“Starting from the New Year, starting from January 1 and then starting from February 1, corresponding changes will occur in the indexation of almost all types of social payments and benefits,” Lenta.ru quotes Svetlana Bessarab, member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs.
The State Duma should soon consider the draft main characteristics of the budget of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation for 2024 and for the planning period of 2025 and 2026. Most likely, changes will be made to the original version about which Rossiyskaya Gazeta wrote.
In the version examined by the Russian Tripartite Commission in the summer, the amount of indexation of insurance pensions for non-working pensioners should be 5.3% from January 1, 2024 and 4.0% in 2025-2026 starting February 1. Insurance pension adjustments will be made in 2025-2026 and from April 1 by 3.8% and 2.8%, respectively.
At the same time, the cost of the pension coefficient in 2024 will be 130 rubles, in 2025 it will reach 140 rubles, and in 2026 – 150 rubles.
The amount of the fixed payment to the insurance pension is expected to be indexed from January 1, 2024 to 7968 rubles, from February 1, 2024 to 8287 rubles, from April 1, 2024 to 8602 rubles, from February 1, 2025. up to 8946 rubles, from April 1, 2025 – up to 9196 rubles. The average annual old-age insurance pension for non-working pensioners will be: in 2024 – 22,772 rubles, in 2025 – 24,120 rubles, in 2026 – 25,690 rubles.
As Yaroslav Nilov, head of the Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs of the State Duma and deputy head of the LDPR faction, explained to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, there is a transition period until 2025, when insurance pensions for pensioners who not working will be increased by a certain index, but not less than one thousand rubles per year. The increase in pensions until 2025 takes place from January 1. After the transition period, pensions will begin to increase based on the actual inflation of the previous year. First of all, pensions will increase from February 1 and then adjustments are planned in April.
Maternity capital is planned to increase by 5.3% in 2024, 4% in 2025 and 4% in 2026. In 2024, for the birth of the first child, it is planned to pay 618.1 thousand rubles, for the second , 816.7 thousand rubles. In 2025, for the birth of the first child, 642.8 thousand rubles will be awarded, the second – 849.4 thousand rubles; In 2026, for the birth of the first child, a payment of 668.5 thousand rubles is planned, for the second – 883.4 thousand rubles.
The increase in maternity capital occurs on February 1. In addition, from February 1, some types of benefits and payments are traditionally indexed in Russia.
In 2018, a unified procedure was established for indexing social payments, once a year starting on February 1, based on the inflation of the previous year. Since February, the amount of compensation received by disabled people, veterans, Chernobyl victims, heroes of Russia, as well as citizens injured at work and other beneficiaries has increased.
