In 2018, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced an increase in the retirement age in Russia up to 65 years for men and 63 years for women(currently 60 and 55 years old, respectively). The draft of the relevant federal law, registered under number No. 489161-7, . It is expected that in its final form this law, which many have already dubbed “anti-people”, will be adopted no earlier than autumn 2018 subject to full discussion and necessary amendments. The planned changes should come into force on January 1, 2019 and will be implemented in stages - the retirement age will be raised annually in 1 year increments.
A similar law on raising the retirement age was adopted regarding civil servants back in the spring of 2016(law ). However, then the changes were planned to be carried out more gradually - annually increasing the retirement period by six months to the same 65 and 63 years. In connection with the proposal in 2018 of a similar bill in relation to ordinary citizens, to whom the Government proposed higher rates of increase, according to the new law, from 2020 for civil servants the rate of increase in the retirement age will also occur faster - annually for 1 year ().
Retirement age in Russia
Fortunately, dividing the labor pension into and did not affect the age for receiving an old-age labor pension. According to Part 1 of Article 8 of the Federal Law “About insurance pensions” on old age insurance pension(it is worth talking about in view of its greatest prevalence in our country) citizens who have reached 55 and 60 years of age (for and respectively) have the right.
Also, from the previous law “On Labor Pensions in the Russian Federation,” the rules for early retirement remain in effect.
In order to have the right to, a citizen must either be employed in production that is harmful or dangerous to health and life, or work in areas equated to the Far North.
In addition, in Russia there is a state pension provision for persons who, for some reason, do not have work (insurance) experience - upon reaching 60 years for women and 65 years for men, they are assigned according to old age.
Comparison with other countries
A comparative analysis across countries of the age at which citizens retire must be carried out in conjunction with many other parameters that depend on many factors. Thus, the average life expectancy, standard of living, average pension, and so on are usually taken into account.
In the case of our country, when they talk about raising the retirement age, the first argument is an increase in average life expectancy. Therefore, comparison with other countries will be presented in the form of a table indicating the retirement age and average life expectancy:
| A country | Average life expectancy, years | Retirement age, years (women/men) |
|---|---|---|
| Russia | 70,5 | 55/60 |
| Kazakhstan | 70,5 | 58/63 |
| Great Britain | 80,0 | 65/65 |
| France | 82,4 | 60/60 |
| Germany | 81,0 | 65-67/65-67 |
| China | 76,1 | 50-55/60 |
| Japan | 83,7 | 65/65 |
| USA | 79,3 | 65/65 |
| Brazil | 75,0 | 60/65 |
| Canada | 82,2 | 65/65 |
| Argentina | 77,0 | 60/65 |
Life expectancy data is based on a report from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Will the retirement age be increased?
Based on world practice and WHO annual reports, increasing the retirement age is not something out of science fiction: our legislators use the experience of their foreign colleagues and follow the path that has already been taken by many countries. From the table above it is clear that of all the countries listed (they were specifically taken from almost all regions of the world), our country has one of the lowest retirement ages.
Due to the relatively low retirement age, as well as the increasing expected life expectancy, the issue of increase is only in time - sooner or later it will be raised anyway.
Law on raising the retirement age from January 1, 2017
May 23, 2016 President of Russia V.V. Putin signed Law No. 143-FZ “On amendments to certain legislative acts regarding increasing the retirement age for certain categories of citizens”, who proposed raising the retirement age for civil servants up to 63 and 65 years old for women and men respectively. Also, according to this law, over the next 10 years until 2026, the minimum length of service in state and municipal service for appointment to citizens will be increased by 5 years. long service pensions(from current 15 to 20).
As in the case of increasing length of service and the required value of the individual pension coefficient in federal law “About insurance pensions”, the retirement age is expected to be raised gradually, increasing the required age annually for six months.
For example, if in 2016 officials retired like everyone else at 55 and 60 years old (women and men, respectively), then two years later, in 2018, these values will already be 56 and 61 and will reach the planned values of 63 and 65 years in 2032 and 2026, respectively.
