MOSCOW, July 31 Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin replaced the leadership of the Pension Fund, dismissing him from his post Andrey Kigim, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers said. «Sergey Chirkov became the acting head of the Pension Fund of Russia. <…> Andrey Kigim was relieved of his post as head of the department,» the release says. Prior to that, Chirkov was deputy chairman of the board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. He began working in the fund in 2001, in 2007 he headed the department for pensions for people living abroad, and from July 2012 to July 2018 he was the head of the department for organizing the appointment and payment of pensions. Kigim headed the Pension Fund from February 2021, and before that, he managed the Social Insurance Fund for eight years. In addition, he was twice elected president of the All-Russian Union of Insurers, was the president of the National Union of Liability Insurers and the Russian Union of Motor Insurers. :47The government will allocate 200 billion rubles for insurance pensions and benefits
