Kudrin called to announce the increase in the retirement age after the election – RBC

Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin

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Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin called to announce the need to raise the retirement age after the parliamentary elections in September. According to him, to start itself can increase since 2019

announced an increase in the retirement age should be after the September parliamentary elections. In an interview with “Izvestiya” said former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin

«Maybe not now, but after the parliamentary elections to be held in September, -. Before it is hardly appropriate to start a discussion – it is necessary to declare the need to increase the retirement age, “- Kudrin said, adding that the very raising can start with the 2019

« But it is now necessary to declare such a scenario, as it will be necessary to spend a lot of preparatory work.. We should have to remove this issue from the debate, it will always be at the hearing, but you have to have to make a decision, and I think that once most of the disputes and issues on this subject will no longer be “, – the ex-minister added, noting that the authorities must decide on the . the scenario of raising the retirement age

«How, for example, will be a transition – for, say, 10 or 16 years? If you raise the retirement age for women from 55 to 63 years annually for a year, then it will take 8 years. If we take the scenario that the increase will amount to six months a year, then the transition will be stretched already for 16 years “, – said Kudrin said, adding that before the September elections have the opportunity to further discuss this issue

The former head of the Ministry of Finance earlier repeatedly. He urged to raise the retirement age. In October last year, Kudrin expressed the opinion that raising the retirement age will be postponed for three years in order not to take unpopular decisions before the presidential election in 2018. “I think that in three years, after the presidential election, after all, will be increased the retirement age,” – predicted the former minister

As he wrote, “Kommersant” in the beginning of December, Kudrin is one of the contenders for the post. Chairman of the head of the expert Council (EC) on pension reform. The newspaper wrote that the creation of such a structure was scheduled for February. The purpose of the board paper calls preparing public opinion to raise the retirement age.