According to official statistics in Russia, as of 2017, there will be 2,500,000 military pensioners. That is, citizens discharged from military service to the reserve, who are subject to the Federal Law of 05/27/1998 N 76-ФЗ (as amended on 07/03/2016) "On the status of military personnel". All these citizens, or as they often call themselves "military pensions", are entitled to a seniority pension. To acquire such a right, a serviceman must have a continuous length of military service of at least 20 years. After passing this bar, the serviceman decides on further military service, taking into account the fact that he has already earned a pension, and it will be paid to him for life. What are the pensions of military pensioners?

The question of how much military pensioners receive is also important when choosing this profession, when deciding whether to conclude a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In order to fully navigate this issue, we will give in figures the size of military pensions for the ranks of private, lieutenant, major, colonel and general of the army.
So, let's take an ordinary shooter with the first tariff category and a private with a military rank. Let us assume that his term of service is 20 years and he has acquired the right to a seniority pension. The size of his military pension will be 6825 rubles.

• A lieutenant who is a platoon commander and has twenty years of service can count on a military pension in the amount of 13,650 rubles.
• The major, the battalion commander, will receive a military pension in the amount of 16,513 rubles.
• A colonel, a brigade commander who has served 20 years, will be entitled to a monthly pension of 19,110 rubles, and if his length of service is 25 years, then he will receive 26,754 rubles.
• The general of the army, who held the post of commander of the district troops, who served in the Armed Forces for thirty years, will receive 52,528 rubles a month.

What the latest news says about military pensions in 2017.

To implement the provisions of subparagraph "d" of paragraph 1 of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2012 No. 604 "On the further improvement of military service in the Russian Federation", which provides for an annual increase in pensions for citizens dismissed from military service by at least 2% above the level inflation, allocated budget allocations in the amount of 79.09 billion rubles.

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At the same time, draft law No. 15473-7 “On the suspension of the second part of Article 43 of the Law of the Russian Federation “On pensions for persons who have served in the military, served in the internal affairs bodies, the State Fire Service, bodies for controlling the turnover of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, institutions and bodies of the penal system, the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, and their families" in connection with the Federal Law "On the federal budget for 2017 and for the planned period of 2018 and 2019", which proposes suspend until January 1, 2018 the norm of the Law of the Russian Federation of February 12, 1993 No. 4468-1 “On pension provision for persons who have served in the military, service in the internal affairs bodies, the State Fire Service, bodies for controlling the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances , institutions and bodies of the penitentiary system, the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, and their families" in connection with the Federal Law "On the federal budget for 2017 and for the planning period of 2018 and 2019" (hereinafter - Law No. 4468-I). Monetary allowance, taken into account when calculating pensions assigned in accordance with Law No. 4468-I, from January 1, 2012, is taken into account in the amount of 54% (“reducing factor 0.54”) and, starting from January 1, 2013, increases annually by 2% to reaching 100% of its size. At the same time, Draft Law No. 15473-7 proposes to establish the amount of monetary allowance taken into account when calculating a pension in accordance with Article 43 of Law No. 4468-I at 72.23% of the amount of the specified monetary allowance, which is 2 .78 percentage points than in 2016 and will increase the "real" pension by 4.0%.

Draft federal law No. 1177914-6 “On a lump sum payment to pensioners” provides for a lump sum payment to pensioners in the amount of 5 thousand rubles, instead of indexing social pensions, based on the results of the first half of 2016, taking into account the situation in the economy and the social sphere in 2016 . However, according to the bill, "military pensioners" (except for those who are entitled to simultaneously receive a service pension or disability pension provided for by Law No. ), established in accordance with the Federal Law “On Insurance Pensions”) and equivalent to them in terms of pension provision, there is no provision for receiving a lump-sum payment, indexation of military pensions based on the results of the first half of 2016 is also not provided.

The bill sets the inflation rate for 2017 at 4.0%. Therefore, in order to fulfill the requirements of subparagraph “d” of paragraph 1 of Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2012 No. 604, taking into account the inflation rate of 4.0%, it is necessary to establish such an amount of monetary allowance that would allow increasing “military” pensions by an average of 6.0%, that is, not less than 73.62% of the amount of monetary allowance taken into account when calculating the pension. Otherwise, the requirements of the specified provision of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated May 7, 2012 No. 604 will remain unfulfilled.

Some Russian servicemen risk being left without a pension if the lower threshold of length of service is raised.

