Starting in 2026, pension indexation in Russia will take place in two stages.

      September 16, 2025 06:59

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      Economy

      From next year, pension indexation in Russia will take place in two stages. From February 1 payments will be increased by the inflation rate for the previous year, and from April 1 the increase will depend on the revenues of the Russian Social Fund, the fund’s chairman Sergey Chirkov told RIA Novosti in an interview.

      According to him, the first increase from February 1 will affect the insurance pension and will be determined by the rate of price growth recorded in the previous year. Chirkov noted: "The first indexation will take place on February 1 and will concern the insurance pension. It will be formed at the level of last year's inflation."

      He also emphasized that the second stage of indexation concerns only insurance pensions and is scheduled for April 1. The size of the increase on that date will be tied to the Social Fund's revenues, which are formed from insurance contributions and depend on the level of wages in the country.

      This year insurance pensions were indexed by 9.5%, and social pensions were increased by 14.75%.

      Earlier it was reported that the average pension of working pensioners in Russia has "topped" 21,000 rubles.

      Also a reminder about a new fraud scheme: scammers have begun offering Nizhny Novgorod residents to "index" their pensions.

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