The minimum pension in Crimea from January 1, 2020. What is the current average pension in Crimea?

The minimum pension in Crimea in 2020, as in other regions, has undergone changes. The Crimean peninsula has been part of the Russian Federation for 4 years. Russia provides provision for elderly citizens. There is no concept of minimum payments in the country. This is justified by the fact that the regions have different standards of living and material security.

The peninsula was no exception. In general, the amounts are approximately the same, the difference is insignificant, namely 8530 rubles . The state issues the amount of money depending on many factors. Therefore, those who apply for benefits this year should bring the maximum number of documents. This will help avoid problems, and the registration process will not raise unnecessary questions.

Types of pensions on the Crimean peninsula

Pensions can be insurance or state.
Watch the video about how Russian, in particular Crimean, pensioners live.

Types of pension insurance:

Payment upon reaching retirement age.
State disability benefits.
Payment in case of loss of a breadwinner.

These types of benefits are paid to disabled Crimeans who have a disability of the first, second or third group or at least 1 day of insurance experience, as well as disabled relatives of a deceased person who were supported by him during his life.

Types of government contributions: For old age. This category of payments is paid only to pensioners who suffered as a result of man-made or radiation disasters. To calculate such a pension, you must have at least 5 years of work experience.

Due to disability.
For the loss of a breadwinner. This type of pension payment is available only to children who have lost their father. It is also worth noting that, according to the law, children under 23 years of age have the right to receive such payments, provided that they are in full-time education, that is, they do not have the opportunity to find a job due to their studies.
By length of service. This type of payment is available only to military and government employees.
Social old age pension. Such a pension is accrued in case of insufficient work experience to a person aged 65 years (for men) and 60 years (for women).

How is a pension calculated in the Russian Federation?

In other words, if a person has 8 or more years of work experience, then he will receive a pension of 55 or 60 years, depending on gender, but if there is no such work experience, then the payment of the pension is deferred for 5 years.

Benefits for Crimean pensioners

Crimean pensioners are entitled to the same benefits as others. However, it should be taken into account that the volume of their provision depends on the status of the pensioner himself. For example, WWII participants have significantly more preferences than a person simply receiving an old-age insurance pension.

All benefits can be divided into federal and regional. The first, among others, include:

exemption from property tax if it is the only one and is not used for commercial purposes;
benefits regarding the provision of medicines and medical care;
improvement of living conditions in case of need.

Be sure to read it! The insured person - who is he, his rights and obligations

The most significant regional benefits are provided to certain categories of Crimean pensioners:

compensation for housing and communal services;
the right to take advantage of reduced prices for public transport.

What is a saved pension in Crimea?

Before the entry of the South of Ukraine into the Russian Federation, citizens of retirement age received monthly amounts in hryvnia. After the change of power and the establishment of another country, various reforms followed.

The old pension reform was replaced by a new one. It happened this way. The fixed cost of payment was converted at the exchange rate into rubles. Thus, the pensioner began to receive more with Russian money.

This is called saved.

Later, the payments were recalculated and converted into rubles, and they offered to choose the saved one or the new recalculated one.

Pension calculation

Let us remind you that in Russia the concept of a minimum pension does not exist. Minimum pension payments are set depending on the cost of living in the region. Based on this, it can be noted that the minimum pension in Crimea in 2020 is 8,530 rubles .

Today, many people are wondering whether the minimum wage (minimum wage) affects the amount of the pension? The answer is clear - no. Even if the minimum wage increases, this will not affect pension payments in any way. Therefore, you should not expect indexation of pensions.

The pension is calculated according to the following formula: the amount of accumulated pension points is multiplied by the cost of one point and the fixed payment is subtracted. This formula is actually extremely complex, because it is the Russian Pension Fund that sets the value of pension points, so calculating the pension yourself is extremely difficult.

Employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation in Crimea will help you sort out all the questions that arise.

