The personal account section of the Russian Pension Fund’s website has grown with the following application services.
The Russian Pension Fund is launching the pilot project of public services using the Federal Register of Persons with Disabilities.
Insurance pensions of pensioners, who kept on working in 2016, were increased in August 2017.
Russian Pension Fund Board Chairman Anton Drozdov, Ulyanovsk Region Governor Sergei Morozov and State Duma deputy Vladislav Tretyak took part in the commencement of the Silvery Dawn retirement home in the industrial community of Yazykovo.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a federal law on pensions for children of unknown parents.
Starting in January 2018, working pensioners will be receiving their full pension, including every pension raise, from the first day of the month following the month of their retirement consistent with Federal Law No 134-FZ ‘On the Adjustment of Article 26.1 of the Federal Law on Insurance Pensions’ approved on July 1, 2017 . The law will take effect on January 1, 2018.
As many as 8 million families have received maternity capital certificates since the time the program was launched, and 56% of families have fully used their funds.
The Federal Consulting Service of the Russian Pension Fund has given citizens over 300,000 consultations on the phone since the beginning of 2017 on general aspects of pensions and social security, the use of maternity capital, state co-funding of pension savings, and a number of other issues. In the same period, operators of the center have processed over 120,000 requests made via the online consulting service on the PFR website.
About 70,000 persons have downloaded the Russian Pension Fund’s application for mobile devices providing convenient access to key online services in the personal account section of the PFR website. The application can be used to receive information about the status of one’s individual account in the Pension Fund, the assigned pension and social benefits, and insurance contributions paid by the employer, as well as to make an appointment and to order the issue of necessary documents.
The number of Russians who applied for the assignment of pensions by means of online services in the personal account section of the Pension Fund website grew by nearly fivefold in the first five months of 2017. In the period from January through May 2017, the personal accounts section was used for filing 582,000 requests for the assignment of pensions and 951,000 requests for choosing or modifying the pension delivery method, which was 4.7 and 4.8 times more than in the relevant period of 2016.