State Duma Deputy Bessarab: Pension Fund may be deprived of pensions due to problems with training certificates 
Conditions under which the Pension Fund ) can temporarily deprive Russians of pensions, today they are necessary and sufficient. This opinion was expressed to the Duma TV channel by State Duma deputy, member of the committee on labor, social policy and veterans affairs Svetlana Bessarab.
The deputy explained that most often the decision to suspend pension payments is due to problems with training certificates. At the same time, payments are resumed “as soon as possible” after the removal of obstacles to receiving.
What are the most common problems faced by citizens? Well, this is a discrepancy between rates, especially rates for training. On the territory of the Russian Federation, we have already come to a single form of certificate for students and students receiving a survivor's pension. But, unfortunately, certificates from foreign educational organizations have not yet been worked out by the international community
Svetlana Bessarab, State Duma deputy
Every time you have to make inquiries to the FIU and restore the citizen's right to receive a pension, Bessarab emphasized. According to her, these are more specific than systematic cases.
Four reasons
On November 8, the PFR named four conditions under which the payment of pensions in Russia stops. First, payments stop if a Russian does not receive the due amount within six months. Also, pensions are no longer accrued to Russians who did not go through the procedure for confirming disability on time. The third reason for deprivation of a pension is the expiration of a residence permit. Foreign citizens or stateless persons may find themselves in such conditions.
In addition, the payment of the survivor's pension stops when the citizen reaches the age of majority, which is the last condition for non-payment of the pension. If the recipient is studying full-time, the accrual of funds is extended to 23 years. To remove obstacles to the resumption of payments, six months are given, during which the citizen must submit to the FIU documents confirming the right to receive a pension.
Force to save for a pension
The head of Sberbank, German Gref, said earlier that tax incentives could push Russians to form pension savings. According to him, stimulating the retirement savings of Russians requires significant tax incentives, and for certain categories of citizens – co-financing from the state. Gref added that the country needs to reform its pension legislation so that non-state funds can offer their clients competitive programs.
Today it is important that non-state pension funds can offer their clients competitive pension and investment programs with interesting strategies and additional services
German Gref Sberbank
Later, Yaroslav Nilov, head of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, assessed Gref's statement on a way to make Russians save up for retirement. In a conversation with Lenta.ru, he explained why Russians do not use the funded part of their pension. According to Nilov, the root of the evil lies in distrust of the system, small pensions and the created image of non-state pension funds. At the same time, he also agreed with Gref's proposal to stimulate Russians to form pension savings.
Millions of citizens who have chosen non-state pension funds, and this is about 35 million citizens, do not form a funded pension due to the fact that it is frozen. In general, this is due to the fact that we have a high level of mistrust towards the pension system, disgust towards small pensions, negative attitude towards constant freezing, and stereotypical perception of the existing system. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to induce people to voluntarily form pensions. That is why the government and the Central Bank have been trying for several years to propose a legislative solution to activate the voluntary formation and money began to flow into non-state pension funds
Nilov said that for several years, the lower chamber has been working with the government and the Central Bank to reform the mandatory pension insurance system in order to withdraw the funded part from it and transfer it to a voluntary format. However, apart from discussions, no legislative proposals have yet been received, the politician added.
Raising pensions in Russia
In early November, the first deputy head of the budget committee of the Federation Council, Elena Perminova, said that in preparation for discussing the draft federal budget for next year in the second Reading will calculate the increase in pensions and benefits for an inflation rate close to the actual. According to her, the budget has already allocated funds to index pensions above the baseline, which is 4.4 percent.
Perminova also said that the increase could be higher than these data by 1.3-1.5 percent, we are talking about the basic level of inflation. By the second reading of the draft budget, the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov intends to continue work on clarifying the level of inflation in order to index the benefits and payments that come from the budget, she concluded.
0.4 percent is the increase in pensions in Russia in January 2021 < p> The last time pensions in Russia in real size increased in January this year – by 0.4 percent, it follows from Rosstat data. After that, for eight months in a row, from February to September, they decreased. In September, the fall was 1.8 percent compared to the same month last year. In general, in the first nine months, pensions fell by 0.6 percent, Rosstat reported.
Statistics do not take into account the lump sum payment of 10 thousand rubles, which pensioners received in September. Excluding them, nominally, pensions in Russia grew by 5.5 percent in nine months, but this growth was below inflation.