Service life for retirement 25. Military service - plans and possible implementation

According to the Law of February 12, 1993 N 4468-1, a seniority pension is awarded to servicemen after 20 years of service in the Armed Forces, as well as in various units of the Russian law enforcement agencies. It is charged from the federal budget and is calculated depending on the amount of monetary allowance for the period of service. Also, the size of the pension depends on the rank and position, it is calculated taking into account various allowances and cash benefits.

Conditions for retirement

According to the current legislation, a seniority pension can be assigned to military personnel who are serving in the military and retire to the reserve after 20 years in a military position. Dismissal is a prerequisite: you cannot serve and receive a military pension at the same time. If a military pensioner decides to return to service after his dismissal, the payment of the pension is terminated, and he receives monetary allowance from the Ministry of Defense until the moment of re-dismissal and appeal to the pension authority.

Not always a military pension is a seniority pension. It can be assigned for several other reasons:

Obtaining a disability during the period of service. Disability or serious disease must be documented.
Calculation of a pension for the widow of a serviceman for the loss of a breadwinner. It is accrued if the widow was unable to earn her own insurance experience while living in closed military camps or in remote regions of the country.

So far, the length of service for military personnel for retirement is 20 years, although there are active talks about increasing this period to 25 years. It is planned to carry out a reform for employees of law enforcement agencies, for whom the retirement age will be increased, and the payment will be indexed by a fairly large amount.

Prospects for pension reform

For now last news about the seniority of military personnel at 25 years for pensions remain controversial. The bill is still under consideration and discussion, although it was originally expected to enter into force as early as 2018. The state seeks to find financial reserves and save money, and for this it is planned to increase the retirement age in all spheres of life, including in the army.

If the law goes into effect, the increase in the length of service for pension eligibility from 20 to 25 years for the military will lead to a sharp reduction in the number of military pensioners, as well as an increase in the length of service. At the same time, the age limit for military personnel is 45 years, although this bar may also be increased in the future.

Since the state seeks to reduce costs in all areas, the optimization will also affect departmental medical institutions. It is planned to transfer the medical institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and military hospitals to the Ministry of Health, so that medical assistance to the military and representatives of law enforcement agencies is provided on a common basis. The seniority pension for servicemen can be increased, however, taking into account the decrease in the number of pensioners, this increase will affect few people.

It turned out to be agreed by the departments that provide for the passage of military service, a bill providing for an increase from 20 to 25 years of service required for appointment military pension. At the same time, it differs significantly from the bill that we wrote about in our June 15, 2017 and which was prepared by our military lawyers. Most importantly, it is assumed that this bill will be submitted to the State Duma this autumn and should come into force on January 1, 2018, and not on January 1, 2019, as previously proposed. However, the bill itself provides for a transitional period until January 1, 2023, during which military personnel with 20 years of service or more will be able to retire from military service with the right to receive a military pension under the same conditions. In addition, it is assumed that in the event of the dismissal of a serviceman on one of the so-called "preferential" grounds (reaching the age limit for military service, health status, organizational and staffing measures, as well as dismissal from military service due to non-fulfillment of the terms of the contract by Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (another federal executive body in which the law provides for military service) if he has served for 20 years or more, a pension will be assigned under the same conditions that are currently in force.The new bill provides that minimum size pensions for 25 years of service will be 65% of the corresponding amounts of monetary allowance taken into account for the appointment of a military pension (salary according to military rank, salary according to position (official salary) and percentage bonus for length of service), and the maximum - 95% of the specified amounts of monetary allowance. In this draft law, in contrast to what was promulgated earlier, there is no rule providing for an increase in the amount of the above allowance for length of service paid to military personnel and which is taken into account when assigning a military pension, it is not reported, apparently due to lack of money in the budget, to do this no longer planned. Some media reported that such a maneuver would give a respite to the federal budget, as it would allow several billion rubles to be released for some time, which is very important in the difficult economic conditions in which our state finds itself.

At the same time, Kommersant reports that, according to information from his source close to the presidential administration, "a fundamental decision to raise the lower limit of seniority for military personnel has been made." Thus, it can be assumed with a high degree of probability that the minimum length of service required for the appointment of a military pension will still be increased in the near foreseeable future from 20 to 25 years.

You can use the current calculation of the military pension here.

Take advantage of the current calculation of the military pension (mixed), taking into account the civil (labor) length of service.

