How to apply for a pension through government services: conditions and features of filing an application using the Internet

The procedure for applying for an old-age pension involves preparing a whole package of necessary documents, including an application for its appointment. But before that, you need to make sure that the following requirements are met exactly:

First of all, you need to worry about the method in which you are going to apply in advance.
In addition, you should also correctly calculate the time of filing it, since according to the law this cannot be done earlier than a month before the legal right to receive pension benefits.

When choosing the option for applying for a future pension that is convenient for you, you must keep in mind that you can apply for it in various ways. To do this, the future pensioner can contact the Pension Fund directly, or the MFC at their place of residence, or send an application by mail. In addition, modern technologies make it possible to implement this procedure through electronic means of communication.

Apply for a pension through government services

Access to government services is now available on all electronic gadgets

Any person who has reached retirement age and is familiar with the procedure for working with network portals can apply for a pension through government services.

In addition, to achieve the required result, it is necessary that your application comply with the strictly established form of its completion.

Please note: All other types of pensions (for disability, for receiving a funded component and for the loss of a breadwinner) can be issued in the same way.

Features of preferences for certain categories of pensioners

A number of categories of pensioners are entitled, in addition to the standard ones, to additional benefits.

are classified as beneficiaries :

Veterans of the Second World War, local wars, home front workers;
Pensioners with various disability groups;
Military retirees;
Persons who have state awards, as well as those bearing the title of Hero of the Russian Federation or Labor;
Blockade pensioners;
Residents of the northern regions;
Liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, and citizens affected by the disaster.

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Additional social categories may be added to this list by regional regulations. You can find out more about the privileges they are entitled to at the offices of the pension fund or social security authorities.

The procedure for applying for a pension via the Internet

In order to apply for a pension through government services, you will need to complete several steps.

Preparing for registration

With two steps you will find yourself in a unified electronic system of government services

Before proceeding with the application procedure, the interested person will need to register on one of the following services:

An Internet resource specializing in the design of relevant government services;
ESIA system.

It should be noted that from a purely practical point of view, each of the offered services is quite simple, very convenient and quite informative. In order to register on it, the user will need, in addition to access to the Internet, the following documents and means of communication:

personal passport;
valid SNILS card;
working email;
registered telephone number.

Procedure for obtaining an account

To enter your personal account you need to register in the ESIA system

The sequence of operations performed during registration is as follows:

Personal account service for pensioners

In your personal account you can order different types of services

The previously described procedure for obtaining a password and registration allows you not only to create an account, but also to create your own Personal Account. Thanks to this, future retirees can realize the following opportunities:

receive complete information about the current state of your pension savings (number of points, insurance period, as well as the amount of contributions);
request information about the current status of your personal account (personal account).

In addition, they can independently calculate the amount of the components of their future pension using a software personal calculator.

Using LC services, a pensioner can also manage his funds, namely:

formalize a refusal to form a funded component in favor of its insurance part;
submit an application to change the insurer;
receive notifications from the Pension Fund about replacing the previous insurer.

By using the services of this service, each owner of a personal account gets the opportunity to:

apply for pension benefits;
choose one or another delivery method;
place an order for a certificate about the current status of various accounts and the amount of payments.

Important! For working pensioners, the LC indicates the amount of insurance payments, taking into account indexation corresponding to the amount of pension benefits that a citizen is entitled to upon completion of work.

Benefits and social support for low-income pensioners

If the pension amount is below the minimum established in the region, the pensioner can count on additional support from regional authorities. When determining the amount of pension provision, all types of income, benefits and the monetary equivalent of social benefits, which are monthly, are taken into account.
One-time payments are not taken into account. The following types of assistance apply:

social supplement to pension from the regional budget;
discounts on utility bills;
assistance in purchasing solid fuel resources or gasification at home;
free dental prosthetics, provided that precious metals and expensive materials are not used.

In some regions, low-income pensioners left without the care of relatives can count on patronage care at home (over 80 years of age) or priority right to registration in homes and boarding schools for the elderly.

Advice! A full list of services can be found by contacting the territorial department of social protection of the population.

List of required documents

What is the required package of documents?

Before submitting an application to the LC, you must prepare a set of documents, which includes the following items:

applicant's personal passport;
his work record;
a certificate of salary for 5 years of work (for a randomly selected period);
medical insurance;
certificate of insurance experience.

