The Ministry of Defense forgot about 2% to military pensions above inflation and 2% to 73.68%...

Who is entitled to payments?

Current legislation divides military personnel into 2 categories:

contract military personnel of the Russian Federation, CIS countries and other states of senior, middle and junior strength (in the presence of international acts);
conscripts with disabilities due to military injuries or illnesses received during service or within 3 months of retirement.

Depending on their classification into a certain category, Russians receive either military benefits (in the 1st case) or state benefits (in the 2nd case). The assignment of such payments for contract soldiers is made by the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Penitentiary Service, and the FSB according to the existing standards used for social protection authorities.

Attention! Social security for disabled conscripts is provided by the Pension Fund.

Do the Belarusian military have enough to live on?

Retirement for the military of the Republic of Belarus does not mean that they can lead a cloudless, carefree life in complete prosperity. Many have to continue working not out of love for the army or the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but out of need. Living on 250–300 rubles is not so easy. Meanwhile, service means self-denial and readiness to risk life and endure hardships at any moment.

The information that the military wants to increase their pensions has caused a stir among the masses. Many expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that military personnel and retirees receive more than others.

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When to apply for pension benefits

You must apply for its appointment upon actual acquisition of the relevant rights.
The reasons are:

length of service (fixed length of service record in the Armed Forces);
the appearance of disability (due to military injuries, due to illness acquired while performing military duties);
loss of breadwinner-servant.

Taking into account the key destination positions, the following logical diagrams are obtained:

for length of service - service for over 20 years, or more than 25 years of general work experience, including 12.5 years in the Armed Forces;
for disability - presence of disability 1-3 gr.,
for the loss of a breadwinner - the death of a serviceman who has financially dependent disabled people.

How is a military pension processed?

To receive payments, persons who have served in military service should contact:

to pension institutions of the Ministries, Federal Services, where the citizen served;
to the local FIU branch.

Depends on the grounds giving the right to such payment. When receiving such a pension (not for conscripts who have become disabled), it is required to timely register with the military registration and enlistment office at the place of residence, providing the necessary documentation.

Basic variation of documents provided (varies depending on specific circumstances):

a passport with a registration stamp at the place of residence in the area of jurisdiction of the military registration and enlistment office;
military ID with the required marks/stamps;
private bussiness.

After registering a citizen with the military registration and enlistment office, you can submit documents for pension assignment to the pension department of this institution.

Documents for registration

To receive military benefits, a serviceman (his family members) must provide in 2020:

passport;
military ID or other document confirming military registration;
photo 3x4;
a certificate from the PF unit confirming that the serviceman does not receive other benefits;
work book, other documents confirming the length of service (if payments are made based on the total length of service);
certificate of disability (from the ITU), conclusion of the military medical commission - for a disabled pension;
death certificate of a serviceman, certificates of family composition, from places of study and other documents - in case of loss of a breadwinner.

Appointment dates

The important point is the day of application for such social benefits. According to general rules, the day of application is the date of filing an application for a pension appointment along with the required set of documents to the pension authorities. Important!
If a citizen has not provided a complete set, he is given 3 months from the date of application to transfer the package of documents in the required volume. Then the benefit is assigned from the moment of application. If the applicant does not meet the allotted deadline, the benefit is assigned from the day all documentation is provided. The application itself is considered by the pension authorities within 10 working days from the date of application or from the date of provision of the full set of documents.

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Application for a pension

Legislative deadlines for pension assignment:

upon retirement - from the moment of dismissal;
in case of disability - from the date of establishment of the disabled person’s status;
in case of loss of a breadwinner - from the moment of his death or from the date of receipt of the corresponding pension entitlements;
in case of loss of income to the spouse or parents of military personnel - from the moment of application.

Important! If a person does not apply for benefits on time, then for the past period it will be assigned from the date the right to it arises, but no more than 12 months from the date of application.

Long service retirement

When calculating the length of service that gives the right to support from the state in connection with length of service, the entire time of service in the armed forces, the fire service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, drug control and the criminal correctional system is summed up.

As a general rule, the minimum length of service required to grant a pension in Russia is 20 years. But in a number of cases, other conditions for the provision of this social guarantee are established.

These include dismissals due to the following:

achievement by military personnel of the maximum age for service established by law;
dismissal due to organizational and staffing measures (by analogy with general labor standards, called layoff);
impossibility of further military service due to deteriorating health.

