Reduction of budget expenditures on pensions in 2018 linked to the growth of receipts of insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of Russia, and not with the diminution of the pensions of the Residents, said on the last working day of the week the Ministry of Finance. "at the time of entering changes in the Federal budget refines transfers to the budget of the Pension Fund. This is caused by the higher rate of income of insurance premiums in 2017, for the reason that it has been generated Balances of the Pension Fund. The remains are sent for payment of pensions in the current financial year that will lead to a decrease of transfers to balance the Pension Fund,"