As can be seen from the above text of the law, the changes also affected the required one - now instead of 15 years (including the last 12 years of continuous work in the service), it is necessary to work 20. However, this innovation will also be introduced gradually, like the increase in the retirement age, - six months per year, and will reach the agreed value in 2026.
Will the rest of the citizens get a raise?
Based on the words of Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, requirements for pensioners will be tightened by 2018 not planned. Whether this should be perceived as a strategy already defined by the government or as a forecast is everyone’s business.
- For comparison, if we don’t deviate too far from the pension topic: the bill on dividing the labor pension into two independent payments (insurance and funded) was approved from 2013 to the end of 2014.
- Accordingly, if the Ministry of Labor is now talking about a “new vector of development” of the pension system, then it is quite possible to expect an increase in the retirement age in the near future.
- Fortunately, this is not done abruptly, but gradually, so currently working citizens who are still far from retirement may well get used to the increased age.
Despite Olga Golodets’ repeated statements that there will be no increase, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Labor are actively lobbying for their vision of the development of the pension system.
According to A. Ulyukaev (Minister of Economic Development), it will be completely natural to increase the retirement age for both sexes up to 63 years old. Alexey Kudrin proposed increasing the retirement age from 2019 in the same way as for civil servants - to 63 and 65 years.
In the area of fairly frequent statements by officials of one rank or another, ordinary citizens have a completely reasonable question: maybe there is already some kind of bill or law that will increase the retirement age?
Apart from the decree of the President of the Russian Federation on increasing the retirement age for no documents of this format not at the moment. However, it is worth preparing for the fact that an increase will occur, not only for those who will retire in the near future (this will affect them first of all - they will have to work for a certain amount of time), but also for those who are still far from retirement - given the change requirements for length of service for civil servants, legislators can follow the same path with ordinary citizens.
Conversations about the retirement age in Russia have become especially acute over the past year. The unfavorable situation in the country makes many people of pre-retirement age worry about their future.
According to statistics, at the moment, for every 250 working people, there are 210 pensioners who need to be paid social assistance in the form of pensions. The amount of deductions from workers' wages to pay pensions is absolutely not enough. This situation can provoke a phenomenon called “budget deficit”. This phenomenon will have an extremely negative impact on many areas of the country’s economic life.
Who will have their retirement age added in 2017?
The legislation provides for an increase in the retirement age for civil servants. If you hold the post of a state or municipal employee, including in the regions, and are of pre-retirement age, then starting from January 1, 2017, you will face a gradual increase in the retirement age.
It became known that the retirement age of government officials and ordinary employees will be raised by 6 months every next year. The final data should be recorded at 65 years for men and 63 years for women.
But such changes concern not only age data. The minimum length of service in a government position will also increase. If now it is enough to have 15 years of experience to retire, then in the future this figure should not be lower than 20 years.
Therefore, experience will be added using the same method - every year the increase will be for 6 months.
For State Duma deputies, the number of years in which they serve in their powers is changed in order to receive an additional payment to their pension. Previously, a deputy had to work for at least 1 year; in the future, only those deputies who held the position of servants of the people for at least 5 years will receive an additional payment to their pension.
Such changes are primarily aimed at saving the Russian budget. On the other hand, the state gives qualified employees more time to serve the state and bring maximum benefits.
What will the retirement age be for most Russians?
Pension reform is now on the lips of the majority of the Russian population. Will there be any fundamental changes for ordinary workers in 2017?
Men retire at 60, and women at 55. These figures are much lower than in the countries of Europe, America and Asia. But it is worth considering the fact that the life expectancy of citizens in Russia is much lower than that of the listed neighbors and overseas residents.
But pension reform is a necessary necessity for the country. Both the president and the prime minister speak about this. The difficult situation in the country and budget cuts simply do not make it possible to pay pensions in full for this level of unemployed pensioners.
The only solution is to increase the number of workers by raising the age limit and, over time, to reduce the number of pensioners, since everyone will be employed.
But the state is hampered from carrying out reform in 2017 by the impending presidential elections, which will be held in 2018, and the situation in the country.
