The legislation of the Russian Federation annually provides certain benefits for categories of citizens in need. In Russia there is a law that regulates benefits for citizens who have reached retirement age and have minor children under their guardianship.
Basic concept of pension supplements
A pension supplement for a citizen who has reached retirement age is a certain amount of money that is reimbursed to the pensioner if certain conditions are met. In most cases, a pensioner's supplement is provided if he has minor children or disabled children as his dependents.
Important!!! The pension supplement for children born after and before 1990 is not an automatic additional payment to the monthly pension amount, but is calculated based on certain conditions.
Basic conditions for receiving an allowance for minor children
A pension supplement is possible for both working and non-working pensioners. An important condition remains that the pensioner be a citizen of the Russian Federation. The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation puts forward the basic requirements for receiving a pension supplement:
- The pensioner must retire no earlier than 01/01/2015;
- The pensioner retired after this date, but did not report his existing children to the Pension Fund.
According to the old procedure for calculating pensions, maternity leave was not included in a woman’s total length of service, but was subtracted from it. Today, pensioners can recalculate their length of service taking into account points for maternity leave; this will also be a certain bonus to their pension.
Key points in receiving a pension supplement for minor children.
- Those pensioners who retired after January 1, 2015 do not need to apply for recalculation, since the most profitable option has already been calculated for them and assigned for payment. Recalculation is required only if the woman has non-insurance periods that were not taken into account when assigning a pension before January 1, 2015 or taken into account according to the old rules, for which pension points are now awarded in accordance with the new law of December 28, 2013 No. 400-FZ.
- There is no time limit for submitting an application for recalculation of women's pensions for children.
- The pension supplement for children obtained as a result of recalculation is individual and is not guaranteed for all pensioners, since replacing work experience with a period of child care will not always be beneficial.
According to statistics, only in 20-30% of cases the amount of paid pension benefits can be increased, and the amount of the increase can range from several rubles to several hundred or, in some cases, can even exceed a thousand rubles.
Important!!! If the recalculation is obtained “with a minus sign,” then the current pension amount will not decrease (since the deterioration of pension provision is not allowed by current law), and the Pension Fund employees will make a decision on refusal.
Who is entitled to pension supplements for minor children?
According to Russian legislation, women of retirement age who have two or more children whose children were born after 1990 can receive a pension supplement. The earnings of these women were minimal and their work experience was not long. Also women who are dependent on minor children or children who are studying full-time. In order to receive a pension supplement, a woman must contact the pension fund of the Russian Federation at her place of registration with an application and a certain package of documents. This package of documents includes the following documents:
- Application for accrual of a pension supplement for minor children;
- A document confirming the presence of minor children;
- A copy of the work record book, certified by a notary;
- Certificates confirming the absence of allowances;
All bonuses and calculation of pensions are regulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation, therefore, in order to receive a bonus, a certain procedure must be followed.
| Submitting an application | The application can be submitted in two ways: · Through the Pension Fund, by contacting the Pension Fund employees with a package of documents and a written application; · Through the government services website, which requires registration, then you need to go to the “pension calculation” menu and follow all the prompts. |
| Review of submitted documents. | Pension fund employees accept the package of documents and the application; a period of no more than 10 days is allocated for consideration. |
| Decision making by PF employees. | After 10 days after submitting the application, PF employees are required to notify the applicant of the decision, positive - the amount of the bonus is calculated or negative - the bonus is denied. |
By following this procedure and having all the necessary documents, the pensioner is required to provide a pension supplement.
- Maintenance of minor children;
- If the child is a full-time student at an educational institution;
- Caring for a disabled child.
That is, if a woman who retired upon reaching retirement age and at the same time has minor children to support, she has every right to apply to the Pension Fund to receive an increase to the available amount of the pension payment.
Additional payment for minor children
Russian legislation provides for the receipt of a supplement to the basic pension for pensioners who retired upon reaching retirement age and do not have other benefits and who have minor children as their dependents.
Basic bonus amounts.
Important!!! If a pensioner is officially employed, according to Russian law, he is entitled to a supplement to the basic pension in the amount of one third of the fixed pension amount.
Based on this article, we can conclude that the state provides financial support in every possible way to citizens who need it; the main condition for receiving a pension supplement for a minor child in 2019 is having citizenship of the Russian Federation.
Persons who have reached retirement age are entitled to... For women, this age begins at 55 years.
However, not many people know that if they have 2 or more children, women are entitled to additional payments from the federal and regional budgets.
