How can you find out your insurance experience through State Services?

How to restore your work experience? The question is not simple, but it is a solvable problem for the future retiree.

Our pension lawyer will help with the issue of early retirement, explain the procedure for recalculating old-age pensions, help collect documents, draw up a claim and represent your interests in court and the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

What is required to damage work experience?

The work book is the main document that is necessary to confirm work experience. It clearly states where and during what period of time you worked. However, even if this document is not available, you will be able to prove that you worked. At the place of work, a person may be issued other documents:

• extracts from the relevant orders;
• certificates confirming the fact of work in the organization and the amount of remuneration;
• statements;
• labor agreements, where there is a mark on their implementation;
• trade union membership tickets;
• other documentation containing information about periods of work.

The work book, according to Russian legislation, is the main document confirming the employee’s work experience. However, situations very often occur when the employer does not properly fill out the work book, makes entries not in accordance with the law, or makes inaccurate entries. The periods of work indicated by such records will not be included in the length of service.

ATTENTION : such inaccuracies should not lead to a violation of the employee’s constitutional rights, that is, the constitutional right to receive a pension. In this case, you can protect your rights in court. If the pension fund accepts periods of work experience, the pension will be assigned in a smaller amount.

Request for confirmation of work experience

When calculating a pension, all places in which a person worked are taken into account. There are often cases when an organization no longer exists, or it has changed its name more than once and disintegrated, or merged into different structural divisions. What to do in this situation and how to restore your seniority?

When it happens that your years of experience were not counted for a certain time, you should go to the pension fund, where they will provide assistance in drawing up a request and sending it to the archive. The answer usually comes within a month in the form of an archival certificate, which is enough to make a recalculation.

When determining the size of the pension, the length of service is first taken into account. It is its value that determines what pension a citizen will receive. But who should make a request for confirmation of experience and how to do it correctly?

Working with the archive to restore work experience:

A request for confirmation of work experience is submitted by a representative of the Pension Fund. The specialist sends the appropriate document filled out according to the established template. The response to such a request comes within 10-15 business days. For more information on the issue of requesting a pension fund and assistance from a lawyer in this area, follow the link.

How to obtain information about labor activity in public services

• register on the site by entering your full name, email and phone number;
• activate your account by clicking on the link in the letter sent to the specified email;
• create a strong password following the recommendations on the portal;
• Next, you need to enter your passport data and SNILS so that the account is transferred to standard status.

Work experience refers to the period during which a person worked for an employer under an employment contract. The easiest and fastest way to obtain information about work activity and length of service is to visit the State Services website. The second way to obtain the requested data is to contact the Pension Fund branch.

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Can witnesses confirm your work experience?

It also happens that, due to various reasons, the data from the archive has not been preserved, then it is enough to contact former colleagues who can confirm that they worked with you, however, it is possible to confirm periods of work with witness testimony only in relation to those periods of work that were before registration citizen as an insured person in accordance with the Federal Law “On individual (personalized) registration in the compulsory pension insurance system.”

Proof of insurance and general work experience

Issues related to proof of insurance experience are regulated by the Rules for calculating and confirming insurance experience for establishing labor pensions, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 24, 2002. No. 555.

According to Article 13 of the Law of December 17, 2001, the calculation rules and procedure for confirming insurance and general work experience can be divided into 2 groups:

1. length of service for periods of work before the citizen’s registration as an insured person in accordance with the Federal Law “On individual (personalized) accounting in the state pension insurance system”;

2. length of service acquired after registration of a citizen as an insured person in accordance with the above law.

In order to correctly determine the length of service of a particular person, it is necessary to know the date of his registration in the state pension insurance system.

During the periods before a citizen’s registration as an insured person, the length of service is confirmed by documents issued in the prescribed manner by employers or relevant state (municipal) bodies.

The document confirming the insurance period after registration as an insured person is an extract from the individual personal account of the insured person according to individual (personalized) records in the state pension insurance system. Starting January 1, 1997 An individual personal account with a permanent insurance number must be opened for each insured person in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

An individual personal account of an insured person is a collection of information about received insurance premiums for the insured person and other information about the insured person, containing his identification characteristics, as well as other information taking into account his pension rights. The personalized accounting system ensures the collection of information about work experience and earnings, on which insurance premiums are calculated. In addition, the personal account reflects information about the time each insured person worked in special working conditions or in jobs that give the right to early retirement, as well as about non-insurance periods. An extract from the individual personal account of the insured person is submitted by the territorial bodies of the Pension Fund (in Moscow this is the State Institution - the Pension Fund Branch for Moscow and the Moscow Region).

As for periods of work and (or) other activities included in the insurance period in accordance with Article 10 of the Law of December 17, 2001, periods counted in the insurance period in accordance with Article 11 of the same Law, as well as periods included in total length of service in accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 30, then before registering a citizen as an insured person, these periods are confirmed by documents issued in the prescribed manner by employers or relevant state (municipal) bodies, and after registration - by an extract from the individual personal account of the insured person according to individual (personalized) records in the state pension insurance system.

