Despite the lack of budget for indexation of pensions, Pension Fund will increase the salaries of its employees, follows from the draft budget of the Pension Fund of Russia. The document provides for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists in 2017 - 83 billion rubles are allocated for the maintenance of personnel. This year, less was allocated for the same purposes - 78.7 billion rubles. In total, an additional 4.3 billion rubles will be allocated to increase pensions. Taking into account the fact that the average pension in Russia this year amounted to just over 12 thousand rubles, more than 358 thousand average pensions will be allocated to increase the income of PFR employees - or the annual maintenance of about 30 thousand pensioners.

The indexation of pensions in full this year was not carried out. With February . At the same time, the salaries of PFR employees will increase by at least 5.5%, and most likely by a large amount.

The fact is that next year it is planned to reduce the staff of the FIU, since next year the function of the fund for the administration of insurance premiums will be transferred to the tax authorities.

As Life was told in the press service of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, "the staff is expected to be reduced by approximately 11.8 thousand people next year." Considering that 121.7 thousand specialists are currently working in the Pension Fund, their number will decrease by 10%.

Interesting: earlier The Accounts Chamber noted that the administration of contributions to the PFR is largely large quantity specialists - about 20 thousand people. So it is obvious that the reduction will not affect all those involved in the administration of contributions.

In addition, the process layoffs, obviously, will last for a year, but even with the current number of staff, on average, about 56.8 thousand rubles will come out for the maintenance of one specialist in 2017. This is 5.4% more than this year - 53.9 thousand rubles. And if we assume that the PFR will reduce all unnecessary employees at the beginning of the year, then the content of one remaining employee will increase by almost 17% to 62.7 thousand rubles.

However, there are other benefits that FIU employees like to use. For example, d even middle managersmembers of the Pension Fund of Russia allow themselves to spend 100-200 thousand rubles on air travel, say, from Moscow to Kaliningrad, Simferopol, Sochi and even Geneva and Paris,.

Salaries in the PRF have been growing for several years. Thus, in 2016, on average, 3.7% more was spent on the maintenance of one specialist than a year earlier. In 2015 - content grew by 9.9%.

At the same time, civil servants are now subject to a moratorium on indexing their salaries to inflation. The salaries of officials were already frozen in 2015 and 2016, and now, according to the draft federal budget, they want to extend this moratorium for another three years. The Ministry of Finance even called for the abolition of such a norm of the law on the indexation of salaries of officials. Moreover, the salaries of federal officials were even reduced by 10%, including in the presidential administration and in the government apparatus.

However, these restrictions do not formally apply to the FIU, experts say.

Employees of the PFR are not legally civil servants, since the PFR, although formally a state fund, is an extra-budgetary fund, says Natalia Milchakova, deputy director of the analytical department of Alpari. - Theoretically, the FIU should pay salaries to its employees from own funds without resorting to government assistance.

In fact, more than 40% of all PFR expenses, which this year amount to 7.7 trillion rubles, are covered by funds from the federal budget, that is, the PFR lacks 3.2 trillion rubles for these purposes. At the same time, the composition of expenses, along with the obligation to pay pensions to the population, also includes the planned costs of remuneration for the labor of specialists of the Pension Fund.

This year, for the first time in recent years, the principle of indexation of citizens' pensions has been violated with the aim of optimizing the expenses of the PFR.

True, in the form of compensation, pensioners in January 2017 will additionally receive a one-time payment in the amount of 5 thousand rubles. But such a payment is still much less than the required indexation. Given that, according to Rosstat, the average pension in Russia amounted to 12 thousand rubles, in 2016 pensioners will receive less than 12.8 thousand rubles.

According to the Accounts Chamber, in January-August of this year, the real size of assigned pensions decreased by 3.7%.

The PFR reported that "the salaries of employees of the Pension Fund of Russia are set and increased in accordance with the standards at the level of salaries of employees of other federal departments (agencies)."

Back in November 2013, the management of the pension fund issued a resolution on one that speaks of indicating the amount of salaries directly for employees. The main initiator of this proposal was Anton Drozdov. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the organization. If you read the resolution, it says that the salary of all specialists must be increased by 5.5 percent.

