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The minimum length of service for an old-age pension: what should it be in Russia. Minimum length of service for assigning an old-age pension in Russia

If a person is officially employed, various insurance deductions are taken from his salary. Among these deductions there is also a contribution to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. The payment of this payment entitles the citizen to receive pensions in the future. But in order for the state to pay it, a minimum insurance period is still required.

Initially, the minimum length of service for receiving a pension in Russia was five years. How much this figure is now, what periods are included in the length of service and what this concept generally implies, read further in our article.

Minimum length of service for a pension in Russia

Until January 1, 2015, the minimum labor output, which gave the right to a Russian citizen to receive payments, was five years. However, in 2015 the President of Russia signed a law on a new pension program. According to the bill, starting from 2015, the required length of service will increase by 12 months annually. And in 2024 it will be 15 years. If a person does not have an established amount of seniority, then he does not have the right to pension provision. Also, according to the innovations, now accruals consist of two parts: insurance and savings th.

Insurance depends on the size of the wages of the future pensioner, and funded from the amount of payments made. Now, to receive insurance coverage, you must accumulate at least 30 points. Their number will be affected by the size of the employee's wages, length of service and the amount of contributions. Uninterrupted length of service now does not play a role in its appointment.

By the way, how continuous experience is calculated is described in this article.

The minimum length of service for calculating a pension

The new pension program has already been put into operation. So, those citizens who have an insurance record of at least 8 years and have reached the required age can retire. Since the entry into force of the new law, the minimum length of service has already increased by 36 months. In addition, the level of payments is subject to indexation annually.

For retirement

What is the minimum length of service for an old-age pension? So, since 2015, two types of pensions have been operating in Russia insurance and savings.

Insurance is divided into three categories:


1. By old age.

2. By disability.

3. On the loss of a breadwinner.

Most citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to receive pension payments for old age. However, in order for them to be appointed, an individual must reach retirement age and have a statutory insurance output. To go on a well-deserved rest, a woman must turn 55, and a man 60. The minimum length of service for the appointment of pension guarantees today is 8 years. In addition, according to the new law on insurance payment, an employee must accumulate at least 30 points for his activities, which will also be taken into account when calculating this type of security.

You can find out what the current law on insurance pensions (with comments) looks like in the Russian Federation in 2017.

The minimum length of service for calculating a labor pension in Russia

In order for a labor pension to be assigned, a person must have a minimum working period established by law. It is not difficult to calculate it: one year of work is automatically equal to one year of the working period. For some specialties, the required length of service has been established, which allows you to take a well-deserved rest ahead of time, i.e. by seniority.

This applies to persons employed in hazardous work, living and working in difficult climatic conditions, etc. These include: miners, metallurgists, military personnel, citizens employed in the civil service, medical workers, teachers, etc. For example, the latter have the right to stop working earlier if the teaching experience is 25-30 years. This allows teachers to take a well-deserved rest when they reach the age of 50. Residents of the Far North of Russia can also go on a legal vacation before the established age. And to receive additional compensation in addition to the basic pension.

Minimum pension without service

If a citizen has not earned the minimum length of service for the entire period of his working activity, when he reaches the designated age (60 and 65 years, respectively), he has the right to apply for a social pension. Its size is at the level of the living wage. To apply for this benefit, you should contact the Department of Labor and Social Security in your city. If you are a resident of Moscow or another large city, find out which UTSP your residential area belongs to.

Until 2015, in order to accrue pensions upon entering a well-deserved rest, citizens had to have at least five years of insurance experience. Since 2015, the rules have been tightened: the concept of “labor pension” as such has ceased to exist, and the length of service has been replaced by pension points.

The minimum length of service for a pension in Russia in 2017

The current accrual system obliges future pensioners to be more attentive to the tightening of the rules for calculating the minimum length of service for assigning pension payments, since starting from January 2015, the length of service for receiving them has increased to 6 years.

In 2017, the period is designated as 8 years and continues to grow in stages by one year over ten years, that is, in 2025 it will be 15 years. A person will receive the right to accrue the minimum pension benefit if he has worked the required number of years by the time he enters a well-deserved rest. For those who retired in 2017, that figure is eight years of formal employment.