The main document confirming work experience for the period before registration as an insured person in the state pension insurance system is a work book . Entries in the work book must be made in accordance with the requirements of the Instructions on the procedure for maintaining work books, which were in force at the time of making this entry. To confirm work experience, only information that is entered into work books on the basis of documents is accepted.

In the absence of a work book, as well as in cases where the work book contains incorrect and inaccurate entries, or does not contain records about individual periods of work, certificates, extracts from orders, personal accounts and statements for the payment of wages are accepted as confirmation of work experience, certificates, characteristics, written employment contracts and agreements with notes on their execution, labor, service and registration lists, membership books of members of cooperative fishing artels and cooperative artels of disabled people and other documents containing information about periods of work. Work certificates are accepted as proof of work experience only if they contain the basis for their issuance. In cases where the submitted document on experience indicates only years without indicating exact dates, the date of admission or dismissal from work is taken to be July 1 of the corresponding year, and if the date of the month is not indicated, then the 15th day of the corresponding month is considered as such.

The procedure for confirming other periods counted in the insurance period is determined by the Rules for calculating and confirming the insurance period for establishing labor pensions, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated July 24, 2002. No. 555. So,

- the period of military service, as well as other service equivalent to it, provided for by the Law of the Russian Federation “On pension provision for persons who served in military service, service in internal affairs bodies, the state fire service, institutions and bodies of the penal system, and their families” confirmed by military ID cards, certificates from military commissariats, military units, archival institutions, entries in the work book and other documents containing information about the period of service;

- the period of receiving state social insurance benefits during the period of temporary disability - a document from the employer or the territorial body of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation on the period of payment of the specified benefit;

- the period of care of one of the parents for each child until he reaches the age of one and a half years - documents certifying the birth of the child and his achievement of the age of 1.5 years (birth certificate, passport, certificates from housing authorities, etc.);

- the period of receiving unemployment benefits, the period of participation in paid public works and the period of moving in the direction of the state employment service to another area for employment - a certificate from the employment authority in the prescribed form;

- the period of detention of persons unjustifiably brought to criminal liability, unreasonably repressed and subsequently rehabilitated, and the period of serving their sentence in places of imprisonment and exile - documents of the institution executing the punishment on the period of serving the sentence, detention or being in exile , and a document on unjustified criminal prosecution;

- the period of care provided by an able-bodied person for a disabled person of group 1, a disabled child or a person who has reached the age of 80 - is counted by the decision of the body providing pensions at the place of residence of the person being cared for, adopted on the basis of an application from the able-bodied person providing care care and documents certifying the fact and duration of disability of disabled people of group 1 or 3 degrees and disabled children (extract from the examination report at the ITU institution), and for the elderly and disabled children - the age of the person being cared for (birth certificate , passport). If an able-bodied person lives separately from a disabled or elderly person, written confirmation of the period of care for him is provided. The actual circumstances of the care can be confirmed by an inspection report from the body providing pensions.

Confirmation of the total length of service has certain features, since in a number of cases, despite the fact that the length of service was acquired in earlier periods, when other rules for its calculation were in force, incl. and preferential ones, for conversion the new calculation procedure established by the Law “On Labor Pensions in the Russian Federation” of December 17, 2001 is applied. Schematically, the procedure for calculating and confirming the total length of service can be considered in the table below:

Requesting documents to the employer

It happens that a person simply lost a document. How to act in this situation, how to restore your work experience if you lose your work book? Option one is to take a copy of the document. If the document is lost, the person goes to the last organization in which he worked to obtain a copy. If this organization is the first in the track record, no problems arise, but if the person previously worked somewhere else, then he submits documents, based on which a record is made of the total time of work experience, without indicating the names of the companies.

What documents confirm

Today, periods of past employment are confirmed through information stored in PF databases. If it is incomplete, the main document is the labor document. If it is missing, or if it has errors in its design, it is allowed to present:

• Contracts with the employer, certificates from the place of employment, data on the issuance of wages, papers from the social insurance fund, extracts from official documents.
• If a person has been registered as an entrepreneur, it is allowed to provide tax payment information. This may be a corresponding certificate or a certificate from the tax office.
• When conducting activities of small peoples, you will need a certificate from the given community or a document from the tax office.
• The work of persons conducting independent activities can be confirmed by documents from the Pension Fund or from the tax office.

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Reinstatement of work experience in court

In some cases, confirmation of work experience can be achieved through legal proceedings. For example, a citizen knows for sure that he worked for 20 years, but a representative of the Pension Fund informs him that, according to an official request, he worked only for 18 years. This very often happens because the work book contains inaccurate information.