Peculiarities of pension calculation in Crimea

Putin signed the law on pension changes. From January 1, 2020, pension provision for residents of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol is carried out in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation.
In order to calculate the pensions of Crimeans under the new legislation and at the same time take into account the length of service that they developed while the peninsula was part of Ukraine, the State Duma adopted the federal law “On the peculiarities of pension provision for citizens of the Russian Federation living in the territories of the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol” No. 208 -FZ. It takes into account work on the territory of Ukraine until March 16, 2014 inclusive, and on the territory of the Republic of Crimea or the federal city of Sevastopol during the period from March 17 to December 31, 2014 inclusive. Insurance premiums accrued for the period since 2002 remained in Ukraine. Therefore, to calculate insurance premiums for residents of the peninsula, the average monthly salary of the Russian region closest to Crimea, the Krasnodar Territory, was taken as a basis. According to the law, it is 24,245.70 rubles.

“In the Russian Federation, until January 2002, the law of November 20, 1990 was in force, according to which both length of service and earnings for any 60 consecutive months were taken into account. This norm also applies to Crimeans. The length of service developed before 2002 is fully taken into account, as is the insurance period developed in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. Registration in the compulsory pension insurance system of the Russian Federation in Crimea began in August 2014, when many organizations registered in it and paid insurance premiums for their employees to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. The periods after registration in the compulsory pension insurance system of the Russian Federation are already taken into account based on information from individual personal accounts in the Pension Fund,” explained Svetlana Gorbunova.

Crimean pensioners actively use modern banking services. Thus, the period of working activity of Crimeans who have already retired or are retiring is essentially divided into three periods.

The first is until January 2002, it is confirmed by entries in the work book or certificates of work activity, taking into account wages for any five years in a row.
The second - from January 2002 until registration in the Russian compulsory pension insurance system (OPS), it is taken into account on the basis of entries in work books.
The third period is after registration in the OPS system, it is taken into account based on the information of the individual personal account.

According to Svetlana Gorbunova, the problem of unaccounted payments from Crimeans to the Pension Fund of Ukraine is generally resolved by the current Russian legislation.

“Indeed, all payments from Crimeans for work during the Ukrainian period went to Kyiv, no one will return them to us. But Russia has committed itself to accounting for these periods on the basis of the average monthly salary of the nearby region - the Krasnodar Territory. The average monthly salary there is very high, and in this aspect the residents of Crimea were not left deprived. And we calculate insurance premiums for this period according to entries in work books and include them in the calculation of pensions,” noted the head of the profile department of the Crimean branch of the Russian Pension Fund.

About changes in the lives of Crimean pensioners

To understand the essence of changes in the size of pensions of Crimean pensioners, it is necessary to take into account the mechanism for forming the minimum pension provision under the new legislation.

A fixed payment is established for different categories of citizens. The pension coefficient is set by the government taking into account inflation based on economic calculations.

All the calculation formulas, to which Russians gradually began to adapt, did not work in Crimea at first, since the accumulation of funds in Ukraine took place according to a different principle. Therefore, their own calculation system was developed specifically for Crimeans.

In 2014, non-working pensioners were accrued a pension according to Ukrainian legislation, but it was converted at the Central Bank rate and special payments were added to it.

From 01/01/15, the calculation of pensions began in accordance with the law. At the same time, work experience and the average monthly salary were taken into account, which was equal to earnings in border areas and was calculated in the amount of 24,245 rubles.

Pensions of Crimean residents turned out to be significant, this impression was not spoiled even by rising prices, because Crimean pensioners had something to compare with: at the end of 2020, the average pension amounted to 12,015 rubles, and in Sevastopol 13,037 rubles, which exceeded the pension level across Russia.

Peculiarities of pension calculation in Crimea

The procedure for assigning pension benefits is carried out when citizens apply to the Pension Fund branches at their place of residence. If retirement age was reached earlier than 2020 , the fund undertakes to pay benefits for all months starting from January 1, 2020 .

When calculating pensions for Crimean residents, the same principles and methods are used as for the rest of the country’s population. If the amount of payments is less than before the 2020 recalculation, the benefit will remain at the same level.

In addition, excess amounts paid during the transition period will not be deducted from pension accruals calculated in accordance with the new current legislation. However, subsequent indexations and recalculations will not be made for these payments until their level is equal to the standards established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

To fully realize their rights in the field of social security, citizens of the peninsula should register with the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, the final result of which will be to receive a SNILS insurance number. Thanks to it, pension transfers for working persons are accumulated in an individual account. In addition, SNILS may be needed to receive a number of other government services, including medical ones.