In the case when a set of documents is prepared in advance, visiting the Pension Fund is not at all necessary.

They are submitted together with the application through the same government services portal after you have completely completed the registration and user identification procedure.

You can send them to the portal address if you use an interactive form specially designed for this purpose, into which all electronic copies of documents are uploaded one by one.

In conclusion, we note that the advantages of using the Personal Account include the ability to quickly respond to all changes in the work of PF services, as well as contact their representative if necessary.

Expert opinion

Smirnov Vladislav Vyacheslavovich

Legal consultant with 10 years of experience. Specialization: family law. Law teacher.

By now, a significant portion of pensioners have already taken advantage of the opportunity to apply for a pension through government services and take direct part in the work of the relevant services.

In the following video you will learn how to work with the Pension Fund’s personal account:

How to apply for a pension through State Services? This is exactly the question that faces those who are entering a well-deserved retirement, but do not want to waste extra time in queues when applying for payments required by law. The single portal of State Services has significantly simplified the interaction of Russian residents with various government agencies, including the Pension Fund.

Using this service, you can significantly save time on applying for a pension and significantly simplify the procedure itself.

Reviews

Pensioners should be vigilant as scammers become more active. It must be remembered that Pension Fund employees never ask over the phone for a bank card number and its PIN code, personal data, SNILS, etc. Such questions indicate that there is an attacker on the other end of the line.

Pensioners with sufficient points accumulated and long work experience do not have problems with applying for a pension. The main gaps in the work of the Pension Fund in remote mode are the delay in processing applications and issuing official refusals, as well as technical errors when submitting an application.

In general, the remote format for processing pension payments seems to be more preferable and convenient. Many pensioners hope that this format for assigning pensions and benefits will continue and in the future they will not need to personally present documents to the fund.

Required documents

The future recipient of the pension must approach the preparation of documents responsibly. It is their package that determines the size of future payments, as well as the speed of processing the request and assigning a pension.

Before you start applying for a pension online, you will need to prepare the following documents:

passport ;
documents confirming the place of actual residence (if different from registration);
work book and other documents that can confirm the conduct of official labor activity (work);
salary certificate (for the last 5 years);
documents confirming the presence or absence of family members declared incompetent;
documents confirming the applicant’s disability (if available);
certificates of change of surname, name, and other personal data (if there were such facts).

When an applicant fills out an application for a pension in electronic form, he must provide data from these documents. The originals will need to be presented in the future when contacting the Pension Fund department.

Important. It is not yet possible to apply for a pension online. You can only submit an application online, schedule a visit to the Pension Fund, etc. You will still have to visit the territorial division of the fund with documents in person.

Latest changes in the procedure for assigning pensions in 2020

During the quarantine period from April 1 to June 30, 2020, pensions are assigned completely remotely without a visit to the Pension Fund. During this period, the fund strives to work proactively and assign pensions and all required social benefits and allowances without additional applications.

Information for assigning a pension is already available to the Pension Fund from reports submitted by employers, or is received by the fund through interdepartmental exchange channels.

For example, information on the assignment of pensions to persons with disabilities is assigned based on information from the register of disabled people (until October 1, 2020, pensions for health reasons are automatically extended without an in-person medical examination based on data from a medical institution). The allowance for northerners is assigned by the fund’s specialists in the framework of interaction with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Pensions by proxy temporarily continue to be paid in the old order without the pensioner visiting the service. Pensioners without registration will receive social pension payments until July without confirmation of place of residence.

What is required to submit an electronic application?

If an account has not been created previously, you can register it.

To do this, you need to have your SNILS and passport at hand and follow these steps:

Go to the portal and click “Register”.
Provide contact details (phone, email) and confirm them.
Enter your full name, passport details, INN and SNILS number.
Wait for the specified data to be automatically verified.

Initially, a simple profile is created on the portal. Before creating an application to the Pension Fund, it must be confirmed in any of the following ways:

through the online banking of Sberbank, Tinkoff, Post Bank;
through a code received in a regular registered letter;
through the multifunctional center (personal visit required).

How to apply online?

Everything is as automated and simplified as possible for the convenience of users.

