How to find out the length of service in the Pension Fund and through State Services?

The question of how to find out your work experience is important for workers who are on the verge of imminent retirement. Calculating the time of work is necessary to determine the specific date of departure for rest due to age or length of service, as well as to determine the time remaining until retirement. In addition, when calculating pension benefits, the Pension Fund often does not take into account the entire duration of a person’s working life, which may affect the amount of future accruals. Therefore, independent calculation of labor production time becomes doubly relevant.

Individual personal account

Information about a citizen’s work activity is contained in the general part of the individual personal account (IPA). Such an account is opened by the Pension Fund for each insured person. He is assigned a permanent number, which is valid throughout the citizen’s life and is a means of identification in the state pension insurance system.

In addition to the length of service, the ILS contains information about the person’s last name, first name, patronymic, date and place of birth, his passport data, Taxpayer Identification Number, information about wages and the amount of accrued insurance contributions.

Note: in some cases, for example, when filling out an application for a new international passport, the insured person may need information about his work activity over the past 10 years. Such data can be obtained by ordering an extract on the status of the ILS.

Previously, until 2013, notifications about the status of the ILS for the past period were sent directly by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation to the addresses of the insured persons. Now you can obtain the necessary information by personally visiting the territorial office of the Pension Fund of Russia, by contacting one of the multifunctional centers (MFC), as well as through State Services.

Briefly about SNILS

Let's start with the definition of SNILS. The five-letter abbreviation hides the insurance number of the individual personal account. This is a unique number that is assigned once during registration and serves as the citizen’s personal identifier in the pension insurance system for the rest of his life.

It is not affected by a change of last name or first name, or even the loss or theft of a certificate. The number is firmly assigned to the citizen, always remains the same and never changes.

The personal account collects all information about any official work activity, length of service and transferred insurance premiums, and on its basis the pension is subsequently calculated.

SNILS can be used for different purposes:

• transfers of amounts towards the upcoming pension;
• registration on resources providing public services;
• issuing a universal electronic card;
• obtaining information by government agencies;
• calculation of social payments and benefits.

The employer is required to submit an application for the creation of SNILS within two weeks after the citizen is hired. Within three weeks, the Pension Fund will process and issue a pension certificate, which will be handed to the employee no later than a week later.

Creating an account on the unified portal of public services

The first thing you need to do in order to obtain information about your experience is to register on the site (for those who do not yet have an account). It won't be difficult to do this. You need to enter personal data into the standard registration form, then confirm your phone number using a special code that the system will send by SMS. Afterwards, you need to create a strong password and log into your personal account. More information about creating an account here: Public services personal account - registration of an individual.

The next step is to enter the document details: passport and insurance certificate of compulsory pension insurance. It is important to avoid mistakes here, because this information is then transferred to the Pension Fund and the Federal Migration Service for verification. When the data is verified, the user’s account will switch to “Standard” status and the service of obtaining an extract from the Pension Fund will be available to him.

Please note: to use the site’s advanced functionality, you must go through the final stage of registration – confirmation of your profile data. This can be done in any of the three ways proposed by the system: through the MFC, using the Russian Post, and also using an electronic digital signature.

Additional documents

To check your work activity according to SNILS, a passport and insurance certificate are often not enough. Personal data may change for various reasons, so you may additionally need:

• certificate of change of full name;
• marriage or divorce certificate, as well as adoption certificate.

A work record book, certificates from the place of work, from archives, extracts from orders for the appointment or increase of salaries, from salary sheets, copies of employment contracts, and so on may be useful. To confirm your rights, any documents certifying your work history will be suitable.

An individual entrepreneur in this matter can be helped by extracts from the tax office, which will confirm the fact of deductions. And for a military man - a military ID or a certificate from the military registration and enlistment office where he is registered. Service in state-owned enterprises and local authorities can be confirmed by a certificate from the place of work.