If one of these grounds exists, among the conditions for granting a pension, the law establishes the following:

reaching the age of 45 at the time of dismissal;
having a total work experience of at least 25 years;
the period of military and equivalent service is 12.5 years or more.

The total length of service of such a person includes all periods of paid labor activity, the period of entrepreneurial activity and other periods in accordance with the laws on labor and insurance pensions.

Are there plans to increase the minimum length of service from 20 to 25 years?

In connection with the general civilian increase in the retirement age for men and women by 5 years, a reasonable question arises as to how this issue is planned to be regulated in relation to military personnel. Rumors about increasing the required length of service and total work experience are actively spreading. This is not least due to the official instructions issued back in 2020, as well as the draft changes to legislation developed by the Ministry of Finance.

In reality, consideration of a bill to amend the legislation regarding increasing the length of service for military personnel is not on the agenda of the State Duma. Despite the active discussion, the issue in a practical sense has not budged, which means that the previous age for retirement in 2019 remains relevant.

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Payments to retired military personnel

People who have already been assigned social payments through the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law enforcement agencies receive them:

through Russian Post - either at the post office itself, or to your home (depending on the choice of the pensioner). The delivery period via mail and the date of accrual of payments may vary and in order to avoid incidents it is necessary to immediately take this factor into account;
by transferring to a deposit account in Sberbank of Russia - the most popular option today: most often a bank card is attached to the account with an SMS notification about changes in its balance.

Attention!
The law provides for the possibility of a third person receiving a pension if a corresponding power of attorney is issued in his name from the recipient. Every year, the pensions of military pensioners are indexed. In 2019, the indexation of such payments was carried out on October 1. The event is timed to coincide with the next increase in wages for active military and intelligence officers.

Period of pension payments to employees and their family members

There is a difference in the periods when a military pension will be paid:

service pension - indefinitely (terminates posthumously);
disability pension - for the period of disability;
for the loss of a breadwinner - during the period of incapacity for work of a family member (up to 23 years of age for the children of the deceased if they are studying full-time at a university, or up to 18 years of age if they go to work or study part-time, or do not study at all). For citizens who have reached their 65th and 60th birthdays (for men and women, respectively) - for an indefinite period.

Important! No additional sources of income, including entrepreneurship, reduce pension rights. The exception is bonuses for non-working pensioners.

Where do legs grow from?

Rumors about the abolition of military pensions began from the moment when the Ministry of Finance was instructed to analyze the procedure for the formation and calculation of pension payments.

Military experience for pension is the most significant indicator. It is this that is taken as the basis for calculating the size of the pension. Thus, the length of service directly affects the size of the pension.

In the terminology of the Government and the Ministry of Finance, the words “Social package” have recently appeared, which they very actively use.

This causes negativity among the population, trust decreases, and citizens increasingly think that in old age they will be left without a livelihood.

Payments in case of death of a pensioner

If a pensioner dies, the amount of benefits he did not receive may be paid to members of his family.
The law specifies several options for such receipt:

if family members take part in the burial, the unpaid benefits will be paid without including them in the inheritance.

To confirm the organization of a funeral, pension departments require payment documents from funeral services;

in other situations, money is paid to the heirs on a general basis.

The heirs need to contact a notary, providing documents that provide grounds for accepting the inheritance and initiating the inheritance case.

General information about the pension system of the Republic of Belarus

A pension is paid to a citizen if he meets certain conditions:

Social pensions are received by citizens who are unable to work. These are disabled people who became disabled in childhood, disabled children and families who have lost their breadwinner.
Labor. To accrue it, you must have work experience and during all years of work contribute to the state pension fund a percentage of your income determined by law.

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Pension indexation

An important point is the annual indexation of all types of pensions carried out by the government of the Republic of Belarus. This measure makes it possible not to push the country's population below the poverty line. Thus, the Belarusian pension is protected from inflation.

All citizens of the Republic of Belarus, including military personnel, can take advantage of the program, which makes it possible to accumulate additional funds to the state-assigned pension. Participation in the program is not mandatory. Everyone has the right to decide whether to connect to it or not.

As a result of recalculation from July 1, labor pensions in Belarus increased by almost 6%

Additional funds are accumulated in the funds of insurance companies, at the choice of the payer. The deductions themselves, upon his application, are made by the employer from the employee’s salary.

