Golikova mentioned the exact costs of mitigating the pension reform: Economy: RBC

Presidential initiatives to soften pension reform will cost 511 billion rubles, said Vice Prime Minister Tatjana Golikova. This is less than the amount that the social block mentioned earlier

In order to implement President Vladimir Putin's proposals to combat the reform of the pension system, 511 billion rubles are needed, said Deputy Prime Minister Tatjana Golikova on Friday 31 August to reporters. Previously, the government's social and financial-economic blockades differed in assessing the costs of mitigating pension reform.

"We called different numbers, some of them were partially misunderstood, and then we met Anton Germanovich [Силуановым] agreed, and now we have come to an absolutely unified concept of how much it costs, "Golikova said.

First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said that the President's initiatives to moderate pension reform would cost 500 billion rubles. extra costs for six years. Golikova provided other figures on the same day to show that the extra costs (in comparison with the original option to raise the pensionable age, proposed by the government) amounted to 756 billion rubles in 2019-2024.

At a press conference Golikova clarified that the costs of softening the pension reform will be 511 billion rubles. "I will tell you immediately why such a deviation has taken place to remove possible questions, and because of the President's initiative to introduce a semi-annual privilege for the first years of his retirement, it was subjected to a very rapid calculation We came to different figures, but in the end they agreed, "- explained Golikova.

Putin offered, among other things, measures to allow men from the birth of 1959-1960 and women from 1964 to 1965 to retire six months earlier. "For example, someone who retires in January 2020 at a new retirement age can do so in July 2019," the president said. Golikova originally said that this initiative will cost 490 billion rubles. Additional pension expenses for the government reform option. "This figure was the subject of our agreement with the Ministry of Finance.Now we estimate it at nearly 300 billion rubles.", – said the deputy prime minister.

"2019-2024 is 511 billion rubles, but this is without taking into account the costs that will arise in the federal budget and in the budgets of the region & # 39; s related to the benefits of real estate, land, transport, housing, as it is subject to a separate, more scrupulous calculation, but we do not worry about that because they were not on the balance sheet before, because the retirement age was 55 and 60, "said the Deputy Prime Minister.

The main change proposed by Putin is to raise the retirement age for women by five, not eight years (up to 60 years, not 63 years). The shortfall in income of the Pension Fund, of which the government counted, is 3.6 trillion rubles for the determination of a retirement age of 63 for women. Golikova reported for the period from 2029 to 2035.

Vladimir Putin delivered a television offer to the citizens of Russia on 29 August. The head of state has announced measures to soften the pension reform. Putin offered to increase the pensionable age of women by five, and not by eight years, and to explain this by a "special, careful" attitude towards them in the country. The president also proposed to extend the pre-retirement age from two to five years before retirement. And to protect the rights of this category of citizens – increase their unemployment benefit to 11.3 thousand rubles, to tighten liability even criminal for employers for the resignation of "pre-retired".

Putin also promised to retain the benefits for citizens who retire later than expected: the federal benefits of pensioners remain for them of 55 and 60 years for women and men respectively. First of all, we are talking about taxes on real estate and land (the so-called tax on six hundred square meters), which pensioners do not pay. The president said he expects that the authorities of the subjects will also retain regional benefits in the old pension limits for the transitional period. Regional benefits relate to housing and communal services, purchase of medicines, payment for major repairs, travel on public transport, etc.