The State Duma has repeatedly raised and proposed for consideration the issue of upcoming pension reforms, change in retirement age from 2017. There were many rational proposals, but the deputies never reached the point of making concrete decisions.
And the point is not at all in the irresponsible attitude towards their duties as servants of the people, and especially not in the lack of competence on this issue, but in a whole series of reasons that have an indirect or direct relation to politics.
Rhetorical questions “Who is to blame?” and “What should I do?” couldn't be more relevant
So, the officials unanimously agreed on only one thing: it is necessary. And three primary issues need to be addressed:
- increasing the size of pension payments;
- payment of indexation;
- change in retirement age.
When asked why the problem has not yet been solved, both political scientists and economists answer in the same way: elections. As practice shows, government elections are a kind of Rubicon for those in power. And therefore, no one in the Duma - neither the leading parties, nor the coalition, much less the President - on the eve of the elections will risk even a small fraction of the votes of the largest audience of voters - that is, pensioners.
That is why the President decided to begin raising the retirement age no earlier than 2018. The Ministry of Finance, on the contrary, demands an increase in the retirement age as soon as possible, thus planning to balance the deficit of the pension system, which annually absorbs billions of rubles from the state budget.
Also, President Vladimir Putin rejected the proposal of Anton Siluanov’s department to gradually and step-by-step increase the retirement age, starting from the new year 2016, and clearly stated that until the presidential elections in 2018, the retirement age will remain within 60 years for men and 55- for women.
In the future, this figure is planned to be equalized - 65 years for both men and women.
In addition, the reform will affect not only pension payments; it is also planned to correct the tax system. In particular, it is planned to introduce a so-called “luxury tax” - that is, an increase in income tax for wealthy citizens. Today, a flat tax scale of 13% is valid.
However, you should not make plans for several years in advance. After all, in 2014, the president promised stability of the tax regime until the 2018 elections. But due to the current situation, starting from the new year 2016, the tax burden is still increasing - this time the changes will affect the oil and gas industry.
New reforms are one of the opportunities to avoid default
The country's budget cannot withstand the load. Therefore, officials are looking for all possible ways to solve the problem. It cannot be said that all changes are happening smoothly - for example, the proposed options for cutting budget expenditures affect the least vulnerable categories of citizens. And the introduction of changes to the long-term Maternity Capital project, and the increase in the retirement age, and the increase in income tax on pharmaceutical drugs - all this is a blow to the pockets of those most in need.
However, these measures are necessary to reform the political and economic systems that ensure the normal functioning of the state.
At the moment, pension coefficients are calculated based on entries in work books. The Pension Program 2017 is also in effect here, according to which the coefficient for paying state support is already 11.4 (that is, 8 years according to the work book).
For comparison, in 2015 the same coefficient was 6.6 (6 years, respectively). According to the same Program, persons who have reached 60 and 65 years of age (women and men, respectively) can count on pension payments without any length of service.
Experts predict by the end of 2015 by as much as 12%, and this, according to former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, is additional spending of three-quarters of a trillion rubles - again, from the state budget. The only correct solution in this situation is to align the level of pension indexation with the inflation rate.
Therefore, already in the Pension Program - 2017, the indexation rate is 5.2%. Additional expenses provided for by the Program are also associated with geopolitical changes in the country - the budget has already included funds for pension payments to persons living in the territory of Crimea.
Minister of Economic Policy Alexey Ulyukaev is also confident in the correctness of the decision to introduce changes after the elections. After all, then there is still time for final calculations and making the right decisions regarding the Pension Fund projects for 2015-2016-2017. For example, it is expected that the income of the Pension Fund will increase and the debts of the non-state pension fund will be closed; as a result, already in 2016 the pension will be increased by an average of 900 rubles. Then the average pension will be 12,882 rubles.
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MOSCOW, January 1. /TASS/. The retirement age for officials in Russia begins to increase gradually from January 1, 2017. The new norms will affect state civil servants, municipal employees, as well as persons holding government positions in the Russian Federation, regional government positions and municipal positions on a permanent basis.
