The procedure for paying pensions to migrants from the ATO zone and other states

Who are the migrants

Before understanding what social guarantees are provided to migrants, it is necessary to understand who exactly belongs to this category of citizens. Today, all citizens who moved to Russia and need any help can be divided into the following groups:

• Refugees are foreigners who are forced to move due to a threat to their life;
• Persons who have received temporary asylum are those persons who are temporarily unable to return to their country due to circumstances beyond their control;
• Forced migrants who left their country due to violence committed against them or members of their family, or due to the risk of being persecuted on the basis of race, religion, nationality, or political opinion. The main difference between a forced migrant and a refugee will be that the former will continue to be a citizen of his state, while the latter will have to obtain a residence permit (residence permit) in the Russian Federation.

Important! A separate category should be identified for persons who are participants in the resettlement program for compatriots who voluntarily decided to move to the Russian Federation. This program is aimed at the return of former citizens of the RSFSR and their descendants.

How is a pension paid to an ATO displaced person?

As soon as the pensioner has completed all the steps to receive a pension after relocation, pension payments should be received in the bank account from the next month.

The PF is obliged to transfer all funds in full from the moment the payments are stopped to the citizen, regardless of the time that has passed since the payments were stopped.

The pension fund makes a request about the status of the migrant’s personal account in the state database at the previous address. Due to the fact that the ATO territories are under the jurisdiction of Ukraine as a single state, searching for information about a pensioner and payments made to him is not difficult.

The pension benefit of the migrant is paid at his current place of residence. You can receive money through a post office in cash, to a bank card, or to a bank account. The pensioner himself chooses one of the options for receiving money.

Delays and problems

Despite state guarantees expressed in Ukrainian regulations, displaced citizens often complain about problems with receiving payments.

Among the main ones are:

1. Refusal to assign payments. Occurs if the migrant has not fulfilled any condition for calculating his pension. For example, he provided an incomplete document or provided false information about himself.
2. Termination of payments. A forcibly displaced citizen will be deprived of receiving money if he violates the rules of migration registration and also ignores the requirements of social security representatives related to undergoing scheduled checks.
3. Delay in receipt of money. They can occur for a variety of reasons. You should contact the PFU or the social protection department about the reasons.

Social support for migrants in the Russian Federation

Only those migrants who have received forced status can apply for social support from the state. This follows from Law No. 4530-1 of February 19, 1993 “On Internally Displaced Persons”. The basis for assigning such status is the presence of a threat, persecution for political or religious views in one’s place of residence. The following persons will not be recognized as forced migrants:

• Those who have committed a crime against peace and humanity;
• Those who have not submitted an application for assignment of such status in a timely manner, namely within 1 year from the date of departure from their place of residence;
• Those who moved for reasons: economic, man-made, famine, epidemic or emergency (

New rules for calculating pensions for migrants from Ukraine in 2021

In 2021, as a result of active protests by human rights activists and lawyers in Ukraine, as well as members of the UN Human Rights Committee, it was possible to cancel some decisions taken by the Verkhovna Rada.

Human rights activists declared it illegal to restrict the right of elderly Ukrainians to receive a pension. After this, the government announced that the blocked amounts would be paid.

Other positive points:

1. The decision of the Ukrainian authorities on the indexation of pension accruals, carried out on July 1, 2021. The pension coefficient for people applying for benefits for the first time has been revised. Now it is equal to 1.
2. The decision to index social payments by 750 hryvnia in 2019.
3. Extension of the pension reform stage until 2021, at which it is planned to increase the amount of accruals by another 50%.
4. Possibility of choosing a method of transferring money through Oschadbank (to a bank card, to a personal account) or issuing funds at a bank cash desk.
5. Providing the use of an electronic version of the Ukrainian pension fund. For example, you can now find out the movement of accrued funds in your personal account on the official website of the fund, and receive a pension certificate to the specified email address.

Human rights activists have declared violations of international rights regarding the inviolability of the home during inspections, as well as freedom of movement.

Human rights activists and lawyers obtained a decision from the Deputy Minister to reduce the circle of persons subject to verification, provided that they were identified.

The project “Pensions for uncontrolled geographical zones - without a migrant’s certificate” is under consideration. This document was developed by public human rights organizations.

