The size of the social pension in Belarus. Old age pension in Belarus

After the launch of pension reform in Ukraine, neighboring countries began to think about the need to learn from experience. The Russian government also announced an increase in the retirement age and the size of pensions. Each country carries out reforms in its own way, and pensioners are left to consider who will have more payments.

Ukraine – European pensions

The slogan is good, but in reality the picture with payments to old people is not rosy. Ukrainians can apply for a pension based on age, in connection with disability or loss of a breadwinner; there is an additional category of pensions related to the characteristics of work or profession.

Since January of this year, new rules for issuing benefits to citizens who are on well-deserved rest or continue to work have been launched in Ukraine. Let us remind you that not only the age threshold for Ukrainians is increasing, but also the amount of work experience.

The Pension Fund of Ukraine has tariff schedules with age restrictions, features for calculating length of service, and daunting formulas that are not so easy for an ordinary working person to understand. Everything for the people.

The average pension of a Ukrainian citizen in 2018 is 2,480 hryvnia, which corresponds to $94.3 (at the official exchange rate on the day the article was written). This does not mean that all pensioners receive this amount, since the minimum pension at the beginning of the year was 1,452 hryvnia or $55.21. So it turns out that someone’s pension cannot even be called a social benefit, but deputies and judges receive a pension in the amount of 16,000 hryvnia (600 dollars, this is where Europe is felt in the wallet).

Pension payments across regions are heterogeneous; in the Kyiv region, the average pension varies between $100, and in the Rivne or Ternopil regions it barely exceeds $56.

What about the neighbor?

Russia itself is not happy with the pension reform: strikes, consideration of bills, criticism of trade unions, but where can you go when there is a catastrophic lack of money.

Starting from 2019, the retirement age is planned to be raised, and the revision of length of service is not far away. Gradually, Russia will also reach the age of 65 years for men and 63 years for women, but for now the same parameters remain: 60 and 55.

In the Russian Federation there are pensions for old age (insurance), social (for people without experience), disability, military, and professions. In addition, due to the large territory in Russia, there are also benefits by region.

According to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, in 2018 the average pension throughout the country increased to 14,100 rubles ($222.85), and the minimum, that is, social benefit, does not exceed $140.

Moscow pensioners live richest of all, on 17,500 rubles ($276.59), while old people from the Ryazan, Saratov, and Bryansk regions live modestly on an allowance of 8,000 rubles ($126).

What about your little brother?

In Belarus, since 2017, the government was forced to begin pension reform; the age at which citizens can retire is gradually increasing, so men must work until they are 63 years old, and women until they are 58 years old.

Pensions in Belarus are different: assigned (according to profession, early), by age, social, for disability, in case of loss of a breadwinner. Official statistics state that the average pension for citizens of all categories is 340 Belarusian rubles or 171 dollars. Dry numbers are far from reality, as the situation with pensions in Ukraine and Russia shows.

Belarusian elderly people receive old-age pensions unequally; the richest can be called the residents of Minsk, whose pension is 338 Belarusian rubles or $169.87; residents of other regions receive a little less: from 310 Belarusian rubles ($160). Social payments in the country are also not uniform: from $87.75 to $109.26. As we can see, the picture of territorial differentiation of pensions in Belarus is not much different.

All three East Slavic countries are far from European tariffs, where the average pension reaches $2,800 (Denmark). But we shouldn’t lose hope, perhaps in the near future we will get out of crises, disputes, squabbles and live in retirement, traveling, but for now our pensioners should hope for a July increase in pension payments.

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Minimum pension- state-guaranteed pension payments are defined by law and vary depending on the category of recipients.

The existing state pension system in the Republic of Belarus is clearly structured by law. All pension payments differ by category of recipients and depend on their length of service and other merits, as well as the degree of disability, and the availability of other sources of income. The size of pensions is determined in accordance with the standards established, in particular, in the Law “On Pensions”. For each type of pension, a minimum amount is established, usually representing a certain percentage of the minimum subsistence level.

It should be understood that the minimum pension is not a fundamentally new benefit, but the lower limit of pension payment in a particular category.