What will change
The law provides for a gradual increase, annually for six months, to 65 years for men and up to 63 years for women of the retirement age, which gives the right to the appointment and payment of an old-age insurance pension for persons holding state and municipal positions.
As State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin previously explained to reporters, by 2032 this age will be 63 years for women and 65 years for men. The age limit for the state civil service is being increased to 65 years.
Also, in accordance with the adopted changes, the length of service in the state civil service increases from 15 to 20 years, giving the federal civil servant the right to establish a pension for long service. It is proposed to increase the length of service annually by six months.
The minimum duration of the duties of a State Duma deputy and a member of the Federation Council to obtain the right to a monthly supplement to the old-age insurance pension is increasing from 1 year to 5 years.
According to the new law, the right to establish a monthly pension supplement in accordance with the current norms is retained for people's deputies of the RSFSR of the 1990-1995 convocation, parliamentarians and senators of the first convocation of 1993-1995, as well as members of the Federation Council who exercised or continued to exercise powers after January 1, 1996 . In addition, the procedure for total recording of length of service for persons who managed to work in both houses of parliament is being clarified.
In accordance with the amendments, it is proposed to take into account the continuation of public service after women reach the age of 55, and men - 60 years, when determining the funded pension.
The bill is not aimed at saving budget funds, but, above all, at retaining qualified personnel. “The initiative gives those who want to work as long as possible and benefit the state,” noted Viktor Kazakov, deputy head of the relevant Duma committee on federal structure and local self-government issues.
Changes in the social sphere of material payments are of great concern to all citizens of the Russian Federation in connection with changes in the economic situation of the country. Everyone's attention has been drawn to the latest news and innovations in the pension sector, which have been discussed at the government level for more than a year. But right now such conversations have become most relevant.
Will there be an increase in the retirement age in 2017?
At the moment, in Russia, the retirement age limits are defined as follows: men retire at 60, and women at 55. Moreover, one should take into account the length of service that affects the size of the pension; it is determined for each profession individually, but on average it is 15 years.
However, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation are talking about changing these figures upward - up to 65 years for both men and women. The fact that the retirement age will be raised is a fact, the only question is when? Analysts claim that retirement dates will grow no earlier than 2018, because This year the presidential elections will take place. So those pensioners who were planning to retire in , don’t have to worry for now.
As the head of the Ministry of Economic Development A. Ulyukaev pointed out, such a decision was caused by the budget deficit in Russia, as well as the unstable economic situation that has developed both in foreign and domestic policy. Thus, raising the retirement age, as Ulyukaev emphasizes, is a forced measure to maintain the economic situation in the country at an acceptable level.
The only category of people whose retirement age will be increased from January 1, 2017 - officials and civil servants(municipal, state, and civil servants of the Russian Federation), for women up to 63 years old, for men up to 65 years old.
Latest news about retirement age since 2017
At the end of last year, Deputy Prime Minister O. Golodets said that there were no plans to increase the retirement age in 2017. Changes in the pension sector should be expected starting in 2018. The position of this remark was supported by Russian President V.V. Putin, who noted that the government does not intend to prematurely increase the length of service and retirement age of citizens. But this measure will be put into effect after 2017 due to the need to restore the economic situation in the country.
Why will the retirement age be raised for Russians?
At the moment, the economic situation is such that for every 120 working citizens there are more than 100 pensioners. Due to the crisis situation in the country, the pension fund is not able to pay the necessary payments to the unemployed population without damaging the Russian economy. 
If we leave everything as it is, the country may enter a state of serious budget deficit, which, of course, is extremely undesirable.
What will be the retirement age in Russia from 2017-2018
According to world statistics, the retirement age in Russia is currently quite low; for example, in the United States, the entire working population retires only at 65 years old, both men and women. But at the same time, in the United States, the life expectancy of citizens differs markedly from the indicators in Russia.
Thus, the increase in the retirement age will occur up to 65 years, but in stages: every year the retirement age will increase first by 6 months, and then by 12, until it reaches the agreed upon value.