This project, in particular, provides for:

What does the project involve?

1. Canceling paper document flow and converting it to digital format. Recognition of the right to the ability to send documents remotely via electronic communication, without personally visiting the PFU office in the controlled territory.
2. Increasing the time period for exercising the right to receive an unclaimed amount, since not all people have time to claim it in the shortest possible time due to periodically renewed military actions.

The main requirement formulated in the program registered in the Verkhovna Rada under No. 6692 is the possibility of canceling the issuance of a migrant’s certificate. The chances of this demand being approved by the Verkhovna Rada are slim, but public human rights organizations will continue to insist on this.

For persons with limited mobility, the draft requires the delivery of means of personal identification by social organizations, including international ones. An officially registered authorized representative has the right to draw up any paperwork for a person with limited mobility.

It is also possible to transfer documents through an official. This requires:

• prepare a corresponding application in advance;
• submit the application to the PFU with the help of housing and communal services employees or members of local village councils.

The same bodies are empowered to issue certificates of assigned migrant status. The document can also be issued by a person who does not have Ukrainian citizenship, but lives in the country on the basis of permanent residence (permanent residence).

The basis for assigning refugee or migrant status is an anti-terrorist operation in the formed republics of the LPR or DPR.

The UN called the demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) related to the need to increase the minimum retirement age for Ukrainians inhumane. However, this question remains open.

Watch the video: innovations in the pension system for residents of Donbass.

Pension for migrants in the Russian Federation

Only persons who have registered their stay in the country legally can receive a pension in the Russian Federation. That is, they filed a petition to consider the possibility of conferring the status of a forced migrant. The basis for payment of a pension will be the intention to reside in the Russian Federation permanently. The possibility of a forced migrant receiving a pension in the Russian Federation will depend on his status:

• Russian citizens who permanently resided outside the Russian Federation, but were forced to return, have the right to count on a pension on the terms of a Russian citizen, that is, in full;
• Migrants receive the right to a pension only after obtaining a residence permit;
• Forced migrants have the right to receive a pension in the amount due to them, simply by changing their place of stay;
• Refugees receive a pension only for the period of time that the refugee certificate is valid;
• Persons who have received temporary asylum in the Russian Federation do not have the right to count on pension payments.

Thus, the payment of pensions to migrants will depend on what exact status they are in, whether it will change or remain the same.

IDPs can count on the following payments:

• By old age - that is, after a person reaches retirement age, and also subject to a total work experience of at least 15 years;
• By loss of a breadwinner;
• For disability;
• According to length of service.

What is required to receive payments?

There are several conditions for the process of processing pension payments for Ukrainian immigrants. To register them, you need to contact the pension fund closest to the place of registration in the controlled territory.

List of documents for registering the right to accrue Ukrainian pensions:

Documents required for calculating pensions from Ukraine

1. Ukrainian internal passport.
2. Special identification password or tax code.
3. Photos in official document format.
4. A certificate in the prescribed form confirming the relevance of the migrant status. You can order it in the office of the social security authorities for residents. It is necessary to apply for the status of a migrant or refugee.
5. A certificate containing information about the provided social benefits. You will need a work book.
6. Certificate of salary accruals. The document must be ordered from the last employer.
7. A certificate issued from the actual, current place of residence.
8. Information from the address (place of registration).
9. Document confirming participation in hostilities, if available.
10. An extract confirming that the citizen is not receiving benefits from social authorities for working with the population of Crimea, that the citizen is not registered in the so-called occupied territory of the LPR or DPR, in Russia.
11. An extract stating that the citizen is not listed as a co-owner of the individual entrepreneur or manager.
12. Application for crediting amounts by transfer to an issued bank card.

It is necessary to have an open account with the National Bank of Ukraine Oschadbank. And also submit an application for calculation and accrual of pension.

Sometimes the transfer of the amount is suspended due to the loss of documents. In this case, you must submit an application to the Ukrainian Pension Fund for consideration of your personal file.

Verification of the information provided will take 15 working days. Among other data, the applicant’s living conditions are checked.

If the decision of the social authorities is positive, the elderly person is given a preliminary paper on the assignment of payments. It is subsequently sent for consideration by the commission on issues of calculating pensions for Ukrainian refugees.