In addition, the legislation provides for the possibility of age 50 for certain categories of women. It is worth noting that not much information is available on the issue of pension provision for women with many children. Therefore, let's take a closer look at all the payments and benefits.
Rules for calculating additional payments
The procedure for calculating funds in addition to the insurance pension is regulated. According to the regulatory document, funds are paid for the maintenance of minors, as well as disabled dependent citizens.
Additional payment is due pensioners raising children until they reach adulthood. This payment can be extended if they continue their studies at a secondary specialized or higher educational institution.
Additional payments accrued for each child. This means that when 2 or more children are born, the benefit increases. The upbringing of one minor is entitled to 32% of the amount of payments received. On the second – 64%. For raising three people, the amount of additional payment will already be equal to 100% of the pension.
For getting The following conditions must be met:
- presence of 3 or more children;
- lack of official work;
- a mother of many children should receive a pension.
To find out the amount of allowances, for which you may qualify, you should contact the Pension Fund. Employees can make a preliminary calculation of the due amount.
Mothers of many children can only apply for regional allowances However, this status allows you to retire at age 50.
Early registration of pension benefits
Federal Law No. 28 “On Labor Pensions in the Russian Federation” establishes the possibility of early retirement for mothers who have given birth to 5 or more children.
Required condition is to educate them until the age of 8.
This law also provides for retirement at age 50 for women who have raised 2 or more children, if they have worked for at least 12 years in the Far North or for 17 years in similar areas. 
Old-age benefits are assigned to mothers at the age of 50 who have raised up to 8 years of age. For early retirement, you must have at least 15 years of work experience.
Innovations in the pension system on this issue
Since the introduction of the calculation of insurance payments on the basis, mothers of four children can count on increases.
Also now work experience includes periods of raising four children, and not three, as was previously the case. In addition, during the period of caring for children, individual pension coefficients (points) are calculated.
Thus, 1 year of care for the first child gives 1.8 points, for the second – 3.6, for the third – 5.4 points, respectively. If the mother works in, then she can choose which points to accrue - for her main place of work or for caring for the baby.
The legislation also plans make changes regarding early retirement. It is planned to reduce it to 47 years. However, this figure may vary depending on the region of residence of the mother. In subjects of the Russian Federation, with a population decline, the age will be lower, and with an increase, the age will be higher. The issue of reducing the number of children to 3 to qualify for benefits is also being considered.
For help The state needs to collect a package of necessary documents, contact the pension authorities and receive the required bonus.
Today the state supports the birth of more children, so you should not be afraid of being left without a livelihood.
To get help, you only need to make a little effort and you will receive the required government support.
Additional payments to pensions for citizens of the Russian Federation are described in the following video:
01/03/2019, Sashka Bukashka
Currently, our country has a “points” system for calculating pensions. This means that for each year of work a citizen is awarded a certain number of points, depending on his salary. All these points are reflected in his individual personal account with the Pension Fund (PFR). We have already talked about this in a separate article. Essentially, the number of points depends on the amount of insurance premiums paid by the employer. But all this applies to those citizens who are just getting ready to retire or. For current pensioners, the pension was calculated according to different rules, but, as it turned out, they can count on it.
Points and experience
In 2015, Federal Law No. 400-FZ of December 28, 2013 “On Insurance Pensions” came into force, which introduced a “points” calculation system. From January 1, 2015, when it began to operate, PFR specialists began to determine which system for calculating social benefits would be more profitable for a particular citizen (not because they are too kind, they are supposed to do so according to instructions). Therefore, everyone who retired after this date does not need recalculation; they were already assigned the highest possible pension. But for those citizens, or rather women, who became pensioners earlier, there is a real chance to increase it.
The fact is that previously, during parental leave or military service, citizens simply had their average length of service counted. Usually year after year, but sometimes taking into account increasing factors. For example, in the North or in rural areas. That is, for maternity leave, most of our mothers and grandmothers received from 1.5 to 3 years of experience for each child. Nowadays, they do not give experience for children; instead, so-called non-insurance points are provided. The state is ready to pay for the time when a person did not work, but was busy with something useful: raising children, serving the Motherland, or studying at the institute.
It would seem, what difference does it make: experience or points? In fact there is a difference. After all, insurance points depend on length of service and salary. Therefore, you may not earn even one point in a year if your salary is small. But non-insurance points are fixed.
How many points will they give for a child?