For Russian military personnel and employees of law enforcement agencies, the lower threshold of length of service may be increased. According to the Kommersant newspaper, amendments to the law on pensions for this category of citizens are under development. The new bill proposes to increase the lower limit of seniority from the current 20 years to 25 years. The transitional system has not yet been worked out, it is reported that the changes will not affect those who have 20 years of service will be provided with the current contract. Everyone else will have to serve five years more to receive a military pension.

According to Kommersant, the issue price in the case of early pensions is about 350-400 billion rubles. per year and is comparable in order of magnitude to the upcoming savings on payments to military pensioners - they are made from the federal budget, as is the transfer to the Pension Fund to cover the deficit.

The authors of the project believe that this decision will relieve the budget of several hundred billion rubles annually. In response to them, judgments appeared that increasing the lower limit of seniority would not contribute to the attractiveness of military service. However, military experts interviewed by Kolokol Rossii have a different opinion and are confident that this will have a positive effect on the entire appearance of the Russian army.

As a military expert explained to the publication, a captain of the third rank of the reserve Dmitry Litovkin, an increase in the length of service for the military, in addition to saving the budget, will help strengthen the defense capability of the Russian armed forces. According to him, after such a maneuver, there will be more professionals in the ranks who are familiar with their specialty and will be able to pass on their knowledge to the younger generation of military personnel. Today, according to statistics, the military in the barracks are on average a month a year, the rest of the time they are involved in all kinds of exercises and maneuvers. Therefore, a combat and mobile army needs people with practical experience.

“During the pernicious reforms of the ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov the middle level and a lot of young people were actually expelled from the army, and today the Ministry of Defense is experiencing a serious personnel crisis,” the military expert believes.

“Last year alone, 17,000 officers were returned to military service. All these people have previously lost their seniority, and, accordingly, part of the social package. By increasing the length of service, the military is trying to regain the lost opportunity, as well as to keep young specialists in the service as much as possible. Today, the defense department admits that they are trying in every possible way to interest specialists in order to prolong the contract with them, and are also trying to return previously dismissed officers to the service, otherwise there will simply be no one to train the next generation of the military. In addition, the Ministry of Defense is gradually increasing enrollment in military schools, which were closed under Serdyukov," Litovkin said.

According to the interlocutor of the publication, in the army itself, the increase in the lower limit of seniority is generally perceived positively, because they would like to serve to the maximum, receiving, in addition to guaranteed monetary allowance, which in some cases is much higher than in civilian life, officers are also provided with greater social package. Today, a Russian officer is a highly paid worker.
Moreover, the increase in service life affects the military mortgage system, under which the Ministry of Defense provides housing for military personnel. As long as a person serves, the state pays mortgage contributions for him, if the officer leaves the army earlier, then in this case he pays the remaining amount on his own. Therefore, the longer a person repays his debt to the Motherland, the higher his chance that the state will pay money for an apartment for him.

Meanwhile, according to a military political scientist, associate professor of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the Russian Economic University named after G.V. Plekhanov, reserve lieutenant colonel Alexander Perendzhiev, the increase in the lower limit of the length of service of military personnel to 25 years, provided for by the new bill, is an expected measure to save money in the Russian budget. But it cannot but arouse the concern of military personnel who do not yet have such experience about their retirement future. In the new bill, the expert is sure, before it becomes law, it is necessary to take into account historical experience and provide the necessary social guarantees for early dismissals not on grounds that discredit them.

The idea of ​​raising the lower limit of seniority has been discussed for a long time: back in 2013, the military proposed a similar maneuver, which was proposed to be divided into two stages. Until January 1, 2019, all military personnel who served for more than 20 years, but did not retire, were planned to pay an increase of 25 percent of the amount of unreceived pension. The Ministry of Defense has proposed to finally fix the lower limit of service at 25 years since 2019.

In Soviet times, in order for an officer to receive a pension, he had to serve for at least 25 years. Today, an officer, having extensive professional experience and enough strength, retires at the age of 40, which, according to military expert Vladimir Yazikov, is an unprecedented luxury. Moreover, given his experience as a combat pilot, the expert admitted to the “Bell of Russia” that it is difficult to find a decent job in civil aviation in civilian life without having a commercial streak. Drawing an analogy with Soviet times, the interlocutor of the publication noted that earlier an officer could not retire from the army at will before the age of 45. However, today's contract system gives a person the full right to leave at the expiration of the contract, and if the lower limit of length of service in years is legalized, that is, 25 years, those who have not served this term will not receive a pension. That would be the terms of the contract.

“Today, very complex equipment enters the army, and it takes many years to master it. In the 1990s, officers left the Russian army en masse in search of better earnings. After that, there was a personnel vacuum, young officers who had no one to train came to replace highly professional personnel. Today, the situation is gradually beginning to improve,” Vladimir Yazikov explained.

