Pension in the Kaluga region: minimum amount in 2021

In less than two weeks, the new year 2021 will begin. The country is preparing for the holiday. The little girl writes letters to Santa Claus. And those who no longer believe in the fairy-tale grandfather who brings gifts buy champagne and wonder what changes the coming year will bring. As experience shows, usually the change of year does not bring any positive changes: prices for housing and communal services and the cost of travel on public transport increase. Although, events with a “plus” sign also occur. For example, indexation of pensions.

That the coming year

On December 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws on the budgets of extra-budgetary funds - Pension and Insurance. The Pension Fund budget for the coming year has been formed with a deficit of 175.1 billion rubles. The budget deficit, as economists suggest, will not interfere with the generally stable payment of pensions to the population. In addition, it will ensure further growth in the well-being of citizens who have reached retirement age. The indicated 175.1 billion rubles will be used to create the volume of funds for the funded part of the pension. This was required in connection with the legislation of the Russian Federation: due to the transfer of funds to non-state pension funds.

Minimum pension in 2021 - latest news and table by region

1. January - planned indexation of the insurance pension for non-working citizens by 7.05% - on average about 1000 rubles (if the benefit is about 14.5 thousand rubles).
2. January – +25% of the fixed amount for those who have worked in agriculture for more than 30 years – 1333 ₽.
3. February – indexation to the 2021 inflation rate (about 3.40%) of monthly cash assistance and social services for disabled people and other benefit categories.
4. April – social pensions will increase by 2.40%.
5. August – adjustment of payments to working pensioners – additionally about 200 ₽.

Every citizen of Russia who has reached retirement age must receive no less than the minimum required for survival (SMP). If his pension in total with other income is less than the established limit, then this difference must be compensated by the state or local governments. If old age has already arrived, and the citizen is still working and receiving a salary, then this income raises his benefit above the established PMP. In fact, social supplements are paid only to non-working pensioners.

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Will the pension be indexed?

The latest pension reform has completely confused the average Russian citizen regarding the size of their pension. Therefore, the question “What is the minimum pension?”, for example, in the Kaluga region, worries many. And then there are rumors about raising the retirement age. As for the retirement age, it will be increased. Definitely, as they say. Pension points, the insurance and funded part of the pension are the topic of another article. But indexing – yes.

At the beginning of the outgoing year, a law was adopted regarding the indexation of the insurance part of pensions, based on the inflation rate in the previous year. By law, every year the government can increase pension payments from April 1 by the value of the consumer price index coefficient of the previous year. In May, the Minister of Finance made a proposal not to index pension payments relative to inflation, justifying his proposal by the fact that indexation is one of the most expendable items of the Pension Fund and leads to a budget deficit. The Ministry of Labor opposed this proposal.

There have been talks throughout the year about indexation in 2021 by 7%. The social bloc in the government put forward demands to increase payments based on real inflation, that is, by 10.9%. The Ministry of Finance believed that the maximum increase was only possible by 5.5%. Otherwise, you will have to cut the budget, taking money for social services from other more important projects, or squander the entire 2021 Reserve Fund or extend the “freeze” of the formation of the funded part of pension payments.

Conditions for assigning a pension

Social subsidies are issued by Pension Fund specialists to citizens entitled to them. It occurs in various cases:

1. The following persons can apply for insurance:
   who have accumulated the following indicators on an individual insurance account: at least 15 years of work experience (in 2021, the minimum experience should not be less than 11 years, this figure will increase every year until it reaches 15 years in 2024);
2. 30 points (in accordance with the pension reform in 2021, the minimum number of points required to assign a pension is 18.6, their number increases annually until it reaches 30 points in 2025);
3. age determined by law:
   women - 60 years old;
4. men - 65 years old;
5. otherwise if there are preferential grounds;
6. disabled people; those who have lost their breadwinner.
7. Social is assigned to people who have no experience:
   by age five years later: women over 65 years of age;
8. men over 70;
9. beneficiaries according to legal regulations;
10. disabled people and persons who have lost their sole breadwinner, from the date of entitlement.

This is interesting: Who has the right to receive two pensions at the same time
? Hint: to calculate payments, you need to submit an application to the Pension Fund of Russia, accompanied by a set of required documents. In addition, you must provide documents indicating the existence of preferential grounds:

• dependents;
• disability;
• work experience in difficult and dangerous conditions;
• other.

