The expert named the categories of pensioners who are entitled to new payments

The agency "Prime" informs about this with reference to the professor of the Department of Finance and Prices of the PRUE.

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Plekhanov to Julia Finogenov.

According to her, "from next year, the issues of assigning a regional social supplement will be resolved between the territorial bodies of the PFR and the authorized executive bodies of the regions without the participation of a pensioner."

“The social supplement is due only to non-working pensioners,” she said.

Finogenova also said that “the pension will automatically be assigned to the unemployed, without applying to the Pension Fund of Russia, two years before the official retirement age, from the moment when the Employment Center issued proposals to send a citizen to an early retirement pension;

as well as disabled people who are entitled to social or labor old-age pensions upon reaching retirement age ”.

The Accounts Chamber reported in June that the average size of an old-age insurance pension in Russia as of January 1, 2021 was 16,789 rubles.

Also, the Federation Council reported on the possibility of early retirement for citizens raising a disabled child.

Svetlana Bessarab, member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, in an interview with FAN, commented on the situation with funded pensions.