Those non-working pensioners in Crimea and Sevastopol whose level of material security (pension plus other payments) is below the subsistence level are entitled to a federal social supplement.

Thus, for 2020, the cost of living for a pensioner in Crimea and Sevastopol was set at 6,735 rubles - this is several percentage points lower than the Russian average.

General indexation of pensions in Crimea is carried out according to the rules of the Russian Federation. This means that the amount of payments will periodically increase depending on the average cost of living established for pensioners, taking into account the increase in consumer prices over the past period.

About additional pension supplements

In addition to the fact that Crimean pensioners receive completely different pensions in Russia, social support measures are guaranteed for them:

1. A new type of state assistance is the awarding of the title “Veteran of Labor,” which will entail monetary additional payments.

2. In addition to the indexation of pensions throughout the country, the amount of other cash payments was indexed by 7%. This increase affected more than 130 thousand residents of the peninsula: disabled people, veterans, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Socialist Labor. The amount of this benefit is determined by law for each category separately.

If the pension amount does not reach the subsistence level (8,948 rubles for pensioners), then from 01/01/16 they are entitled to a federal social supplement. Its amount should bring the size of the pension to the level of the consumer basket. This measure applies only to non-working pensioners.

3. Children are not forgotten in the legislation. An allowance of 500 rubles is provided for one child up to the age of majority if:

Family income is below the subsistence level.
There are no citizens in the family who do not study, do not serve, or do not work.
Large families with three children, where the third child was born from 2015 to 2020, are entitled to a cash benefit of 9,474 rubles. The subsidy is made until the children reach the age of three.

4. Benefits for single mothers are provided for by a separate law. If the mother’s average monthly income does not reach the subsistence level, she is assigned a state subsidy from 01/01/16 in the amount of 1,500 rubles.

5. The social contract is an innovation in the law on pensions. It can be concluded with the social protection authorities of the Republic of Crimea. Citizens must have an income below the subsistence level in Crimea. The total amount of payments per year will be 90,000 rubles.

The spending of this money will be controlled by social services; it must be used for its intended purpose, for example, to open a business.

6. Regional subsidy - a special payment for the purchase of bread - 100 rubles per month. Recipients of the subsidy are low-income families with income below the level of the consumer basket.

7. Compensation for the purchase of a car in the amount of 150,000 rubles for disabled people of the Second World War, with work-related injuries, groups I, II from among the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, and other beneficiaries. The Russian Federation is thus fulfilling the long-standing unfulfilled promise of the Ukrainian government to provide transportation for disabled people.

Pensions in Crimea in 2020 latest news

That is, pensioners in May receive 2,000 more than usual. Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which the procedure for calculating pension supplements for participants in the Great Patriotic War is changing.

Experts have calculated that monthly payments to front-line soldiers will increase by an average of 9.5 thousand rubles.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War will receive a payment of 10 thousand rubles on Victory Day along with their May pensions.

Thus, it is proposed to supplement the list of agricultural specialties and include related positions. On average, insurance minimum pensions increased by rubles as a result of indexation according to the new rules.

How to apply

To apply for pension payments, you should contact the regional representative office of the Russian Pension Fund in the Republic of Crimea. This institution submits the following documents:

Applicant's passport.
Certificate of average salary for 60 consecutive months until January 1, 2002.
A document that confirms the applicant’s residence on the territory of the Crimean peninsula on March 18, 2014. Such a document could be a registration certificate or a stamp in a passport.
Certificates confirming the status of a beneficiary.
SNILS.

Documents for consideration are accepted in both Russian and Ukrainian. Usually it takes no more than 10 days to register a pension.

Early retirement

Let us remind you that since 2020, laws regulating the conditions for retirement in the Russian Federation have been in force in Crimea. According to the laws, early retirement can be taken by:

People who worked in difficult working conditions: in hazardous enterprises and underground and, as a result, received poisoning with harmful substances or experienced a lack of oxygen during the work process.
Individuals who worked in the agricultural, road or construction industries.
Women working in textile production, whose work was associated with a high degree of labor intensity.
Subway workers.
People who have been involved in geological exploration in the past.
Forestry workers.
People who served in the navy.
Rescuers.
Persons who were involved in the liquidation of emergency incidents.
Civil aviation employees.
Education system workers.
Medical workers.
People working in the cultural sector.
Women who have given birth to more than 5 children, each of whom is 8 years old.
Parents of a disabled child under 8 years of age.
People who became disabled due to hostilities.
Visually impaired people of group 1.
Dwarfs and persons born of Lilliputians.
Workers of the Far North with at least 15 years of work experience.

