Retirement age for military personnel in Russia in 2021: what time do they retire?

Preferential pension for military personnel

Special benefits give military personnel the right to retire at a fairly young age. They appear during participation in hostilities, during flight work, during service on nuclear submarines, etc. If a serviceman, taking into account the above-mentioned benefits, does not have twenty years of service, a pension can be assigned based on mixed length of service. All these points have many nuances, which is why men serving under contract so often wonder how to get a military pension.

Early retirement of military personnel without benefits is possible, but the law imposes much higher requirements on the duration and working conditions. Thus, before the generally established age, payments are assigned for work in the North, in difficult conditions, etc.

If a citizen has the opportunity to receive this type of income ahead of schedule, he can contact the Pension Fund on his own to file a claim for a pension.

The following types of pension payments are provided for military personnel:

1. for the loss of a breadwinner (paid to family members of a working military man or pensioner in the event of his death). A military survivor's pension is paid if a serviceman undergoing military service died in the performance of his official duties or received injuries and injuries incompatible with life and subsequently died. The right to receive is close relatives (spouse, parents, children, brothers, sisters), as well as persons related by relationship or affinity with the deceased person.
2. on disability. A military disability pension is awarded if a person serving has received an injury, contusion or mutilation (read about military injury at the link payments for military injury on our website), which make it impossible to continue further service. These injuries and mutilations are established by a military medical commission and on the basis of this conclusion, the serviceman can subsequently apply for this type of military pension.
3. according to length of service. A military officer can be appointed based on length of service if his length of service at the time of dismissal is at least 20 years. This factor, as well as the availability of special benefits, are grounds for receiving early payments. In addition, early retirement for military personnel may be granted for a certain period of civilian work.

The departments that provide for military service have agreed on a bill to increase the lower limit of length of service that gives the right to receive a military pension from 20 years to 25 years, Kommersant writes.

In the law “On pension provision for persons who served in military service, service in internal affairs bodies, the State Fire Service, authorities for control of the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, institutions and bodies of the penal system, troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, and their families » will make changes that determine the size of pensions that military personnel can count on depending on their length of service.

So, now, for 20 years of service, a serviceman receives a pension in the amount of 50% of the monetary allowance provided for in Art. 43 of the law (the size of the pension is determined based on salary by rank, military position, percentage bonus for service life and salary indexation). For each year of service over 20 years, an increase of 3% of salary is due, but not more than 85%.

The new bill establishes that for 25 years of service, military personnel will be able to count on a pension in the amount of 65% of the monetary allowance provided for in Art. 43, and for each year beyond this period 3% will be added to the pension, but its size cannot exceed 95% of the monetary allowance.

For military personnel dismissed upon reaching the age limit for service, for health reasons, due to illness (according to the conclusion of the military medical commission) or in connection with organizational and staffing measures, but having 20 years of service on the day of dismissal, a pension payment of in the amount of 50% of the monetary allowance. For each year of service beyond the term, 3% will be added, but the amount of the pension cannot exceed 95% of the salary.

According to the newspaper’s source in the financial and economic bloc of the government, the adoption of this law will save hundreds of billions of rubles for the budget, which in difficult conditions will be “a real breath of air.”

The new law could come into force on January 1, 2021. However, the latest version of the bill provides for a transition period of five years. Persons covered by the law of February 12, 1993 will retain the right to receive a long service pension and to receive a pension under the conditions “in force before the entry into force of this law until January 1, 2023.” The State Duma may consider the bill in September.

How is military pension calculated?

Regardless of the type of pension, military pensions include salary, rank bonus, length of service bonus, and indexation amount. The pension consists of half the salary subject to twenty years of service plus three percent for each year over twenty years, but not more than eighty percent.

The salary depends on the rank and is established by the regulations of the Ministry of Defense. The calculation of years of service is regulated by Government regulations; it lists the periods that are counted towards the period of service, such as:

1. Serving during periods of hostilities;
2. Serving in geographically remote and high mountain areas;
3. Serving under special conditions (for example, work to eliminate the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and other periods associated with nuclear exposure);
4. If a military pensioner lives in the Far North, then he retains an allowance. Also, the northern bonus is retained provided that the pensioner moved to another region, but served in the Far North for more than 15 years.

The legislation indicates areas in which service is calculated on a preferential basis: for example, to assign a military pension, a month of actual service will be taken into account for two preferential ones or a month of actual service for one and a half.

In addition to the above periods, according to current legislation, length of service includes:

• periods of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Emergency Situations, FSB, FSIN, FSO, SVR of Russia and the period of the USSR;
• periods of service in the Armed Forces, State Security and other law enforcement agencies of the CIS countries;

Long service retirement

When calculating the length of service that gives the right to support from the state in connection with length of service, the entire time of service in the armed forces, the fire service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, drug control and the criminal correctional system is summed up.

As a general rule, the minimum length of service required to grant a pension in Russia is 20 years. But in a number of cases, other conditions for the provision of this social guarantee are established.