After five working days, the commission makes a decision based on the results of the inspections, which it notifies the PFU. If the decision is positive, the first amount will be transferred to the pensioner’s account. In general, no more than a month passes from the start of filing an application for accrual and payment of a pension to the moment it is paid.

In order to receive money and register refugee status, a working pensioner will have to quit his job. You will need to show a certificate of termination of the official employment contract. It should indicate as the reason for dismissal: “Traveling to another, safe region.”

Military pensions in Ukraine

Pension payments for 500 thousand military pensioners have been increased by 1,500 hryvnia from the beginning of 2021. Today the amount is 4400 hryvnia.

How to apply for a pension if documents are lost

In the event of hostilities, one or more documents may be lost. It is possible to obtain a migrant certificate, but in a temporary form, by presenting any remaining official document for the period of restoration of the full package of documents.

Documents required to apply for a pension

In order to apply to the Pension Fund for registration of a pension, you will need to collect certain documents:

• Statement;
• Identity document;
• Work book.
• A certificate of income for any period of 5 years until 2002.
• A certificate confirming that pension payment has been stopped in the country at the previous place of residence;
• Document confirming registration in the Russian Federation;
• A certificate confirming the amount of transferred insurance premiums.

If the pension is issued not for old age, but for other reasons, then additional documents will be required. For example, when applying for a disability pension, you will need to confirm this fact with a document from a medical institution.

The procedure for obtaining a pension for immigrants will not differ from the procedure that citizens of the Russian Federation undergo. The main difference will be that you will need to confirm your status.

Important! Review of documents on pension assignment will take about 10 days. And the date from which payments will be calculated will correspond to the date of submission of the application.

How can a migrant apply for a pension in Russia?

The very first step when applying for a Russian pension is collecting the necessary documents. Their list is approved by a special order, which is issued by the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation.

Mandatory documents for a migrant are:

• passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation or residence permit indicating the place of registration
• application of the established form
• insurance certificate of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation
• issuing a personal account in the OPS system.

A complete list of documents can be found on the website of government services of the Russian Federation. Documents are submitted to the territorial PF or MFC at the place of registration or actual place of residence.

You can submit documents in person, through authorized representatives or by mail. The review period established by law is 10 days. The accrual date is the day the application is submitted. You cannot submit documents earlier than one month before retirement age.

What to do if you don’t have the necessary documents to apply for a pension?

In the event that there are no documents from the required list, the migrant should know that:

• Any other document available to the migrant may be provided as an identification document;
• In the absence of a certificate from the Pension Fund stating that the payment of the pension has been suspended, the migrant can write a statement in which he indicates the date of termination of payments, and also that if the information he provides is unreliable, he will be obliged to return the difference;
• Some documents can be requested from the consulate of your state located in Russia.

Peculiarities of pension formation for migrants from the ATO zone

The abbreviation ATO means anti-terrorist operation. The essence of the ATO is the implementation of measures to stop terrorism. This term originated on the territory of Ukraine.

To apply for a pension for citizens from the relevant zone, you need to do the following:

1. Contact the social security authority to obtain a certificate to assign a new status. Certificates are issued from March 18, 2015. In addition to the social structure, certificates can be issued by officials who are involved in the placement of migrants; housing and communal services workers at the new address; authorized persons of township or village councils.
2. Provide a copy and original of your passport , pension certificate, identification code (if available). In case of loss of a passport, a migrant may be issued a temporary certificate until the basic document is restored.
3. Fill out an application, where you should register a bank account where pension contributions will be accrued in the future. The form must include the following information:
   Full name of the applicant;
4. citizenship;
5. Place of Birth;
6. gender;
7. basic information about the family;
8. residential address;
9. Date of Birth;
10. reasons for moving;
11. information about real estate located in a safe area;
12. information about needs.
13. Officially register at the new address .
14. Register with the PFU (Pension Fund of Ukraine). Pension contributions are assigned from the next month after the above actions are completed.

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Since the beginning of March 2021, migration service employees have been carrying out additional checks of the place of residence of migrants. If the citizen actually lives at the specified address, then a corresponding mark is placed on the back of the certificate. If the migrant does not live at the specified address, then within 10 days he must contact the migration service.