The amount of future pension payments depends on several factors:

  • the amount of remuneration (salary) accrued to a citizen officially, that is, from which deductions were made to the PF;
  • the pensioner's choice of security option;
  • age when a person went on a well-deserved rest;
  • duration of accumulated insurance experience.
Despite the innovations, the retirement age for January 2017 remained the same: for women - 55 years, for men - 60 years. The changes affected only civil servants: for this category of working citizens, the retirement age for the female half of the population will be 63 years and 65 years for men, respectively, and the length of service must be at least 20 years. These innovations will also be introduced gradually.

Since the amount of the pension is tied to the amount of the officially received salary for the entire period of employment, the presence of the insurance period and the time to go on a well-deserved rest, the general principle can be described as follows: the higher the wages and the longer the accumulated insurance period, the more tangible the expected pension will be.

What is included in the minimum length of service for calculating a pension?

According to the new established rules, when applying for an old-age pension, the insurance period is taken into account, including the duration of the stages of the future pensioner's work activity and other non-labor stages, during which the employer made contributions to the Pension Fund.

In addition to confirmed labor activity, the length of service for paying pension benefits takes into account some periods, also documented, during which a person did not work and did not pay contributions to the Pension Fund:

  • being in military service and studying at the universities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
  • the period of stay at the Employment Center and receiving unemployment benefits;
  • the impossibility of conducting labor activities in connection with caring for children from 3 to 6 years old (but not more than one and a half years for each baby);
  • time of care for a disabled citizen;
  • the period of residence of the spouse of a military man, an employee of consular offices, if there is no possibility of employment;
  • the time spent by innocently convicted persons in places of deprivation of liberty (if the innocence of the person is proven);
  • social activities for which citizens are paid.
The period of study at the university is not taken into account: the government believes that a highly qualified graduate will make up for lost time through work. More about work experience and training -.

All indicated periods can be counted in the general insurance period, provided that the person officially worked before the specified event, pension contributions were regularly paid for him, and after forced disability he returned to work.

How is the amount of the pension determined using the insurance coefficient?

Prior to the latest changes in legislation, the pension capital of an employee was formed in rubles and was subject to annual indexation. According to the new rules, a worker is credited with insurance points (coefficient) - a kind of “currency”, which is indexed in rubles when calculating a pension. The number of pension points is calculated based on the sum of all paid insurance premiums paid by the employer to the Pension Fund for the employee.


The amount of earnings directly affects the amount of deductions: at the minimum salary, a person will receive only one point per year, and in order to earn a more or less decent pension benefit, a person must earn 11.5 points in 2017. The indicator increases gradually from year to year and by 2025 it will already be 30 points.

Accordingly, the higher the official (white) salary of citizens, the more likely they are to receive decent maintenance in old age. On the official website of the PFR, you can find out the number of points and the time of the existing experience.


Such innovations are designed to bring a part of the business out of the shadows and encourage employers to appreciate the work of their employees and pay them an official salary.

How to increase the length of service if it is not enough upon retirement?

The current legislation gives citizens the right to increase the missing insurance period in the following way:
  • pay additional insurance premiums on their own, both for themselves personally and for a member of their family (for example, if one of the spouses is forced to work), while increasing the insurance period and the number of points to the required amount;
  • “buy” the missing part of the insurance period by submitting a corresponding application to the Pension Fund, after which the amount of regular payments will be assigned;
  • , after which a pension supplement is calculated, respectively, and annual points - 1.8 per year (this can be done by both a relative and any other).
If, for some reason, at the time of retirement, a person has not scored the required number of points and the required minimum length of service, he is entitled to receive a social pension, although the amount of payments is quite modest, it is added to the subsistence minimum due to regional allowances.


The unpleasant moment is that you can get a "social program" only when women reach 60 years old, and men - 65.


Citizens who, upon retirement, did not get the required amount of insurance experience and points are entitled to the payment of social assistance from the state. If you have the strength and desire, you can continue to work further, gradually increasing the length of service. At the same time, it is necessary to understand that social security is not accrued to working pensioners.

In addition, in order to receive a social pension, you need to permanently reside on the territory of Russia, when you leave it for permanent residence, payments stop. The amount of the social pension must not be less than the established subsistence minimum. All pension payments are indexed annually.