These include dismissals due to the following:

• achievement by military personnel of the maximum age for service established by law;
• dismissal due to organizational and staffing measures (by analogy with general labor standards, called layoff);
• impossibility of further military service due to deteriorating health.

If one of these grounds exists, among the conditions for granting a pension, the law establishes the following:

• reaching the age of 45 at the time of dismissal;
• having a total work experience of at least 25 years;
• the period of military and equivalent service is 12.5 years or more.

The total length of service of such a person includes all periods of paid labor activity, the period of entrepreneurial activity and other periods in accordance with the laws on labor and insurance pensions.

Are there plans to increase the minimum length of service from 20 to 25 years?

In connection with the general civilian increase in the retirement age for men and women by 5 years, a reasonable question arises as to how this issue is planned to be regulated in relation to military personnel. Rumors about increasing the required length of service and total work experience are actively spreading. This is not least due to the official instructions issued back in 2021, as well as the draft changes to legislation developed by the Ministry of Finance.

In reality, consideration of a bill to amend the legislation regarding increasing the length of service for military personnel is not on the agenda of the State Duma. Despite the active discussion, the issue in a practical sense has not budged, which means that the previous age for retirement in 2019 remains relevant.

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How to apply for a military pension?

In order to apply for a military pension, it is necessary to prepare the necessary set of documents that will allow you to calculate and assign this pension. In this case, the applicant must contact directly the structure in which he directly served in his last place and resigned from there. The composition and number of documents depends on the requirements of the department in which the applicant served.

Despite this, the list of documents looks something like this:

1. Application in the appropriate form;
2. Military ID (military ID, officer ID, sailor's passport, etc.);
3. Documents confirming length of service;
4. In case of injury, mutilation or disability, certificates confirming their existence;
5. Information about awards, medals, departmental incentives;
6. In case of participation in “hot” spots, relevant documents confirming the facts, etc.
7. Information about changing the last name, first name or patronymic;

Deprivation of military pension

Speaking about payments to military personnel, it should be noted in what cases a military pension is deprived. As a rule, the basis for this is the loss of rank, which occurs when it is established that a crime has been committed during service. If the unlawful act was committed after dismissal, release from military rank does not affect the amount of payments.

Sometimes a military pension is not deprived, but simply the assignment is suspended. The main difficulty in assigning a long-service pension is the fact that payments are suspended in cases where the applicant becomes a person holding municipal positions on a non-exempt basis, holds positions in the municipal service, or carries out his labor activity in other government agencies. From the moment a former serviceman resigns or is released from his position, the assigned long-service pension will be resumed in full.

When and how much will military pensions increase in 2021?

Military pensions will be indexed in October 2021 by 6.3%. For the first time in several years, pensions of military personnel will be increased both due to an increase in salaries in the troops and due to an increase in the reduction coefficient.

The reduction factor appeared after the reform of military pensions in Russia. The reform should equate a former military member's pension to the salary of a person who has a rank and position similar to that from which the retired military member retired.

It was not possible to immediately equate military pensions to salaries in the army even when the reforms began - in times much more prosperous than today. That's why the reduction factor appeared. According to the plan, it should grow annually by two percentage points until the pension is equal to the salary and the need for it no longer exists.

In October 2021, military salaries will increase by 4.3%. Initially, only this was announced, and there was no talk of adjusting the reduction factor. The pension should have automatically increased by the same percentage as military salaries, no more.

However, then the state announced that the reduction factor would also change. Due to this, military pensions will increase by an additional 2%.

In total, the percentage of indexation of military pensions in 2021 will be 6.3%. This percentage is almost equal to the civilian one - old-age insurance pensions increased by 7.05% in January.

State Duma deputies responsible for the defense industry asked to increase the reduction factor in 2021, among other things, because the indexation of military pensions by 4.3% would be far behind the rate of indexation of pensions of other Russians.

Photo: kremlin.ru

How can a military pensioner receive a civilian pension?

Many military retirees do not know that if certain conditions are met, they can also apply for a civilian pension. As a rule, there are only four of these conditions:

1. Reaching retirement age based on the criteria for assigning an insurance pension; under certain conditions, this period may be reduced;
2. Whether a military pensioner has the insurance experience necessary to assign a civil pension, this length of service is not taken into account when assigning an early military pension;
3. Availability of a minimum number of pension points;
4. The pensioner already has an assigned military pension;

It should be taken into account that military pensioners are assigned a civil pension without a fixed payment. If you have any questions, our lawyer for military affairs and military pensions will answer them during a consultation, which you can sign up for today.

Help from a lawyer on military pensions in Yekaterinburg

Every citizen of our country can retire after a certain age and receive financial assistance, the amount of which depends on a variety of factors. The retirement age is determined by the length of service and the specifics of the work.

Thus, military personnel have the right to retire even at the age of 40 or 30. And this point, of course, is also provided for by law. The category “military personnel” can also include persons who served in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, FSB, FSIN, SVR, etc.

Our lawyer will help if you have any disputes regarding receiving an early pension.