Payments will only be received by those citizens who actually moved to a peaceful settlement. To confirm this information, it is necessary to submit a certificate to the PFU, which will indicate the new real address of the migrant.

Other measures to support displaced people

Important! IDPs have the right to use free medical services on an equal basis with citizens of the Russian Federation.

Social guarantees provided to migrants by the Russian state include:

• Right to education. Children of immigrants have the right to enroll in a kindergarten or school free of charge. When entering a university, they do not have any benefits, but they have the right to study on a budgetary basis, like other citizens of the Russian Federation.
• The right to a one-time payment of 100 rubles for each family member, and for low-income families - 150 rubles. Other social benefits are paid to migrants in the same way as to citizens of the Russian Federation.

Providing housing. This support measure is temporary, and displaced persons are provided with living quarters in a dormitory or special camps (

The procedure for acquiring the right to a pension

The speed of obtaining a residence permit or citizenship depends on various conditions: a person moved voluntarily or due to the outbreak of a military conflict, political or religious pressure, whether he has close relatives among Russians, how many years he has already lived in the Russian Federation, etc. If a foreigner - a native Russian speaker and one of his parents lives in the Russian Federation, or he himself is a former native of the Soviet Union or Russia, he has the right to an accelerated procedure for obtaining citizenship.
If his life is in mortal danger in his homeland, he can receive refugee status, which is given for 3 years. You can also apply for a temporary residence permit, and after a while - a permanent one. In general, all foreigners must go through the same stages of legalization:

1. First you need to get a migration card when entering the country.
2. Then you need to register for migration with the FMS within the next 7 days. Citizens of Ukraine are allowed to stay in Russia without registration for 90 days, residents of Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan - 30 days.
3. Next, you need to obtain a TRP (temporary residence permit). It is better to take care of this issue in advance, since a limited number of quotas are allocated annually, allowing you to live and work in any region of the country. Participants in the State Program and those born in the USSR or the Russian Federation, as well as highly qualified specialists, can immediately apply for a residence permit, bypassing this point.
4. A year after receiving a temporary residence permit, you can apply to the Federal Migration Service for a residence permit (residence permit), which is issued for 5 years. After receiving the document, you must annually notify the FMS of the fact of your residence in the Russian Federation.

Like all foreigners, pensions for migrants from the ATO zone (Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, which declared their independence) are assigned after obtaining a residence permit. Temporary asylum or temporary residence permit does not give such a right.

Payment of pensions to displaced persons is established only after receiving a residence permit. There is a difference in receiving payments for holders of a temporary residence permit and a permanent one. The former lose the right to pension benefits upon expiration of the document, the latter - at the time of departure from the country. Those who obtain Russian citizenship are granted a lifelong pension.

In addition, to obtain the right to apply for payments, you must issue a SNILS. To do this, you need to go to the Pension Fund department, taking with you the following documents:

• completed application form ADV-1;
• identification;
• translation of a certificate certified by a notary (if it is written in a foreign language).

Papers can also be sent by mail. However, to do this you will have to have the form certified by a notary. You also need to attach an application to the documents indicating the desired method of obtaining an insurance certificate (in person or by mail).

Pension amount

The new law on receiving pensions for migrants retains two parts of mandatory payments:

• fixed (Article 16);
• insurance (Article 15).

From April 1, 2021, the fixed part of the old-age pension is 4,982.9 rubles, the old-age insurance part is 14,151 rubles. and social pension - 9,062 rubles.

For working pensioners

From 2021, this category receives an insurance pension and a fixed payment to it, but without taking into account planned indexations. True, this does not apply to recipients of state pension payments, including social pensions.

Pension provision for migrants

July 2, 2013 Information on pension provision for persons arriving in the Russian Federation

Dear compatriots!

Pension provision for persons arriving in the Russian Federation from Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine is carried out in accordance with the Agreement on guarantees of the rights of citizens of member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States in the field of pension provision dated March 13, 1992.

If you moved to Russia and your length of work experience is at least 5 years, then upon reaching the ages of 55 and 60 years (women and men), an old-age labor pension will be established: - for persons who have acquired citizenship of the Russian Federation (i.e. presence of a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation); — for foreign citizens and stateless persons with a residence permit (i.e. a document confirming the right to permanent residence in the Russian Federation).

