President of Russia for the first time for a long time, said the government's initiative on pension reform. Recall, that the Cabinet promotes raising the retirement age for its citizens – on 5 years for the male population, on 8 years – for female.
On a visit to the Kaliningrad Region, Vladimir Putin spoke to the volunteers. According to the Russian President, to him personally “not like any of the options for increasing the retirement age”. At the same time Putin noted, you need to rely on the economic realities of this issue and “think long-term”.
Earlier, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has repeatedly said that, that the president does not deal with the pension reform, However, he expressed interest in what is happening around the government's initiative.
According to Vladimir Putin, if we do not do any changes to the pension legislation, tomorrow the whole pension system “may break”. Furthermore, Putin called on all aware of the fact, that at the moment no concrete decision on pension reform is still pending.
Putin:
It is necessary to listen to all opinions, but not those, who PR on this topic. Today, five pensioners are six working citizens, and the situation will change not in favor of working. Their number will be reduced
According to the president, in this regard can not afford to rely solely on emotion.
the, that the number of employed people in proportion to the number of pensioners decreases, fact. But where is the guarantee that, after raising the retirement age citizens aged 60-65 years will be provided with jobs? Where is the guarantee that, that raising the retirement age will lead to an increase in the level of pensions themselves? The connection between these two “components” We have not seen even in the Accounting Chamber, headed by Alexei Kudrin.