How to find out your work experience through State Services

The service of informing about the status of the HUD is provided free of charge in real time. To use it, you need to do the following:

• log into your personal account;
• select the “Service Catalog” section;
• find and select the subsection “Pension, benefits and benefits”;
• from the list that appears, select “Notice about the status of a personal account in the Pension Fund of Russia” and go to the page with a detailed description of the service;
• Click on the line “Get a service” located in the right menu.

After some time, a page will open containing the necessary information. The notice in the prescribed form SZI-6 can be sent to an email address or immediately downloaded to the device in PDF format. However, you must understand that if saved and printed, such a document will not have legal force. If you send it electronically to the place of request, the notice will have the status of an official document.

It has now become much easier to obtain information about your work activity, as well as about the total length of service taken into account for the purpose of assigning a pension. To do this, you don’t need to waste time and nerves visiting dusty offices. It is enough to go through a simple registration on the State Services portal and fill out the corresponding request in a few clicks.

Find out your work experience on the government services portal

First of all, you need to complete full registration on the online government services portal. That is, go through verification of all entered personal data, confirm your identity, receive and register an activation code, after which the account status will become confirmed. It is worth noting that the full registration process will be quite lengthy and can take up to 2 weeks. Everything will depend on which identity verification method you choose.

Expert opinion

Lebedev Sergey Fedorovich

Practitioner lawyer with 7 years of experience. Specialization: civil law. Extensive experience in defense in court.

So, if you have a verified account, it will not be difficult to understand how to find out your work experience on the government services portal, as well as obtain other important information.

This is important to know: Is the work experience suitable for self-employed citizens?

Having decided to use the government services website, you will receive accurate information:

• About your work experience;
• About annual transfers to the Pension Fund by your employer;
• About the amount of pension savings;
• About the management company managing your account;
• About your individual coefficient, which will be used to calculate your future pension.

By following the step-by-step instructions described below, you can do this in 10 minutes.

Step-by-step instruction

It must be remembered that this service is available only to registered clients of the electronic service who have confirmed their account. The account verification process can take up to two weeks, so you should take care of access to the functionality of the resource in advance. To get acquainted with the information of interest, you can also contact the pension authority. However, visiting the organization in person will take a lot of time and effort.

The guide to how to find out your work experience through State Services consists of several sequential steps. To implement them you will need:

The system prompts you to select an action regarding the generated document. You can not only open it for review or save it on your PC, but also send it by email. Using the portal's mobile application, it is also possible to solve the issue of how to find out the length of service in the State Services.

If the information you see does not correctly reflect reality, it is advisable to contact the Pension Fund. This is due to the fact that the portal pages store data provided by the pension authority.

Error in SNILS

But what to do if, as a result of checking the insurance experience, it was discovered that the experience does not correspond to the expected results? It is very difficult to influence such a situation. You can, of course, look into this issue and understand where the error lies, but in practice it is very difficult.

But don’t get upset right away; a situation may arise when a person has not one, but several SNILS. This situation with the presence of not a single SNILS occurs if, for example, a person simultaneously applied for several jobs.

And each employer opened an account for its employee. This is permitted by law.

In this case, you can contact the Pension Fund with a request to combine all accumulated points and the amount of insurance experience, and cancel one of the accounts. It is also possible that a mechanical error was actually made.

And some information was not included. In this case, you can contact the employer whose employment was not credited and ask for photocopies of reporting to the Pension Fund.

In any case, if you are confident that you are right and have the opportunity to prove it, you should not be inactive. You can try to correct the mistake by submitting an official petition to the Pension Fund with attached documents.

All working citizens in one way or another think about their future pension security. The growing interest in this topic is evidenced by the fact that even very young workers who are just starting their careers know: the size of their pension depends on pension points and insurance coverage.

Expert opinion

Makarov Viktor Petrovich

Lawyer with 10 years of experience. Specialization: criminal law. Recognized legal expert.

In order to control the process of forming personal indicators in the Pension Fund, it would be a good idea to find out how to find out your work experience using SNILS.