Instructions on how to write a pension application online include 4 steps:

Find and select that you want to receive it electronically. To search, you can use the catalog (it is located in the “Pension” section) or the search bar.
Entering personal, passport data, address. Most of the information will be filled in based on the profile information automatically. If necessary, you can make adjustments to the information, for example, if it has recently changed.
Selecting the type of pension to be assigned. If the applicant is entitled to different types of pensions, then a separate application must be submitted for each of them. Additionally, you must provide information about whether the applicant is currently receiving any other pension (for example, as a military pension) or not.
Read the warning and confirm sending the application. The message contains information about the need to report to the Pension Fund about any changes in data that may affect the amount of the pension and any issues related to its payment.

The application is sent for processing to the territorial department of the Pension Fund. It will be determined automatically by registration address or residence. If necessary, the user can independently select the desired department. Information about the submitted application will appear in your profile notifications.

When the application is processed, the user will receive an invitation to visit the Pension Fund department in person in their personal account on the portal. You must show up at the appointed time.

A list of documents that you need to bring with you will be given in the invitation. They must be in original form. It is also advisable to take copies.

If a person is entitled to payments from the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, then he needs to formalize them correctly. It’s not difficult to figure out how to apply for a pension through State Services. To do this, just follow the prompts on the screen and enter the information from the documents correctly. It will take much more time to prepare a package of necessary documents.

“Pension delivery” on the State Services Portal and on the Pension Fund website

With the advent of the state portal on the Internet, it became possible to apply for a pension through a personal account on the State Services. This saves the time of future pensioners - there is no need to stand in queues at the Pension Fund to submit the relevant papers, this is very easy to do via the Internet at any suitable period of time.

We present step-by-step instructions that will help you understand the smallest nuances.

Targeted assistance

This social support program is aimed at pensioners who are lonely and find themselves in difficult life situations. The following types of support are available:

basic necessities;
food products;
clothes;
medicines.

In addition, a personal visit is provided by a city social service employee who will help in solving everyday problems: cooking, washing, cleaning . In some cases, a lonely pensioner is assigned to boarding houses under round-the-clock medical supervision.

Documents for assigning a pension via the Internet

Before submitting an application, the future pensioner must collect the following package of documentation for registration:

a document confirming the absence or presence of family members with disabilities;
general civil passport of the Russian Federation;
a certificate from the place of residence or actual stay, if the citizen does not live according to registration;
employment history. If there is none, the Pension Fund can accept from the citizen a certificate issued by the employer, which indicates the length of service;
a document indicating the average monthly income;
if your surname has changed during your life, then a document confirming this fact is required;
certificate of disability or lack thereof.

After receiving a response from the State Services on an electronic application, the originals of all documents are sent to the Pension Fund for consideration.

Instructions on how to write and submit a pension application through State Services

Before using the service and providing an application form for calculating a pension by year, a citizen must register on the State Services resource with confirmation:

go to the State Services website, click on the registration button located next to the login form;
Following the prompts, enter all the required data, including phone and email. After that, click on the “Register” button;
a confirmation code will be sent to your phone number, which should be entered in the appropriate field;
Next comes filling out the profile, you should indicate the SNILS number, series and number of the passport, and so on;
at the last stage you will have to confirm your identity, otherwise many of the portal’s functions will not be available.

There are three ways to do this: go to a specialized center, receive a code in a letter, or use an electronic signature; there are also other ways. You can find out more about identity verification by clicking on the link.

On a note! You won’t need to use any documents during registration - just fill out the required fields, but to confirm your registration at the MFC, employees will require a passport from you.

So, registration and confirmation have been successful, you can start applying for a pension:

go to the Personal Account at State Services;
find the link “Pension, benefits and benefits”;
Click on the “All” button and “Pension assignment”. To avoid such a long path, just follow the link and you will find yourself on the desired State page class=”aligncenter” width=”775″ height=”390″[/img]
in the “Electronic service” section, check the box;
click on the link “Get a service”;
To fill out an application for a pension, you must provide reliable information about yourself. Filling out begins with indicating the method of circulation. We put “personally”.
We indicate citizenship; if the pensioner has a second citizenship, this must be indicated in the field below.
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Next, you should indicate your place of birth. Nothing complicated, everything is exactly as indicated in the passport. It is enough to write the region and locality in the application
Data about the country and address will also be automatically inserted into the fields; you just need to indicate below that it matches or does not match the actual
Then we indicate whether you are working or not. The size of the pension depends on this answer. If the pensioner is not working, pension payments will be higher. But it makes no sense to give false information on the State Services portal, since when checking documents at the department, you will be denied old-age benefits. The application will have to be resubmitted.
When choosing information about the assignment of a pension on the State Services, many users are puzzled by which item to choose to correctly submit the application. If a citizen has reached retirement age, the types should indicate “Assign an old-age insurance pension.”
After selecting the type and branch of the pension fund in which you want to enroll, click on the “Submit” button and wait for the result.

