“The decree increases the basic payments to families with children, to support orphans and children left without parental care, to older citizens by 5.6% ... The minimum pension, taking into account the city surcharge in 2020 will be 19.5 thousand. rubles, ”the press service of the mayor and the government of Moscow.

It is also specified that from January 2020 a new monthly payment of 1584 rubles will be introduced to the so-called children of war - Muscovites born between January 1, 1928 and September 3, 1945 and who had no previous rights to social support measures.

Presumably, more than 80 thousand Muscovites will receive it.

In total, social payments from the city budget in 2020 should receive 3.1 million Muscovites.

Earlier, the Pension Fund of Russia told in which case pension payments to senior citizens of the country can be suspended.

On December 4, it became known about the indexation of pensions for non-working pensioners by 6.6% from January 1, 2020.