For most senior citizens, pensions are the most important, and often the only, source of income. To get decent old-age security, you need to take care of this from a young age, observing all the conditions for accumulating a minimum insurance period and the required number of points.

Earlier in Russia, the concept of continuity of work experience was in effect, according to which the duration of unemployment between dismissal and subsequent employment should not exceed 1 month. Such length of service influenced not only the accrual of various salary increments, but also the size of the pension, however, from January 1, 2007, this concept was canceled. Now, for the working population, it is not continuous work that plays a role, but insurance experience, i.e. the duration of work during a lifetime in total - the periods for which insurance contributions were made.

Now the greatest value for the size of the pension is not the number of years worked, but the size of the salary: the higher it was during labor activity, the greater the amount of the old-age benefit.

The total length of service for calculating pensions has nothing to do with insurance premiums, but it is determined based on the total duration of the work of citizens until 2002, when pension reform was launched in Russia. The purpose of such changes was to increase the level of pension provision and improve the pension system, and the program is designed up to 2024.

The necessary conditions

According to the previous Federal Law No. 173 “On labor pensions in the Russian Federation”, the monthly old-age benefit consists of a funded and insurance part. This information is partly up to date. In the first case, the age of the citizen and the deductions that the employer made for him during the period of employment are taken into account. As for the funded part, it is formed on the personal account of an individual in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation or a non-state Pension Fund. The latter implies the possibility of inheritance: after the death of the account holder, all the money can be inherited by close relatives or any other citizens by will.

In order to qualify for an insurance pension, several conditions must be met:

  • Women reach the age of 55, men - 60. Sometimes the old-age insurance pension can be accrued ahead of schedule: for example, with a coefficient of at least 6.6. Also, early retirement is provided for certain categories of workers: miners, public transport drivers, sailors, medical workers, teachers; people working in the Far North.
  • The duration of the insurance period must be at least 5 years in total. For example, if a citizen worked from 2002 to 2004, then quit and re-employed only in 2005, worked until 2008, then all these periods will be taken into account, and if it is time for him to retire due to his age, he cannot be deprived of pension payments, because he made insurance contributions for 5 years.
  • Have at least 30 individual pension points in your account, which are determined by the paid insurance premiums. The value of 30 points will be relevant only in a few years, and at the moment the coefficient will gradually increase, starting from 6.6 points.

Separately, it is worth highlighting the citizens employed in the Far North. They are entitled to early retirement: women can finish their labor activity at 50, and men at 55, if the total work experience is at least 15 and 20 years, respectively. When working in areas equivalent to the Far North, the duration of work should be 20 and 25 years.

Individual cases can be singled out when people working in the Far North or adjacent areas can retire earlier:

  • Women who are raising two or more children and have worked from 12 to 17 years can go on a well-deserved rest after reaching the age of 50. If they were employed in areas equated to the Far North, then 20 years of experience are required.
  • Citizens working in hunting areas can retire at 50 (men) and 45 (women) if the length of service is 25 and 20 years.

Insurance pension and insurance experience: what is it?

In accordance with current legislation, the insurance period is the total duration of the citizen's labor activity, during which insurance accruals were made to the Pension Fund. Previously, the concept of "work experience" was in effect - the period of work of citizens in various organizations. It could be called continuous only if the interval between dismissal and registration for work did not exceed 1 month.

Now, for the formation of an insurance pension, it is the insurance, and not the length of service, that is important, because. officially this concept is abolished. This is due to the entry into force of Federal Law No. 400 “On insurance pensions”, which separately allocates the insurance part and downplays the value of the funded one. Nevertheless, any citizen can make cumulative contributions to the non-state Pension Fund voluntarily, while his employer must make insurance contributions without fail.

Some experts equate a labor pension with an insurance one, pointing out that at the legislative level they are interpreted approximately the same way. However, it should be borne in mind that when forming an insurance pension, periods are also taken into account when citizens did not work and did not make contributions, but this time is still included in the length of service: maternity leave, military service, etc.

The insurance component of the labor pension under Federal Law No. 173 and the insurance pension under Federal Law No. 400: what are the differences?