At this point, submitting the form to receive a pension registration service can be considered complete. You will receive a confirmation email and an invitation to visit the Pension Fund at the appointed time.

Cumulative part of pension

For citizens born after 1966, a funded part of the pension is formed. Those born before this year can independently make additional contributions to supplement their payments in old age. Maternity capital funds can be used for the same purposes.

Find out detailed conditions and options for directing maternity (family) capital funds from the article - “Rules for directing maternity capital funds, latest edition.”

The following options for receiving pension savings are available:

One time. The entire amount accumulated before retirement age is transferred to the citizen’s account. Not everyone is entitled to such a payment. You can apply for it if the amount of monthly payments calculated from the funded part of the pension is no more than 5% of the amount of the required insurance part of the pension. Mothers who used maternity capital for this purpose can also apply for a lump sum pension. Another category that will be able to receive all the savings at once are the relatives of the deceased citizen in whose account these funds remain. Payments are made six months after the date of death.
Urgent transfers. Monthly payments are made from the date of retirement age. The recipient must independently fill out an application, indicating the period during which the transfers will be made. The period should not be less than 10 years. Only those citizens who independently chose the location of their funds can take advantage of this.
Unlimited transfers. By default, the funded part, if its value exceeds the 5% insurance barrier, will be distributed for the entire period of pension payments for life.

Scheme of how pension is determined

Additional Information

Even if your pension is not coming soon, you can find out about all the deductions on the State Services website. To do this, you need to select the “Notification of account status in the Pension Fund” section, which will receive information in almost a minute. The document will indicate the length of service calculated as of the date of the request, the amount of transfers and the name of the organizations that made them, and the future pensioner will also be able to find out his accumulated points.

You can also determine the size of your expected pension on the Internet by going to the “Pension calculator” section. This may be interesting for young citizens. You will need to enter:

current salary amount;
floor;
expected duration of military service;
planned number of children;
expected experience.

So, a month before the date of assignment of an old-age pension, you should send an application to the Pension Fund. The easiest way is to submit it through State Services. A response will be provided within 10 days. Here you can choose the method of delivering money and the possible option of receiving the savings portion.

Alternative design methods

There are other ways to apply for your pension that are worth knowing about. After all, not everyone can correctly submit an application online. You should be aware of alternative methods, including the classic personal appeal of a convenient department.

Making an appointment with the pension fund for a personal visit

When going to the pension fund to apply for a pension, it is better to make an appointment in advance at the State Services, so you do not have to sit in line. To do this, you need to select “Personal visit” at the initial stage and you will not have to write an application on the portal. In this case, you must submit it by filling it out yourself.

The application form itself can be asked from a fund employee or printed on the portal. You are allowed to visit the pension fund to calculate and accrue your old-age pension no earlier than 30 days before the retirement age.

By mail

You can forward your application for an old-age pension and seniority pension. To do this, you need to make copies of all documents, write a statement, put the relevant papers in the envelope and a second envelope to send back. The date of application for pension is considered to be the date indicated on the postal item.

Expert opinion

Smirnov Vladislav Vyacheslavovich

Legal consultant with 10 years of experience. Specialization: family law. Law teacher.

After consideration, the applicant receives a response and an invitation to the Pension Fund to provide original documentation. It is better to use the service through the MFC or the State Services Internet portal

Through MFC

You can also visit the MFC and submit an application there

Collect a complete package of documentation;
Make an appointment by phone or online;
Submit an application for a pension. If it is difficult for you to do this on your own, an employee will be happy to assist;
all documents will be sent to the Pension Fund for review, where they will determine the amount of payments taking into account the funded part of the pension.

The answer will come to the multifunctional center, where the applicant receives an answer regarding the service.

