April: several categories of pensioners will receive an increased pension

Since April 1, social pensions and payments under state pension provision are indexed. This is reminded of “Russian newspaper”.

This indexation of these pensions is annual, taking into account the growth rates of the subsistence minimum of the pensioner over the past year. This time the government decided to increase the payment by 3.4 percent.

Increased pensions from April 1 will receive 3.9 million people. These are people who, because of various circumstances, were not able to work out enough employment experience to obtain a pension. There are also payments under state pension provision. This type of pensions is appointed by citizens in order to compensate for them to earn money (income), lost due to the termination of public service when the sentiers established by the law (disability); or in order to compensate for the harm caused by the health of citizens when passing military service, as a result of radiation or man-made disasters, in the event of a disability or loss of the breadwinner, with the achievement of the age-established age; Or disabled citizens in order to provide them with livelihoods. These pensions are also indexed from April 1.

Earlier in the party of pensioners, they stated that the indexation of social pensions, despite the loud headlines, can be called phantom. They explained there that in real terms, recipients of this type of payments will be added from 124 to 350 rubles. For age pensioners, the increase will be 145 rubles 75 kopecks, and the pension itself will grow from 5606 to 5751 rubles.

/Media reports.