Matvienko stated main victims of rising prices

Pensioners were most affected by the price of prices last year, this category of Russians as the main victims of the growth of the cost of products and services called the speaker of the Federation Council Valentine Matvienko, RIA Novosti reports.

in her opinion, proposed by President Vladimir Putin, indexing pensions above inflation will provide the necessary support to pensioners. Indexing pensions for non-working pensioners by 8.6 percent will be issued from January 1, 2022, she said. Earlier in the upper house of parliament already promised that the benefits are indexed by the back.

The average pension after the execution of Putin’s instructions on indexation will grow by 1.4 thousand rubles. The budget law on 2022 and the planning period of 2023-2024, the indexation of pensions by 5.9 percent is laid, in accordance with the forecast rate of inflation for 2021. However, real inflation, according to the preliminary estimates of Rosstat, amounted to 8.39 percent.

Prerequisites for lowering prices for products in Russia No, need support for the poor in the population in the form of a distribution of money for food, declared earlier Deputy Chairman of the Association of Manufacturers and Suppliers of Food Products (“Ruprodsoyuz”) Dmitry Leonov.

/Media reports.