How to view work experience in public services

How to look at your work experience in public services . First of all, it should be noted that only users who are registered and have confirmed their identity on the portal can find out their length of service through State Services. It is necessary to understand that the registration process along with identity confirmation can take quite a long time, and more specifically, user identification can take up to two weeks, it all depends on the confirmation method that the user chooses. However, after confirming the identity, the user can not only view the total work experience, but also find out:

• The total amount of pension savings;
• The amount of employer contributions to the Pension Fund;
• Individual coefficient that is used to calculate the pension;
• About the company that is the manager of the user's account.

And getting all this information will not be difficult and will not take a lot of time; it will take just a few clicks of the mouse. Thus, finding out your total length of service on the State Services portal is much more convenient and faster than contacting the Pension Fund in person! In addition, the State Services website allows you to track changes at any time, as well as additional information about the status of your personal account.

Methods for checking length of service

Information about the number of years worked and accumulated pension points is personal and is protected at the legislative level. Therefore, you can access it only after going through the identification procedure and confirming that the citizens’ data will not be used for other purposes.

However, to find out about the status of your personal account, you do not have to contact many authorities. Having an insurance certificate and passport in hand, any working citizen can easily figure out how to find out his pension experience according to SNILS.

Based on passport data

The citizen’s passport itself, like any other document proving a person’s identity, is needed, first of all, when applying to the Pension Fund office at the place of registration. Passport data will be required when registering on the State Services website and to gain access to the payer’s personal account.

Find out in more detail why else you may need such an identification document of the applicant as a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.

If SNILS is missing or does not correspond to passport data

The number indicated on the insurance certificate is assigned to a person once. Moreover, parents can apply for it even for a newborn, long before their child reaches working age.

The document contains information about the owner: full name, date and place of birth, gender and calendar date of registration with the Pension Fund. But to identify the person applying for information about the work experience, the certificate itself is not enough; it is also necessary to present a document issued by the authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

If for some reason a person changes his last name or first name, then the data on the certificate must also be updated. Without up-to-date information, you will not be able to get an answer during a personal visit to the Pension Fund.

Via employer request

This form is used mainly by employers themselves. To find out the duration of the employee's insurance period, the employer can write a request to the Pension Fund. The employee's TIN and his passport data are used as an identifier. If the information provided is sufficient, Pension Fund inspectors will respond within ten days.

Making a request on behalf of the company’s management is also advisable for those employers who prefer not to rely on the data specified in the resume, but believe that there is no better way to check the employee’s place of work using SNILS.

Features of accrual

Pension legislation has changed several times over the past decades, and length of service is divided into certain periods. Therefore, even with a work book, the person himself cannot make the calculations correctly. The current instructions are very confusing and unclear, as many different changes have been introduced. Certain periods, for example, studying at universities, are now not taken into account in the total length of service. In order to find out your total length of service through Gosuslugi, you should register and go through verification on the portal. Only a user with a confirmed account will be able to have access to all services of both the portal itself and other government agencies with remote access.

Advice! When registering for “State Services” and verification, you should exclude the method of confirming your identity through Russian Post by registered mail, since in this case it will not be possible to log into the taxpayer’s “Personal Account” and control your tax debts.

If you have an account, the following information is available to the user:

• total work experience;
• amount of pension savings;
• information about the company that manages the user’s account;
• the amount of contributions by the employer to the Pension Fund;
• IPC for calculating pensions.

Information is provided in a few minutes, and there is no need to pre-register or visit the PF. The State Services portal allows you to track any changes and obtain additional information.

