Indexed increase: what changes await pensioners

In the coming years, government policy will be aimed at comprehensively improving the well-being and quality of life of pensioners. What specific steps will be taken to achieve these goals and how the lives of pensioners will change can be found in the Izvestia article.

An increase in all pensions for all categories of recipients

The draft Russian budget for 2026 and subsequent 2027 and 2028 provides for an increase in all pensions for all categories of recipients, Svetlana Bessarab, a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs, told Izvestia.

According to her, starting from January 1, 2026, we plan to increase pensions by 7.6% for 58 million recipients of insurance pensions, both working and non-working pensioners, and from April 1, social pensions will be increased by 6.8%, as well as from October 1, military pensions will be increased. Bessarab noted that the increase is planned for 4%, taking into account the increase in monetary satisfaction of military personnel.

— Starting from February 1, 2026, it is planned to increase all social benefits and social guarantees for 40 types of interstate support, including support for pensioners, that is, social supplements to pensions of federal or regional significance — such an extensive program is sufficient, where social supplements are mainly increased by 6 ,8%, — she said. Izvestia, Bessarabia.

According to her, the pensioner's living wage will be 16.2 thousand rubles. Bessarab stressed that it should be noted that not a single pensioner in the Russian Federation will receive less than 16.2 thousand.

— Those regions where the pensioner's living wage is higher than the federal one will pay extra from their regional budgets, like Moscow. Those with lower salaries will pay extra to the federal budget, but the pensioner, in any case, will not receive less than the minimum federal level," concluded Bessarab.

Long-term care system for elderly Russians

Svetlana Bessarab shared that the long-term care system is gradually expanding to cover 500,000 Russians by 2030, including older people in need of social support.

This measure includes an hourly visit and a full inpatient stay under the supervision of specialists.

Mothers with many children in retirement

For 2026, funds have been allocated to the budget to pay those mothers with many children who have already retired. Bessarab told Izvestia about this.

According to her, the measure provides for recalculation of insurance pensions, which will be made for the period when they took care of the fifth and subsequent child. Bessarab noted that about 400,000 Russians will receive a recalculation of about 2,000 rubles for retirement.

— I think this is a good norm that will be put into effect. Money has already been invested for this, although the law itself is still being finalized and will only be adopted, but we already see that such a recalculation will be carried out starting next year," concluded Bessarab.

How is the financing carried out

Bessarab said that more than 12 trillion rubles were allocated by the federal budget for pension provision. This does not apply to former law enforcement officers and law enforcement officers, as well as retired military personnel who receive payments through state support, that is, from federal support.

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