You can use the current calculation of monetary allowance here.

In the summer of 2017, almost to the same day as today, the Russian media reported on the upcoming reform of military pensions. The main point of the reform is to increase the length of service for servicemen by five years at once. A year has passed, and this news has not yet received concrete development, but this does not mean that the state has forgotten about the idea itself. An increase in the length of service for military personnel up to 25 years is the latest news about a possible reform of military pensions in Russia, what is the minimum length of service that exists under the law at the moment.

News about the preparation of an increase in length of service up to 25 years for military personnel

The existence of a bill to increase the minimum length of service for the military from 20 to 25 years was reported a year ago by the publication Kommersant. Referring to its sources in the Ministry of Defense and other security agencies, the newspaper wrote that in March 2017, the Russian President instructed to prepare a draft law on increasing the length of service for security officials. At the end of May last year, the project was ready.

The idea of raising the minimum length of service required to receive a military pension did not arise out of nowhere. By the time the president instructed to work on this issue, the retirement age for Russian civil servants had already been increased. For the same military pensioners who are already retired, they froze the reduction coefficient that links pensions to salaries in the army and which was supposed to increase annually until the pension of a retired military would coincide with the salary of an employee in the same rank and at the same positions in active troops.

Saving the budget is one of the main tasks that the state had to solve after the start of the economic crisis in 2013-2014.

The mechanism for increasing the length of service for military personnel up to 25 years

The exact mechanism has not been revealed. Only one thing was known - for those military men whose current contracts are ending at the moment when their length of service reaches 20 years, the right to retire will come according to the old rules. Raising the minimum length of service will not affect them.

As for everyone else, it is not known for certain whether the bill provides for a transitional period or, if the bill is introduced and passed, it will enter into force immediately, and the military will simply be presented with a fait accompli.

Back in 2013, a similar draft law on increasing seniority appeared in the Ministry of Defense. In that bill, the mechanism was as follows - it was proposed to introduce a transitional period until 2019, during which military personnel could choose whether to retire after 20 years of service or continue their service, receiving an additional 25 percent of their salary possible pension. From 2019, according to this project, the length of service was to be increased to 25 years, and the transition period was to be completed.

The project for reforming military pensions from 2013, after the calculations were made, was recognized as not entirely successful - there were simply no funds for its implementation even at that time.

Two years later, in 2015, the Ministry of Finance came up with a rather radical proposal. The Ministry of Finance proposed to increase the minimum length of service for the military immediately to 30 years. The proposal, of course, did not find understanding and was not developed.

Will there be an increase in length of service to 25 years for the military in 2018

The history of the emergence of such projects suggests that they arise every two years and are safely forgotten. The ideas that were discussed in 2013 and 2015 were found to be inappropriate. The news about another bill that appeared in 2017 did not receive development either.

However, the 2017 project differs from the previous two in an essential detail - it was initiated by direct order of the president.

At the same time, in the summer of last year, Kommersant's sources made no secret of the fact that although the bill had been prepared in general terms, its adoption would certainly be delayed. In March 2018, presidential elections were held, and all decisions that were unpopular with the people were pushed into the background, and, if possible, they were simply not talked about.

Elections have passed, and the first unpopular measure, which is no longer embarrassed to talk about, is already being prepared for adoption. Talking about a raise retirement age for all Russians. The decision itself has not yet been made, but the government does not hide the fact that it will appear soon.

The same may well be expected of military personnel. Having carried out a reform with an increase in the retirement age for “civilian” pensioners, the state may well return to the topic of increasing the length of service to 25 for the military and other security officials. Therefore, acting officers and generals of the Russian army need to closely follow the latest news on this topic. Before the changes are adopted, their mechanism will be discussed, and it will become clear what exactly the government is preparing for the military.

In Government Russian Federation have long been discussing the issue of increasing the length of service from 20 to 25 years for military personnel, employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But if until 2018 these questions were nothing more than an assumption, then in June significant progress began. On June 14, 2018, there was an increase in the retirement age for civilians in the Russian Federation. In light of this, the issue of increasing the length of service for military personnel also became acute. The draft law has already been prepared, developed, but has not yet been published and has not yet entered into force. What should military personnel expect in the future?

Latest news on military pension reform

For 2018, various forums are discussing the upcoming reform in the military sphere. In order to somehow prepare citizens for such a turn of events, Vladimir Putin said that in the near future the growth of military pensions would increase by 6%.

