Pension issuance. Archival photo MOSCOW, January 3 Professor of the Department of Finance and Prices of the PRUE G.V. Plekhanova Yulia Finogenova in an interview with the Prime agency told how the pensions of Russians increased in 2022. The indexation of pensions for non-working pensioners for old age, disability, loss of breadwinner is 5.9 percent from January 1, 2022. Consequently, the cost of 1 PKI for calculating the level of insurance pension will increase to 104.69 rubles, the fixed payment, in turn, will amount to 6 401 rubles, the agency's interlocutor explained. An increase in the fixed payment will lead to an increase in additional payments tied to its size: additional payments for a dependent, for rural and northern seniority, an additional payment to pensions for disabled persons of group I and 80-year-old citizens, Finogenova added. Social pensions will be indexed by 7.7 percent from 1 April. “Thus, taking into account the increase, the average annual size of the insurance pension for non-working pensioners will be 18,521 rubles, and the social pension — 10,307 rubles,” she stressed. led to an increase in the minimum subsistence level for pensioners in the regions, the economist concluded.