Thus, the minimum labor pension is assigned in cases where the volume of insurance payments during the working period does not allow the accrual of a pension above the minimum determined by law. The same applies to the calculation of labor or loss of a breadwinner.

The starting point for calculating pension minimums is the size of the minimum pension, which, in turn, is also calculated from the cost of living.

For labor pensions, the minimum value is 25% of the maximum size of the average per capita budget of the subsistence level for the two past quarters (Article 23 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus “On Pensions”).

The amount of the minimum disability pension is determined depending on the group:

For the first and second groups 100%, for the third - 50% of the minimum age pension. (for mothers of heroines - 100% for any disability group)
The minimum labor amount is 100% of the minimum age pension. The same pensions for orphans are doubled (in the absence of a monthly insurance payment due to the death of a parent).
The minimum long-service pension is equal to the minimum old-age pension.

An additional payment in the amount of 20% is required for the minimum amount of old-age labor pensions.

Supplements for caring for disabled people are applied to minimum pensions on a general basis.

The increase in minimum pensions is regulated by the state in connection with the increase in the cost of living budget. To illustrate the dynamics of growth of minimum pensions in 2014-2019, we can consider the corresponding statistical data for the city of Minsk.

Minimum age pension

Labor pension	Feb. - Apr. 2017	May- July 2017	Aug.- Oct. 2017		Feb-Apr 2018	May-July2018	Aug.-Oct.2018		Feb. - Apr. 2019

The minimum pension is a payment guaranteed by the state to all citizens of the country under certain conditions. It is important to understand that this is not a separate type of benefit, but a lower limit on the amount of payment in each category. In total, there are two main categories of pension payments in the republic: labor and social.

The first ones are appointed:

Upon reaching certain legislation.
Due to disability. Those who have become disabled due to a work injury or occupational disease have the right to them. Also, this type of payment is made if disability occurs as a result of a general serious illness that is not related to work. It does not matter whether the disability occurred before, during, or after the termination of work.
In case of loss of a breadwinner. Paid to disabled family members of the deceased.
For years of service. They are received by citizens who work in conditions leading to premature loss of professional ability to work.

The state pays social benefits to those who do not receive any of the listed labor pensions. Social pensioners include persons with varying degrees of disability, women who have reached the age of 60 and men over 65 without a minimum social length of service.

Who gets

According to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, citizens with 15 years of working experience (in some cases 5 and 10 years) have the right to receive a minimum retirement pension. It is important that during the entire working period they stably and in full make the required insurance contributions.

Citizens who have worked less than required, in turn, have the right to a social pension. Here, all those who are not included in any of the categories of persons receiving labor pensions can count on the minimum amount of payment.

As for the minimum pension for disability, loss of a breadwinner, etc., all citizens who fall under these categories according to the list approved by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus have rights to them.

When is it calculated and how?

The minimum pension is assigned when the calculation procedure approved at the legislative level does not allow the calculation of amounts exceeding the established minimum. For labor benefits for old age, disability and loss of a breadwinner, this case is an insufficient amount of insurance payments made at the time.

For the calculation, the size of the subsistence level budget (BMS) and the lower limit of the age pension are used. The latter also directly depends on the BPM.

Calculation mechanisms and size

To understand the mechanism for calculating the minimum pension in Belarus, you must first define the concept of BPM. is a variable value that is calculated taking into account prices, inflation rates and other economic indicators of the country at the end of the quarter.

The BPM is approved at the state level quarterly. When calculating the minimum amount of pension payments, the maximum BPM value for the two quarters preceding the accrual is taken as the starting point.

An important aspect in the calculation is the fact that citizens receiving any minimum labor pension have the right to a monthly supplement, the amount of which is 20% of the average salary in the country.