Thus, you can use a variety of ways to receive your pension. But the best option for obtaining an old-age pension would be to use State Services.

Firstly, you will not have to waste time standing in line, and secondly, you will be spared the long process of filling out a form when contacting the department. But the choice is always yours.

There are always heated conversations and fierce debates around pensions. And while many people are concerned about retirement age issues, not everyone knows the legal basis for pension payments.

However, the main thing is the nature of the receipt. In Russia it is declarative.

That is, the citizen himself takes care of his well-deserved rest. By the time you contact the Pension Fund and draw up an application, the necessary documents are prepared.

And today, applying for a pension through State Services is much more profitable than visiting the Pension Fund or MFC.

Who is entitled to receive a pension?

There are several types of insurance pension payments (Federal Law No. 400 dated 12/28/2013):

by old age;
due to acquired disability;
for the loss of a breadwinner.

Exactly the same types are available when assigning a social pension.

Each type of pension has its own procedure and conditions for its registration. The main factors that influence the receipt of a pension are:

age limit;
experience;
health conditions;
place of work;
various life circumstances: death of the sole breadwinner, living in the Far North.

To receive social pension payments, the insurance period must be at least 10 years in 2020

For example, starting from 2024, receiving an old-age insurance pension is due at the age of 60 for the female population of the country and 65 for the male population. To receive social pension payments, the insurance period must be at least 10 years in 2019, and from 2024 it will be equal to 15 years. At the same time, the age limit for receiving such a pension compared to the insurance pension has increased by 5 years and is 70 years for men and 65 for women. Also, for a pension in 2024 you will need to have a minimum coefficient of 30 points. In 2020 it is 16.2 points.

Year of retirement age on December 31, 2020		Age at which a pension is issued
Increase	Men	Women
2019	+ 6 months	60,5	55,5
2020	+ 12 months	61,5	56,5
2021	+ 36 months	63	58
2022	+ 48 months	64	59
2023 and beyond	+ 60 months	65	60

The procedure for establishing a pension through State Services

The original documentation indicated below is verified with the information of the electronic application filled out on the State Services portal after it has been sent and reviewed. Therefore, there is no need to visit the Pension Fund initially.

You need to familiarize yourself with the background information on the State Services website in the appropriate section on pensions. There you are asked to recalculate payments, select savings for insurance, and review your savings.

Next, a citizen counting on security orders a government service.

Pre-registration on the portal is required. This information is publicly available.

Expert opinion

Smirnov Vladislav Vyacheslavovich

Legal consultant with 10 years of experience. Specialization: family law. Law teacher.

In addition, step-by-step navigation on the site, which is intuitive, allows an inexperienced user to register and order a government service. Depending on whether you have an account or not, the duration of the service is determined.

So, priority registration will take time. But the fact that the state service for calculating pensions is free and saves time through the State Services portal pleases even citizens unfamiliar with Internet platforms.

Documents required for granting a pension

The list of documentation presented below is considered the same for all subjects of the Russian Federation:

Identification. Most often this is a passport. If a question arises about a representative, then his identity card and document on the right of authority are attached.
A certificate from the last workplace confirming the length of work (this is the last five years in a row and until 01/01/2002 for the entire period of work) and the average monthly salary. This point contains the most nuances, considered individually.
Employment history.

What benefits are available to old-age pensioners?

The set of benefits for old-age pensioners is usually standard for all age groups belonging to the same social category.

The exception is citizens who have crossed the 80-year-old threshold. People of such advanced age require special care and increased costs for medicines, social rehabilitation items, and so on. Therefore, the state provides them with a number of additional preferences.

Thus, they are completely exempt from paying contributions for major repairs. Persons caring for an 80-year-old pensioner receive additional payments from the state in the amount of 1,200 rubles. Also, such people have a pension insurance period for the entire time they take care of an elderly person who is no longer able to care for themselves.

Below we will consider what preferences pensioners are entitled to under standard conditions, and in the presence of certain additional conditions.

Monthly cash payment

The assignment of a cash pension is the main measure of social support for retired citizens. Thanks to this, a person who, due to old age, has lost the ability to work fully, is given the opportunity to provide himself with a minimum set of necessary goods.

