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the Cabinet denied the existence of solutions of raising the retirement age
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets
the Government made no decision about raising the retirement age, said the representative of Olga Golodets. Previously “Izvestia” reported that the issue “is already conceptually solved”
the Final decision on raising the retirement age the government is not accepted. This was announced by RNS the representative of the Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, who oversees docblock.
“the Decision to raise the retirement age there,” he said.
Earlier Wednesday, the newspaper “Izvestia”, citing sources close to the government said that a decision in principle about raising the retirement age of citizens has been taken and at the moment the government is discussing how to raise the age for some categories of citizens.
According to interlocutors of the edition, there are several “major” schemes. So, one of the projects involves raising the retirement age to 65 years for men and 63 for women. Another option is to “align” the retirement age for men and women, rising to 63 years.
According to one source, the decision can declare in 2018, when the new government is formed.
In April 2016, the Finance Ministry has proposed to reform the pension system, including to raise the retirement age to 65 years for men and women. As explained in Department, in favor of this reform says a variety of economic, social and demographic factors. In particular, as noted in the Ministry of Finance, average life expectancy is only since 1995 has increased by seven years for men and by 5.2 years for women. The Finance Ministry has also said it wants to hold raising the retirement age gradually at 6-12 months.
At the end of December last year, former Finance Minister of Russia, head of Center for strategic development Alexey Kudrin said that raising the retirement age in Russia may take from eight to 15 years. He noted that such practice is applied in many countries, so “nobody needs to worry that everyone just will need to go to some other age.”
currently, men can retire at 60 and women at 55 years.
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