Labor pension	25% of BPM	with an additional payment of 20%
from November 1, 2019	57.96 rub.	~ 221.7 rub.
August 2019 - October	RUB 57.72	~ 214.32 rub.
May 2019 - July 2019	56.00 rub.	~ 195.40 rub.
November 2018 - April 2019	53.55 rub.	RUB 216.03
August - October 2018	RUR 53.42	RUB 207.43
May - July 2018	51.65 rub.	RUB 191.03
February - April 2018	RUB 49.83	RUB 181.94
November 2017-January 2018	49.45 rub.	RUB 181.56
August - October 2017	RUB 49.39	RUB 174.61
May - July 2017	45.96 rub.	RUB 171.18
February - April 2017	RUB 45.03	170.25 rub.
December 2016 - January 2017	43.88 rub.	169.10 rub.

According to the legislative and regulatory acts of the Republic of Belarus, today the minimum amounts of labor pensions are:

for loss of a breadwinner - 100% of the old age pension;
for length of service - 100% of the old age pension;
payments to orphans - 200% of the old age pension.

The minimum social pension for persons who have reached retirement age is 50% of the BPM.

Minimum disability pension

When calculating minimum disability payments in the Republic of Belarus, a different calculation algorithm is used:

100% BPM – for disabled people of groups I and II;
50% – for disabled people with group III;
100% – for heroine mothers (regardless of the group).

At the same time, the minimum social pension benefits have the following amounts from the BPM:

For citizens with group I disabilities (including those who have been disabled since childhood) – 110%
For disabled people of group II since childhood – 95%, for other persons with the same disability group – 85%.
For all categories of disabled people of group III – 75%.

Many people whose age is close to retirement are interested in the question of what pension is established in Belarus today, how it is calculated and what is new in this area. Let's try to understand the problem and give a comprehensive answer to these questions.

Pension in Belarus

All issues related to pensions in Belarus are regulated by Law No. 1596-XII, adopted back in 1992, as well as some additional laws and regulations.

According to the law, two types of pension accruals are established:

social;
labor

To obtain each of them, a number of necessary conditions are put forward. In addition, at least once a year (or more often), according to the Presidential Decree, pension benefits are recalculated. A prerequisite for receiving payments is the payment of insurance premiums, which are withheld from each able-bodied citizen for a certain period and transferred to the state social security fund.

Labor pension payments are accrued to all citizens of the country upon reaching a certain age. It is formed based on the applicant’s work experience and the number of insurance contributions made by him during the period of labor activity. Those citizens who, for one reason or another, were unable to accumulate work experience and are disabled, are entitled to a social pension.

Increasing pensions in Belarus is also possible through insurance of additional pension payments, which is carried out on a voluntary basis. Such services are provided by the country's insurance companies. Not only the citizen himself, but also the organization in which he works can take care of the formation of an additional part of the pension.

Types of pensions

As in other countries, the size of the pension in Belarus directly depends on what kind of payment you are applying for, how old you are and how your relationship with the social insurance fund developed.

There are the following pension payment options:

According to the age.

As a general rule, such a pension can be applied for by men and women whose age exceeds 60 and 55 years, respectively, and who have worked for the benefit of the state for at least 25 (20) years. In some cases, exceptions are possible. Those whose working conditions were found to be harmful or difficult will retire early. The relaxation also applies to workers in transport, agricultural, textile and some other fields of activity.

By length of service.

This list includes some employees in the medical field, education, sports or creative activities. Also, length of service can be used when calculating pensions for citizens employed in aviation or flight test units.

Due to disability.

To assign this type of pension at the time of disability, you must also have the following minimum length of service:

1 year - for persons under 23 years of age;
2 years - for those who are over 23 but under 26 years old;
3 years - from 26 to 31 years and so on.

For people who have been disabled since childhood, an old-age pension is also offered. The length of service for them is set on par with healthy citizens (25 and 20 years), but the age from which one can qualify for payment is reduced by 5 years - 55 and 50 years for men and women, respectively.

For special merits.

The procedure for calculating such payments, as well as all issues related to receiving such a pension, are regulated by the Council of Ministers.

For the loss of a breadwinner.

This type of payment is available to disabled dependent citizens if they are recognized as having lost their breadwinner or the latter is missing.

Retirement age

This is a very important and controversial issue for those who are entitled to a pension in Belarus. The age for retirement today is 55 years for women and 60 for representatives of the stronger sex.
But starting next year it will begin to rise steadily. Every year this figure will increase by 6 months and by 2022 will reach 58 years for women and 63 years for men in the country.

