Entered into force on January 1 promotion law retirement age (its text is presented below). On September 27, 2018, the State Duma considered and finally adopted this bill together with the proposed amendments; on October 3, 2018, it was signed by President V. Putin.

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The changes will take place in stages - the retirement age will increase from 2019 annually for 1 year, except for the first two years, when preferential conditions for retirement will be in force - for 6 months ahead of time established by the new law... The final values ​​for men and women (65 and 60 years, respectively) will be set from 2023. These changes in the law can be illustrated by the following table:

Retirement age - table by year

Note:* - according to Vladimir Putin's amendment about, six months earlier The new retirement age (established by an annual increase of 1 year) will be able to leave those citizens whose retirement age, according to the old law, was supposed to come in 2019 and 2020.

In this way, the so-called "transition period" when the retirement age is raised will be 5 years for men and women... It will affect those Russian citizens who, according to the current norms, should have retired in 2019-2023. Accordingly, it is:

• men born in 1959-1963;
• women born in 1964-1968.

Russians born after this period (men born in 1963 and women born in 1968 and younger), according to the new law, will retire after reaching the new established retirement age (65 and 60 years, respectively).

It is noteworthy that, in accordance with the proposed schedule for raising the retirement age, retirement retirement before the end of transition period will have to happen in a year, and only in even-numbered years - 2020, 2022, 2024, 2026 and 2028. However, in 2019 and 2021, men and women will also retire, who at the time of the entry into force of the new pension law less than 2 years will remain until the old retirement age (see table above).

Early retirement in 2019

The new law on pensions from 2019 also implies a change in the timing of retirement for privileged categories of citizens(the so-called "pre-term").

On the evening of October 3, the day the Federation Council approved the pension reform, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law raising the retirement age for women and men, as well as a number of related laws. In 2019, there will be much less pensioners in Russia.

What happened?

On October 3, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts Russian Federation on the appointment and payment of pensions ", in other words, increased the pension benefit to Russians by 5 years. It is noteworthy that only in the afternoon of October 3, the law was approved by the Federation Council, that is, the head of state rushed to complete the approval pension reform As soon as possible. Now you need to understand what this law contains, which comes into force on January 1, 2019 and was officially published on the same evening on October 3 on the portal for the official publication of laws and regulations.

Approved provisions of the pension reform in Russia

The federal law on raising the retirement age, signed the day before by the President of the Russian Federation, provides for:

1. From January 1, 2019, a phased increase in the age, upon reaching which an old-age insurance pension is assigned for citizens of the Russian Federation:
   • up to 65 years in men;
   • up to 60 years in women.
2. In addition, the age at which family members of a deceased breadwinner can be recognized as disabled in order to receive an insurance pension for the loss of breadwinner increases. This age is similar to the new retirement age.
3. For those citizens who, in 2019 and 2020, will reach the retirement age established by the legislation as amended in 2018, it is possible to retire six months earlier than this is established by this Federal Law.
4. At the same time, persons with an insurance record of at least 42 and 37 years (men and women, respectively) are granted the right to receive an old-age insurance pension 2 years earlier than reaching the retirement age generally established for all citizens. But to those citizens who worked in the areas Far north and equivalent localities, the retirement age is also increased by 5 years for both men and women.
5. State employees: pedagogical, medical and creative workers who have the right to an early retirement pension, taking into account special experience, have also introduced a gradual increase in the retirement age by 5 years.
6. Mothers with many children received the right to early retirement if they are 15 years old insurance experience(women who have given birth and raised 3 children will receive pensions at 57 years old, women who have given birth and raised 4 children at 56 years old, women who have given birth and raised 5 or more children, pensions, as now, will be assigned at 55 years old ).
7. Citizens holding public offices of the Russian Federation, public offices of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, posts of the state civil service of the Russian Federation and posts of the municipal service, that is, officials, will retain the retirement age:
   • 65 years for men;
   • 63 years for women, established by legislative amendments made in 2017. At the same time, the increase in age will be carried out by 1 year per year (now by 6 months per year).

The current procedure for assigning a funded pension, urgent pension payment and lump sum citizens are preserved in the order in force now.