The main difference between labor and insurance pensions lies in the procedure for calculating and conditions for granting:

  • To receive a labor pension, the amount of insurance contributions made is important.
  • The insurance pension depends on the accumulated points and the minimum insurance period (at least 6.6 units and 5 years of work in total).

When drafting Federal Law No. 400 “On Insurance Pensions”, legislators planned a gradual increase in the insurance period and the number of points, and by 2024 it is planned to achieve 15 years of experience for calculating a pension, as well as a certain amount of points - 30 instead of the current 6.6.

Forced absence from work: what periods are included in the length of service?

To this question in Art. 11 of the Federal Law No. 173 "On labor pensions ..." a direct answer is given. Despite the fact that Federal Law No. 400 is now used instead of this legislative act, its rules governing the calculation of the amount of labor and insurance pensions remain in force. The following periods must be included in the total experience:

  • Being on maternity leave to care for a child up to 1.5 years. The total duration of such holidays should not exceed 4.5 years. Anything over this period will not be taken into account.
  • Passage of military service.
  • Status registered at the Employment Center.
  • Participation in community and social work.
  • Moving a civil servant from one place of work to another.
  • Unreasonable bringing to criminal liability with imprisonment and subsequent withdrawal of charges.
  • Caring for a disabled person of the 1st group, an elderly parent over the age of 80 or a disabled child.
  • Residence of the spouse of a serviceman abroad at the place of service of her husband, if she does not have the opportunity to find a job. The total duration of unemployment for this reason should not exceed 5 years.
  • Temporary disability due to illness.

It is worth noting that any of the above reasons can be included in the work experience only if the citizen was previously officially employed.

Calculation of seniority for calculating a pension

In Art. 13 of the current Federal Law No. 400 indicates that the calculation of the insurance period is carried out in a calendar order, and an equal period of work is taken for 1 year of service. If, in addition to caring for a child under the age of 1.5 years, a citizen also cared for an elderly relative or one with a disability of group 1, then any of these periods may be included in the insurance period of her choice.

  • Individual entrepreneurs, farmers and citizens who worked under an employment contract with individuals. Their insurance experience includes only the periods of making insurance premiums.
  • Citizens who are on a pension for seniority or for disability received in the course of service. They can also apply for insurance pensions, however, in this case, the service periods previously taken into account for receiving a pension will not be included in the insurance period.
  • Authors of various works of art and literature, selling licenses and making deductions from the amounts received from the sale to the FIU. If the amount of contributions is less than the fixed amount established for a particular year, then the insurance period is calculated in proportion to the amount paid, but it cannot be less than 30 days. If the amount exceeds a fixed amount, then 1 calendar year is included in the length of service.

How is the length of service for calculating a pension calculated and confirmed?

On April 1, 1996, Federal Law No. 27 “On individual (personalized) accounting ...” came into force, and from that moment on, the calculation of the insurance period is divided into two intervals: before the introduction of this law, and after it began to operate.

To confirm the length of service for the period of work until 1996, certificates from employers are required. Employment time after 1996 is confirmed using the system of universal personalized accounting, which is maintained by employees of the Pension Fund.

What to do if the documents to confirm employment before 1996 are lost or there is no way to get them from the employer? In this case, several options are possible:

  • Apply for the restoration of the work book in court. The testimony of two witnesses who can confirm labor activity in the organization will not be superfluous.
  • Request information from the Pension Fund. To do this, you need to submit a written application to the territorial office of the PFR, and within 10 days a certificate of seniority will be issued indicating the periods and places of work.
  • Contact the State Archives for information. Upon written request, information on periods and places of work with specific dates can be issued.

What is the conversion of pension rights?

The conversion of pension rights is a reassessment of the length of service and earnings of citizens as of January 1, 2002, when the pension reform was launched. When converting, only the period of work of a citizen before the specified date is taken into account.

After the reform was launched in 2002, the personal accounts of all employed citizens began to receive insurance premiums made by managers, and if until that time the length of service and average monthly earnings over the past 2 years had significantly affected the size of pensions, now such indicators are of no particular importance. In this regard, the authorities had a problem, because. it was necessary to combine the accumulation of insurance premiums with the previously valid pension rights of citizens who worked before 2002. This issue was helped to solve by the conversion of rights, with the help of which it was possible to transfer them into real money capital. In 2010, it was increased by 10%, and for those who worked before 1991, they began to add 1% for each year of experience.

