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For the hopes not to be disappointed

02.03.2016

The Supreme Council deputies adopted a law-in-draft on the budget of the Unified State Social Insurance Fund for the current year in the first reading. The head of the Fund Alevtina Berioza, appointed to this high state post February 4 this year introduced it to deputies.

The law-in-draft fixed parameters of revenue and expenditure of the EGFSS, whose main task is the timely and full payment of pensions and social benefits. Unfortunately, the expenditure part of the budget of the Social Fund in the amount of 2 billion 626 million rubles was more than its revenues (1 billion 693 million rubles) as in past years. Thus, the deficit is 932 million rubles. However, the draft budget provides developers EGFSS sources to cover the deficit, the main of which traditionally funds of special gas account. Incidentally, the expenditure side of EGFSS also included the debt of the state to pensioners for 2015 in the amount of 64 million rubles, the so-called bread money.

Main expenses of the Fund will fall on pensions (82%), provided the costs to the state social insurance, purchase of medical equipment. According to the head of the Unified State Social Insurance Fund, from January 1, the minimum pension in the country amounted to 616 rubles, the average - 1355 rubles, and the average is expected at the level of 1399 rubles.

The total number of recipients of pension is now 127436 people in the country. From January 1, 2016 it was indexed by increasing the calculated level of the minimum wage. Initially it was assumed that the second indexing will be done with the July 1, 2016. However, the state of public finances, the economic situation will not allow to do it.

Even after such comprehensive digital information the people's representatives have questions to the official representative of the Unified State Social Insurance Fund. According to Alevtina Berioza, the state has no right to deny citizens the reverse transition to the Pridnestrovian social security. It is understood that as the number of such willing EGFSS load increase. The hope is for creation of a specific reserve by abandoning indexation of pensions, originally planned to 1 July 2016.

In this regard, we recall that during the meetings with voters, deputies often hear from them calls provide a mechanism for the implementation of certain RF receiving pension bonuses to the level of the average monthly in Pridnestrovie. This, according to them, will avoid increasing the burden on PMR Pension Fund.

After the question of the deputy Alexander Korshunov about balancing the budget of the Unified State Social Insurance Fund and the availability of sources of repayment of almost billion deficit, from the director of EGFSS public assurances have been received that "this year, pensions will be paid in full". Approximately the same words were heard, and at the end of 2014 year, when the Supreme Council also stated at the plenary session of the Pension Fund budget for 2015. But as you know, there was a social disaster, and since March of last year pensioners and state were not counted in the purses of 30% of their pensions and salaries. And if the pensioners to the new 2016 year the state almost completely paid (debt amounts to 64 million rubles), the public sector workers are in the sweet anticipation of the receipt of the debt from his employer, a role which the state acts.

Following discussion of the first item on the agenda of the plenary meeting was the vote for the adoption of the law-in-draft "On the budget of the Unified State Fund for Social Insurance PMR for 2016" in the first reading. Responsible Committee on Economic Policy, Budget and Finance instructed to prepare a document for the second reading.