From January 1, 2019, the Government of the Russian Federation promises that it will start implementing a large-scale pension reform which will affect all segments of the population and spheres of activity. It is planned to adjust the conditions under which retirement is possible, as well as to increase the retirement age for receiving an insurance pension upon reaching a certain age.

At the same time, the possibility of making changes to the conditions for calculating pensions for security forces remains questionable. The government does not comment on future amendments. But it is likely that they will be introduced soon.

Representatives of the State Duma report that the length of service for the military and security officials will be increased, but a little later, so as not to create confusion among citizens.

In view of this, it is still unknown how and in what way military pensions will be adjusted, whether the length of service will increase, and most importantly, by how much. Also, no official documents were submitted for publication. But the authorities do not deny that changes in pensions for the security forces will still be carried out, it is only a matter of time.

It is planned to increase the salary allowance for cash support. It will differ significantly from the previously announced indicators.

Years of service up to:

1 year old. The surcharge under the current law is 0%. According to the bill 5%;
2 years old The surcharge under the current law is 0%. Under the bill 10%;
5 years. Under the current bill 10%. According to the new 25;
10 years. According to the current law 15%. New 40%;
15 years. 20% under current law. 45% new;
20 years. 25% under the current law, 50% under the new one;
22. 30% under the old law, 55% under the new one;
25 years. 30% under the old law, 65% under the new;
26 years and older. 40% for the current one, 70% for the new one.

As part of the new legislation, it is planned to increase the amount of monetary allowance. Its value will increase from 50 to 65%.

A soldier who has more than 25 years of service will be offered to pay an allowance of 25% of the pension that he would be able to receive if he retired from military service. For each year, the amount of the allowance increases by exactly 3%.. But retirement will mean a complete recalculation of the final amount of earnings.

At the same time, citizens retain the right to receive a military pension after 20 years of service. However, it is possible only in a number of individual cases.

Unfortunately, at the moment there is no publication of the text of the bill for review in the public domain. It is possible to read the main postulates of the law and its theses only through the analysis of the media in unofficial sources. Here, certain provisions of the law are quoted, and the main ideas of the new act are also discussed. At the moment, there is no official information about the exact content of the bill, which will be finally adopted.

Deputies and experts on increasing the length of service for military personnel

Dmitry Travin, expert economist:

“I believe that there is no need to raise the retirement age of security officials. In order to redistribute all the funds of the state budget, it is enough to simply reconsider its priorities. I also note that it is necessary to wait for a real increase in the life expectancy of Russians, and then to adopt the appropriate reforms.”

Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance:

“The length of service for obtaining the right to retire by military personnel should be adjusted. We are working on such studies and we have in development one of the elements of the successful functioning of the pension system in Russia.”

Tatyana Golikova, Deputy Prime Minister:

“If you do not take into account the increase in the length of service for military personnel, conflicts may flare up within the state on this issue. An increase in the length of service for military personnel will also have a positive impact on the budget in view of the increase in the life expectancy of Russian citizens. This is a necessary measure for which we have been preparing for a long time. So, right now the moment has come when the need to raise the retirement age is a priority.”

Specificity of the new draft law on raising the retirement age

What will be remarkable about this bill?

To date, it has been established that if a serviceman has a service of 20 years, then he is already assigned a pension, which is equal to 50% of the available monetary allowance.

Every year from the moment of reaching 20 years of service, the annual increase will be 3% to the already existing amount of 50% allowance. But the total amount of the allowance cannot exceed 85% of the initial salary of a soldier.

The bill proposes to reconsider this approach. Pension provision will begin to accrue at the moment when the length of service reaches the mark of 25 years. Not 50%, but 65% will be credited immediately. Each year, 3% of the pension will be accrued, and the maximum amount should not exceed 95% of the salary of a soldier.

The bill offers several options for dismissals from the armed forces on one of the preferential grounds:

Reaching the legal age beyond which it is not possible to serve in the armed forces.
In connection with the organizational and staffing activities and the subsequent reduction.
An illness or serious health condition that does not provide for being in the ranks of the armed forces and is confirmed by a medical commission.

In such a situation, in accordance with the draft law, the appointment of a long-term pension will be provided, the amount of which will be equal to 50% of the funds received, provided that the serviceman has at least 20 years of service.

