The news regularly cover pension adjustments for certain months. For example, 'a pension hike in November' is erroneously perceived as an extra adjustment for everyone.
In reality, that is about a planned monthly adjustments that cover some groups of retirees whose circumstances (like age or disability group) changed in that month, not all retirees. More precisely, what is being adjusted is the fixed payment which is a part of the insurance pension.
In 2025, that payment amounts to RUB 8,907.70; it is paid to every retiree who receives an insurance pension (due to age, disability or loss of the breadwinner). The exception is the retired military personnel who receive both an insurance pension (without the fixed payment) and a military pension.
From the day a retiree reaches the age of 80, their payment doubles to RUB 17,815.40, with no extra applications needed.
The same happens when a person is assigned the disability group I. The fixed payment amount is adjusted on that day, with no application from the pension recipient.
For pensioners who were already listed as disability group 1 and then reached the age of 80, or turn 80 and then are assigned the disability group 1, it is important to know the following. They cannot get another payment increase, because they are already receiving the maximum possible amount.
Therefore, news about pension hikes in some months are not about general adjustments, but rather about the Social Fund's daily work recalculate payments for those whose circumstances have changed.