“Raising the retirement age is done for their own good” – Kommersant

The retirement age in Russia will be increased to 65 years for civil servants only. “Other Russians such a measure will not affect” – said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Earlier, the Cabinet Committee endorsed a bill to increase the retirement age for civil servants from 60 to 65 years. Grow well and the minimum length of the civil service – from 15 to 20 years. It is expected that the document will come into force on 1 January next year. Pressure on the budget will decrease if officials would later retire. So says the chief economist at financial group BCS Vladimir Tikhomirov.

«This will affect payments from the budget to cover the deficit of the Pension Fund, because the civil servants make up a fairly significant part of the economy. In the public sector the number of people approaching retirement age is much higher than in other sectors of the economy. So, of course, it will affect the short term, will make it easy to balance the budget, “- said Tikhonov.

The content of current officials costs the state more than the payment of pensions in the event of their departure, he said Doctor of Economics, Sergey Smirnov.

«In my opinion, this is some redistribution of flows between the Pension Fund and the federal budget. After all, in fact the very salary that is paid to them from the budget, the higher their pension. I think that many officials are considering the benefits of access to social benefits and so on, do not really want to leave the public service. So maybe it’s raising the retirement age is done for their own good, “- said Smirnov on air” Kommersant FM ».

In June of this year, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets stated that the retirement age in Russia will not rise until 2018. However, if the strip for leaving the service will rise to the officials, it will improve for the rest of the citizens, but only after the presidential election. So says an independent economic and financial expert Alexander Trifonov.

«We will worsen the demographic situation, the number of people of retirement age will rise. This is a forced measure, and now it will spread not only to the government employees, but also an opportunity to raise the retirement age from the security forces. I think that after the elections, since 2018, decisions will be made to increase the retirement age for all categories. It will be in ’63 for both men and women, “- said Typhon.

Previously, the financial and economic bloc of the government called for raising the retirement age for all Russians. In support of such a measure expressed Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev. According to the arguments of the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, it is necessary to balance the budget.

Nikita Pavlyuchenko Pavlyuk-