The government
proposes to gradually increase the retirement age to 65 for men and 63 for
women.
MOSCOW, June 14.
/TASS/. The Russian government approved on Thursday a bill on gradual increase
of the retirement age to 65 years for men and 63 years for women, Presidential
aide Andrey Belousov said on Thursday after the government meeting.
Currently, the
retirement age for men and women is 60 and 55 years, respectively. According to
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the bill "proposes to introduce a
sufficiently long transition period - to start from 2019 to gradually reach
retirement age of 65 for men in 2028 and 63 years for women in 2034."
After the Government
approval, the bill will be submitted to the State Duma for consideration.
Medvedev noted
earlier that the current terms of retirement in Russia were set in the middle
of last century and remained at the same level, despite growth of life
expectancy and the changing conditions of life and work. "We have been
preparing for raising the retirement age for a long time, and we have
approached this just now because conditions have been created to solve the task
of increasing life expectancy within the framework of the 80+ program,"
Medvedev said.
He noted that now
people do not just live longer, but also stay active longer, adding that almost
all countries have already raised the retirement age, including in the
post-Soviet space.
According to
Medvedev, increasing the retirement age does not affect the current pensioners,
which includes around 46.5 million people. They will continue to receive all
previously assigned retirement payments and social benefits according to the
previously established regime.
Source: ITAR-TASS
14-06-2018