Other periods counted towards the insurance period

1. the period of military service, as well as other service equivalent to it, provided for by the Law of the Russian Federation “On pension provision for persons who served in military service, service in internal affairs bodies, the State Fire Service, authorities for control of the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, institutions and bodies of the penal system, and their families";
2. the period of receiving compulsory social insurance benefits during the period of temporary disability;
3. the period of care of one of the parents for each child until he reaches the age of one and a half years, but not more than six years in total;
4. the period of receiving unemployment benefits, the period of participation in paid public works and the period of moving or resettlement in the direction of the state employment service to another area for employment;
5. the period of detention of persons unjustifiably prosecuted, unjustifiably repressed and subsequently rehabilitated, and the period of serving their sentences in places of imprisonment and exile;
6. the period of care provided by an able-bodied person for a group I disabled person, a disabled child or a person who has reached the age of 80 years;
7. the period of residence of spouses of military personnel serving under contract with their spouses in areas where they could not work due to lack of employment opportunities, but not more than five years in total;
8. the period of residence abroad of spouses of employees sent to diplomatic missions and consular offices of the Russian Federation, permanent missions of the Russian Federation to international organizations, trade missions of the Russian Federation in foreign countries, representative offices of federal executive authorities, state bodies under federal executive authorities or as representatives these bodies abroad, as well as to representative offices of state institutions of the Russian Federation (state bodies and state institutions of the USSR) abroad and international organizations, but not more than 5 years in total (the list of such organizations is approved by the Government of the Russian Federation);
9. the period of operational work counted towards the insurance period in accordance with the Federal Law “On Operational-Investigative Activities”.
10. the period during which persons who were unjustifiably brought to criminal liability and subsequently rehabilitated were temporarily suspended from office (work) in the manner established by the criminal procedural legislation of the Russian Federation.

What is an insurance pension

An insurance pension is a pension that citizens will receive upon reaching the age specified in the legislation. Its size is determined based on the amounts allocated for pension insurance.

Expert opinion

Lebedev Sergey Fedorovich

Practitioner lawyer with 7 years of experience. Specialization: civil law. Extensive experience in defense in court.

Previously, it was 5 years, but with the introduction of changes to legislation, it began to increase gradually every year and should reach 15 years.

The changes took effect in 2020, this year the required minimum experience was already 6 years, then it will increase every year by 12 months, and will reach the required value in 2024.

In 2020, the minimum experience must be 8 years, and in 2020 - 9 years.

Also, the right to an insurance pension may be affected by an insufficient number of pension points, even if the minimum length of service has been achieved. In this case, citizens are paid a social pension, which has a number of disadvantages compared to the insurance one.

Control over the accumulation of experience

Many young employees feel that the total duration of their official employment does not matter much. However, to receive a labor pension upon reaching 55 or 60 years of age, a Russian citizen must earn at least 7 years of full-fledged insurance experience. In the future, until 2024, this figure will increase to 15 years.

If the documented length of service is below that established by law, the employee may retire later than the established age, and his monthly pension will be paid in a fixed amount at the level of social benefits. From this point of view, monitoring the accumulation of insurance experience will help employees, firstly, track the size of their future pension, and secondly, it will encourage them to take active action to change their employer if it does not transfer pension contributions to the employee’s personal account.

Possible nuances when receiving the service

• The document “Information on the status of the individual personal account of the insured person” does not contain a period of work experience. If the employer has not provided information about you in full, you must contact him to clarify the information. You should also submit documents confirming your work experience to the Pension Fund: work book, certificates from the employer.
• The document does not contain complete information about the work for the previous year. This is possible from January to April, since the employer has the right to submit reports to the Pension Fund by March 31 of the following year.

If you have any difficulties, contact the Pension Fund in person - there you can get up-to-date information about your work experience and consult on any questions that may arise.

The procedure for calculating insurance experience

Calculation of the duration of the insurance period, including “work experience” on the basis of witness testimony, and (or) other activities and other periods is carried out on a calendar basis based on a full year (12 months). In this case, every 30 days of periods of work and (or) other activities and other periods are converted into months, and every 12 months of these periods are converted into full years.

If the periods of “work experience” and “other period” coincide in time, when calculating the insurance period, one of such periods is taken into account at the choice of the person who applied for the establishment of an insurance pension.

When calculating the insurance period, periods of activity of persons who independently provide themselves with work, heads and members of peasant farms, members of family (tribal) communities of indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation, engaged in traditional economic sectors, periods of work for individuals (groups of individuals ) under contracts are included in the insurance period subject to payment of insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

When calculating the insurance period required to acquire the right to an old-age insurance pension for citizens receiving a long service pension or a disability pension in accordance with the Law “On pension provision for persons who served in military service, service in internal affairs bodies, the State Fire Service, bodies for control over the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, institutions and bodies of the penal system, and their families,” the insurance period does not include periods of service preceding the assignment of a disability pension, or periods of service, work and (or) other activities taken into account when determining the amount of pension for long service. In this case, all periods that were included in the length of service are considered to be taken into account, including periods that do not affect the amount of the long service pension or disability pension.

