“The increase in these payments will affect about 16 million of our citizens.
The increase in the minimum wage will also affect the wages of workers in the budgetary and non-budgetary sectors of the economy.
This is about 3 million of our citizens, ”TASS quoted her as saying.
As Golikova emphasized, many social benefits depend on the indexation of the living wage.
Earlier it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to increase the cost of living in the country from 2022.
According to Putin, it should be raised to 12,654 rubles.
At the same time, the Russian leader spoke out in favor of increasing the minimum wage.
He offered to raise it to 13,890 rubles.