The Pension Fund has exhausted funds for additional payments to pensioners – RBC

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Pension Fund for the six months spent all incorporated in its budget for this year funds for additional payments to low-income pensioners. Until the end, this article FIU expenditures will almost double, predicts the Chamber of Accounts

Pension Fund of Russia is spent on required by law to additional payments to the poor pensioners in just six months exceeded the annual limit of funds provided in the Fund’s budget for this purpose, it should be of operational report of the Accounting Chamber on the execution of the FIU budget in the first half of 2016. Overspending that FIU did not foresee was the first half of 3.3 billion rubles. (6.5%), and for seven months -. More than 11 billion rubles, seen from the data of the Federal Treasury. To pensioners are not left without bonuses, we have to use transfers from the federal budget.

For the six months of 2016 47.2 billion rubles was spent on the additional payments. with planned full-year 43.9 billion rubles., auditors wrote. And in the first seven months of the year it has already spent 55.2 billion rubles., According to the treasury materials. Until the end, the FIU costs of additional payments to low-income pensioners may increase by almost half of the planned, expects the joint venture. Reliability of the Accounts Chamber of the data RBC representative confirmed FIU.

Who pays

We are talking about federal social surcharge to pensions, which the authorities paid to pensioners whose benefits are inferior subsistence level set in their regions. With the help of these additional payments of Russians pensions are brought to the subsistence level. In addition to the federal surcharges to pensions, which pay the FIU, there are also regional – and appointed them seniors pay regional authorities. Federal surcharges are assigned to pensioners in regions where the value of the subsistence level below or equal to the nationwide. And in areas where the cost of living pensioner above nationwide, pensioners pay extra regional authorities

Who is the federal supplement to pensions receive about 4 million Russians -. Almost a tenth of all Russian pensioners ( on April 1, 2016 there were 42.8 million people), it follows from the report of the Accounting Chamber. The average size of the additional payments – 1.96 thousand rubles, the minimum in the Bryansk region (1.1 thousand rubles..), The maximum -.. In Chechnya (3 thousand rubles..)

The subsistence minimum. higher indexation – less

the Accounting Chamber links the sharp rise in FIU expenditure under a pension supplements to pensions indexation value – it is in this year amounted to only 4%, well below the 2015 inflation years ( 12.9%). “Given the dynamics of the size of the subsistence minimum for pensioners under the indexation of pensions by 4%”, the auditors during the layout of the budget Pension Fund for 2016 warned the fund that funds pledged it may not be enough on surcharges to pensioners, but their comments taken into account were not mentioned in the Audit Report Chamber. In fact, she wrote in the conclusion to the draft budget of the FIU 2016, 4 per cent increase in the indexation of pensions at the subsistence level to 8.8 thousand. Rub. It leads to the fact that in 2016 the average value of the social pension in Russia (8.6 thousand. rub.) is lower than the subsistence level nationwide. True, and the auditors did not foresee such a drastic increase in the number in need of additional payments – the lack of funds the FIU, according to their calculations, should not exceed 3.8 billion rubles

The subsistence level this year has increased significantly, and pensions. indexed by 4%, virtually remained the same, I agree Director of the research Ministry of finance Vladimir Nazarov financial institution. Therefore, pension supplements needed more people, says the expert.

The growth of the RPF really cost associated with an increase in the number of recipients of additional payments to pensions, confirmed the fund in response to a request to RBC. In the last month of 2015 (already after the RPF budget for 2016 was drawn up), their number has increased by more than 1.2 million (from 2.5 million to 3.7 million), the representative of the FIU. The number in need of additional payment of pensioners continues to increase, and for 2016, said the Accounts Chamber: According to her, today the recipients of the federal pension supplements for almost 4 million

Among the reasons for such a massive increase in the number of surcharges recipients to. pensions, FIU calls a significant increase in subsistence level (it is reviewed on a quarterly basis). All-Russian subsistence minimum for 2016 increased by almost 23% (1.6 thousand. Rub.) And now stands at 8.8 thousand. Rub., And in 2015 was less than 7.2 thousand. Rub. In the regions, which determine for themselves subsistence level alone, this figure grew even more pronounced – on average by 25%, said the RPF

At the same time in 2016 significantly increased the number of regions where the cost of living pensioner installed. at least a little less than or equal to the all-Russian. In such cases, pensioners supplement these regions must pay the RPF and not the regional authorities. According to the FIU, in 2016 the number of regions that have fallen from the regional to the federal supplement to pensioners increased from 67 to 71. Thus, currently 14 regions underpaid its own pensioners, in 2015 there were 18. The FIU costs extra federal pensioners grew and a year earlier, from the data from the FIU website: 2015 Fund expenses under this heading increased by 14%, exceeding 42 billion rubles. (See. Chart).

All decide transfers

The Federal surcharge to pensions paid on time and in full, assured the representative of the FIU RBC. Bonuses are paid for through the reallocation of transfers within the fund, said the source RBK. Funds for the payment of bonuses to the FIU receives a pension from the federal budget: the first seven months of the year the fund for this purpose transferred 47.6 billion rubles, is evident from the Federal Treasury

The discussion about the need to increase fiscal transfers to the Pension Fund.. due to a problem with the surcharge to pension fund representative considered premature. Nazarov from the Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance Financial also refrained from forecasting about the future FIU needs to increase the transfer. The Finance Ministry did not respond to a request for RBC possible increase in transfer FIU because of the problem.

The first half of the FIU concluded with a surplus of 19 billion rubles., And to the end of July the fund’s budget surplus reached 82.7 billion rubles. it follows from the materials of the Treasury. But taking into account the transfers from the federal budget, the total amount of which in January-July exceeded 2 trillion rubles.

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