State Duma Speaker Offers Not to Pay to Oversea Pensioners
State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov recommended to the Pension Fund of Russia yesterday to stop paying pensions to pensioners living overseas. The matter at stake is up to 4 billion rubles annually paid to 115,000 pensioners.
State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov suggested depriving old people of pensions if, being the RF citizens, they prefer to live somewhere outside Russia. Gryzlov made the respective statement on Monday, when addressing Russia’s emigrant community in Berlin.
Gryzlov said the Pension Fund would be recommended to tighten administration of pension payments, excluding the pensioners that left Russia. The restriction would mostly relate to pensioners living in CIS, in Georgia, for example, where they generally spent less.
In the Pension Fund, they declined to comment on Gryzlov’s initiative Monday, pointing out, however, that the RF residents that prefer to permanently live outside Russia aren’t paid the social pension, only the labor one.
As of January 1, 2007, 83,451 pensioners were receiving pensions through their authorized representatives and 32,009 were paid at places of their permanent residence in some foreign state, showed the data of the RF Audit Chamber. The amount of pension paid to an oversea pensioner averaged 2,878 rubles in 2006, i.e. the aggregate costs of the Pension Fund were roughly 3.9 billion rubles.
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