Disability pensions

Amount of disability pensions:

According to the law, disabled people from childhood are paid 12,577 rubles.
Group 1 disabled people receive a pension in the amount of 10,480.
Disabled people of group 2 are assigned a pension in the amount of 5,240.
The size of the pension for disabled people of group 3 in Crimea is 4,454.

Military pensions

Military pensions are paid to military pensioners, that is, people who:

They were military personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministry of Internal Affairs) and other military structures.
They were fire service workers.
They were employees of the committee that controlled the distribution of drugs.
They were executors in the penal system, that is, the police.
Served in the National Guard.

Indexation of military pensions over several years.

Retirement is possible if one of the following conditions is met:

Military service experience - at least 20 years.
Work experience is 25 years, half of which must be spent in the performance of official duties.

An additional payment to the pension is made if a person has become disabled.

Additional payment amount:

Disability groups 1 and 2 – 85%.
Disability group 3 – 50%.

Also, people with circumstances such as:

Age over 80 years.
Participation in the Great Patriotic War.
Living in the North.

In 2020, military pensions were indexed at a rate of 4% based on an adjustment to the reduction factor.

Pension calculator 2020-2020

The range of amounts available for processing by the calculator is from 5205 to 68786 rubles. This is the minimum and maximum salary subject to insurance fees. If you enter a larger or smaller amount, the future pension will be calculated based on these values. You can also indicate the conditional average salary for all working years. It is important that the payments are official, with insurance contributions paid by the employer.

Previously, the pension depended on the amount of insurance payments, which were levied on a maximum salary of 47.3 rubles. and did not directly depend on the length of work experience. Non-working experience (maternity leave, military service) had almost no effect on the size of the old-age pension.

How much do Crimeans earn?

Before the reunification of Crimea with Russia, the pension of residents of the peninsula averaged 112 dollars, that is, 3,600 rubles per month .

After joining Russia, the size of pensions for elderly people in Crimea doubled . At the same time, the increase in pension contributions occurred gradually, by 25%.

As a result, the pension of Crimean residents grows annually from 2020 to 11,200 rubles up to 13,000 rubles in 2020. There is a new law in force on the territory of Crimea that regulates the procedure for pension provision for elderly citizens of the peninsula - Federal Law No. 208 of July 21, 2014.

Currently, over 1.7 million people in Crimea receive Russian pension payments.

When the amount of pension payments does not reach the subsistence level (hereinafter referred to as LM), then older people are entitled to a social increase. This measure applies only to unemployed citizens.

In addition to basic pension payments , Crimean pensioners may qualify for the following preferential payments:

Additional payment for having the official title “Veteran of Labor” .
Annual indexation – in 2020 it is planned to recalculate the pension in several stages. Read more about indexing 2017 here!
The benefit for each minor child is 500 rubles if the pension is below the minimum monthly wage.
Signing a social contract - citizens of retirement age can sign an agreement with social protection authorities for the issuance of 90,000 rubles. These funds must be used for their intended purpose.
Regional increases for low-income pensioners – 100 rubles per month.
Compensation of 150,000 rubles when purchasing a car. These payments are due to the following categories of citizens: disabled military personnel;
disabled people of categories 1 and 2;
liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Allowance for caring for disabled citizens – 1200 rubles. Payments for caring for a disabled child amount to 5,500 rubles.

Average pension size in the republic in 2020

The average amount of benefits to citizens who have retired in the republic is 13,620 rubles.

Lowest payouts in 2020

Until 2014, for residents of the republic, the minimum payment was 3,200 rubles. Having recalculated the benefit, it became clear that this amount was not enough to ensure a satisfactory standard of living. When Crimea became Russian, pensions increased.

The minimum pension in Crimea in 2020 is 4892 rubles , which is 1.5 times less than in the Moscow region. Citizens with incomes below the minimum subsistence level, according to Russian laws, receive social supplements to a minimum.

