Average social pension in 2021

Many people receive a social pension from the state, so you can often hear the question: what size is planned for 2019? Considering that “social pensioners” are not included in the January indexation, people are at a loss as to whether there will be indexation and by how much. Let's figure out who in the capital and other regions can apply for a social pension in 2021, its size and the help of a lawyer in Moscow that will be needed to process payments.

Basic Concepts
When will social pensions be indexed in 2021?
How much will the social pension increase?
Minimum social pension amount

Basic Concepts

Before considering the issue of indexation and the final amount, you should understand what a social pension is and who can apply for it.

The concept of social pension provision means the assignment of certain financial assistance to citizens who do not have official work experience. It is paid if the citizen is disabled and has no other sources of income. The federal social pension is assigned in 3 situations.

Due to old age. In the event that a citizen has reached the age of 70/65 years for men/women, respectively, but has not had a single day of work experience or other situations that can be counted as non-insurance periods for which pension points are calculated. On this basis, the pension is paid until the end of the recipient's life.
Due to disability. If a citizen has a confirmed disability group, but does not have a single day of work experience. The duration of the pension is determined by the period of disability, that is, for 1 or 2 years. In rare cases, it may be prescribed indefinitely.
For the loss of a breadwinner. If a citizen does not have parents, he has not reached working age, or has reached such age, but cannot work due to receiving a full-time education at a university or secondary school. The maximum age up to which benefits are paid is 23 years.

Residents of the Far North (FN) are placed in a special category. If a citizen does not have work experience, he permanently resides in the territory of the Constitutional Court, then maintenance is assigned to him at the age of 55/50 for men/women, respectively. But there are a few more conditions:

a person lives in the area where his ancestors settled;
a citizen is engaged in a traditional craft for the people;
the candidate does not change his lifestyle throughout the entire period.

How will the latest changes in the law affect recipients of the social age pension?

The five-year difference in retirement age between ordinary pensioners and those who take an old-age social pension remains.

This means that the retirement age for social pensioners will increase in parallel with the increase in the retirement age in the country.

After 2028, when the retirement age in Russia rises to the planned level of 60 years for women and 65 for men, for social pension recipients it will be 65 and 70 years, respectively.

In 2021, women aged 60 years and 6 months and men aged 65 years and 6 months will be able to apply for a social old-age pension. Unless, of course, they receive a normal insurance pension.

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When will social pensions be indexed in 2021?

The traditional increase in social pension benefits occurs on April 1. In 2021, there are no plans to change the indexation periods for social pension recipients. Therefore, we can expect an increase in payments as early as April.

But the recalculation should not be confused with an increase. For objective reasons, the government does not plan to increase social subsidies for disabled citizens in the near future. Therefore, in 2021, instead of an increase, there will be a recalculation, the base coefficient of which is determined by indexing the pensioner’s cost of living.

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A full increase in this type of payments should not be expected in 2021, but all citizens will face an annual recalculation, usually falling on April 1. Citizens will be able to receive benefits in the new amount only starting in April. Depending on the category of the recipient, the amount of the increase can vary from 200 to 500 rubles. The size of the increase is closely related to the increase in the cost of living compared to last year.

To determine the size of the social pension, old-age payments are taken as the basis (in 2021 it will be about 5,304 rubles). In the case where the already increased payment is less than the PMP, the citizen will receive an additional payment equal to the missing amount. The amount of PMP is the same for Russia, but some regions have the right to set their own amount. To receive the additional payment, the pensioner must not be officially employed.

2019 does not have any noticeable changes for the recipient. The size of social payments will not increase sharply, and therefore we should not expect any current increase in well-being.

How much will the social pension increase?

Social pensions accrued to citizens in 2021 will increase by 2.4%. This is significantly more than in 2021 (then the growth was only 1.5%), but less compared to 2021 (an increase of 2.9%).

Thus, after the increase it turns out that:

the basic amount of social pension, as well as the amount for disabled people of group II, will be 5,304.57 rubles;
for the loss of both parents – 10,609.17 rubles;
disabled children and people with disabilities from childhood of group I will be paid 12,730.82 rubles;
disabled people of group II since childhood and disabled people of group I can count on 10,609.17 rubles;
for disabled people of group III, the amount will be only 4,508.91 rubles.

But as can be seen from these amounts, most of them do not reach the pensioner’s subsistence level (PLS). Therefore the amount will be indexed to this value. At the federal level in 2019, the amount of PMP is 8,846 rubles. But this does not mean that the size of the social pension in 2021 on average will be exactly the established PMP. According to the Pension Fund of Russia, the amount should be 9,215 rubles.