Earlier, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said that military pensions had grown by almost 29% over the past three years. According to him, “in four years, a lot of work has been done to improve legislation in the field of pensions for military service veterans.

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2018 will be a significant year in view of the upcoming presidential elections. As practice shows, mostly before elections, politicians are more concerned about the well-being of the population. This issue also concerns the increase in the amount of pension payments to military personnel. What does the coming year have in store for them?

Will the pension for military personnel in Russia be increased from January 1, 2018? Last news

In the media, the various opinions and positions of the public masses regarding the increase in the size of military pensions are presented at the roots. Some members of the public say with confidence that preferential pensions for military personnel will be abolished altogether. Others argue that the indexation will take place as usual in previous years. Talking about the abolition of pensions is somewhat absurd, since such drastic measures on the part of the state will completely undermine the authority of the Russian army. Servicemen of the Armed Forces have always been under the reliable protection of the authorities, it is unlikely that the state will change its usual course.

Conditions for establishing a pension for military personnel

The right to purchase a pension on preferential terms has:

Detailed rules for awarding pensions to military citizens are contained in Law No. 4468-1 of 1996.

In addition to the conditions of appointment, military pensions differ from civilian ones in that funding is not from the Pension Fund, but from the Ministry of Defense.

What to expect in the end?

The current Decree of the President provides for an annual increase in benefits to military pensioners no less than 2% of the inflation rate in a particular year. The servicemen do not like this figure at all, they consider such an increase to be extremely miserable. Working military pensioners can count on an increase in the size of subsidies. The Armed Forces have a practice of leaving former employees in the army, only in civilian positions - without shoulder straps. In relation to them, the increase will be due to the accumulation of funds from the insurance part of the pension.

As for 2018, information has leaked from official sources that the authorities are thinking about indexing military pensions even as much as 4%. Predictions are pretty rosy. Where will the state get the money from, because the planned increase is many times higher than the inflation rate? Funding sources can be:

• income from the sale of Gazprom shares;
• privatization by the state of private corporations.

All these figures are abstract. The financial situation in the country can change in a quarter or even a month. More accurate forecasts can be made closer to the fourth quarter of this year. In the meantime, we offer you to watch a video about what amounts of benefits for military personnel are set today.

The state takes measures to maintain the financial well-being of the elderly. Officials pay special attention to former military personnel. How will it change? Last news forthcoming changes indicate that the amount of payments will increase by 4%.

Military pension for pensioners 2019: latest indexation news

The decision to increase benefits for former servicemen was taken by the President of Russia. The country's budget provides for the funds necessary for indexation. The increase in payments will take place in January next year.

Attention! On November 24, 2017, the State Duma adopted a law to increase pensions for military personnel by 4%. The law was adopted in the third reading. The pension will be increased from 1 January.

Earlier we already wrote that Vladimir Putin instructed the Russian government about the next indexation of pensions for military personnel.

The president equated police officers and the National Guard with military personnel. The increase in pensions will also affect fire protection workers. On average, former servicemen receive 24,500 rubles. To understand the upcoming changes, it is necessary to take into account the provisions of the draft budget for 2019. The indexation will require 3.07 billion rubles.

Latest news about military pensions for pensioners 2019 indicate that there will be a long-awaited increase in salaries. Previously, the increase in payments was made by changing the value of the coefficient. It allows you to regulate the amount of benefits paid to pensioners. Officials decided to leave its value unchanged.

Requirements for recipients of a military pension

People who have served in the army for at least 20 years can apply for financial assistance. In case of early dismissal, the length of service must be taken into account. The recipient of the pension must give at least 12 years and 6 months to his homeland. Experts evaluate the overall work experience of a person. Often a person leaves the service ahead of schedule. In this case, he must work for at least 25 years in civilian positions.

The allowance is paid to military personnel who have reached retirement age. The recipients of financial assistance include people who were discharged from the army before the age of 45 due to poor health. The ex-military is not financed from the Pension Fund. All benefits are paid from the budget of the Ministry of Defense.

Latest news on the reform of pension legislation regarding benefits for former military personnel

At the conference, the President of the Russian Federation raised the issue of a plan for the development of the pension system. Putin informed those present about maintaining the procedure for increasing payments. The increase in benefits will be made through a system of permanent indexation. In Russia, there is a fairly high proportion of employees receiving payments from the Ministry of Defense. Many people are interested military pension for pensioners in 2019. Last news indicate that an increase in the amount of payments is planned.