Q.E.D

Falling oil prices and the economic crisis have left little options for the government: the maximum indexation of pensions in 2021 will be only 4%. This is a violation of plans for the next three years – until 2021. According to this planning, indexation should have been:

• in 2021 – 5.5%;
• in 2021 – 4.5%;
• in 2021 – 4%.

The moratorium on the formation of the funded part of pension payments will also remain. The increase in old-age benefits relative to inflation will not affect working pensioners: their pension will not be indexed.

The decision on the minimum compensation for the impact of inflation (which this year was 12%) is not final. The government leaves the possibility of so-called pre-indexation. The size and the possibility of re-indexation will depend on the economic situation in the state for the first half of the year.

Minimum old-age pension in the Kaluga region for 2021

This cost of living is determined by each region independently. What is characteristic is that there is no uniform method for determining it. Regions take real statistics on the cost of the consumer basket for pensioners as a guide. Then some regions and republics include future price increases in Rosstat data, while others do not.

When agitating Russians for raising the retirement age, officials very often said that the pensions of current pensioners, thanks to this measure, would increase significantly in 2021. In general, pensioners will receive 12 thousand rubles more per year, which means the increase per month will immediately amount to a thousand rubles.

How much is this in rubles?

For many pensioners, talking about growth rates, inflation, indexation, the price per barrel and other economic calculations have no real meaning. I would like to understand how many real rubles will be added to the family budget.

The changes will affect the following types of social payments:

• old age payments;
• disability;
• veterans.

What is the minimum pension amount? The amount of payments depends on the region in which the pensioner lives. It is associated with the officially established living wage. For different regions of Russia, the level of subsistence level, which includes necessary food, clothing and utilities.

For example, in the Kaluga region in 2021, the cost of living for pensioners is set at 7,772 rubles. The minimum pension cannot be lower than the subsistence level. Therefore, if the level of pension payments does not reach the subsistence level, for example, there is only a social pension of 3,692 rubles, the state makes social payments from the regional budget.

In 2021, taking into account indexation, the social pension will increase by 438 rubles, the old-age pension by 360 rubles, and the insurance pension by 350 rubles.

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The cost of living for pensioners in Kaluga will increase by 700 rubles

The right to receive an additional payment to the pension for dependents are citizens whose dependents are children under 18 years of age (under 23 years of age - children in full-time education) or children over 18 years of age who have become disabled before reaching adulthood.

The following are recognized as dependents:

• children;
• brothers and sisters;
• grandchildren.

To receive additional payment, you must prepare the following documents:

• dependent's birth certificate;
• certificate from the place of study confirming full-time study (for persons from 18 to 23 years old);
• documents confirming the fact that the specified person is a dependent of the pensioner.

The amount of the surcharge corresponds to 1/3 of the established fixed payment. In 2021, the additional payment amount is 1895 rubles 42 kopecks for each dependent, but not more than three people.

The following professional categories of citizens have the right to additional payment to their pension:

• members of flight crews of civil aviation aircraft (with experience over 25 years - for men, over 20 years - for women);
• employees of coal industry organizations working full time in coal and shale mining - with at least 25 years of experience;
• employees of coal industry organizations holding positions as longwall miners, drifters, jackhammer operators, and mining machine operators - with at least 20 years of experience.

The minimum length of service for flight crew members can be reduced to 20 years for men, 15 years for women if they leave their positions for health reasons.

To receive additional payment, you must prepare the following documents:

• statement;
• documents confirming periods of work;
• documents confirming the position held;
• documents on flight hours (for flight crew members);
• documents reflecting average monthly earnings for the last 24 months or any 60 consecutive months worked.

The assignment of pension supplements to certain professional categories of citizens occurs:

• from May 1 – when applying from January 1 to March 31;
• from August 1 – when applying from April 1 to June 30;
• from November 1 – when applying from July 1 to September 30;
• from February 1 – when applying from October 1 to December 31 of the previous year.

The additional payment is made along with the payment of the pension.

The amount of additional payment to the pension is individual in each individual case. The amount depends on the average monthly earnings in the Russian Federation (including from July 1 to September 30, 2001), the applicant’s average monthly earnings for the last 24 months (any 60 consecutive months), the length of service coefficient, the average monthly amount of contributions to the Pension Fund and the amount of funds required to financially support the costs of paying a pension supplement at the beginning of the payment period.

