Read about how military pensions in Russia will be indexed additionally this year and when citizens will be able to receive additional payments according to the new law in the RIA Novosti article.
Decision on additional indexation of military pensions from January 1, 2025
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On February 12, the Federation Council decided to approve the law on additional indexation of pensions for military pensioners from January 1, 2025. The document prepared by the government was adopted by the State Duma the day before. This bill was submitted to the State Duma in January 2025. The explanatory note states that the new rules el salvador mobile database are aimed at additional indexation of pensions for military pensioners taking into account the actual level of inflation.
The government has made calculations according to which 56.6 billion rubles will need to be allocated from the federal budget to index military pensions.
By what amount will military pensions be additionally indexed in 2025?
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The new law establishes that from January 1, the amount of monetary allowance taken into account when calculating pensions will be 93.59%, and not 89.83%, as it was before. This measure will ensure indexation of pensions for military personnel and their family members by 9.5%.
The monetary allowance is the sum of the salaries according to rank and position. The military pension consists of a percentage of this sum and various allowances, which can be individual for each person.
Previously, military pensions had already been indexed by 5.1%. However, this amount turned out to be lower than the actual inflation rate. That is why it was necessary to make additional changes to the law, which assume that pensions will be increased by another 4.4%. As a result, the overall indexation level of pensions for military pensioners in 2025 will be 9.5%.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin specified that " an additional payment will be made to the payments already made for the first two months of 2025. " Thus, military pensioners will be able to receive a pension that will already be indexed from March 1. That is, additional payments for January and February 2025 for increased military pensions will be transferred to citizens simultaneously with the payment for March.