When calculating the insurance period, periods of work during the full navigation period on water transport and during the full season in organizations of seasonal industries are taken into account in such a way that the duration of the insurance period in the corresponding calendar year is a full year.

Persons who performed work under copyright contracts in the corresponding calendar year, as well as authors of works who received payments and other remuneration in the corresponding calendar year under agreements on the alienation of the exclusive right to works of science, literature, art, publishing license agreements, license agreements on the grant of rights use of a work of science, literature, art, if the total amount of insurance contributions paid to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation from payments and other remunerations received under these contracts during a given calendar year amounted to at least the fixed amount of the insurance contribution for compulsory pension insurance, determined in accordance with According to the legislation of the Russian Federation on taxes and fees, the insurance period includes a period equal to a full calendar year (from January 1 to December 31), in which insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation from payments and other remunerations under these contracts are paid. If the total amount of insurance premiums paid during a calendar year is less than the fixed amount of the insurance contribution for compulsory pension insurance, a period (in months) of duration calculated in proportion to the insurance premiums paid, but not less than one calendar month (30 days), is included in the insurance period. ).

The period counted towards the insurance period in connection with the payment of insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation from payments and other remunerations under these contracts, if there are periods of work and (or) other activities in the corresponding calendar year, other periods are taken into account in such a way that the insurance period for the corresponding calendar year did not exceed one year (12 months).

The procedure for confirming insurance experience

When calculating the insurance period before registering a citizen as an insured person and receiving a pension certificate, the length of service is confirmed on the basis of information from individual (personalized) records for the specified period and (or) documents issued by employers or relevant state (municipal) bodies. For documents that can be used to confirm insurance experience in the absence of information in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, see the article at the link.

When calculating the insurance period after registering a citizen as an insured person with the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, data on the length of service is confirmed on the basis of information from individual (personalized) records.

When calculating the insurance period, periods of “work experience” on the territory of the Russian Federation before registering a citizen as an insured person with the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation can be established on the basis of the testimony of 2 or more witnesses if work documents are lost due to a natural disaster (earthquake, flood, hurricane, fire and similar reasons) and it is impossible to restore them. In some cases, it is possible to establish length of service based on the testimony of 2 or more witnesses in the event of loss of documents and for other reasons (due to careless storage, intentional destruction and similar reasons) not through the fault of the employee. At the same time, the nature of the work is not confirmed by witness testimony.

Government services: we use them to determine length of service

Receiving such information is available only to those who have completed a simple registration procedure and confirmed their identity. At the same time, user identification often takes at least two weeks. Specific results depend on the identity verification method chosen by a particular user.

After the identity is confirmed, the account owner has access to information not only on work experience, but also in several other areas:

1. Regarding the company that manages the account.
2. Study of individual coefficients used in calculating pensions.
3. The amount of contributions from the employer to the Pension Fund.
4. Total amount of pension savings.

To obtain all the information, just select the appropriate sections with the mouse several times. Each action only takes about a minute. It is more convenient to use the State Services portal to obtain information regarding length of service. Moreover, if you compare it with the option of directly contacting Pension Fund employees. On the State Services website it is convenient to track any changes in real time.

Users have access to any information related to personal accounts.

Methods

It is possible to find out your pension experience according to SNILS using different methods using:

1. Passports.
2. FULL NAME.
3. Special request from the employer.

However, it is not always possible to confirm a vehicle acquired with great difficulty. For example, if there was never a work book or it was irretrievably lost or serious errors were made in the entries in it.

Using your passport

The passport itself or any identification card is first of all required for the future pensioner or his employer to contact the Pension Fund branch at the place of registration. Without it, it is impossible to obtain information from the Register of Insured Persons. Passport data will be required to obtain an account on the State Services website.