The government plans to increase the salaries of military personnel. They depend on the position, rank and length of service. On average, former military men receive 24,465 rubles. The increase in benefits will occur due to an increase in monetary allowance by 4%.

Often latest news about pensions for military pensioners in 2019, published on different resources, do not correspond to reality. It is difficult for users to understand the conflicting information that periodically appears on the Internet.

The budget deficit has led to the fact that the state finds it difficult to find funds to increase the monetary allowance. The bill provides for an increase in the number of banks that will pay pensions to the elderly. The crisis was the reason for the termination of the indexation of salaries of military personnel. The increase in the amount of pensions was made by adjusting the coefficient.

The developers of the bill introduced a clause on toughening the requirements for recipients of military pensions. Officials want to increase the length of service in the RF Armed Forces. To retire, you must serve at least 20 years. In the future, the minimum service life will be increased to 25 years. The authors of the bill justify their decision by the need to reduce the number of pension recipients. Thanks to this innovation, the budget deficit can be reduced.

Many military personnel draw up payments at the age of 45. At this age, a person has a high working capacity. However, this item has not yet been adopted and is under discussion. After leaving the army, people continue to work in civilian positions.

A former soldier has the right to receive an insurance pension. Indexation of such payments is carried out by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. Bill No. 274628-7 on raising pensions for military personnel is under consideration by the State Duma.

Conclusion

The indexation of military pensions will not be carried out by changing the reduction coefficient. The government plans to raise the salaries of military personnel. The increase in pensions for former soldiers will be 4%.

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The head of the Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, most likely will not support the innovations of the department of Anton Siluanov. Photo PhotoXPress.ru

The budget crisis is pushing officials to cancel the so-called military pensions, which are received by employees of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the FSB and other law enforcement agencies. Following the reform of civil pensions, the logic of the crisis leads the economic bloc of the government to reduce the pensions of the security forces. The current military pensioners can sleep peacefully: there are no plans to cancel their pensions. But in the future, the current security forces may receive only a one-time severance pay instead of a lifetime pension - to adapt to work in civilian life. Such a decision is already being discussed in the structures of the Ministry of Finance.

The Research Financial Institute (NIFI), subordinate to the Ministry of Finance, is preparing a rationale for a new pension reform. Now security officials can become victims of optimization. This can be judged from the public speeches of the director of the NIFI Vladimir Nazarov. In his opinion, military pensions should be reviewed. And, apparently, quite radically. Nazarov spoke about some of the details last week on the air of Ekho Moskvy.

“Those who are going to go on a military pension should be offered a normal social contract instead of a pension,” the economist explained. - When a person finishes military service, if he is not disabled and everything is in order, you need to give him money for retraining, give him a large severance pay so that he has enough for a year or two of a comfortable life, and after that he, quite like a normal member of society, can work at another job.

No matter how strange the ideas discussed at the NIFI may seem, they are worth listening to. After all, as indicated on the website of the Ministry of Finance, among the tasks and functions of this institution are the development of the theory and methodology of financial management, forecasting, planning, drafting and executing the federal budget, preparing proposals and recommendations for improving budget legislation. In other words, the NIFI's developments in the form of a draft law can be put on the table of the head of the Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov. And he, with all the calculations and justifications in his hands, can then start lobbying for the next optimization.

If we understand by military pensions the payments that are received not only by military personnel, but also by other security officials (law enforcement officers and bodies of the penitentiary system, security and foreign intelligence services, fire departments, etc.), as well as investigators and prosecutors, then after the reform, the budget savings can amount, according to rough estimates, from 500 to 700 billion rubles. in year. But there are also more modest expert estimates of savings - about 200 billion rubles. in year. As long as the reform has not acquired concrete outlines, it is impossible to make more accurate calculations.

However, even now it is not easy to get a military pension. She is appointed on the basis of years of service. The right to a military pension is received by persons who, on the day of dismissal, have served in law enforcement agencies for 20 years or more; as well as persons dismissed upon reaching the age limit, for health reasons or in connection with organizational and staff measures and who have reached the age of 45 on the day of dismissal, having a total length of service of 25 calendar years or more, of which at least 12 years and six months is service in law enforcement agencies.

Quite often security officials are fired before reaching the length of service required for a pension. There are cases when a citizen finds out about his non-compliance with pension requirements after his dismissal. Such underserved ones can only count on maintaining the payment of a salary for a military rank for one year. Or a disability pension.

It seems that the Ministry of Finance's reform of military pensions may abolish the very concept of "length of service." Most of the experts interviewed by NG were skeptical about the innovations of the scientific structures of the Ministry of Finance. In their opinion, the proposed reform looks provocative, moreover, it is almost unrealizable.

