deductions made in a certain period). For those who were not lucky enough to earn even a living wage, there is a social supplement, but its size also depends on the subsistence allowance in the region.

However, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has already announced that the average pension will grow by about 1,000 rubles, and in each subsequent year (due to a decrease in indexation percentages) it will increase by 900 rubles on average.

The average figure is not very informative. There are pensioners whose pension does not reach the subsistence level, and there are those whose pension contributions exceed the average monthly salary. Therefore, the media cautiously mention that, in general, the level of monetary charges from the state will increase slightly. Perhaps, in the localities, this will also be due to the fact that the previous procedure for making social surcharges continues to operate. If the region sets the subsistence level higher than the federal level, then additional payments up to this level will have to be made from the territorial budget.

Other categories of pensioners

From January 1, according to the already established custom, holders of insurance pensions will receive an increased amount of pension allowances. Not a very significant increase awaits them. Those who have a social pension (including a disability pension) will receive a much smaller bonus from April 1. At the same time, they say about 2, 6%, but this is not the final figure.

The military is expecting a little more than 3%, but for them this significant event is expected only at the beginning of the IV quarter.

Working pensioners will notice that since August 1, their pension has increased by the cost of the PKI (however, they will add no more than 3 and at the price set at the time of retirement). Meanwhile, the deputies of the State Duma are sure that this is the wrong order, the pensions of working citizens should also be indexed, regardless of whether they continue to work.

Outcomes

According to the basic law of the country, the indexation of pensions must be carried out at least once a year. In Russia, in 2021, insurance pensioners will have to:

1. Receive funds increased by 6.3% (fixed payment).
2. An increase in the cost of the PKI will result in an increase of a variable amount.
3. Those who receive a pension below the subsistence minimum will, as before, receive social benefits.
4. The total increase will be about 900 rubles.