Pension payments to residents of the Crimea and Sevastopol today are not from the budgets of regions, and carried out by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, said on Wednesday the Minister of Crimea Oleg Saveliev.

according to him, if in 2014 the main form of increased pension was indexed those pensions that have been accrued yet according to Ukrainian legislation, by January 1, 2015 were inventoried and restated in Accordance with the Russian standards and Russian legislation 630 thousand pension Affairs in the Crimea.

"currently underway already (Pension) payments from the budget of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol as it was in 2014, and from the budget of the Pension Fund," the Minister said under the "government hour" in the state Duma.

Increase of pensions to residents of the Crimea and Sevastopol in Accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation is carried out in stages. According to the head of the Pension Fund of the Republic, in may the average size of the civil pensions Crimean taking into account additional payments will be 7 957 rubles, and by July, this number will exceed 10 thousand Rubles.. the Minimum size of the civil pensions will be 2 657 rubles, and by July will increase to 5 to 300 rubles.

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