Forecast

The Russian government has officially announced that pension payments will be indexed in 2020. According to forecasts, the insurance pension should increase by 3.7% from January 1, the social pension will increase by 4.1%. Based on this, we can conclude that the amount of the social pension will exceed 9,000 rubles, and the insurance pension will be equal to 14,075 rubles.

Online calculator for calculating pensions for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with changes in 2020, relevant in 2020

From February 1, 2020, the reduction factor is 72.23 percent of the employee’s salary. in 2020 the coefficient did not change.
From January 1, 2020, the size of official salaries and salaries by military rank has been increased by 1.04 times (Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 21, 2020 N 1598).

Federal Law “On Social Guarantees for Employees of Internal Affairs Bodies”;
Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation dated November 3, 2011 N 878 “On establishing monthly salaries for employees of internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation”;
Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 30, 2011 N 1237 “On the size of coefficients and percentage allowances and the procedure for their application for calculating the pay of military personnel performing military service under a contract, and employees of some federal executive bodies undergoing military service (service) in the regions the Far North and equivalent areas, as well as in other areas with unfavorable climatic or environmental conditions, including remote areas, highlands, desert and arid areas”;
Orders of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 288, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 627, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation No. 386, the FSB of the Russian Federation No. 369, the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation No. 855 dated July 12, 2007 (as amended on December 25, 2012) “On measures to improve the work of determining qualifications of state aviation flight personnel.”;
Federal Law of April 20, 2020 N 93-FZ “On Amendments to the Federal Law “On the Federal Budget for 2020 and for the Planning Period of 2020 and 2020”;
Bill No. 15473-7 was adopted in the third reading by the State Duma in December 2020 and approved by the Federation Council in the 2020 budget.
Federal Law No. 247 of July 19, 2011 on social guarantees.

Certificates and witnesses

A pensioner's living wage for 2020 has been approved in Crimea. One of the most common problems of many retiring Crimeans is an incorrect entry made by the employer in the work book.
For example, the document does not have the seal of the organization, the number or date of the order to enroll the employee, there is no signature of the head of the personnel department, or there are unspecified corrections to entries in the work book. In such cases, these periods of work experience must be confirmed with certificates so that they are taken into account when calculating pensions. “If these periods were spent working in Ukraine, we send appropriate requests there to confirm this length of service. So far, Ukraine is responding to us. If the work experience was earned in the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, we make a request to archival institutions or legal successor organizations,” said Svetlana Gorbunova, head of the department for organizing the assignment and recalculation of pensions of the branch of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea.

A member of the Rada criticized the Kyiv authorities for non-payment of pensions to Crimean residents. If the enterprise has already been liquidated and there is no access to its archives or the citizen for some reason does not have a work book, the insurance period can be confirmed in accordance with the procedure in force in Russia.

“The procedure provides for confirmation of insurance experience by the testimony of two or more witnesses who worked together with this person, but who have documents in their hands indicating that they worked in the same organization during this period. But to do this, you must first contact the archival institution and obtain a certificate stating that the archive of this organization has not been preserved,” explains Svetlana Gorbunova.

Changes to the pension legislation of the Russian Federation have been published. Many enterprises, the vast majority of them private, did not submit information about employees to the state archive simply because they did not want to waste time on this labor-intensive paperwork. But there are also companies that are successors to former Ukrainian enterprises that have this data. If these organizations have amended their regulations or charters to indicate that they have such documents, then they can issue certificates of experience based on the information they have.

When there is no work book, no organization, no archive, and colleagues from the former place of work cannot be found, the work experience will have to be confirmed only through the court.

So that encountering the above problems does not become unexpected and so that they do not have to get the necessary certificates in the turmoil, wasting precious time, Crimeans can check their work record two years before retirement. The pension fund provides this opportunity and even insists that people come in advance and show their documents so that, if necessary, specialists can assist them and prepare appropriate requests.

The MFC of Crimea will simplify obtaining documents for the birth of a child and retirement. In turn, individual entrepreneurs who also experience difficulties in confirming their work experience can contact the commission for the implementation of pension rights, created under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan. But at the same time, it is necessary to provide not only a certificate of entrepreneurial activity, but also receipts for payment of insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of Ukraine, as well as available tax reports and other documents that confirm that the entrepreneur worked in reality and not fictitiously.

