The labour Ministry has proposed to reduce the cost of living by 0.68% merchant

the Ministry of labour and social protection has prepared a bill, which sets new values of the subsistence minimum. The document proposes to fix the rate for working-age Russians at 10 678 thousand rubles, for pensioners — at 8 136 thousand rubles, for children — 9 thousand RUB. 668 Thus, the subsistence minimum in average reduced by 0.67% compared to the second quarter of 2016.

At the same time the Ministry is preparing the draft law, which will allow you to save the existing pensions. As stated by the Minister Maxim Topilin, the decline of the living wage (PMP) “does not mean that someone will lose something”, reports TASS. Previously, the Agency became known that the Ministry of labor offers in 2017 to reduce PMP 300 rubles. The Federal official said that the Agency also proposes to reduce to 2% the amount of indexation of social pensions.

Source TASS said that the revision of the PMP will allow you to transfer the burden of social payments in regional budgets. Currently retired, local living wage which exceeds Federal, regional social surcharge. Otherwise, payments are made from the Russian budget.

Another Federal official has declared to Agency that the reduction of the Federal PMP will decrease and regional, which will reduce the burden on state coffers. According to the source TASS, the changes will be able to touch 11 million people set copayment, which may be reduced. However, it is reported that the Ministry of labor intends to develop a bill that compensates for the loss were in the area at risk to pensioners from the Federal budget. For the purpose of maintaining the existing pensions will take 2.3 billion rubles.

Maxim Topilin said that “we are not talking about a real reduction in the cost of living, and on correlating the new forecast for 2017 and the old October forecast of 2015″. “Then the General Outlook was such that the cost of living would increase. But this did not happen”,— explained the Minister.

currently, the Federal social surcharges received about 3.9 million pensioners, the average surcharge is 1 958 RUB.

About one-time Federal payment, which will replace the indexation of pensions in 2016, read in the material “Kommersant” “the Pensioners approved the charge”.