There are also situations that require the reinstatement of seniority in court if the manager refused to issue a duplicate or if there is no archival data in the organization. There is a certain procedure for how to restore work experience through the court: a claim is filed and acts confirming the conduct of labor activities in the organization (contracts, financial statements, union card, witness statements).

When confirmation of work experience for a pension is carried out through the court, the main evidence is the testimony of witnesses. It is also necessary to collect documents that would confirm that you worked in the organization. This could be, for example, some kind of agreement with your signature. The better you prepare for your trial, the more likely you are to win.

The process of restoring the length of service for a pension takes a lot of time, so for now you can take a deferment from the pension fund for three months, and when all the documents are ready, receive the amount, taking into account the recalculation, for the entire period at once. Or there is a second option - agree to the assigned payment and, upon presentation of all missing documents, receive the current payment from the new month.

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Why is it necessary to confirm insurance experience?

If a citizen cannot confirm the existence of insurance experience, benefits and a pension will be assigned to him in the minimum amount. The pension will be paid in a fixed amount (insurance), benefits will be accrued based on the minimum wage.

Let us recall that the insurance period is a set of periods during which a citizen worked on an official basis (under an employment contract, with an entry in the work book), and his employer withheld part of his salary to make insurance contributions to the Pension Fund and Social Insurance Fund . A person with insurance experience is entitled to several types of benefits and social support measures:

• pension, insurance + funded (the longer the insurance period, the higher the pension benefit will be);
• compensation for temporary disability (if you have a certain insurance period, the benefit will be commensurate with your salary);
• maternity benefits (the longer a woman’s insurance period, the more significant benefits she will receive during the period of maternity leave).

Restoration and confirmation of preferential work experience

It is worth noting that in addition to the general work experience, there is a special work experience that will allow you to receive a preferential pension. It is worth noting that preferential professions for retirement are established by law; these include professions associated with particular complexity, harmfulness or special social importance of the profession. In particular, there is a list of teaching positions for a preferential pension. Unfortunately, very often the pension fund refuses to grant an early pension. The reasons for this can be very diverse, for example, incorrect names of professions in the work book (not corresponding to the law), lack of supporting certificates.

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There is also a preferential pension for medical workers, which is due upon completion of the length of service specified by law. An important factor is that a preferential pension is provided not only to medical workers performing medical activities in public health care institutions, but also to medical workers of organizations that were previously state/municipal, but as a result of reorganization came under the management of private organizations. Often in this case, the right to receive an early pension is violated by the pension fund and you have to defend your rights through the courts.

There are common cases when medical workers carry out medical activities simultaneously with scientific activities and work not in medical organizations, but in scientific research institutes or other organizations whose main activity is science. However, even in this case, the medical worker has the right to a preferential pension, which is also often ignored by the pension fund.

The process of confirming preferential work experience in court is essentially similar to confirming general work experience, but sometimes it is difficult to independently collect evidence of work giving the right to a preferential pension.

The procedure for confirming insurance experience with witness testimony

To prove the need to include a certain period of work in the insurance period, you can invite two witnesses with whom collective activities were previously carried out. In this case, you will have to write a statement indicating the fact that the documents were lost, and witnesses were brought in to prove the applicant’s case. You will need to bring the following documents with you to the Pension Fund:

• document from the state authorities or a certificate from the archive indicating the absence of any documents that would prove the implementation of work during the specified period of time;
• document from the state institutions or employer, indicating the loss of papers on employment and the impossibility of their restoration;
• a document from municipal or state authorities indicating the fact that during the stated period of time there was a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or other incident due to which documents could be destroyed;
• documents proving the work of witnesses during the stated period of time (if the applicant’s documents were lost due to the fault of the employer).

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If you have any difficulties confirming your work experience in the pension fund, then we recommend that you contact our pension specialists. A competent specialist knows what documents and how to request from the employer; in particular, in addition to a clarifying certificate, it would not be superfluous to request job descriptions, as well as information about wages and contributions made by the employer to state funds.

Even if you cannot request the specified documents, you should not consider the case lost, since for preferential professions there are often standard job descriptions established by the Ministry of Labor, which you have the right to refer to to protect your rights.

Now you know how to confirm your work experience, so you won’t have any difficulties with this issue. The main thing is to take into account everything that is written above or call us, we will help you solve your problem: professionally, on favorable terms and on time.

Answers to common questions about the procedure for confirming insurance experience

Question No. 1: Is it possible to confirm the existence of insurance experience with the help of witness testimony if the documents are not lost and contain incorrect information?

Answer: No, in such a situation you will have to act through the court, trying to prove that the documents do not indicate all (or not complete) periods for which the insurance period is accrued.

Question No. 2: Is it possible to submit an application to the court to confirm work experience and at the same time invite witnesses who worked with the plaintiff during the stated period?

Answer: Yes, but the witnesses must have direct evidence of employment with the same employer during the stated period of time.