Of course, not many people like this reform, but it is due to good reasons. The fact is that today the growing number of pensioners has led to a high burden on the country’s budget. A fairly large part of the working-age population increasingly goes abroad to work and, accordingly, does not pay taxes within the country. All these factors lead to a decrease in GDP per capita and a decline in the country's economy.

Experience for retirement

In 2016, the age pension in Belarus will be accrued to those who, upon reaching the appropriate age, have a work experience of at least 15 years and 6 months. But starting from 2017, this figure will also grow steadily by 6 months annually. By 2025, the minimum length of service to receive pension payments in Belarus will reach 20 years. If we systematize all of the above a little, it will look like this:

Year	Age (men), years	Age (women), years	Minimum work experience, years
2017	60,5	55,5	16
2018	61	56	16,5
2019	61,5	56,5	17
2020	62	57	17,5
2021	62,5	57,5	18
2022	63	58	18,5
2023	63	58	19
2024	63	58	19,5
2025	63	58	20

If it was not possible to earn the required work experience, then payments will be made if you have at least 10 years of work experience. Such a pension will be calculated taking into account the actual time worked. However, it cannot be lower than half the minimum age pension.

Calculation of pension and its size

The minimum pension in Belarus is really small. Its size is a quarter of the cost of living taken over the previous two quarters.

The minimum pension payment for disabled people of the first and second groups is 100% of the lowest old-age pension payment, and for disabled people of the third group this figure is reduced by 50%. Heroine mothers also receive 100% of the minimum wage according to age. The same applies to long-service pensioners.

The old-age pension is defined as 55% of average monthly earnings, adjusted according to Article 56. The calculation takes place in accordance with established standards, as a percentage of the actual salary that was accrued before applying for pension benefits.

Those 10% that do not exceed 130% of the average state salary are taken into account in full, and each subsequent 10% is multiplied accordingly by a coefficient from 0.9 to 0.1 (taken from 90 to 10%). Salaries from 130–400% are taken into account at the rate of 10%. The amount that results from the calculations is considered earnings for calculating the pension payment.

Thus, the amount of pension benefits is influenced by the following factors:

experience;
amount of earnings;
years of work beyond seniority;
sphere of labor activity.

Changes (recalculation) of calculated indicators can be made in the following cases:

change in the cost of living;
an increase in average wages by 15 percent or more;
gaining the necessary experience for citizens who did not have it;
changing the type of pension benefit.

A little about points

As you already understand, pensions in Belarus are calculated according to a rather complex scheme, one of the components of which is the personal pension coefficient. For each fully worked year, a certain number of points are awarded. By the time you retire, you need to recruit at least three dozen. However, this scheme can only be fully implemented by 2025.

Various nuances

Who will not be affected by the increase in length of service? As always, this increase does not apply to those who apply for a disability pension, mothers of many children, disabled people since childhood and those caring for them. For all these categories, it will still be sufficient to work for at least 5 years.

How is experience calculated? Only the time when deductions to the social insurance fund were actually made from the employee’s salary are taken into account. For example, the army, study or maternity leave will not be taken into account.

If there is no experience, for such citizens a pension in Belarus can only be social. It is equal to half the subsistence level. At the same time, men will be able to receive even such a small benefit only from the age of 65, and women upon reaching the age of 60.

Foreigners will also pay. Starting this year, compulsory social insurance applies to foreigners and stateless persons living and working in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

Differences between the pension systems of Russia and Belarus

In fact, there are not many differences in the pension systems of the two countries. In both Russia and Belarus, a pension is accrued upon reaching a certain age if a person has the required number of contributions to the social insurance fund. Also in both countries, disabled people, incapacitated persons and citizens who do not have sufficient work experience are entitled to receive a small benefit.

By and large, the main differences are that pensions in Belarus depend mainly on length of service and the amount of insurance contributions. In Russia, the determining indicator is pension capital. Additionally, it can be noted that in Belarus the procedure for calculating pension payments for citizens working in difficult conditions is carried out according to a slightly different scheme.