The amount of the pension is not standard and depends on a number of factors:

The amount of insurance experience.
The number of available IPC points.
Presence or absence of disability
The presence of other conditions that give the right to an increased pension - state awards and titles.
The presence of dependents in the care of a pensioner also gives him the right to receive an increased pension.

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In addition to pension payments established by federal law, pensioners are often assigned regional additional payments. They can be regular or one-time. In the first case, they are paid monthly, and in the second - on certain significant dates, holidays, and anniversaries.

Benefits for housing and communal services

In accordance with Article No. 160 of the Housing Code, pensioners are fully or partially exempt from paying bills if certain additional conditions :

The pensioner must pay the utility bills presented to him on time;
The cost of paying for housing and communal services is higher than 22% of his pension;
The citizen is not a working pensioner and has no other financial sources other than pension payments.

Benefits for an apartment are provided only if the pensioner is its owner.

In the article “Utility benefits for pensioners” you can find out the details of this preference.

Benefits for major repairs

Contributions to the capital repair fund are paid by all residents of apartment buildings.

Only certain categories of the population are exempt from them. This category also includes pensioners whose age has reached the age of 80. They may not pay contributions to the capital repair fund completely.

But this benefit does not apply to other members of their families living in the same apartment.

Benefits for purchasing housing

There is no state program for providing preferential housing to old-age pensioners today. To do this, they must be eligible to receive additional benefits.

This privileged group includes:

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
Pensioners who retired from the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other paramilitary structures, according to length of service.
Persons who retired in the northern regions and want to move to another region of the country. In this case, the citizen must have the minimum established northern experience (20 or 25 years, depending on gender).

Citizens of retirement age who do not have their own home in a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation are provided with municipal housing, on the basis of social rent. The same rule applies if the housing owned by a pensioner is recognized as unsafe.

Tax benefits

At the state level, legislation provides benefits for pensioners regarding the payment of a number of taxes. Thus, one of the real estate properties owned by a pensioner is completely exempt from taxation. A prerequisite for this is that this object is not commercial, that is, generating direct cash income for the citizen.

Land tax paid on plots of less than 6 acres is returned to pensioners in the form of a tax deduction. Regional authorities have the right, on their own initiative, to exempt pensioners from local taxes - for example, transport taxes.

not subject to taxation :

Pension and social benefits;
Property acquired by him through a gift transaction;
Income from the sale of personal property, if tax law allows this.

Reduced travel on public transport

Free travel on intracity transport and on suburban electric trains is provided to pensioners by the authorities of the constituent entities of the Federation, or individual municipalities. A similar preference exists in most regions of the country.

When traveling on suburban and intercity transport, within the borders of a region or republic, some constituent entities of the Russian Federation subsidize discounted tickets.

The state travel subsidy program applies only to pensioners permanently residing in remote areas of the country. These include the Far Eastern regions, Crimea with Sevastopol, and the Kaliningrad region. Discounts for pensioners in these regions are 25% on air transport and 50% on trains. Every resident of a remote region who has reached retirement age has the right to take advantage of the benefit once a year. Please note that not everyone is a participant in the air travel subsidy program.

Health care

Citizens of retirement age have the right to receive a number of preferences in the field of healthcare. Thus, they can be served free of charge in clinics and treated in hospitals subordinate to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. A number of subjects of the Federation establish additional medical benefits for pensioners.

Federal legislation provides additional medical benefits for pensioners who are WWII veterans, disabled people, holders of the Order of Glory and a number of other categories.

They have the right to receive a free voucher for sanatorium treatment as prescribed by a doctor. These categories of beneficiaries are given the opportunity to receive free prosthetics – orthopedic and dental. Dental implants made from precious metals are not included in the list of free medical services.

Free and discounted medications

The provision of medical medications, free or at a discount, is not included in the list of benefits for pensioners.

To receive such privileges, a citizen must have additional grounds, being:

A veteran of the Great Patriotic War or a home front worker.
Veterans of local wars.
Disabled.
Chernobyl liquidator.
Suffering from certain diseases prescribed in orders of the Ministry of Health No. 328-665.
Undergo medical rehabilitation after organ transplantation.

All discounted medications are provided only with a valid medical prescription.