Individual entrepreneurs need to submit documents to the PF client services at their place of residence and write a corresponding application. After this, the documentation is submitted to the commission for consideration.

Examples and formulas for calculating an old-age pension in 2020 for a woman born in 1962

We determine the length of service until 2020.
We determine the average salary in these years.
We receive our salary fund for this time (don’t forget to multiply by 12 months, of course).
We receive 16% of the amount received - how much could be transferred to the Pension Fund; the received amount is called “pension capital”.
We convert pension capital into points using the formula:

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Increasing pension provision in Crimea in 2020

This year, payments to all non-working elderly people will be indexed by 3.7%.

The following data on the indexation of pensions in Crimea in 2019 is known:

federal benefits to all persons of retirement age will increase by 4.1%, and from April 1 will become equal to 5240.65 rubles;
disabled people and WWII participants, residents of St. Petersburg during the siege period and other preferential citizens are entitled to a certain amount (DEMO), which is not indexed and amounts to 500-1000 rubles (determined by the category of the recipient);
EDV and NSU have increased by 3.2% since February 1, 2019. They are available both financially and in kind.

Citizens living on the peninsula receive all payments due to Russian citizens.

Average amount of pension contributions

Pensioners in Crimea have been receiving pensions according to the rules of Russian legislation since the beginning of 2020.

Therefore, the amount of payments depends on criteria such as:

work experience;
monthly salary amount;
the amount of contributions to the Pension Fund for the entire period of labor activity;
position held.

The average pension in Crimea is 12,000 rubles . A military pensioner receives an average pension payment of 17,000 rubles.

According to preliminary calculations, the cost of pension contributions in Crimea amounts to more than 70 billion rubles.

Features of providing for Crimeans who have retired

In accordance with the legislation on the assignment of benefits to Crimean residents after retirement, from January 1, 2015, federal laws on insurance and social pensions are used on the peninsula. Residents of the peninsula can provide documentation on the amount of salary and length of service if this leads to an increase in the size of the pension. Crimeans can provide documentation in Ukrainian.

To recalculate the pension amount, you do not need to submit a separate application and information, in addition to payment data. The availability of pension payments is not being reviewed. When the recalculation of the pension in Crimea in 2020 leads to its reduction, the amount received is left the same.

Some persons are entitled to several payments simultaneously:

disabled people;
those participating in hostilities, military personnel with privileges;
relatives of military personnel who died during military service or due to injuries received in service.

Since 2020, legislation on funded provision for pensioners has been in force, according to which persons born in 1967 can consent to the drawing up of an insurance pension or to the payment of both funded and insurance pensions.

Pensions in Crimea now

For 2 years now, new legislative acts regarding the calculation of pension payments have been in force in Crimea, which are regulated by two main federal laws:

№ 400.
№ 166.

According to these laws, pensions will be assigned to men after 65 years of age and women after 60 years of age. In this case, the insurance period must be at least 8 years in total. According to the innovations, the insurance period is calculated until 2002. The average salary is calculated based on a person's salary in the period from 2000 to 2002. All amounts are converted into rubles at the exchange rate effective January 1, 2002. After 2002, length of service is not taken into account according to innovations in the pension legislation of the Russian Federation.

How Crimean pensioners live today

How do Crimean pensioners live today? You say - yes, at least as well as in other provincial regions! There are just a few factors to consider:

Crimea should hardly be classified as a provincial region with its resort attractiveness;
prices on the peninsula are much higher than in the Krasnodar region, and are closer to the northern ones. Although Krymstat believes that the cost of the minimum set of food products per person at the end of July 2020 is just over 4,300 rubles. I wonder if any of the officials tried to live on such “money”?
Utilities are increased on average 2 times a year, and the lion's share of the pension is spent on housing and communal services payments.

Crimeans living in resort towns have only one advantage compared to other compatriots - renting out housing during the holiday season, from which you can really make good money and provide yourself with a good additional income to your pension benefit, allowing you to live more or less decently in the autumn season. winter period. But if elderly people do not have such an opportunity, such as residents of the steppe regions, Krasnoperekopsk or Armyansk, then you can only rely on the help of adult children or wealthier close relatives. There are no more options!