What is a pension fund. How wages have changed in recent years

The pension fund should be called the largest of the funds outside the budget in terms of the amount of resources mobilized. And even of all the funds from which funds are channeled for social purposes, this fund is considered the largest. Financial management of pension funds may include the following parameters:

• Trust cathedral and accumulation of premiums.
• Financial payments of pensions.
• Control with the participation of tax authorities of the fund and the like.

As in all other organizations, the pension fund has its own expenses and income. For example, income comes from the insurance premiums of residents, as well as from employers. There are also voluntary contributions. And if we take into account the expenses of the organization, then they are aimed at paying care benefits, paying state pensions and logistical and financial support for activities. Insurance payments are the main source of income generation.

Salary increase program for pension fund employees

It is also necessary to pay attention to the fact that in the same 2013 a draft decree of the President of the country was made. It implied an increase in salaries for the heads of the Pension Fund of Russia by as much as three times. In 2014, these officials should have received a five-fold increase in salaries. However, no one announced these facts, since the real salaries of the heads of the Pension Fund are a secret.

The decree also dealt with the monthly increase for PF workers. This was published in early 2014. but already in September of that year, employees began to receive an increase in their salary. It should also be recalled that competent and hardworking employees already had quarterly increases in their salaries. But the management team was also given a bonus of 2.7 percent of cash incentives.

The expected salary increase for fund employees was frozen in 2015-2016. Salaries for Russian citizens have stopped growing. One could observe the rise of the conference in the labor market. By reducing staff, employees did everything possible to reduce their costs.

If we proceed from such tasks, then we can see a tendency to reduce or delay salaries. Demand labor force also became less by 4 times, the number of unemployed immediately increased. And when people are interviewed for a job, you can see a huge competition.

What to expect in 2018?

The state has proposed to reduce spending from its budget for 2018 in the amount of 600 billion rubles. and the main reason was the decision to impose sanctions, as well as lowering the level of oil prices on the world market. Freezing the wages of state employees is not yet included in the plans of the country's leadership. Only now the Ministry of Finance proposed not to index the salaries of the military, civil servants and other certain categories of Russian citizens. And all due to the fact that such plans will be able to ease the budget for 2018. People in our time still continue to hope that by the middle of 2018 the situation will become stable and the increase in salaries for employees of the pension fund will still take place.

Real numbers and payroll

Despite the fact that the country does not have enough budget for the indexation of pensions, the Pension Fund is ready to increase the salaries of its employees. The document provided for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists back in 2017 - 83 billion rubles were allocated for the maintenance of personnel. at present, less is allocated for such purposes, namely 78.7 billion rubles. and to allocate an additional 4.3 billion rubles for raising pensions. If we take into account the fact that the average pension in the country amounted to just under 12,000 rubles, then more than 358,000 average pensions will be allocated to increase the income of PFR employees, or the annual maintenance of about 30,000 pensioners.

In 2017, full indexation of pensions was also not carried out. Since February, they have been indexed by only 4 percent, while consumer price growth for 2016 was 12.9 percent. But the wages of pension fund employees will increase by at least 5.5 percent.

Also for 2018, it was planned to reduce the staff of the Pension Fund, because next year the function of the pension fund for the administration of insurance premiums will be transferred to the tax authorities. As the PFR press center said, next year they are expecting a reduction in staff by about 11.8 thousand people. If we take into account that today the organization employs 121.7 thousand specialists, then their number will decrease by 10 percent.

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The budget deficit, and the resulting optimization, affected every second citizen of the Russian Federation - someone was deprived of indexation of pensions, someone did not receive a salary increase, and someone even got laid off and was fired. But the distribution situation budget funds far from always homogeneous - that's why it is an optimization, in order to take away from some and give to others, logically "more in need" of state funding. Nevertheless, the principle of justice in the preparation of the state budget and the distribution of funds is observed only in exceptional cases, when otherwise would seem outright impudence. And even then not always.