At the same time, citizens receive the right to an increase in pensions and social protection in the form of a new procedure for indexing insurance pensions. This means that from January 1, 2019, the size of pensions will be indexed above the inflation rate. From January 1, 2019, the fixed payment to the insurance pension to pensioners who have worked in agriculture for at least 30 years will be increased by 25%. To provide citizens of pre-retirement age with measures social support and benefits, a special procedure will be established for the exchange of information between the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, authorities, employers and citizens.

From January 1, 2019, a new procedure for the payment of unemployment benefits to citizens recognized as unemployed is introduced:

• the duration of the benefit payment was reduced to 6 months;
• the amount of the allowance was increased from 850 rubles to 1500 rubles per month - the minimum, from 4900 rubles to 8000 rubles per month - the maximum;
• for citizens of pre-retirement age (that is, within 5 years before the onset of the age that gives the right to insurance pension old age) unemployment benefits will be paid up to 12 months, and its maximum amount will be 11,280 rubles. per month.
• for citizens with more than 25 and 20 years of experience for men and women, respectively, the duration of the benefit payment is increased by 2 weeks for each year of work exceeding the insurance length of the specified duration, but not more than 24 months.

In addition, citizens officially recognized as unemployed retain the right to early appointment old-age pensions (2 years before the onset of the age that gives the right to assign such a pension, including early).

What else has Vladimir Putin approved?

In addition to the basic law on raising the retirement age, the head of state signed several related laws. Here they are:

1. Federal Law “On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation” - on the introduction of criminal liability for employers for unjustified refusal to hire or unjustified dismissal of persons who have reached pre-retirement age. The law comes into force 10 days after its official publication, that is, from October 14, 2018.
2. Federal Law dated 03.10.2018 No. 353-FZ "On Amendments to Labor Code of the Russian Federation»- on the establishment of guarantees for employees of pre-retirement age when undergoing medical examination. The law comes into force on January 1, 2019.
3. Federal Law of 03.10.2018 No. 351-FZ "On Amendments to Articles 46 and 146 of the Budget Code of the Russian Federation in terms of expanding the list of budget revenues of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. The law comes into force on January 1, 2019.

Pension reform has started in Russia. On January 1, 2019, the Law on Raising the Retirement Age in Russia and a package of new pension laws that imply the implementation of a pension reform in the Russian Federation came into force. Consider the most important parameters of the law on raising the retirement age from 2019.

The main parameters for raising the retirement age from 2019 and a package of new pension laws

An increase in the retirement age has begun in Russia. January 1, 2019 entered into force The law on raising the retirement age in Russia and a package of new pension laws that provide for a phased increase in the retirement age by five years to 65 for men and 60 for women, starting in 2019. These laws are aimed at improving pension system in Russia, its adaptation to the demographic situation in the country and improvement of the life of the older generation.

It is on federal laws on changes in pension legislation, on criminal liability for dismissing people of pre-retirement age, on sending funds confiscated from corrupt officials to the Pension Fund, on weekends for prophylactic medical examinations and on the ratification of the convention on the standards for replacing earnings with pensions.

The documents entered into force on January 1, 2019, a number of points of the main pension law will come into effect on January 1, 2025.

1. Basic law

The government's main pension bill originally envisioned a gradual raising the retirement age up to 65 years for men and up to 63 years for women. However, the President suggested some measures. In particular, he advocated lowering the retirement age for women to 60 years, early retirement for mothers with many children and the introduction of measures to protect persons near retirement age, including an increase in unemployment benefits for them and the introduction of liability for employers for dismissal before retirement ...

The adopted law provides for a phased one for five years - up to 65 for men and 60 for women. The length of service, which gives the right to, for men will be 42 years, for women - 37 years.

The funded pension will be paid, as now, from the age of 55 for women and from 60 for men. In this case, it is provided as one-time payments for those who have a funded pension of five percent or less of the total pension, and urgent payments. In addition, the right to continue to appoint funded pension at the appropriate age.

An increase in unemployment benefits for persons of pre-retirement age is envisaged. A preferential retirement regime for mothers with many children is being introduced. Support measures are being established for rural pensioners. Also, tax breaks on land and real estate remain.