The law establishes that during maternity leave, his mother can receive the following number of points:
- 1.8 - caring for the first child until he reaches the age of one and a half years;
- 3.6 - caring for the second child until he reaches the age of one and a half years;
- 5.4 - caring for the third, fourth and all subsequent children until they reach the age of one and a half years.
In addition, such points have a price that is reviewed annually by the Pension Fund. From January 1, 2019, the cost of one pension point was raised to 87 rubles 24 kopecks (in 2018 it cost 81 rubles 49 kopecks. It is easy to understand that the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation determines the amount of pension payments by multiplying the number of points a pensioner has scored by their value. The same methodology used to calculate additional pension payments for children.
For example, consider the situation:
Anna Ivanovna Bukashka had two children: Alexander - March 2, 1980 and Daria - April 1, 1982. If Anna Ivanovna submits an application to recalculate her pension for a mother of two children, then:
- for the first child she will receive 1.8 * 87.24 = 157.03 rubles;
- for the second child - 3.6*87.24=314.06 rubles.
Only 471 rubles. But this does not mean at all that recalculating the pension for children will add exactly this amount to its payment. In reality, she may receive much less or no increase at all.
Profitable or not
It turns out that recalculation is not always beneficial for a pensioner. After all, it’s not just getting an additional payment to your pension for having children. No, officials will not miss their goal, so they replace periods of work with non-insurance periods using a new “points” system. This means that the time of maternity leave and subsequent vacation will not increase the length of service, but will simply replace it with points.
Therefore, for those mothers and grandmothers who not only raised children, but also managed to earn well, for example, more than 100 rubles a month in the USSR or more than 10 thousand rubles in Russia, the size of their pension, on the contrary, may be reduced. In such a situation, recalculating a pension for a mother of two, three or even four children will not be profitable. But don’t rush to get scared, your pension won’t get any smaller anyway. If the Pension Fund calculates and understands that the amount is less, they will maintain the originally calculated amount.
Recalculation is also unprofitable for those mothers who did not work and stayed at home with their children. As a rule, now they are . The amount of such a pension is guaranteed by the state, so if the length of service is not enough to reach this amount, an additional payment is made from the Pension Fund budget. Of course, as a result of recalculation for children for such mothers, the amount of payment may be increased, but it is still unlikely to be enough to increase the payment above the minimum amount. This means that as a result of the recalculation, only the amount of the additional payment from the budget will be reduced, and the amount that the pensioner receives in hand will not change.
So, recalculation will be beneficial for a mother of 3 children, provided that she worked and received a small salary. Such women will receive more during parental leave than for four and a half years of work experience. If there are two children, and the earnings were small, it also makes sense to ask for a recalculation. For one child, this usually does not make sense.
Who can apply for recalculation?
All women (and even men if they were on maternity leave) who have children and retired before January 1, 2015 can apply for recalculation of their pension. All citizens who retired after this date have already received calculations of payments in their favor according to the most profitable option. However, if they wish, they can also write a statement and ask to count again. What if the Pension Fund made a mistake? And an additional 50 rubles is also money.
Where to apply for a children's pension and for its recalculation?
Recalculation of payments to a pensioner can be done at the branch of the Pension Fund of Russia only on the basis of his written application. The application form was approved by order of the Ministry of Labor of Russia dated January 19, 2016 N 14n. The form can be found on the Internet or asked directly at the Pension Fund office. You can also take advantage of modern developments and request a recalculation through.
The following documents must be attached to the application:
- ID document of the pensioner;
- birth certificate(s) of the child(ren);
- a document that confirms that the child has reached one and a half years of age (for example, a school leaving certificate).
The latter document does not need to be provided if the child’s birth certificate contains a stamp indicating that he received a passport. The Pension Fund accepts only original birth certificates. Therefore, if it is lost, the document must be restored. Otherwise, recalculation will be refused. You can submit your application in person to the Pension Fund branch or to the nearest MFC. It is also possible to submit an application by mail. If a pensioner knows how to use the Internet and is registered on the government services website, then an application for recalculation can be filled out and submitted right there. True, the speed of service provision will not change.
Now let’s look at the main question: how to fill out an application for recalculation of a pension to the Pension Fund.
How to fill out an application for recalculation of mothers' pension?
How to submit an application to the pension fund to recalculate the pension for children? Writing it is not at all difficult. And the principle of its compilation does not depend on the number of children, the age of the mother and other factors. That is, an application for pension recalculation for mothers with two or more children will be exactly the same in format as for a mother of one child. But just in case, we have prepared detailed instructions.