“This innovation will reduce the prestige of military service. And this is such a new word in world practice that the military of all countries will look at the actions of the Russian government with some dismay,” said Vasily Zatsepin, head of the military economics laboratory at the Gaidar Institute. “The revision of the conditions most likely cannot be avoided, but the complete abolition of pensions for the military is already a completely extreme option. Our law enforcement agencies have considerable weight, and they will certainly do a lot to save pensions, ”said Nikita Isaev, director of the Institute of Actual Economics.

In most developed countries, military pensioners are one of the most protected sections of the population, the expert recalls. One of the incentives to join the military is the guarantee of a stable income for many years. According to Isaev, it is not enough just to give a serviceman money for retraining: “In order for the retraining system to function effectively, it must be built from scratch. And this is not possible without additional funding. In conditions of chronic budget deficit, a vicious circle is obtained. There are obviously not enough vacancies for night watchmen for all the retirees.”

The proposed reform “will make people in uniform temporary workers who treat the state as another place of income,” fears Anton Sonichev, a lawyer for the Delovoy Farvater bureau. In his opinion, such changes will undermine the credibility of the state. “Resistance from law enforcement agencies will be very serious,” Sonichev expects.

“No one-time payment compares to regular income, especially with such lump-sum payments as now in Russia. This will lead to the infringement of social guarantees for military pensioners, since not everyone will be able to adapt to civilian life,” Roman Azatyan, legal adviser at My Family Lawyer, warns. “As practice shows, in Russia the opinion of the military departments is considered, and therefore they will be able to defend their positions,” he adds.

Many economists recall that the partial erosion of military pensions is already underway today. Military pensioners are still facing budget savings: when the authorities decide to freeze the indexation of their pensions, says Sergey Zvenigorodsky, an analyst at Solid Management. He emphasizes that the innovation of the theorists of the Ministry of Finance fully fits into the trend formed by the state: soon almost all civil pensions can go “into the category of symbolic benefits, on which, given inflationary expectations, it will be problematic to live,” the expert says. It is not for nothing that the government offers the population to ensure a decent old age by forming pension savings.

Although some experts see a healthy grain in the position of the head of NIFI. “The very idea of ​​retraining, regardless of pension payments, is sound, since there are many people in the army with skills that will be very useful in working in large corporations and small businesses,” says Opora Rossii First Vice President Pavel Sigal. A large severance pay would be attractive "for those who leave the military at a relatively young age and decide to pursue a civilian career," he said.

Finally, some experts do not exclude that the arguments about the abolition of military pensions have a very specific political meaning. Perhaps this is a kind of preparation for the elections, Dmitry Lukashov, an analyst at IFC Markets, suggests: “First, a threat is created to cancel pensions and benefits, and then this threat is eliminated with the approval of voters.”

“So far, I personally do not know about any legislative initiatives in this area,” Nazarov later explained to NG. According to him, the budget spends almost 1% of GDP on all pensions for the security forces. “But we are not talking about, and cannot talk about, the abolition of military pensions. Servicemen who already receive a military pension will continue to receive it. This is a matter of social stability and justice. We can only talk about a gradual modification of the rules for the retirement of current military personnel: an increase in the length of service requirements and the use of combined age-length of service scales, when a longer length of service will allow you to retire earlier, taking into account the professional specialization and rank of a military man, ”says the head of the NIFI. “At the same time, there may be gaps between the period of transfer to the reserve and the appointment of a military pension. It is advisable to fill these gaps with severance pay and retraining programs with subsequent employment in a civilian specialty, Nazarov explains. - If the decision to change the conditions for assigning military pensions is balanced, then the attractiveness of military service will not decrease. Understanding that you serve the Motherland, high wages, as well as a guarantee that at a difficult moment society will come to the aid of the soldier himself and his family members, is much more important than “smearing porridge on a plate”, when all the military receive a pension, regardless of their age and income "in civilian life".

“I hope that a balanced solution can find understanding among the employees and leadership of all law enforcement agencies. The military are people, first of all, who care about the welfare of their country. Now this benefit is to make the social package of a serviceman more targeted, taking into account the possibility and desire of a serviceman to start a civilian career, as well as more fully taking into account the financial situation of servicemen and their families,” concludes Nazarov.

“In its pure form, the severance pay scheme is not used in most countries. However, the current Russian scheme is also not very common, when the appointment of a military pension occurs immediately upon dismissal from the armed forces with a certain length of service without any reference to the age of the serviceman, his ability to work in a civilian specialty and financial situation, ”Nazarov clarifies.