According to personal data

Parents have the right to issue a SNILS for a child of any age, even a newborn. The document contains personalized data, but identification on the authority’s website requires absolutely reliable and verified information, and this data is often not enough. Therefore, you need an official document in which personal data is confirmed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Changing the last name, first name, and other personal data for any reason requires mandatory updating of the data in the certificate. Otherwise, it will not be possible to obtain accurate information even with a personal visit to the PF office.

At the employer's request

When hiring an employer, sometimes an employer needs to check an employee’s place of work using SNILS. This is done by sending a special application to the Pension Fund. Until 2013, responses came automatically, but today the newsletter can be ordered directly at the branch. A request from a company is appropriate when the resume is not credible enough.

While the insurance certificate is not ready, employers have the opportunity to check the employee’s length of service using the individual taxpayer number (TIN). They send an application indicating passport details, position and TIN. Within ten days, SNILS and an extract on the length of service are sent from the Pension Fund.

Viewing your experience using State Services

Viewing such data involves performing actions in a certain algorithm:

1. Visiting your Personal Account on the portal.

The user must select the “Pension, benefits, benefits” section. Next, they proceed to the service called “Notification of the status of the personal account in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.”

1. A page will open with a detailed description of the service and everything connected with it.

It is best to choose to display numbers based on the SNILS belonging to the citizen. You must fill in the fields provided and then select the “Receive Services” button.

1. Another page will appear.

It is here that the user can select files describing work activities. If you wish, you can save information to your computer so that you can study it carefully and use it for other purposes. There is a separate button for this, called “Save notification”. Acceptable options are sending to an email address or transmission through a mailbox.

1. The portal has recently developed an additional mobile application, which also speeds up and simplifies any service options.

But sometimes it happens that the electronic version contains incorrect or incomplete information regarding work activity. Then you definitely can’t do without a personal visit to the Pension Fund. Another option is interaction through MFC employees. In most cases, the State Services portal publishes information that is already stored in archives.

Official website of the Pension Fund of Russia: obtaining information on work experience, pension points

To view information on length of service and pension points, you can use not only the State Services portal, but also the official website, which was opened by the Pension Fund itself. To do this, a Personal Account must also be created in the system. Sometimes the accuracy of the data on this service outperforms the information available on other portals.

Users regularly leave complaints that information on State Services is out of date. But this portal can be used to open an account with the Pension Fund.

The procedure in this case will be as follows:

• First, they visit a personal profile created on the State Services portal.

Next, open another tab in the browser. And there they open a website belonging to the Pension Fund of Russia. All that remains is to select the button intended to enter the portal.

• The system itself prompts you to log in using one of the existing accounts.

For this purpose, the Unified Identification and Authorization System is usually used. You just need to click on the button to continue solving the issue.

• After this, the citizen’s Personal Account in the Pension Fund should open immediately.

Work experience and the amount of accumulated pension points are displayed immediately in the main window if everything is done correctly.

• The Personal Account on the Pension Fund website is also distinguished by wide functionality.

It allows you to submit various applications and order certificates electronically. If necessary, make an appointment immediately.

What to do if you provide incorrect information about your experience?

Many citizens are faced with a situation where the length of service is described incorrectly on both portals, or not all of the time is taken into account. The official position confirms that the Pension Fund receives information on each citizen from employers. It is their fault that mistakes often occur, whether intentional or not. Further, the regulatory authorities propose to act as follows:

1. The citizen should contact the management so that the data can be clarified.

For this purpose, written statements are drawn up in any form. Messages are sent in person or by mail. The main thing is to provide as specific data as possible so that the answer is accurate.

1. Copies of documents related to the applicant’s work activities are sent in response no later than three days in advance.

Usually we are talking about orders for hiring a position, transfer to other places, and so on. It is important to ensure proper execution so that certification and other elements required by law are present.

1. If the company has been liquidated, you must contact the legal successors or other higher authorities.

An archival organization for a city or region also helps resolve the issue. In such situations, much more time is spent obtaining information.

