A federal bill on the fulfillment of the 2018 budget of the Russian Pension Fund was discussed and approved at today’s meeting of the Federation Council.
Over the first eight months of 2019, the Russian Pension Fund received 66,000 applications for monthly payment of maternity capital funds. The number of such applications tripled year on year. Related expenditures grew even more, five times, and reached 5.4 billion rubles by September.
The Russian Pension Fund Board met in Moscow today to sum up results of the Fund’s activity in the first half of 2019 and to set tasks for the period till the end of this year. The meeting was attended by PFR Board Chairman Anton Drozdov, Board members, and heads of the Fund’s regional branches.
PFR Board Chairman Anton Drozdov has answered Komsomolskaya Pravda’s questions about electronic employment record books
Russian Pension Fund Board Chairman Anton Drozdov took part in the Moscow Financial Forum held in Manezh on September 12-13 and discussed higher accessibility and quality of public services achieved through digitalization of the social sector with his colleagues from ministries and departments.
The Russian Pension Fund authorized 345,000 payments from pension savings over the first seven months of 2019. Same as before, most of these payments (286,000 or 82.9%) were lump-sum payments to persons with pension savings under 5% of the amount of their insurance and funded pension funds.
Consistent with the August amendments to the federal law on pensions in Crimea, employers operating in the republic must provide the Russian Pension Fund with information about the periods of employment of local workers before their registration in the mandatory pension insurance system. The information will expand pension entitlements of Crimean residents and will raise their awareness.
The information, which must be submitted to the PFR consistent with the amendments, concerns occupation, position, particular labor conditions, and length of employment, in addition to periods of socially useful activity, such as military service.
The PFR Board chairman has told the newspaper Kommersant about details of the ongoing transfer of pension savings.
Information stored in the Federal Register of Disabled Persons will enable election commissions to count the number of people with disabilities residing in their constituencies and to prepare their participation in elections with due account of individual needs.
Information from the Federal Register of Disabled Persons concerning their number, including the number of people on wheelchairs, using guide dogs, or having eyesight, hearing and locomotive impairments will help assist such people in exercising their voting rights.
Under Presidential Decree, from 1 July 2019, monthly benefit for looking after children with disabilities and persons disabled from childhood (Group One) will nearly double, from RUR 5,500 to RUR 10,000, to be paid to carers-parents and adoptive parents of children with disabilities or persons disabled from childhood (Group One), and to guardians and trustees. Other carers will continue to receive RUR 1,200.