So, one of the manifestations of such injustice was the recent news about the increase in salaries for employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. An analysis of the budgeted amount showed that the average salary of PFR employees in 2017 should grow by an average of almost 15%, despite the fact that the size of the average salary, judging by the amount of pledged funds, significantly exceeds the average salary in the country by almost 2 times. Although, in fact, the employees of the Fund do not receive such funds - surveys of employees claim that the level of remuneration does not exceed 27 thousand rubles on average. Careerist.ru figured out how much the maintenance of the Pension Fund employees costs the state.

Instead of 30 thousand pensioners

Despite the fact that in Russia there is an acute shortage of funds for indexing pensions - instead for pensioners in January, the PFR plans to significantly raise the content for its employees, at least this follows from the figures that are included in the draft budget for next year being discussed today. The drafters included in it an increase in costs in 2017 for the maintenance of the Fund's specialists to 83 billion rubles, although even this year the PFR apparatus cost the state much cheaper - 78.7 billion rubles. Thus, the maintenance of employees requires an increase of 4.3 billion rubles. Life.ru calculated that if the average pension in the Russian Federation is at the level of 12 thousand rubles, then an increase in salaries for employees of the department will cost the state 358 thousand pensions - about 30 thousand pensioners can be supported for this money. And given the fact that not everyone gets the average size, even more.

In Russia, there is an acute shortage of funds for indexing pensions, but the PFR plans to significantly raise the content for its employees

Of course, this money would not be able to help indexation of pensions in full, but in the conditions of total savings it would definitely not be superfluous.

Taking into account the staff of the Pension Fund, they should increase the salaries of specialists by an average of 5.4%. But in reality (at least in a rough calculation) it turns out that the increase will be more significant. So, next year the PFR apparatus will be subject to massive cuts - since the Federal Tax Service will control the payment of insurance payments by employers, the state seems to be bloated. Life.ru reports that the layoffs will affect about 12,000 employees of the Fund. Despite the fact that today the number of specialists has almost 122 thousand people, the reductions will affect about 10% of the staff.

However, last year Izvestia cited information from the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, according to which at least 20 thousand employees exercised administrative control over the payment of contributions. So layoffs will not touch everyone who is engaged in this work. At the same time, the PFR itself claims that when this function was transferred to them, the staff increased by only more than 10 thousand people, so the Fund is not going to fire extra employees. And the dismissals themselves, obviously, will not be one-time - they are clearly “stretched out” in the hope that the situation will change.

But even with the preservation of the full staff, the cost of maintaining an ordinary worker next year will amount to about 56.8 thousand rubles! This is despite the fact that in 2016 they already spent almost 54 thousand rubles a month. Where these funds went, if we take into account the average salary of specialists at 27 thousand rubles, remains a mystery. One can only assume colossal disparities between the salaries of ordinary employees and management - we are already used to this, but even in this case, the difference seems obscenely huge. It will seem even more so if the reductions take place at the same time and at the beginning of the year - in this case, the average monthly salary of one PFR employee will increase by more than 15%, to 62.7 thousand rubles!

Not only salaries

However, there is still a partial explanation for such a volume of expenses - not only their wages are formed from the funds allocated for the maintenance of employees, but also insurance premiums, which the PFR, as an employer, is obliged to pay to insurance funds. Thus, the state allocates funds not only to ensure income, but also to ensure future pensions, which this very Pension Fund will pay to its employees who have received the status of a pensioner. But this only partially justifies such figures - the amount of deductions is 30%, given the average salary of 27 thousand rubles, the average amount of deductions is about 8 thousand rubles. Thus, in addition to spending on salaries, which, based on the average monthly figure, amount to no more than 39 billion rubles, the fund spends an additional 11.5 billion rubles on the formation of pensions for its employees.

But this, again, justifies only 50 billion rubles of spending.

Where about another 30 billion rubles goes is an open question. Obviously, senior managers receive high bonuses, go on expensive business trips and spend the fund on other inefficient needs. Back in October, Life.ru journalists analyzed the travel records of PFR employees, and it turned out that even middle-level managers do not hesitate to purchase air tickets at the expense of the fund, worth 100-200 thousand rubles. This is despite the fact that the most expensive of them are flights within Russia.

