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Pension savings accumulated by participants in the pension co-funding program amounted to 7.7 billion rubles last year; the savings comprised voluntary pension contributions of participants and the government’s contribution made consistent with the program terms. Slightly more than 4 billion rubles were contributed by participants, and 3.7 billion rubles came as government co-funding.

The Russian Pension Fund has started payments to citizens who took in disabled persons, senior citizens, orphans or children left without parental care for assisted or temporary living in the period from April till June 2020. According to the government resolution, such temporary guardians are entitled to the monthly benefit of 12,130 rubles per every person they are taking care of.

The Russian Pension Fund has started paying lump-sum benefits of 10,000 rubles to families with children aged from 3 to 16. The money has been transferred to 10.2 million families with 14.6 million children, or more than half of all families that quality for the benefit in accordance with the presidential order. By now, 146 billion rubles have been assigned.

Ten million Russian families have received maternity capital certificates since the day the state program kicked off.

Funded pensions will grow 9.13% this year. The coefficient has been endorsed on the basis of returns on last year’s investment of pension savings, which thrice exceeded the inflation rate (3%). Pensions of 80,000 people will be automatically adjusted on August 1.

The president’s order has expanded the entitlement of families with children to the monthly benefit of 5,000 rubles, which is provided for children younger than three in the period from April till June. Now the benefit is available not to only families with maternity capital but to any other families where the first child was either born or adopted between April 1, 2017, and January 1, 2020.

Dear veterans and participants in the Great Patriotic War,

The Pension Fund of Russia delivered special benefit to the World War II veterans on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. More than one million veterans received this special benefit. According to the Presidential decree such benefits amount to RUB 75 thousand or RUB 50 thousand.

According to the amendment to the Federal law on mandatory pension insurance beginning from 1st July 2020 the pensions of the retired persons, who are guardians or trustees of the underage children, will be indexed.

Due to the restrictions caused by the current epidemiologic situation the Pension Fund of Russia simplified the procedure of assignment of a number of pensions and benefits and ensures continuation of the payments in a proactive manner without involvement of the citizens.