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The right to choose payments for military personnel and members of their families

There are situations when people who have served in military service have the opportunity to receive several benefits at the same time.
For example, after retirement, a pensioner finds a job in the usual manner and after some time he will be able to apply for an insurance age pension. Law of the Russian Federation N 4468-1 fixes the possibility of choosing a type of benefit for military personnel and members of their families when they are entitled to several benefits at the same time. Then they are assigned 1 payment of their choice.

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Law of the Russian Federation dated February 12, 1993 N 4468-1 (as amended on May 1, 2017) “On pension provision for persons who served in military service, service in internal affairs bodies, and the State fire protection system...”

Receive 2 payments at the same time

The following are entitled to receive 2 pensions at the same time:

widows/widowers of military personnel who died in the line of duty (if the death is not of a criminal nature), who have not entered into a new marriage, as well as the parents of these military personnel, can receive payment for the loss of a breadwinner and any other payment - in accordance with the law, but not for the loss of a breadwinner;
If the requirements for receiving an insurance age pension are met, citizens receiving military service or disability pensions will be able to receive both military and insurance payments at the same time. To do this, they will need to contact the territorial division of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and submit documents confirming their entitlement to an insurance age pension.

Attention!
The insurance period used to calculate the total length of service when making service payments is not used when assigning an insurance pension. Military pensioners are assigned only an old-age insurance pension (without taking into account the fixed payment) if they have at least 11 years of experience and 18.6 points in 2020 (in 2020, at least 10 years of experience and 16.2 points).

Who will benefit from the increase?

The increase will affect all military pensioners of the Republic of Belarus. Those who will feel it more than others:

veterans awarded the medal “Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR”;
veterans who moved to the Russian Federation;
disabled people of groups 1 and 2;
military personnel with more than 30 years of experience, of which more than 20 years have been service in the Armed Forces.

In 2020, military pensions are calculated in accordance with the above coefficient. This is being done in order to slightly restrain its growth and bring it more in line with what ordinary citizens of the country receive.

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Payment of pension savings

Military pensioners can form pension savings in the following cases:

if they were born in 1967 or younger and insurance premiums were paid for them while working in civilian institutions;
if they are the owners of a certificate for maternity capital and used its funds to form a funded pension;
if they are participants in the state pension co-financing program;

if they are men born in 1953-1966 and women born in 1957-1966 and in the period from 2002 to 2004 contributions to a funded pension were paid for them while working in civil organizations.

Comments (6)

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Alexander 10/05/2017 at 03:07
Are Far Eastern military pension supplements retained when moving to the western regions (Khabarovsk Territory)?
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Boris 10/05/2017 at 1:38 pm
For what reasons can pension payments be suspended?
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Svetlana 01/04/2018 at 14:18
My father served for 22 years in the Urals, retired and moved to the Rostov region. Why, when moving to the south, were the Ural pension supplements not preserved? And for several years in a row, health resort benefits have not been paid? All benefits were also removed.
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Alexander 05/12/2018 at 21:54
Hello, I have a question about the suspension of my pension from June 1, 2020. I received this message via the Internet from the Regional Military Commissariat of Tambov, but I am now in Ukraine. They report that if I do not arrive at the military registration and enlistment office by the end of May, my pension will be suspended. Russian citizenship, registration in Tambov, but I don’t actually live there. This is the officers' dormitory where I am registered.
But I live either in Ukraine with my mother or with my granddaughter in Tambov. I receive my pension regularly every month through Sberbank at an ATM, which is why I come to Russia to receive my pension. Please explain to me on what basis they want to suspend payment of my pension. It’s not free, I’ll travel just to communicate with them. My mother is elderly here - this is the reason that I am there often, i.e. in Ukraine.
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Alexander 06/30/2018 at 17:07
I am a military retiree since 1995. Until April 2020, I received a pension every month.
In 2020, he changed his place of residence. Since April 2020, payment has been suspended due to the movement of pension documents for forwarding. Finally, on June 6, 2020, I completed a package of documents at the military registration and enlistment office at the new place of residence, but on June 29, they additionally requested a flight record book for the period from 1973 to 1995. Does this mean that the pension delay will continue?
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Danil 09.27.2019 at 17:01
How to get health resort benefits? Since I retired, I haven’t traveled anywhere. Where to apply for payments?
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