Russian pensioners from February 2022 will be able to receive infected by 8.6 percent of the pension. Such a term called the Deputy Committee of the Committee of the Federation Council on Social Policy Elena Bibikov. The words of the senator leads to TASS.
She said that the Russians would receive compensation for already received payments. Bibicova is confident that by the end of January, the decision on indexing pensions will be accepted. “Thus, from February 1, pensioners will already receive pensions indexed by 8.6 percent, but this increase will go to the December size of pensions, because in January already 5.9 percent has increased a pension,” it clarified.
At the end of December, during a large press conference, President Vladimir Putin promised to fulfill the promises of past years on the growth of pensions not lower than the level of real inflation. In early January 2022, he proposed an index of pension payments by 8.6 percent. After that, the Russian government made a proposal for amendments to the appropriate bill, they can be considered at the meeting on January 20.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs Yaroslav Nilov said that additional funds would be required to index pensions by 8.6 percent, but funding sources were already found. “At the first stage, there is definitely to implement this solution to the fund in the Pension Fund of Russia,” he assured. Now the average pension in the country is 18,521 rubles.