Those pensioners who do not receive social benefits less than the PMS will be able to apply for subsidies from the state up to the federal or regional PMS level. Basically, these are recipients of social pensions for old age and disability of groups II and III.

The social pension in 2021 can be canceled if its recipient is officially employed and begins to receive wages. Moreover, the cancellation will follow even if the pensioner gets a job at 1/2 rate.

Muscovite Vladislav O. turned to a lawyer for help. The man was interested in whether he would be able to retain his right to receive disability benefits if he registered as self-employed. The lawyer explained that the man would stop paying the subsidy if he finds another source of income, which includes receiving income from professional activities without registering a business.

It should be noted that regardless of how the recipient of the social pension receives income, if it becomes known to the state, he will lose his right to financial assistance from the state. However, income from stocks, bonds, and bank deposits does not fall into this category. Winning the lottery is not considered a source of income either.

Minimum social pension amount

In the case of social pension provision, the value of the average and minimum social pension is almost the same. But, based on the norms of legislation and statistics, the minimum social pension in 2019 will be PMP, that is, 8,846 rubles. There are regions where PMP turns out to be lower than declared at the federal level. And this means that the pensioner will receive only a regional supplement.

In many regions of Russia, PMP turns out to be significantly less than the regional level. For example, in the Orenburg region the figure is only 8,252 rubles, which is 594 rubles. less than the federal PMP. Things are a little worse in the Tambov region, where the PMP is 7,811 rubles.

But in some regions the minimum social pension turns out to be higher than the “standard” one. For example, the “richest” pensioner among the “social workers” is a resident of Chukotka. From April 1, 2019, he is entitled to 19 thousand rubles. The Nenets Autonomous Okrug is going to pay a slightly more modest 17,956 rubles, and in third place are pensioners-social workers of the Kamchatka Territory, where the PMP will be set at 16,543 rubles. But Moscow is in X place with a PMP indicator of 12,115 rubles.

Due to frequent updates to legislation and the legal uniqueness of each situation, we recommend obtaining a free telephone consultation with a lawyer. You can ask your question by calling the hotline number 8 (800) 555-40-36 or write it in the form below.

The amount of social benefits in the capital

The average social pension in Moscow and the Russian Federation is 11,800 rubles. But this amount cannot provide a normal life for a pensioner in one of the most expensive cities in the world. In order not to put the socially vulnerable population in an unfair position, the Moscow Government introduced such an indicator as the GSS - City Social Standard.

It is calculated based on real capital prices:

Monthly food basket.
Drug costs.
Medical service.
Payment for housing maintenance and utilities.
Travel by public transport.
Social and cultural pastime.

The GSS changes annually in accordance with rising and falling prices. For 2021 it is 17,500 rubles. According to statistics, the GSS increases annually by an average of 1000 rubles. Hence the minimum pension in Moscow in 2021 is 17,500 rubles.

State support for a social pension recipient living in Moscow cannot be lower than this figure. However, not only the basic social benefit is taken into account, but also all additional payments, subsidies, and compensation to the citizen, including the National Social Security and EDV.

The minimum social pension in Moscow in 2021 is 17,500 rubles.

To receive an additional payment to the State Social Insurance Fund, two important conditions must be met:

The citizen is not officially employed.
The duration of registration of a pensioner in the capital is at least 10 years.

When calculating the time qualification, periods of not only permanent but also temporary registration are taken into account. This indicator is not continuous, but cumulative. A citizen could leave the capital and be registered in another region. These “breaks” will simply be calculated from the registration time in Moscow.

The supplement to the State Social Insurance Fund is of a declarative nature. To receive it, pensioners apply to the social security department, Pension Fund, MFC at their place of residence and registration. The additional payment is added to social benefits and is transferred along with it.

An additional payment to the social pension to the State Social Insurance Fund is available only to non-working pensioners registered in Moscow for at least 10 years.

Registration of a social pension

For each of the previously listed types of social payments, there is a single assignment procedure.
Each citizen must complete the following steps:

Consult the Pension Fund branch located nearby either your place of residence or your registration address.
Collect all necessary documents.
Go to the Pension Fund or the MFC with a collected set of documents to write an application. The application can also be submitted via the Internet (official websites of the Pension Fund and State Services).

The submitted application will be considered within the generally established period of 10 days. Based on the results of the review, a response will be sent to the address specified in the application, in case of a negative outcome - with explanations of the reasons and the deadline for re-sending.

The reason for refusal may be the unreliability of the information provided, or the presence of any sources of income related to work.