Isaev: you can not raise the retirement age in Russia in the next 5-6 years – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, March 22 -. RIA Novosti To raise the retirement age for the majority of Russians in the medium term, the next 5-6 years, just can not be, as a result of this decision may be a serious crisis in the public sector, Vice-speaker of the State Duma, Andrei Isayev ( “United Russia”), commenting on the proposal of ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin.

Earlier, Kudrin told the newspaper “Izvestia” said that in September this year after the parliamentary elections need to declare the need to raise the retirement age in the country.

“Alexei Kudrin obsessively insists on raising the retirement age. I believe that to do so in the medium term, in the next 5-6 years, you have not exactly” -. Kudrin told RIA Novosti

He said that earlier it was decided to raise the retirement age for civil servants only, starting in 2017.

“As long as this experiment will not pass, and he recall will begin only in 2017, and (retirement age) will rise in the year to half a year, there is no sense to raise the retirement age of the bulk of the citizens. Therefore, neither of which 2019 year, in my view, can not talk, “- says MP

.” Second, and representatives of the financial and economic bloc, and Kudrin, when talking about raising the retirement age, they say, primarily on budget savings, but the retirement age is not determined in relation to the budget revenues and expenditures, and in connection with the situation on the labor market “, -. he stressed Isaev

According to him, taking the decision to raise. retirement age, it is necessary to understand that “to do with people who as a result will not work”.

“it is clear that the number of unemployed will rise. We do not see the newspapers full of ads: “Wanted workers over 60 years old” means that the need for such workers to the labor market in particular is not.. This means that no large revenue budget does not receive, because it must be in proportion to the increase in the employment costs for the payment of unemployment benefits “- he believes State Duma Vice-Speaker

He fears that there is a serious crisis. in the public sector, where low-paid technical staff work, as a rule, pensioners. “There’s low wages, a pension, it is more or less a decent income. If we select these people retire, they leave that job, and it will lead to a serious problem in this area. It is necessary to qualitatively improve wages. This will require more money than will be saved as a result of raising the retirement age. These are our financiers to consider not want to “, – he concluded

According to Isayev, the statement Kudrin looks rather strange..” He publicly said that let’s not declare publicly to raise the retirement age, and make it after the elections. That is, he seems to be inviting political parties to deceive voters. Of course, it looks like a political provocation “, – concluded the MP

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