“The decision taken by the president to index the living wage by 10% from June 1, 2022 will increase social benefits for more than 15 million Russians.

Those payments that are tied to the subsistence minimum will be indexed automatically, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Kotyakov added that there is no need to submit additional applications for recalculation.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Labor said that the size of the average pension in Russia after indexation by 10% would reach 19,360 rubles.