The volume of frank "squandering" of Russian pensioners' funds is really impressive. For example, according to REGNUM news agency, in 2017 the Fund plans to spend a fabulous 185 million rubles on the PFR information and explanatory company alone. Separate attention deserves the results of the audit of PFR estimates for capital construction published by the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. So, over the past 2 years, the Fund has spent more than 14 billion rubles on the construction, purchase and lease of real estate. The result of the audit showed that in 50% of cases the amounts spent were overestimated, and in 5 regions and in general, more funds were spent on the purchase than was pledged for construction. So the inefficient spending of funds by the Pension Fund is nothing new.

How costs are rising

Interestingly, the amount of funds allocated for the maintenance of PFR employees is growing every year.

For example, in the crisis year of 2014, an average of 47.3 thousand rubles was spent per specialist. Despite the crisis, in 2015 the content increased by almost 10% - up to 52 thousand rubles, in 2016 by 3.7% - to almost 54 thousand rubles. In 2017, if we take into account the massive reduction, the increase in maintenance costs to 63 thousand rubles will be the largest in the entire history of the PFR. This looks rather strange against the background of when Russia continues to operate, which, apparently, will be extended for another 3 years.

But, obviously, the PFR employees were “lucky” in this matter - since the Fund has an off-budget status, its employees are not formally officials, therefore their salaries are not limited by the moratorium. Another question is that the same fact obliges the Fund to be self-sufficient and support its employees at its own expense. However, the 3.5 trillion rubles it generates are not even enough to pay pensions, so 40% of all expenses of the department, and this is 3.2 trillion rubles, are covered by the state. Perhaps, if the Fund spent the money allocated to it more efficiently, state transfers would be much smaller, and pensioners would not have to be deprived of the indexation they are required by law.

The amount of funds allocated for the maintenance of PFR employees is growing every year.

But everything would be fine if the allocated extra 4.3 billion rubles really went to increase the salaries of PFR employees - this decision is supported by many. For example, Senator Valery Ryazansky in an interview with REGNUM said that the increase in their salaries is justified by the high workload, because despite the deprivation of their obligation to control social contributions, they continue to administer a lot of other payments besides pensions. With this, according to the FBA "Economy Today", the Union of Pensioners of Russia agrees, because the burden on employees is constantly growing.

But in fact, one should not expect any serious increase - the salaries of PFR employees, as they say in the Fund itself, are determined and increased according to established standards, according to the level of salaries of specialists from other federal structures. The moratorium on raising the salaries of civil servants just applies to them, and therefore wage growth, despite the allocation of additional funds, is not expected. Apparently, the money will again be spent on the needs of the top.

The salary of pension fund employees in 2019 will increase by 15% - this became obvious back in 2018, when the amount of the state budget was made public. It should be borne in mind that the pledged amount in such a value implies a significant excess of the average statistical wages in Russia by 2 times.

Almost every Russian is aware of the fact of the budget deficit, which is reported annually by press services from bureaucratic offices.

To reduce the deficit, budgetary funds are being optimized, which concerns every second citizen. Here's what optimization is all about:

• in the fact that some part of Russian pensioners do not index their pensions;
• in the “freezing” of salaries and the temporary impossibility of raising them;
• in the reduction of staff units, which means layoffs.

Budgetary funds in the process of the notorious optimization are distributed unevenly: public funding often passes by those who need it most. There is no need to talk about justice in resolving such issues: there will always be dissatisfied with the decision made.

Table: wages in the Pension Fund Russian Federation across regions in 2018-2019.

The salary of employees of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, according to them, does not exceed 27 thousand rubles a month on average.

This information differs from that announced by representatives of financial departments involved in planning the state budget. The following issues need to be addressed:

• what is the salary of the PFR employees;
• how much does it actually cost the state to maintain Pension Fund specialists (in numbers);
• how costs rise.

