The real help for pensioners

The author proposes to amend the law "On social protection of veterans and people of retirement age". The basis for the Supreme Council document submission were the numerous requests of these categories of citizens to provide their benefits to pay for utility services at a rate of 50%.

According to the chairman of the Committee on Social Policy, Health, Labour, Family and Childhood Sergei Cheban, Vadim Krasnoselsky initiative is really relevant.

Citizens who receive a pension in Russia, significantly reduce the burden on our pension fund, says the Deputy. Saving some money. This amount is much higher than the cost of providing such persons retirement benefits to pay for travel and some utilities.

Moreover, Vadim Krasnoselsky proposes to prescribe in the law "On social protection of veterans and people of retirement age" provision that would recognize retirees living together in a residential area in a part of the family, consisting only old age pensioners and unemployed disabled group I or II, regardless of their age, living pensioners alone. In practice, often there is a situation in which people with disabilities, particularly people with disabilities from childhood, continue to live with elderly parents, thus "robbing" their eligibility for payment for natural gas, electricity and thermal energy as pensioners living alone. Sergey Cheban explains, in case of the law-in-draft adoption the pensioners under this category, will pay within the social norm of 50% of natural gas consumed by them, the electrical and thermal energy. Today, they pay 75% of the cost.