Calculation of pension benefits: is continuous experience needed?

As mentioned earlier, continuous work experience is the period of work of a citizen in one or more organizations, if the interval between dismissal and the subsequent execution of an employment contract is less than one month. At the moment, for the calculation and calculation of the insurance pension, the continuity of work does not matter, because. in fact, only insurance experience is taken into account.

Summing up, it should be noted that the size of the pension is affected not only by the length of service, but also by other factors: age, salary and the type of pension provision: insurance or funded.

The current situation in the country has provoked a number of serious reforms. Reforms affect all spheres, not excluding social ones. However, the pension system has been reformed for a very long time, since the Soviet era. But more noticeable and radical changes began already in the 21st century.

Perhaps these questions would have been put off for a long time, but the need is already ripe. For a couple of decades of reforms, the principles for assigning pensions have changed several times. But the general direction does not deviate from the one outlined earlier.

To date, the main concept used in calculating the pension is the total length of service. From 2017, at least 8 years of such experience will be required for a pension. In 2015, 6 years were needed, in 2016 - 7. That is, every year the minimum length of service increases by one year.

Since 2017, the length of service (insurance) includes periods in which pension contributions were transferred for the employee. If the future pensioner receives a "gray" salary, contributions are transferred only from its official part. Now everyone is well aware of how unprofitable it is. But with the existing limit on the amount from above, from the point of view of the insured, it does not make sense to “show” the salary above a certain level.

The creation of a draft reform for the coming year will affect many of the existing principles of the current law. In particular, the accrual of insurance experience from 2017 for pensions will also change. After several years of practical testing of the accumulative system, legislators came to the decision that the work experience of an employee should be divided into insurance and non-insurance. First of all, the non-insurance period includes periods when pension contributions were not transferred to the employee. This could happen when applying for a job without an employment contract. Other options:

  • periods already taken into account earlier when establishing a superannuation pension;
  • used in calculating the pension of a foreign state;
  • being in places of detention.

In order for the insurance period in 2017 (for pension) to have a positive impact on future provision, it must have a certain minimum duration. Next year, this minimum will be eight years. It is planned to gradually increase this period to 15 years, which will happen by 2024. This order is due to the fact that most of the population has already retired under the old laws, and the other, which will soon have this event, will also be issued according to the “transitional” option, since they did not have time to accumulate enough experience for an insurance pension. Given that the retirement age will no doubt rise - sharply or gradually - people younger than 1967 will not reach the new retirement age until 2027. By then, the system should be stable. Unless, of course, things get worse.

The calculation of the insurance period in 2017, if several insurance periods coincide, is made at the choice of the pensioner. It often happens that a person did not work for objectively important reasons, for example:

  • illness of the person himself;
  • illness of close relatives requiring care for them;
  • registration at the labor exchange;
  • maternity leave;
  • unjustified detention, etc.

What will happen to the calculation of insurance experience in 2017?

The pension system is being developed and tested on the go. Its creators and ideologists, of course, do not invent anything themselves. They use schemes that work in other countries and have proven to be effective. But the criteria for efficiency is an ambiguous question. For a competent transfer of the mechanism to Russian soil, many factors must be taken into account. First, it is important to correctly assess the realities that exist in Russia. Secondly, it is necessary to evaluate the pension systems of other countries from the point of view of precisely our realities.

Initially, when modernizing the old system, the pension models of European countries were taken as a basis. But the specifics of a country with a small area and a small population dictated its own rules, and even those that were applicable turned out to be ineffective in our country. The history of the economic development of European countries and ours is too different. Different historical and economic past has grown a different mentality.

Attempts to get on the "European rails" were carried out for more than one year. The accumulative financing system justified itself with a high level of state income. When the flow of petrodollars decreased several times, it became obvious that it would not be possible to accumulate funds.

You can invent new ways to replenish the pension budget, such as the proposed increase in the contribution rate - from 22 to 26 percent. At the same time, the rate on the amount of exceeding the maximum is proposed to be reduced from 10 to 8.5 percent. The initiators of this proposal expect that this will cause an increase in revenues to the fund's budget by about 56 billion rubles.