2. Penalties for dismissal

The second law amends the Criminal Code stipulating fines of up to 200 thousand rubles or 360 hours of forced labor for unjustified refusal to hire or dismiss persons of pre-retirement age.

Such responsibility is introduced in connection with the change in the retirement age of citizens.

Refusal to hire or dismiss a person of pre-retirement age will be punished either by a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles or in the amount of the convicted person's income for a period of up to 18 months, or by compulsory work for a period of up to 360 hours.

Pre-retirement age - a period of up to five years before the appointment of a pension.

3. From corrupt officials to pensioners

Amendments to Budget code allow to send funds confiscated from corrupt officials to the budget of the Pension Fund. The document refers to the fund's income since 2019 the confiscated funds of bribe-takers and money from the sale of property seized from them.

The pension fund will be able to use this money to pay pensions and solve the problems that it faces in the light of the forthcoming changes in pension legislation.

The Federal Treasury, at the request of the drafters of the law, predicted the possible inflow of such funds in 2019-2024 in the amount of 1.8 billion rubles.

4. Convention on the Substitution of Earnings by Pensions

International Labor Organization Social Security Minimum Convention was adopted at the 35th session of the general conference of the organization on June 28, 1952 in Geneva. 55 states have already ratified it. It assumes that the coefficient of replacement of lost earnings with an old-age labor pension should reach 40%.

The Convention covers all the main areas of social security, including health care, sickness, unemployment, old age, industrial accidents and occupational diseases, family support, maternity, disability, survivor support.

At the same time, according to the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Russia Andrei Pudov, sections of unemployment insurance and family support were removed from ratification.

In accordance with the requirements of the convention for national systems of compulsory pension insurance of employees, the Ministry of Labor of Russia has developed a methodology for calculating the replacement rate of previous earnings for social security in old age, disability and in case of loss of a breadwinner.

5. Clinical examination

Another law stipulates that employees who undergo medical examination have the right to be released from work for one working day every three years, while retaining their place of work and average earnings.

Workers near retirement age and retirees will be eligible for a two-day exemption once a year.

Now the standard retirement age is 60 for men and 55 for women, it was set decades ago. The issue of changes in the pension legislation has been discussed for a long time. The need for amendments is due to the increased life expectancy and the inability to provide a decent pension in conditions when the number of workers in the country is decreasing, while the number of pensioners, on the contrary, is growing.

Today in most countries the retirement age is 60-65 years.

The law on raising the retirement age, signed by President Vladimir Putin, is aimed at improving the pension system in Russia, adapting it to the demographic situation in the country and improving the life of the older generation. Consider the most important parameters of the law on raising the retirement age from 2019.

The main parameters of the law on raising the retirement age:

• Retirement age for men will be promoted to 65;
• Retirement age for women will be raised to 60 years old. (Minus 3 years from the proposed initial version);
• The increase in the retirement age will be smooth: a long transition period is envisaged - from 2019 to 2028 for men and women, which will last 10 years.
• The first people to be affected by an increase in the retirement age will be men born in 1959 and women born in 1964 - they will retire at the age of 61 and 56, respectively;
• In 2028, at the age of 65, men born in 1963 will retire. and women born in 1968 at the age of 60.
• Everyone who has already been assigned an old-age insurance pension will receive it.
• All assigned pension and social payments in accordance with the rights and benefits already acquired will be paid.
• ​The reform will allow to increase pensions current retirees are almost for 1 thousand rubles. in year;
• Age of appointment social pensions (pensions that are accrued to those who have not officially earned the necessary seniority) will be increased to 65 years for women (now 60 years old) and 70 years for men (now 65 years old);
• Raising the retirement age for civil servants. According to the new law, the retirement age for civil servants will increase from 01.01.2020 at the same rate as for other citizens - annually by 1 year.
• Preferential pensions for teachers, health workers, artists from 2019. According to the new law, the right to early assignment of a pension in the presence of such seniority is retained, but the exit period is postponed for 5 years after the acquisition of the required number of years of seniority.
• For employees who retire early due to work in the Far North and in areas equated to the regions of the Far North. The retirement age is 60 for men and 55 for women. This initiative will not affect those who work in difficult conditions (miners, railroad workers, etc.)
• Pension reform will not affect those who receive insurance pensions for social reasons, for example, women who are raising a disabled child up to 8 years old, women who have given birth to five or more children, visually impaired group 1 and some other categories of citizens.
• Also, for citizens with long experience, an additional benefit is provided.- they will be able to retire two years ahead of schedule, but not earlier than 55 years for women and 60 years for men. We are talking about women with over 40 years of experience and men with over 45 years of experience. The length of service, which gives the right to receive an early pension for women up to 37 years old and for men up to 42 years old, will decrease.
• Mothers with many children will retire earlier depending on the number of children being raised... Early retirement is allowed if a woman has three children - 3 years earlier, four children - 4 years earlier. In the case of five or more children, the retirement age will not change and will be 50 years.
• Citizens will be able to apply for a pension 6 months earlier who will be the first to experience the new pension reform in 2019 and 2020.
• The maximum amount of unemployment benefits will increase 2 times from 4,900 rubles to 11,280 rubles from January 1, 2019.
• The concept of pre-retirement age is introduced, which will be 5 years... Programs for retraining and supporting citizens of pre-retirement age will be introduced, including social protection against dismissals during this period.
• Introduced criminal liability for dismissing people of pre-retirement age, as well as for refusal to hire because of their age. Now a new article will appear in the Criminal Code, for violation of which employers face a fine of up to 200,000 rubles. (or in the amount of a salary or other income for a period up to 18 months), as well as compulsory work.
• Employers of pre-retirement age will be required by the employer to provide 2 days for free medical examination with salary retention every year with mandatory salary retention.
• Pension reform will not affect the small-numbered peoples of the North.
• During the transition period, benefits for pensioners on real estate and land plots and other benefits for pensioners will remain. The age threshold for receiving benefits will be maintained regardless of the reform - 60 years for men and 55 years for women.
• Payments of 25% allowance will begin on January 1, 2019 to a fixed payment of an insurance pension for unemployed pensioners living in rural areas with at least 30 years of experience in agriculture.
• Early pensions for unemployed citizens. For citizens of pre-retirement age, it remains possible to retire earlier than the established retirement age in the absence of employment opportunities. In such cases, the pension is established two years earlier, taking into account the transitional period provided for by the draft law.
• Whether the existing regional benefits will remain - the regions must decide.

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The work of the Russian government on amending pension legislation completed and all the innovations to be introduced from January 2019 are reflected in the new federal law No. 350-FZ of 03.10.2018 Transformation in the field retirement benefits, by the way, the third large-scale over the past thirty years, brings significant changes with regard to the age limit for retirement, as well as the amount of benefits paid.

Federal Law No. 350-FZ, approved by the President on October 3 of this year, includes a whole range of changes concerning not only old-age insurance pensions, but also social and early retirement pensions of Russian citizens. One of the most significant innovations in the law is the correction of the age, upon reaching which a citizen of the Russian Federation has the right to a pension. Correction brings an increase in the age limit. The transition from the current age range to the new one will be gradual and smooth. Every year, starting from January 2019, one year of "working time" will be added to the retirement age.

New procedure for assigning an insurance pension

For the bulk of the population applying for a labor (insurance) pension, the modified version of the age limit is as follows:

• the male population will be able to receive the status of a non-working pensioner at 65, instead of the current 60;
• women will be able to leave work at 60, instead of 55 previously envisaged.

Russians, who have already practically approached the retirement age and, according to the current law, should have finished working in the next couple of years, also fall under the novel. But for them, at the initiative of the president, compensation measures are envisaged. The preferential order gives the right to go on vacation 6 months earlier than the already adjusted age limits. Men born in 1959 will be the first to be affected by the adopted amendments. and women born in 1964

For information! Initially, the Cabinet of Ministers submitted for consideration a bill on the establishment of an old-age pension at 65 and 63 years, for men and women, respectively. Putin, in turn, came up with an initiative to soften the reform and designated it permissible to level the increase in the age bracket for men and women for a period of 5 years.