Benefits for undergoing spa treatment

A number of categories of pensioners, for medical reasons, may be provided with preferential vouchers for sanatorium treatment and rehabilitation.

similar privileges:

Veterans of the Second World War, local wars and home front workers;
Participants in the liquidation of the Chernobyl disaster;
Heroes of the Russian Federation, USSR and Labor;
Knights of the Order of Glory;
Disabled people and citizens of retirement age suffering from serious illnesses;
Blockade pensioners.

Vouchers, depending on the specific category of the beneficiary, can be provided either absolutely free or at a discount. In addition to the voucher, the above categories are entitled to free travel to the place of sanatorium treatment, if it is located inside Russia.

Social help

The following elderly people have the right to count on the help of social services

People who are disabled and unable to care for themselves.
Pensioners who have reached the age of 80.

To receive social assistance, you must apply to your local social security office. Other persons can also provide care for an elderly pensioner or a disabled pensioner. For example, his relatives or acquaintances of working age. In this situation, they are entitled to a cash payment from the state in the amount of 1.2 thousand rubles.

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Also, social benefits for pensioners include cash additional payments accrued if the size of a citizen’s pension is below the subsistence level for a given subject of the Russian Federation. In some regions, social assistance is financial in nature. Low-income pensioners are provided with clothing, household items, and food at the expense of the local budget.

Legal assistance

Sometimes pensioners face various problems and legal issues. Due to their age, they often cannot independently understand the intricacies of the current legislation or correctly draw up an agreement or will.

To provide legal assistance to pensioners, by government order, offices of free lawyers were created at district MFCs. They also serve other low-income and socially vulnerable sections of society.

In notary offices, pensioners are not charged state fees for certification of documents, drawing up and registration of contracts and wills.

Benefits for working pensioners

Pensioners who have not left work can count on additional leave without pay.

It is provided annually, and its duration depends on additional factors:

For ordinary working pensioners – 14 days;
WWII veterans and home front workers – 35 days;
Pensioners with disabilities – 60 days.

In addition, according to Article No. 128 of the Labor Code, an employee of retirement age can take an additional two days off once a year to undergo a scheduled medical examination. Also, working pensioners have the right to resign at their own request, without having to work the required two weeks.

Regional benefits for old-age pensioners

Subjects of the Federation have the right to independently provide additional benefits to pensioners relating to various aspects of social life. A mandatory condition is met here: lower-level authorities have the right to additionally introduce their own benefits.

But they do not have the right to cancel preferences established by legislative acts of higher authorities . Thus, the head of the region will not be able to repeal the norms of federal legislation on the list of benefits provided to pensioners.

The most illustrative example in this regard is the capital region, where, of all the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, various preferences for pensioners are provided most fully.

Benefits for Moscow pensioners

In Moscow, the local government has established for ordinary old-age pensioners who have reached their 60th or 65th birthday (depending on gender):

Free travel on intracity passenger transport. The exception is private taxis.
Free travel, by agreement with the regional authorities, on suburban electric trains.
Free services for dental prosthetics, except for implants made of precious metals.
The benefits for non-working Muscovite pensioners include the opportunity to receive a free trip to sanatoriums and health centers.
Travel by train to your holiday destination, if it is located in Russia, is also covered by the capital’s budget.

Duration of the service and its cost

The cost of the government service is zero rubles, and the execution time is ten working days. However, due to additional documentation, the processing time will increase.

After all, employers have been providing information to the fund only since 2002. Until this moment, there are no entries in the Pension Fund register.

The future pensioner provides such information during a personal visit to the pension. Non-insurance periods of life without work are also taken into account:

Army.
Childcare for children up to one and a half years old.
Caring for the elderly or disabled people over 80 years of age.
This also includes the overseas life of a consular officer and the spouse of a military personnel.

Changes in the regulations for the provision of services are announced by notice in your personal account and via e-mail. Non-insurance periods may not appear in the consideration of the application. But the applicant has a greater interest in them.

Step-by-step instructions for registration on the State Services website

A service called “Pension Setting” is available after logging into the site. It is in demand and can be easily found on the page in your personal account.
But it is foreshadowed by the category “Pension, benefits, benefits”.
After clicking on the “Pension assignment” link, the citizen is directed to a page containing instructions and a “Get service” button.
The application form is a basic form to fill out. It is discussed in the article below.
After filling out the fields and sending the electronic document, wait for the notification.
An invitation to the Pension Fund branch with original documentation for verification will be sent to your email and personal account on the portal.