Growth of expenses for PFR employees

The stated plans of the Pension Fund include an increase in the cost of maintaining their specialists. In numbers, it looks like this: from 78.7 billion rubles in 2018 to 83 billion in 2019. The increase in spending on the PF apparatus looks strange, especially against the background that the state is acutely short of finances for indexing pensions.

1. If we assume that 12 thousand rubles is an average pension, then the salary increase for employees of the pension department will cost 358 (!) thousand pensions.
2. The calculated amount could allow supporting more than 30,000 pensioners. And this number does not take into account the fact that many receive a pension much less than the average.
3. Full indexation of pensions by increasing the financing of PF workers is impossible, but justice towards those who are more in need would be more likely.

Trends in wage increases for PF employees look like this:

1. The average salary increase should be close to 5.5%.
2. The real increase in income is much higher, since the PF apparatus is threatened with numerous cuts: about 10% of employees will be laid off.
3. The cost of maintaining an ordinary employee of the Pension Fund should be about 57 thousand rubles (before the staff reduction). In 2016, the expense was slightly lower - 54 thousand rubles a month. Where did the difference go if ordinary specialists claim that their salary is 27 thousand rubles? A question without an answer.
4. In the event of a one-time staff reduction, the content of 1 PF specialist will reach almost 63 thousand rubles.

The average salary in the Pension Fund and a comparison of the number of staff of the Pension Fund of Russia with other countries

What else is included in the content of employees of the Pension Fund

Such heavy expenses imply not only the salary (in total, it is about 40 billion rubles) that employees receive, but also the following points:

1. Formation of insurance premiums that the Pension Fund pays for its subordinates to insurance funds. It follows from this that the state not only provides income to employees, but also their future pensions, which the Pension Fund itself will then pay to its employees retirement age. The amount of these insurance premiums is 30% of the salary, which is about 8 thousand rubles (based on an average salary of 27 thousand rubles). Thus, the formation of pensions for Pension Fund employees additionally takes 11.5 billion rubles from the state.
2. The remaining 30 billion, requested from the state budget by the department, disappear in an unknown direction, since specific necessary expenses have not been presented. Perhaps the point is high bonuses or expensive business trips, which the heads of the department do not disdain. An analysis by Life.ru journalists of the travel records of PF employees showed that even middle-level managers consider it normal to buy tickets worth 100-200 thousand rubles at the expense of the fund.
3. Some more expenses of the Pension Fund in numbers:

• information and explanatory activities - 185 million rubles;
• construction purchases, acquisition and rental of real estate - more than 14 billion rubles, in many cases (50%) the amounts were greatly exaggerated.

Number of Pension Fund employees per 1 million pensioners in Russia, USA and Sweden

During a crisis, employees public sector the most difficult, because in order to save the budget, they are cut in the first place. Indeed, in some government organizations in the pre-crisis years, the staff was previously bloated, and now the government is getting rid of the excess personnel. We will figure out what news to expect about the Pension Fund in 2019, whether there will be cuts, and how the work of this state organization will change.

Fund reorganization

It became known at the end of 2014 that the reduction of PFR employees was coming. In 2015, according to the then adopted project, 10% of workers in the Pension Fund were fired. This was the very beginning of the process of reorganization of this state structure. The fact is that the PFR has had a deficit budget for many years, and in such a situation it is difficult and unjustified to maintain a large staff of employees. In this regard, a plan was created to reorganize the fund over the coming years.

No major layoffs are expected in 2019. Relatively few will be removed from the state a large number of posts. Ordinary employees of district offices will be the last to be affected by the layoffs, the bulk of the staff will be removed from the departments. Many FIU clients are worried that there will be more queues, but in reality this is not the case. Specialists working with citizens are not going to be fired in the coming years.

The fund will start working for the most part from individuals, businessmen will report to the tax. The plans for the coming year include the disbandment of one of the largest departments and the reduction of more than sixteen thousand specialists. The division responsible for the administration of the payment of contributions to off-budget funds. From the beginning of next year, the tax inspectorate, and not the FIU, will work on this. Relevant legislative acts already signed.

