Who in the state richer, and why?

September 17, 2014
Ministry of Finance proposed to save the poor

On 17 September. FINMARKET.RU - Ministry of Finance presented yesterday at a meeting of the Russian tripartite commission for regulation of social and labor relations (RTC) budget estimates for 2015-2017, most of the measures to balance the budget involves substantial cost optimization in the social sphere, "Kommersant". Most of the budget, according to the Ministry of Finance projections, it is expected to save as a result of a moratorium on the funded part of the pension: in 2015, this measure will reduce the inter-budget transfers to FIU 309.2 billion rubles.

  In this case, the Ministry of Finance, which during 2014 has consistently opposed the introduction of the pension freeze, as it turned out, ready to offer other cost-saving measures of pension transfers. As reported at the meeting of the RTC Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Lavrov, the agency advocates that all come into the pension system in 2015, did not receive a fixed payment to the insurance pensions, which now amounts to about 3 thousand. Rubles. per month. Waiver of such payments will save in 2015 30.5 billion rubles., In 2016 - 96 billion rubles., In 2017 - 169.9 billion rubles. Follow the meeting Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, however, called the idea of ​​the Ministry of Finance "unconstitutional", and noted that the draft budget submitted to the FIU without this rule (a list of approved ideas unknown), reports "Kommersant". From the Mandatory Health Insurance Fund (HIF), the Ministry of Finance requires the return of the funds from the inter-budgetary transfers - rbl.- 140 billion in 2015. A similar measure - taking revenues by 55 billion rbl.- can be applied to the Social Insurance Fund (SIF).

The highest-profile of the submitted package looks like a proposal to abolish the fixed part of the pension for future pensioners, but at the same time it is estimated the Ministry of Finance, will bring the budget several times less money than the imposition of additional charges or a refund in the HIF-budget funds transfer balances indicates "b ".

It is possible that such an initiative is the Ministry of Finance for a minor part of the "package of social economy": the inevitable public auction to the social unit of the White House it will be easy enough to donate, so bargained right to intervene in the budgets of the funds and insurance principles of their work.

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