The Ministry of labor explained one pension will grow after the increase in retirement age
Moscow. June 16. INTERFAX.RU — As noted in the Department, it will affect only retirees.
The promised increase in pensions, a proposed increase in the retirement age will only affect pensioners, explained the Ministry of labour.
“Increase in 2019 monthly insurance pensions by an average of 1,000 rubles is planned to be made through the indexation of pensions. This means that the increase in pensions will affect pensioners”, — noted in a press-service of the Ministry on Saturday.
On 14 June Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova told journalists that the government has no plans to return to indexation of pensions for working pensioners. In the current scheme of pension is indexed only after the pensioner will cease to work.
Earlier on Saturday, Golikova said at a meeting of the Russian tripartite Commission on regulation of social-labor relations in connection with the planned raising of the retirement annual retirement income, on average, will increase from 2019 to 12 thousand rubles, the average monthly retiree will receive more than 1 thousand rubles.
A bill to raise the retirement age was approved at a Cabinet meeting on June 14.