The Ministry of labor decided the fate of the retirement age

The Minister of labour and social development Maxim Topilin assured that raising the retirement age will not. According to his statement, this is at least the next 2 years. At the same time, the Ministry of Finance declare that to increase the age of retirement, on the contrary, very quickly.

The Ministry eliminated the increase in the retirement age in the coming years. "Actually, this topic is coming up... Can certainly say, as far as I am aware that this will not be the subject of at least the current budget year, 2017 and so forth," announced the head of the Ministry Maxim Topilin, speaking at the Federation Council.

He acknowledged that amid the retirement age will have to increase. "But that's not the issue today. At the moment it is not needed and one day it will have to do. We all understand that we are going to live longer. The life expectancy will grow, healthcare will continue to grow. And one day, respectively, would have to do it," announced the Minister said.

He among other things touched on the issue of pensions for working pensioners. The Minister assured that in 2016 the amount will remain the same. But in the future the pensions of working people of pension age receiving more than a million rubles a year, would be cut, he said, adding that this regulation may enter into force from 1 July 2017.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov again called upon to immediately increase the retirement age. In his opinion, this will not only balance the pension system, but also to mitigate the effects of bad demographic situation without the increase in insurance deposits.

According to calculations of the Ministry of Finance, the gradual increase in the retirement age (by six months per year) will save the budget more than 112 billion rubles in 2016, and for the period from 2016 to 2018 the saving will amount to over 600 billion

Another option is to increase each year on year. Then, according to the Ministry of Finance, for 3 years will save over 1.3 trillion rubles.

With all this social block of the government ready to come to agreement with the economic block in terms of scope, the indexation of pensions in 2016. The Ministry of Finance considers it important to increase the level of pre-determined inflation (4%), the socialist - to the level of real inflation (almost 12%). Remember, in Russia the retirement age is 55 for women and 60 for men.

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