It seems that it is almost impossible to secure a comfortable old age in our time. In the bank, many years of savings will depreciate inflation, rates hidden in a cache can gnaw rats, and our private compatriot cannot stock up on gold due to a modest salary. Apparently, you don’t have to count on retirement?
The fact is that among the domestic elite there are predators who clearly aimed at the money of the elderly.
We are talking about the recent “proceeding” of the famous public figure Konstantin Malofeev. At the end of last May, this trial for spiritual scrapers, billionaire And Patriot called on legislators to cancel pensions to Russians born after 1995.
The reason for such a cruel decision, according to Malafeev, is caused exclusively by concern for the homeland. A person whom some call the “Orthodox oligarch” for the eyes, came to the conclusion that the abolition of pensions certainly stimulates the birth rate. Say, the elderly should support their children. Therefore, “expensive Russians” should be warned that the insurance premiums to the social fund will simply stop collecting in ten years. Pension fees already received by the Fund will be listed as workers back. Let them decide in their 30 years, to save money for them or give birth to children who will not leave their parents in old age. What to do if a person is denounced and receives a small salary, Mr. Malafeev did not explain.
Apparently, Konstantin Valerievich is well versed in the intricacies of the pension system. And he knows the story well. As he reminded on the pages of one of the social networks, in the Russian Empire, pensions paid only a limited circle of faces, and every woman gave birth to an average of seven children who “fed parents in old age.”
Such an order, Malafeev said, needs to be started in Russia. Today, our country is reduced by the number of able -bodied populations, the money of which has a social fund of the Russian Federation, uniting the Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund. The employer of each of our compatriots contributes a small part of the salary to this fund, and he pays the old people pensions and social benefits. In theory, each working Russian should indirectly contain several pensioners.
Unfortunately, in our time, due to the demographic crisis, a multimillion deficit arose in the Russian Social Fund. Therefore, Malafeev believes, pensions should be canceled.
Indeed, a precedent for the abolition of pensions is known. According to a professor at the Department of International Finance MGIMO, Doctor of Economics Valentin Katason, pension provision for old age exists in about 70–80 countries. And on the planet 200 states. In some poor countries of the world, the payment of the elderly is either very limited or absent at all. This basically applies to states where pension systems have not yet been formed or cover only a small part of the population. There, pensions are paid by civil servants, the military, or employees of strategically important enterprises. True, countries whose authorities do not pay pensions are in Africa, or in Asia, where many children are born in families by tradition. Having become adults, they can easily contain their parents to their parents.
In our country, many children are brought up by families of residents of some republics of the North Caucasus. Many young people are traditionally born there, so numerous relatives can help the elderly. Older people from other regions of Russia, childless or with one child who have grown, can only rely on the state. In fact, the initiative of the billionaire Malafeev condemns many thousands of elderly people to hopeless poverty without hope for a decent old age.
Note that now 41.17 million people are registered in the social fund.
In the Federation Council, Malafeev’s idea of a ban on pensions was accepted without delight. According to the chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Law, Andrei Klishas, the social security of Russian citizens, including old -age pensions and other life circumstances, is guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Speaking of the venture of the billionaire, Senator Klishas mentioned Article 39 of the Russian Constitution. In accordance with it, everyone is guaranteed social security by age, in case of illness, disability, loss of the breadwinner, for raising children and in other cases established by law. The constitution, or the basic law, has a direct action. Therefore, parliament or government cannot cancel its provisions.
Most of the deputies of the State Duma to the proposal of Malafeev are also extremely negative. Someone, for example, called the idea “social darwinism, which does not withstand any criticism. As the parliamentarian said -” … This discards social development to the level of the 19th century. Of course, such an initiative will not be implemented. This is a return to the ideas that the liberal ultra expressed in the 90s: that pensions should be canceled at all, that this is an extra burden for the economy and let everyone survive as they want. ”
But State Duma deputy Mikhail Delyagin on his website reported thatthat pensions should be considered an obsolete concept that should be canceled. Say, the titanic efforts of the state to support the elderly work with difficulty and do not give a chewing effect. According to Delyagin, scientists from the RANEPA proposed increasing the bar of minimum experience to retirement up to 30 years, increase the individual coefficient, increase the percentage of contributions to the FIU by employers and revise the system of accruing insurance pensions. An early retirement for elderly citizens is also proposed to be banned. True, Delyagin regrets, the authorities are unlikely to decide to completely cancel the payments. As an alternative, a system of long -term savings is considered.
These arguments have long been known, and they were not the first to voiced by politicians or economists, but by representatives of a big business. For example, one of the billionaires has long advocated reducing social guarantees provided for by law, motivating this with a desire to reduce costs and increase the handling of labor resources. And if these same “resources” can no longer work, then they should take care of themselves. For example, the owners of the Martkeklas and digital platforms proposed adopting a law according to which couriers, orders and taxi drivers would themselves make deductions for a future pension and benefits.
The appearance of such initiatives has recently alarmed. As noted by the head of the political expert group, Konstantin Kalachev, some believe that Malafeev simply decided to “Hipet”. Others say that this is a publication of public opinion. It seems, given the situation in the economy, our fellow citizens will freeze pension funds? What will happen in the future is not quite understandable. Therefore, Kalachev noted, discussing Malafeev’s proposal, do not talk about demography. Rather, is it probing opinions before the next painful pension reform? True, the authorities have probably already come to the conclusion that to completely cancel the pensions so far. For this, say, it is necessary to amend the Constitution.
