She noted the prevalence in the world of a system for increasing pensions through personal savings.
“Another thing is how timely its introduction is with us. In my opinion, now a significant part of the population has incomes, from which they simply have nothing to allocate to increase retirement benefits in the future, ”Matvienko said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to her, the steps on this issue "should be thoughtful, responsible, taking into account domestic realities."
Earlier, the Ministry of Finance talked about the development of a bill on a new system of voluntary savings. The working title of the document is “On the Guaranteed Pension Product”. The department noted that this system involves voluntary accession of citizens and tax preferences for participants.
It is also specified that it will be possible to add to the new system the savings available to citizens in the mandatory pension insurance system.
Russian Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said that the new scheme of pension savings developed by the Ministry of Finance is voluntary and does not involve participation in “auto-subscription”.