Step 1
First of all, you need to enter your last name, first name and patronymic, indicate your place of residence and passport details, as well as a contact phone number. If the registration address coincides with the place of actual residence, you do not need to write it a second time.
Step 2
You must check whether you are female or male.
Step 3
Step 4
We select the purpose of recalculation from the proposed options. In our case, put a tick in the top box.
Step 5
It is necessary to indicate whether the pensioner is currently working and whether he has other dependent persons.
Step 6
In conclusion, you need to confirm your consent to the processing of personal data, as well as to inform the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation about all events and circumstances related to payments. You also need to list the documents that are attached to the application.
Step 7
After which you can put a date, sign and submit the application to the Pension Fund.
So, we have discussed step by step how to write an application for recalculation of a pension for children. What's next?
When to expect pension recalculation
Pension Fund specialists will recalculate payments in connection with the replacement of work periods from the 1st day of the month following the month in which the application was accepted. However, the new amount will only be paid if it increases. If the amount after new calculations turns out to be less, the size of the social benefit will remain the same.
But if you have evidence that they recalculated your pension incorrectly, or the Pension Fund of Russia refused to do so at all, you can file a complaint with the prosecutor’s office about the recalculation of the pension for children.
Due to the large number of requests and conflicting information in the media on this issue, OPFR specialists talk in detail about who is entitled to recalculate pensions for children, what documents are needed, when it will be made, how you can apply for recalculation, she told listeners about this Radio State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Ingushetia" chief specialist - expert of the department for organizing the assignment and recalculation of pensions Gadaborsheva Radifa.
In accordance with current legislation, periods of care by one of the parents for each child until he reaches the age of one and a half years (but not more than 6 years in total) are included in the insurance period along with periods of work. If the periods of work and periods of childcare coincide (during the period of childcare the mother was in an employment relationship), either work or the period of childcare can be taken into account. In each case, the most beneficial option for the pensioner is selected.
Who can apply for recalculation?
Citizens who retired before 2015. For those who retire from 2015, the most profitable option is immediately selected, so there is no need to contact us again about this. For caring for the first child, 1.8 points are awarded per year of care, for the second child - 3.6 points, for the third and fourth - 5.4 points for each year of care. Points are awarded for no more than four children. The cost of one pension point today is 78 rubles 58 kopecks.
Thus, based on the cost of the point, 1.5 years of care for the first child in monetary terms is 212.17 rubles, for the second - 424.33 rubles, for the third and fourth - 636.50 rubles each.
Why were periods of childcare not taken into account immediately when assigning a pension?
The point system for calculating pensions appeared only in 2015.
Work experience is established on the basis of entries in the work book, and periods of child care are not recorded in it. If a woman at the time of granting a pension provided birth certificates for children, then the periods of child care were taken into account in the length of service according to the norms of previously existing legislation.
Is it beneficial for everyone to recalculate their pension?
No, not everyone. As a rule, if the leave was taken to care for one child, it is not profitable to recalculate. The most likely increase in pension is when replacing length of service with periods of caring for three or more children, that is, if a woman is a mother of many children. Also, an increase in pension is possible if during the period of work to be replaced by the period of leaving, there was a low salary or if the period of leaving coincided, for example, with training.
What kind of pension increase can you expect?
Everyone has an individual calculation of their pension amount.
If the periods of care coincide with the period of work, the corresponding period of work is excluded from the calculation of the total length of service. This means that the part of the pension established for this period of service must be excluded from the pension amount and replaced with the amount calculated using the point system for the period of child care.
Also with earnings, it will need to be revised if it was taken into account for the period that is excluded due to recalculation.
In addition, if the difference between the births of children is less than one and a half years, then in calculating the increase in pension only the actual time spent caring for the child until the birth of the next one will be taken into account.
Thus, as a result of calculating the possibility of replacing the previous procedure for accounting for length of service into points, the period of child care will not provide a more favorable pension amount and, accordingly, the pension will not be increased.
From what period does recalculation take place?
Recalculation is made from the 1st day of the month following the month in which the application for recalculation was submitted.
What documents are needed for recalculation?
Recalculation in connection with the replacement of periods is carried out at the request of the pensioner. When contacting the Pension Fund client service, you will need an identity document, birth certificates of children and documents confirming that the children have reached at least one and a half years of age. If the birth certificate is stamped with a passport issuance stamp, it is sufficient to submit only the certificate.
Are there any deadlines when I can apply for recalculation?
There are no such deadlines. Residents of the region can apply for recalculation at any convenient time.