Social Supplement to the Minimum Subsistence Level of a Pensioner
Социальная доплата к пенсии до уровня прожиточного минимума пенсионера
Coverage
- Destitute non-working pensioners residing in the Russian Federation.
Financing
- The scheme is entirely tax-financed by federal and regional authorities.
- Federal level: inter-budgetary transfers from the federal budget provided to the budget of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.
- Regional level: budget of the subject of the Russian Federation and subsidies from the federal budget.
Administration
- Federal level: territorial authorities of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.
- Regional level: authorised executive authority of the subject of the Russian Federation.
Qualifying Conditions
- Pensioners residing in the Russian Federation.
- Benefits are means-tested: persons must have income/assets (including all pension and social assistance benefits) below pensioner subsistence level as defined by law.
- Persons must not carry out any employment activity which is subject to pension contributions.
Benefits
- Cash benefit covering the difference between the total amount of social security provisions of a pensioner and the amount of the federal and/or minimum subsistence level of a pensioner determined yearly.
- Benefits are not subject to income tax.
Coverage
Financing
Administration
Qualifying Conditions
Benefits
- Destitute non-working pensioners residing in the Russian Federation.
- The scheme is entirely tax-financed by federal and regional authorities.
- Federal level: inter-budgetary transfers from the federal budget provided to the budget of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.
- Regional level: budget of the subject of the Russian Federation and subsidies from the federal budget.
- Federal level: territorial authorities of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.
- Regional level: authorised executive authority of the subject of the Russian Federation.
- Pensioners residing in the Russian Federation.
- Benefits are means-tested: persons must have income/assets (including all pension and social assistance benefits) below pensioner subsistence level as defined by law.
- Persons must not carry out any employment activity which is subject to pension contributions.
- Cash benefit covering the difference between the total amount of social security provisions of a pensioner and the amount of the federal and/or minimum subsistence level of a pensioner determined yearly.
- Benefits are not subject to income tax.
Legal Basis: Federal Law No. 178-FZ of 17/07/1999 (as amended by Federal Law No. 473-FZ of 29/12/2020) ‘On State Social Assistance’ (Федеральный закон «О государственной социальной помощи»).