Single pensioners want to fully compensate for housing and communal services payments

Single pensioners in Russia were offered full compensation for housing and communal services payments if they reached the age of 80. If they are 65 years old, they want to be exempt from 50% of the cost of services. As Izvestia found out, Sergei Mironov, leader of the Fair Russia Party, and Yana Lantratova, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Civil Society Development, Public and Religious Associations, addressed such a proposal to Irek Fayzullin, head of the Ministry of Construction.

"Based on a study conducted by the Higher School of Economics in 2025, in Russia, people over the age of 70 direct more than 80% of their income to cover basic needs: buying food, medicines and paying for utilities. According to the study, the main expenses of Russian pensioners include food (45% of income among people over 70 years old), housing and communal services and rent (17%, with rent being less than 1%), medicines and medicine (15%, this proportion increases with age). Experts also noted that after the age of 60, the costs of clothing, entertainment and travel are reduced. It is necessary to direct all efforts to ensure economic sustainability and a decent life for the older generation," the document says, which is available to Izvestia.

Mironov stated the need to establish uniform federal benefits to compensate for the cost of housing and utilities for single pensioners. According to him, half of the amount should be compensated from the age of 65, and fully from the age of 80, including the cost of buying and delivering fuel for homes without central heating.

He noted that today, compensation for utility bills, like many other benefits for senior citizens, are regulated by regional legislation.

"The amount of benefits depends on the financial capabilities of the regions, which causes fair dissatisfaction among the elderly. After all, they all worked equally for the benefit of the country at one time, and now their benefits depend on their place of residence," the parliamentarian said.

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Yaroslav Nilov, head of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs, said on February 25 that it was necessary to reduce the percentage of housing and communal services costs for pensioners and beneficiaries, as well as introduce automatic registration of subsidies for these purposes. Currently, the federal cost threshold for housing and communal services, when exceeded, a family is eligible for a subsidy, is 22% of total income.

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