But it is not a fact that enterprises that previously found it profitable to “whitewash” the salaries of employees will not return to the “gray” scheme again. Of course, this will not affect the insurance period from 2017, but it will affect the amount of transfers, and, accordingly, the points earned by the employee.

Attempts to combine the two schemes - compulsory and voluntary pension insurance - have shown that this is not a viable option. The search for an option that reduces the burden on the budget and at the same time maintains investment attractiveness for the population continues.

The next test option is the New Zealand and Australian pension scheme. In these countries, the so-called imputed model of pension insurance operates. It looks like this. The state sets the contribution rates for pension insurance, the funds are transferred to non-state pension funds, and the management of this money is entirely the prerogative of the funds. By default, every citizen begins to participate in this system from the first day of his working life.

There are opinions that the New Zealand pension model is the most effective in the world. How reliable this is should be known to those who consider this model as a model for creating a Russian one. The problem is that in the short term, the effectiveness of changes cannot be assessed. It takes years and decades. And in the future, their people will still reach retirement age.

With the entry into force of Law No. 400-FZ, signed on December 28, 2013, special attention is paid to such a concept as seniority for retirement. Let's consider how to include the earned experience in 2019 in the calculation of the upcoming pension.

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Criteria for calculating maintenance under the system of compulsory pension insurance (OPS)

The main criteria for receiving maintenance from the budget of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) include the presence of a certain period of official employment. Otherwise, the applicant will be denied the appointment of payments.

In addition, PFR specialists carefully study all entries in work books (TC). Some cause them doubts, which means they are not included in the insurance period. The last unpleasant circumstance reduces the likelihood of obtaining decent content.

Law No. 400-FZ lists all the conditions under which the insured person has the right to claim.

These include:

  1. The very fact of insurance in the OPS system. It is proved by the presence of a personal number, confirmed by a certificate (SNILS).
  2. Operating time during the working life of a strictly established minimum period. In 2019, it is equal to 10 years.
  3. Availability of a certain number of coefficients (points) on a personal account. For 2019 - 16.2. They arise:
    • by converting into points the contributions to the Pension Fund made for the worker by the employer;
    • by adding a strictly established amount for non-insurance cases.
Attention: Law No. 400-FZ defines preferential conditions for calculating pension benefits.

What periods of work are taken into account when assigning a pension

Before the introduction of the new legislation, there was a minimum criterion for participation in the work activity equal to five years. But since 2015, everything has changed. This parameter is gradually increasing. In 2024, it will reach a maximum value of 15 years.

Attention: in order to get in 2019, you need to work out a total of 10 years.

However, simply working is not enough. was carried out on the following basis:

  • each insured citizen receives a maintenance proportional to his contribution to the formation of the solidary budget of the PFR.

Thus, the length of service is a set of periods of labor activity with the following characteristics:

  • officially;
  • with the transfer of contributions to the PFR budget by the employer for the worker.

The last circumstance when taking into account points is decisive. If the company does not make mandatory transfers to the FIU, all employees lose the right to include periods of non-payment in insurance.

Evaluation takes place according to the following rules:

  • the length of service for the time of work until 01/01/2015 is calculated separately on the basis of the rules and benefits in force at that time;
  • after the specified date, the terms of work activities are calculated in accordance with Law No. 400-FZ.

The following rules apply when calculating seniority:

  1. All terms included in the work book are calculated in calendar order.
  2. A proportionally full year is taken into account for citizens who worked:
    • in seasonal places;
    • during navigation on water transport.
  3. The periods of work abroad are taken into account, for which deductions are made to the FIU.
  4. The periods of labor activity of workers of peasant (farmer) households, workers of the peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East are included in the length of service in the event that contributions to the Pension Fund were paid.
  5. If insurance and non-insurance coincide, one of them is taken into account at the person's choice.

Periods taken into account are not taken into account:

  • when assigning a pension for service;
  • when accruing maintenance under the laws of a foreign state.
Important: for individual entrepreneurs and other self-employed citizens, the experience is calculated on the basis of contributions made to the Pension Fund.

Continuity of experience

When changing jobs, continuity of service is maintained under the following conditions:

  • the break time does not exceed one month;
  • upon dismissal of one's own free will, subsequent employment occurred within three weeks;
  • a person who has worked in the position for at least a year.
Attention: Continuity does not affect the accrual of old-age insurance benefits.

