Deputy Zhukov named the date of consideration in the State Duma of the bill on indexation of pensions

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The bill on indexing the insurance pension of non-working pensioners by 8.6% will be considered in the State Duma in the second and third readings on January 20, Alexander Zhukov, a member of the lower house of parliament committee on budget and taxes, told reporters.

“On Thursday, probably the most important bill – in the second and, I think, in the third reading – is the bill, the amendment on the indexation of pensions by 8.6%, that is, above inflation,” he said (quoted by Interfax).

On January 14, Zhukov said that the government commission on legislative activities approved the draft amendments on the indexation of pensions this year by 8.6%. According to the deputy, the average pension will thus reach 18,984 rubles. In 2021, it amounted to 17,443 rubles.

Initially, the law “On the federal budget for 2022 and for the planning period of 2023 and 2024.” implied indexation of pensions from January 1, 2022 by 5.9%. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin later said that the size of the increase should be higher than inflation. The latter, according to Rosstat, in 2021 amounted to a record six-year 8.39%. As a result, at a government meeting on January 12, the head of state instructed to index pensions by 8.6% in the near future.

On the same day, Elena Bibikova, deputy chairman of the Federation Council committee on social policy, said that indexation would probably be carried out retroactively, that is, from January 1, 2022, despite the fact that pensions had already been indexed by 5.9%. The bill is likely to be approved by the end of January, the senator noted at the time. Later, the fact of retroactive indexation of pensions was confirmed by the chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko.

According to the Ministry of Finance, additional costs for indexation of pensions not by 5.9%, but by 8.6% will amount to 172.7 billion rubles. Thus, the total amount of expenses for the indexation of the insurance pension this year is estimated at 549.7 billion rubles.

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