The general rules for increasing the generally established retirement age are reflected in the table:

Early retirement right

The adopted bill with amendments recommended by V.V. Putin clearly defines the categories of pension recipients who will not be affected by the introduced innovations. Also, the document stipulates some categories of employees, as well as persons who, for medical reasons or for social status, receive the right to retire earlier than the generally accepted period.

The age limits for retirement remain the same for the following citizens:

• Russians who have already retired;
• workers engaged in work with heavy and harmful conditions if the employer regularly paid contributions to the treasury (miners, employees of hot shops);
• employed in mining operations, in mines;
• professional rescuers;
• women working in hard labor ( textile industry, logging);
• victims of the Chernobyl accident;
• test pilots.

Also, legislators have revised the procedure for assigning early benefits. According to the new law, before the generally accepted age, the following will be able to leave their place of work from January 1, 2019:

• citizens with long-term work experience (42 and 37 years);
• mothers with many children with more than three children;
• mother or father (guardian) of a disabled child (the previous norms remain);
• disabled people: war, 1 group, vision.

A detailed list of preferential categories and the subtleties of calculating the retirement age, and there are quite a few of them, can be found on the website of the Pension Fund.

For information! Quitting work due to retirement, having gained the length of service established by the new legislation, will be possible no earlier than when women reach 55 years old, and men 60 years old.

The new procedure for the retirement of teachers, doctors

The changes did not affect the length of service of teachers and health workers. Depending on the field of activity, citizens of these professions need to work, as before, from 25 to 30 years. However, the retirement age will be increased by 5 years. The establishment of a new age limit will also take place with the application of a transitional period.

Pension benefits for "northerners"

Workers of the Far North from next year will also retire on a new one. The legislators explained the possibility of adjusting the retirement age for this category of Russians by the improvement of living conditions and an increase in average life expectancy. From January 1, 2019, with a step of 12 months in several stages, the age of future pensioners of the Far North will be increased by 5 years.

New category of beneficiaries - pre-retirees

Tracking the news about the latest amendments to the pension provision, Russians are increasingly hearing the expression “pre-retirement age”. The expression from the people as a result of the pension reform has become a legal term. Pre-retirement age (PPV) - citizens will have this status for the five years preceding the appointment labor pension old age.

The state, intending to strengthen social protection of elderly Russians, has provided for a certain set of benefits and privileges:

• the opportunity to get a new profession or improve qualifications at the expense of the state;
• receive an unemployment benefit doubled (in comparison with the amount of the benefit at the current time);
• relief in tax payments;
• benefits for travel, utility bills, provision of medicines;
• the right to free medical examination within two days of vacation, plus to the main one, paid at the expense of the employer.

In addition, persons of pre-retirement age will be protected by the letter of the law from unjustified dismissal and refusal to hire.

On a note! Employers who ignore the new rules regarding pre-retirees risk getting a fine of 200 thousand rubles or being prosecuted.

The size of pension payments will grow

Large-scale reforms are not limited to changing the criteria for the retirement age. Another, but more pleasant innovation for the population, will be the updated principle of indexation of pensions. Previously, the increase in the size of the retirement benefit was carried out annually once by the amount of inflation. Starting from the new year, the additive will be significantly larger, but the frequency remains the same - once every 12 months. The amount by which the benefit will increase will be calculated by multiplying basic pension on the percentage of indexation, individually for each pensioner. Thus, some will have more gain, while others will have less.

The new legislation plans to increase payments until 2024. For the next few years, the following indexation plans have been announced:

• 2019 - 7.05%;
• 2020 - 6.6%;
• 2021 - 6.3%.

With an average pension of 14,414 rubles, the supplement in 2019 will be about 1,000 rubles. Pensioners will receive increased payments as early as January 2019.

The indexation of pensions will affect only non-working pensioners. For senior citizens who do not leave their work, as before, the program of "freeze indexation" has been in effect since 2016. But the government also took care of this category of citizens - as soon as the pensioner stops working his pension payment will be recalculated taking into account all missing indexes.