The government does not make decisions about how pensions will be indexed in 2016, said RBC Assistant Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets Alexei Levchenko. «The decision has been made yet, the discussion continues,” – he assured . The position of the social unit, he said , has not changed: it is about the size of the pension indexation level of actual inflation – 11.9%. In the near future no meetings on the subject of the pension is not planned, said Levchenko.
The amount of pension in 2016 can be indexed to 7-7,1%, said Thursday “Vedomosti”, with reference to its sources in the government. According to the newspaper, the decision was approved at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which Olga Golodets was not present because he was on vacation. This figure – a middle ground between the proposals Golodets (an increase of 11.9%) and the Ministry of Finance (5,5%).
A spokesman for First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, in charge of financial and economic block, declined to comment.
Source RBC social block government explains that the strict time limits for taking a decision on indexation of pensions yet, but roughly it must be taken before the end of September, as well as other decisions regarding the parameters of the budget. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets recently was on vacation, but the Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin present at all the meetings – if the decision was taken, it would be known, a source explained RBC.
Recently, no meetings with the President, which could be taken this decision, did not take place, said a source in the financial and economic bloc. The last meeting between members of the government with the president on 5 August, but it was dedicated to road safety, he recalls.
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