Every year he will be increased by 3%, but the amount of allowance received cannot exceed 95%.

The specificity of the law lies in the fact that it was adopted in order to eliminate the unfairly established high retirement age for ordinary citizens of the country who are not involved in military service. That is why the military was also extended the term to 25 years.

The bill itself was developed by the Main Directorate of Personnel of the Armed Forces.

More recently, it became known that this regulatory legal act has already been signed by the President of the Russian Federation and should come into force in 2019.

Adoption of a law on increasing the length of service for military personnel

To date, there is no indication in official sources when the law will be passed, and when the mention of the new length of service will come into effect. A process has not been defined that will include a transitional phase that should last until 2023.

Citizens who will be subject to the new legal act can retire even if they have 20 years of service, but subject to special conditions that will be valid until 2023.

Many media outlets claim that the approval of the project was completed in positive side. The decision on the issue of increasing the length of service has already been made, and the entry into force of the legislative act is only a matter of time.

The adoption of the project was scheduled for September 2018. But due to the difficult issues of pension reform for civilians, the bill for the military was shelved.

Sociological surveys show that about 80% of the people surveyed do not support an increase in seniority for the security forces. Therefore, the ground must be well prepared before initiating such changes.

The principle of calculating military pensions

In accordance with the bill, the principle of calculating the military pension will not change. Only the indicators that will participate in the calculation of the final amount will change.

The calculation principle is very simple. It is necessary to take the general value of the EDV, which, in addition to the official salary, also includes all the allowances. Using this value and the characteristic pension coefficient, you can find out the approximate amount of the pension, which then must be compared with a reduction coefficient.

The approximate amount will be paid to the soldier.

When calculating the pension, the following indicators are taken into account:

Salary for the awarded title.
Salary from the corresponding position.
Surcharges, in the amount of not more than 40% of the EDDV.

The formula looks like this.

EDDV * (50% +% for service) * reduction factor = pension amount.

It is still vaguely clear how the military pension will be calculated from 2019. After all, not all provisions of the new bill will be adopted immediately, which means that the calculation system should also change somewhat.

It is planned that at first, military personnel will be able to calculate an approximate pension using special online calculators. Later, there will be a generally accepted formula.

Consider how the payment for military personnel in 2018 is calculated. Calculation rules are regulated federal law"O pension provision persons in military service” 4469-1.

Example: Odintsov A.V. was dismissed from the army, having the rank of captain. The reason for the dismissal was the end of the contract. Odintsov is 44 years old. His experience is 24 years and 6 months. This confirms the length of service. As a result, the payment will be calculated as follows:

pension \u003d 50% of monetary allowance + 3% of monetary allowance * the number of full years that were worked out over 20 \u003d 50% DD + 12% DD \u003d 62% of the monetary allowance that citizen Odintsov received in the rank of captain.

Each year this allowance will be proportionately increased by 3%.

A completely different calculation is assumed if a citizen has been in military service for less than 20 years.

Example. Police Major Zhukov was in the service for 13 years and 10 months. Means:

pension \u003d 50% of the allowance * for 1% of the allowance * 4 years of experience = citizen Zhukov can count on 54% of the allowance.

Cancellation of the reduction factor for military pensioners

The law promises to consider requirements for the abolition of the reduction factor. More than once the issue of introducing a reduction factor was checked for legality in the Constitutional Court. However, no violations of the constitutional rights of servicemen were found.

To date, the value of the reduction coefficient is 72.23% of the monetary allowance.

The ratio has not changed since 2017. After the bill enters into force, the reduction factor is promised to be either frozen or slightly increased. However, it is also likely that when discussing the prospect of a reduction factor, it will be decided to abandon it altogether. However, it does not make sense to talk about this innovation until 2023.

What will happen to military pensions in 2019?

In 2019, it is planned that the reform will start working, which will also affect innovations in matters of pensions for military personnel. It is planned that the changes will be quite controversial, but necessary.

Length of service will increase from 20 to 25 years. This innovation has already been approved at the official level. Such a reform would avoid inequality in the country and equalize civil pensioners with military personnel.

It is possible that the moratorium established in 2018 on changing the reduction factor will be lifted.

You can also expect indexing. According to official statements from the Department of Defense, retirees can count on a two-stage increase in social benefits.

The first stage will start on October 1, 2019.
The second stage is exactly one year later, in 2020.

