Deputies of the Just Russia faction, headed by its leader Sergei Mironov, have submitted to the State Duma a bill on the resumption of the indexation of pensions for working pensioners. The text of the document is available in the database of the lower house of parliament.
An explanatory note to the initiative says that the document is aimed at restoring the mechanism for indexing and paying insurance pensions to working pensioners, which has been suspended since 2016.
It indicates that the number of working pensioners is 7.3 million people, the average pension is 16.5 thousand rubles. “The lack of indexation and payment of pensions is unfair to working pensioners,” the parliamentarians note. According to them, the implementation of the document will require additional expenses of the Pension Fund of Russia this year in the amount of almost 71 billion rubles.
On January 12, it was reported that LDPR deputies submitted to the State Duma a bill on additional indexation of pensions during the year. As planned by the parliamentarians, social pensions will have to be indexed annually from April 1, taking into account the increase in the living wage of a pensioner over the past year. In addition, it is proposed to index pensions from July 1 in case the inflation rate over the past year exceeds the growth rate of the subsistence minimum.