1. After receiving certified copies, the citizen has the right to go to the Pension Fund. And there ask to verify the data.

This is important to know: Is industrial practice included in work experience?

The Pension Fund insists that citizens themselves find out the reasons for the inaccuracies. The supervisory authority is contacted for clarification only if there is complete confidence in the presence of a serious error.

How to find out your work experience through Gosuslugi

Various innovations in pension legislation confuse many Russians who do not understand the procedure for calculating pension payments at all. Since 2020, pension legislation has been changed, and length of service has become one of the points for obtaining the right to retire. That is, if by this age the official work experience is not sufficient, then the citizen loses the very right to receive pension payments. Often, when reaching retirement age, a person is faced with the fact that part of the length of service is lost and not taken into account. Therefore, it is necessary to constantly monitor any changes. And today, with the advent of the ESIA e-government portal, the procedure takes literally ten minutes. There are several ways to find out your work experience through State Services, which will be discussed further in great detail.

How can I find out my experience?

It’s easy to find out your pension experience through Gosuslugi. To do this, you need to log in to the gosuslugi.ru portal and go to the “Services” section, then select “Pension, benefits...” and find the item “Notice of status...”.

Then you need to click on the “Get service” button.

Important! The generated document has no legal force in the event of litigation. It is intended for informational purposes only.

Expert opinion

Lebedev Sergey Fedorovich

Practitioner lawyer with 7 years of experience. Specialization: civil law. Extensive experience in defense in court.

To date, a mobile application has been developed for different operating systems. You can also get your personal account status on your smartphone.

Attention! If the deadline for applying for a pension is approaching, then it is advisable to save this document on your computer and print it out. As soon as the amount for pension payment is assigned, the document disappears from the Pension Fund’s “Personal Account”. Then it will be impossible to prove calculation errors and figure it out.

To calculate an old-age pension, the following conditions must be met:

• reaching a certain age threshold;
• the number of accumulated points (IPC) must be no less than the specified value for a particular year;
• The length of service must match or be greater than the required value.

If one of the points is not met, the user will not be assigned an old-age insurance pension. You will have to wait an additional five years before receiving a social pension, which is significantly less in terms of payments. You need to make an appointment with the Pension Fund and get clarification there.

As retirement age approaches, many people are left wondering why monthly pension payments are so low and how to live on this amount with ever-increasing prices. It's no secret that finding a well-paid job is difficult. And when an employer offers informal employment, many agree out of despair. But since in this case there are no contributions to the Pension Fund, the insurance portion does not increase, and the IPC also remains consistently low. Additional employment with official income can improve the situation. That is why it is very important to constantly monitor the situation with your work experience and pension savings.

You can access the Pension Fund through “State Services” in another way:

• log in to the portal gosuslugi.ru;
• select “Services”;
• then go to “Authorities”;
• click on the “PFR” icon;
• select “Status Notification...”;
• then “Get a service”.

That is, there are several opportunities to go to the Pension Fund through the e-government portal.

Login to the Pension Fund through “State Services”

There is another option to find out your length of service through “State Services” and accumulated points via the Internet on the official website of the Pension Fund. In the “Personal Account” of the Pension Fund of Russia, the information is more accurate and each user can obtain additional information or order the necessary certificate. To log into the Pension Fund, you must have a confirmed account on State Services. The sequence of actions is as follows. Go to the website pfrf.ru.

Click “Citizen’s Personal Account”.

The system will redirect you to the login page. Select “Login”, and then log in using the username and password of the ESIA system.

The “Personal Account” opens, in which the following parameters are indicated at the top:

• seniority;
• individual coefficient;
• amount of savings;
• a company that is an insurer.

In the upper right corner there is a link “Facial status...”. You need to click on it. In addition, there are many other opportunities to order certificates in electronic format and apply for benefits and allowances. Any authorized user can make an appointment remotely at the Pension Fund of Russia, choose a convenient time for themselves and print out a ticket or take a photo of it on a smartphone.