But the value of the reduction coefficient should remain at the same level, and also correspond to the current salaries of military personnel.

In order to carry out the reform, 41 billion rubles have already been frozen in the state budget. With these funds, the Government plans to support military pensioners, as well as jinx the transition process in the face of inflation.

A law to increase the minimum length of service will be passed, but everything will not happen in one day. The transition process will last exactly 5 years until 2023. During this time, financial, economic and social work will be carried out to help citizens adapt to new conditions.

The true reason for raising the retirement age for military personnel, according to many citizens, is simply a banal leveling. In accordance with the Federal Law “On the Status of Servicemen”, the military acquire the right to a pension after 20 years from the moment they began military service. That is, many citizens can become full-fledged pensioners at the age of 40.

Many citizens of the Russian Federation and deputies do not agree with this. Despite the difficult conditions for the implementation of the service, the presence of professional deformations and other decisions during the service to the homeland, the state followed the lead of the majority and decided that the pension reform would affect not only ordinary citizens of the Russian Federation, but also military personnel.

Last summer, Russian journalists spoke about the upcoming reform of military pensions. The main message is to increase the length of service for servicemen up to 25 years. A year later, this information has not yet received much promotion, which does not mean that the authorities have forgotten about such an idea. Increasing the length of service to 25 for military personnel: the latest news about the reform of military pensions in Russia, what is the minimum length of service under the law now.

News about the preparation of an increase in length of service up to 25 years for military personnel

The fact that a draft law is being developed to increase the minimum length of service for military personnel to 25 years was reported last year by the Kommersant newspaper. Sources of the publication in the Ministry of Defense and other law enforcement agencies said that in March 2017, Vladimir Putin instructed to prepare a bill to increase the length of service for employees of law enforcement agencies. At the end of May last year, the project was prepared.

The topic of raising the minimum length of service for receiving a military pension appeared for a reason. By the time the president ordered to work out this issue the retirement age for Russian officials has already been raised. Military pensioners, who are already retired, were suspended a special coefficient that linked their pensions to the salaries of active military men. This indicator was supposed to grow every year until the moment when the pension of a retired military man would not reach the level of wages of an active employee in the same rank and position.

Saving the state budget is the most important task facing the authorities at the beginning of the economic crisis of 2013-2014.

A clear implementation mechanism has not been made public. It was only known that for military personnel whose current contracts expire at the moment they reach 20 years of service, the right to retire will come under the previous rules, and the increase in the minimum length of service will not affect them.

For the rest, it is not known for sure whether the project involves any transition period or after its adoption it will come into effect immediately, and people will be confronted with this fact.

In 2013, the Ministry of Defense developed a similar project to raise the length of service. That draft law envisaged such a mechanism - the introduction of a transition period until 2019, when the military would have a choice whether to retire after 20 years of service or continue to serve and at the same time receive 25% of their own potential pension in addition to their salary. From 2019, the length of service in accordance with the project was to increase to 25 years, and the transition period would come to an end.

The military pension reform project of 2013, after the calculations, was recognized as unsuccessful - the implementation required funds that were not available even in fairly well-fed times.

In 2015, a very radical proposal from the Ministry of Finance appeared. This department proposed to raise the minimum length of service for military personnel immediately to 30 years. The idea, of course, was also considered unsuccessful.

The history of the emergence of such bills indicates that they appear every 2 years, after which they are forgotten. The proposals of 2013 and 2015 were considered unsuccessful. So far, the news about the project that arose in 2017 has not received development.

However, the bill of 2017 is fundamentally different from the previous ones in that it was initiated after the direct order of Vladimir Putin.

At the same time, in the summer of 2017, Kommersant sources said that although the project was ready in general terms, its adoption would be almost 100% delayed. The reason is the March presidential elections in the country, because of which any unpopular measures were moved to a later date.

The elections are over, and the first unpopular decision, which is no longer embarrassed, is already being prepared for adoption. This refers to raising the retirement age for ordinary citizens of the country. A direct decision has not yet been made, but the government has ceased to hide that it is only a matter of time.

The military can expect the same. Having completed the reform of raising the retirement age for ordinary pension recipients, the authorities can then return to the idea of raising the length of service to 25 years for military personnel and other employees of law enforcement agencies. Thus, the current leadership of the army should carefully monitor the latest news on this topic.