What changes have been made to the current codes

At the beginning of July 2016, several federal laws:

• No. 243 - on amendments to the Tax Code regarding the administration of insurance premiums;
• No. 250 - on changing the provisions of legislative acts (parts one and two of the Tax Code);
• No. 346 - on amendments to Budget Code(Clause 46 and part two of Article 47 will be corrected).

The law came into force at the beginning of 2017, as the transfer of powers takes a lot of time. Previously, almost 16,000 people were involved in keeping records of insurance premiums. All of them will be laid off, but qualified employees will have the opportunity to get a new job:

• in the Pension Fund in another position;
• in tax office(in a similar department established).

A sharp increase in the number of unemployed in the country due to the new initiative is not expected. However, it will be possible to get a new place in most regions only after certification. Unqualified employees will not be accepted for similar workplace. The knowledge testing procedure is necessary in order to increase the effectiveness of the fund. According to recent inspections, some employees do not fulfill their duties in full.

Why it is necessary to cut employees

The government, making a reduction in the FIU, pursues several goals at once:

• reduces fund spending wages;
• strengthens the payment discipline of entrepreneurs;
• optimizes the work of the organization;
• makes reporting easier for entrepreneurs.

Among them, the primary goal is to change the order of reports for entrepreneurs and tighten control over the contribution of funds to extra-budgetary funds. It is known that every fifth owner of a society with limited liability does not pay dues even by court order. In this regard, the filling of the PFR cannot be called effective. The fact is that at present, contributions to off-budget funds are not assigned the status of tax and the responsibility for non-payment of them is less.

By liquidating the administration department and transferring its powers to the tax department, the government transfers the status of payments to another branch of legislative law. Responsibility for failure to fulfill their obligations under it will be more serious.

A positive aspect will also be the reduction in the cost of wages for fund specialists. Now only qualified employees will work, and the reduction in their number will not only reduce the burden on the budget, but will also allow salaries to be indexed in a timely manner. According to the results of two years (2016 and 2017), about 20% of the fund's employees will be laid off.

Where will businessmen submit reports?

One of the advantages of the updated Tax Code is that the burden on entrepreneurs in terms of the number of inspectors will be reduced. They will not need to withstand regular inspections by the FIU, but will only report to the tax authorities.

On the one hand, the solution of issues on contributions on the basis of the one-stop shop principle in the Federal Tax Service is a positive development. On the other hand, business representatives fear that the terms of inspections will henceforth be significantly increased. Previously, representatives of the FIU conducted desk audit within ten days, while the tax authorities worked with documents for a month. This significantly hampered the work of Russian companies.

Deputies respond to the fears of businessmen that the reduction of employees of the Pension Fund and the delegation of their duties to the tax service will be carried out as quietly as possible for business. There will be more specialists in the Federal Tax Service, so no increase in data processing time is expected. Additionally, over the next three years, new reporting forms (more simple) and data processing programs will be introduced.

Businessmen should be wary of the introduction of more severe measures for late payment of contributions. The Ministry of Justice has already prepared a package of amendments to the Criminal Code, which are developed similarly to the points on non-payment of taxes.

How did the FIU react to this news?

Representatives of the Ministry of Labor and the leadership of the Pension Fund oppose the initiative of the authorities. They see no reason to transfer authority to the tax service. The main arguments of the opponents of the initiative:

• All reports are subject to quick desk review;
• most payers submit documents in in electronic format, which is very convenient for both specialists and businessmen;
• high collection rates (this claim has been refuted by recent data);
• debugged system.

None of these arguments in the government was considered weighty. The ability to submit reports remotely exists in the Federal Tax Service. Contributions to the budget and funds are interconnected. If they are administered in one place, any errors and underpayments will be found faster.

A few years ago, the Federal Tax Service was already involved in pension contributions. Then the department could not cope with the load, and its efficiency was not great. Now it is planned to create a new department on the basis of the tax service, which will be responsible for insurance contributions. This should optimize the work on collections to all off-budget funds.