How to independently calculate the insurance periods according to the work book

The main document before the reform of the OPS system was the work book (TK). This document was started once in a lifetime. It recorded all the terms of participation in the production process.

Attention: as conceived by the legislator, TCs will go down in history after all citizens who worked before 2002 are assigned old-age maintenance. Insurance time will be taken into account exclusively in the OPT system.

  • on recruitment;
  • about dismissal.
  • service in the army and work in law enforcement agencies;
  • parental leave (no more than 6 years in total);
  • implementation of public duties;
  • civil service;
  • accounting by employment authorities;
  • otherwise.

Example

Suppose there are six work records in the TC:

  1. From 05/17/1993 to 03/23/2007.
  2. From 03/29/2007 to 08/31/2007.
  3. From 09/01/2007 to 09/14/2008.

The personnel officer takes into account the following parameters for calculation:

  • 12 months in a year;
  • 30 days each.

The calculation technology is based on the intervals of the dates of admission and dismissal.

  1. It is necessary to write out everything and sum them up in date format:
    • admission to the service: (05/17/1993) + (03/29/2007) + (09/01/2007) = 47.17.6007;
    • dismissal: (03/23/2007) + (08/31/2007) + (09/14/2008) = 68.20.6022;
    • now it is necessary to subtract "reception" from "dismissal", using them as numbers: 68206022 - 47176007 = 21030015;
    • the resulting value is converted into the date format: 03/21/0015, which is equal to 15 years, three months and twenty-one days.
  2. For accuracy, you must add three more days of admission to the service, which fell out of the calculation.
  3. You will get an experience of 15 years, 3 months and 24 days.

The right to early retirement


 The legislation defines the categories of citizens who can receive support from the PFR budget ahead of schedule. These include:

  1. Workers of the Far North (KS) and equivalent areas.
  2. Hazardous and .
  3. Workers who have retired on a seniority basis (military, civil servants, medical workers, teachers, workers in creative professions).
Attention: people of pre-retirement age registered with the employment authorities receive special preferences. They can be assigned a pension one and a half years earlier than they should, provided that they do not participate in labor activity.

"Northern experience" reduces the overall retirement age by five years. It is taken into account if the following requirements are met:

  1. The total period of labor is 20 years for women and 25 for men;
    • 15 of them are in northern conditions.
  2. Either the general one is the same;
    • of which 20 years of work in areas equated to the COP.
  3. For women who have given birth and raised two children, the criterion has been reduced to 12 northern years, in equated areas - to 17.
  4. Fishers of the Far North (hunters and reindeer herders, for example) may require maintenance by age even earlier, provided they have been working in the industry for 20 years:
    • women at 45;
    • men - at 50.
Attention: all the grounds for early application for age benefits are given in Chapter 6 of Law No. 400-FZ. Important: from 2019, a new pension reform will take effect. In particular, it will touch upon the issue of obtaining a pension on preferential terms.

If there is no minimum experience


 If a person did not work or did not get the length of service to the required level, then they will not leave him without income. Under such conditions it is necessary. It differs from labor size. It is minimal.

At the same time, the age threshold for assigning social benefits is somewhat different. Namely:

  • 60th anniversary for women;
  • 65th anniversary for men.

The social benefit is a guarantee of the state. It is assigned to all elderly people and disabled people who do not have periods of labor activity. Its size is brought to the level of the subsistence minimum through the implementation of the federal surcharge.

Attention! From January 1, 2019, all the main indicators of the pension system will change, including the age at which it will be possible to claim a social pension.

The legislation provides for benefits for people from the indigenous peoples of the Far North. They receive social benefits ten years earlier:

  • from the 55th anniversary of men;
  • from the 50th anniversary of women.


Problems in a person may arise during the study of records in the shopping mall. To prevent them, you need to fire out the following actions:

  1. Go to an appointment with a PFR specialist in advance and show him the shopping mall.
  2. An experienced worker will point out records that will not pass the test for validity (doubtful).
  3. To confirm them, archival certificates are needed.
  4. Order them in advance, so as not to lose in the amounts of payments later.
  5. It may be necessary to restore certain terms of work through the court. This will also take time.

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