The amount and circle of recipients of additional payments to the pension intended for labor veterans are determined by regional regulations. You can find out more information at the Department of Social Protection of the Population.

Addresses

You can apply for an additional payment to your pension in person or through a representative at a branch of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, MFC, by post or through the State Services portal.

Let us pay attention to the concept of long-term socio-economic development of the Russian Federation for the period until 2021. It states that the minimum level of pension should not be lower than the subsistence level of a pensioner in the region of his residence (Part II of the Concept, approved by Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated November 17. 2021 No. 1662-r).

At the end of 2021, all regions of Russia adopted laws on the minimum cost of living for a pensioner in 2021. The Pension Fund summarized this information and published a table on its website. It shows the minimum pension amounts for all regions of Russia in 2021. Also see “EDV in 2021: table“.

This additional payment is called social; it can be financed both by the all-Russian budget and by the budget of the region itself. It all depends on the level at which the regional authorities set the cost of living for a pensioner. If it is lower or equal to the all-Russian one, funding comes only from the federal treasury. If the regional indicator exceeds the national average, funding comes from the local budget.

1. January - planned indexation of the insurance pension for non-working citizens by 7.05% - on average about 1000 rubles (if the benefit is about 14.5 thousand rubles).
2. January – +25% of the fixed amount for those who have worked in agriculture for more than 30 years – 1333 ₽.
3. February – indexation to the 2021 inflation rate (about 3.40%) of monthly cash assistance and social services for disabled people and other benefit categories.
4. April – social pensions will increase by 2.40%.
5. August – adjustment of payments to working pensioners – additionally about 200 ₽.

Every citizen of Russia who has reached retirement age must receive no less than the minimum required for survival (SMP). If his pension in total with other income is less than the established limit, then this difference must be compensated by the state or local governments. If old age has already arrived, and the citizen is still working and receiving a salary, then this income raises his benefit above the established PMP. In fact, social supplements are paid only to non-working pensioners.

An additional payment to the old-age insurance pension is assigned from the 1st day of the following month after the submission of the corresponding application from the citizen. Additional payments to persons receiving disability and survivors' pensions are assigned without declaration from the date of assignment of the corresponding pension to them.

1. All types of assigned pensions (insurance, social, state, etc.).
2. Monthly cash payment (MAP), including the cost of a set of social benefits. services (NSS).
3. Additional monthly financial support (DEMO).
4. Other social measures assistance assigned by the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in monetary terms (payment of utilities, public transport services and other payments and benefits provided to the pensioner by the social security authorities at the place of residence).

It should be noted that initially the increase in the retirement age in 2021 in accordance with the Government schedule was planned for 1 year (to 56 years and 61 years, respectively), however, on instructions from the President for those pre-retirees who, according to the old law, were supposed to retire in 2021 and In 2021, an additional benefit will be provided - the opportunity to apply for a pension six months earlier than the new retirement age.

The 25% pension supplement for agricultural workers will not be assigned to all agricultural workers, but only to those who have been employed for a specified number of years in jobs included in the list of positions and industries provided by the Government. Such additional payment will be made in accordance with the procedure provided for by Law No. 350-FZ.

A pensioner from Bryansk received the minimum wage in 2021 - 8,441 rubles. Of these, 7,500 rubles. is the amount of payment assigned to him by the Pension Fund, and 941 rubles. – social supplement to primary care. From January 1, 2021, his pension was indexed by 7.05%, that is, up to 7500 × 1.0705 = 8028.75 rubles. But still, the calculated payment turned out to be less than the minimum amount, since for 2021 the PMP in Bryansk was approved in the amount of 8,523 rubles. (see table).

This cost of living is determined by each region independently. What is characteristic is that there is no uniform method for determining it. Regions take real statistics on the cost of the consumer basket for pensioners as a guide. Then some regions and republics include future price increases in Rosstat data, while others do not.

When agitating Russians for raising the retirement age, officials very often said that the pensions of current pensioners, thanks to this measure, would increase significantly in 2021. In general, pensioners will receive 12 thousand rubles more per year, which means the increase per month will immediately amount to a thousand rubles.

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