Please note that the retirement age in Russia is earlier than in these countries. For those who were already recipients of a pension in the state at their previous place of residence, an old-age labor pension has also been established in the Russian Federation, subject to the termination of payment of the pension at their previous place of residence and permanent residence in the Russian Federation. To establish a pension on the territory of Russia, you should contact the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation at your place of residence. The length of service taken into account when assigning a pension in the Russian Federation includes the following periods: - periods of work in the territory of the states parties to the Agreement, incl. on the territory of the former USSR that occurred before January 1, 2002. - periods after January 1, 2002 on the territory of these states, subject to payment of insurance contributions for pensions to the competent authorities of the states where the work took place. The pension is calculated from earnings for any 60 consecutive months of work before 2002.

Thus, before leaving for Russia to live or work, you should take with you the following documents: - work book; — a certificate from the competent authority of the country where you worked after January 1, 2002, confirming the payment of insurance contributions for pensions; - a certificate of earnings for any 60 consecutive months of work before 2002, issued by the organization where you worked or by an archival authority. In this case, the certificate must contain the basis for issuance, an indication of the monetary units in which wages were calculated during the period presented, and must be certified by the signatures and seal of the organization. - marriage certificate, divorce certificate (and in their absence, a certificate from the registry office) - in case of change of surname; - birth certificates of children (with notes on the issue of their passport).

Attention! In order to timely complete or request missing documents required for granting a pension on the territory of the Russian Federation, it is recommended to contact the Pension Fund Office at your place of residence in advance with all available documents.

Minimum old age pension

The minimum old-age pension will increase by 10% in 2012. Thus, the amount of the old-age pension will be 9,683 rubles.

It is reported that the labor pension of Russian citizens will increase even more – by 14.1%. In 2011, the average pension was already indexed by 8.8%.

The payment of funded pensions will amount to 5.2 trillion. rubles next year, the deficit will be 1.3 trillion.

Meanwhile, today the concept of a minimum old-age pension is in Russian legislation. If the amount of financial support for a pensioner is less than the subsistence level, then an additional payment is established for the pension. At the same time, the additional payment is set at such a level as to reach the subsistence level. Thus, the question of what is the minimum old-age pension can be answered as follows: 5122 rubles, i.e. This is the cost of living in the Russian Federation this year.

However, according to statistics, the real pension of Russians did not increase, but decreased by 0.3 percent, while the nominal increased by 8.7 percent.

The size of the old-age pension, according to the law, is determined from the funded and insurance shares of the labor pension.

Based on the legislation, 173-FZ dated December 17, 2001, the length of service includes the period of work while on the territory of the Russian Federation, if during the period of work the employer paid contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. If work or other activities were performed not on the territory of our country, in accordance with the conditions provided for by law, then they are also included in the length of service.

The length of service also includes periods of military service and other service, in accordance with the law, as well as the period of maternity leave, receiving benefits in case of disability, unemployment, time spent in prison for wrongfully convicted people, and time caring for a disabled person.

It is expected that 2012 will bring an increase in pensions for military retirees. At the moment, the military pension is no more than eight thousand rubles. So, from the first of January this situation will change.

There is a point of view that pensions will not increase following rising prices, but will decrease. By 2021, according to some analysts, the pension will be only one-quarter of today's pension. Indeed, currently 1/10 of the country’s wage fund is transferred to the pension fund, although the replacement rate (i.e., the ratio of the average pension level to the average salary level) in Russia is only 38 percent. A strange situation is emerging, thanks to which large amounts of money are being transferred to the pension system, while real pensions are small and do not grow along with the rate of price growth.

To solve this problem, the state is considering increasing the retirement age. However, given life expectancy in Russia, which is decreasing every year, such a decision cannot be called the most rational.

The only way out of resolving the pension issue would be to improve the state of the economy as a whole. However, this is only at first glance. Indeed, in fact, economic growth in Russia is associated with no fewer problems than with the pension system.

Last news

Pension accruals are recorded several times a year. This process is carried out in full accordance with inflation. Despite the regularity, such indexation will not be carried out at the end of this year 2021. The country is experiencing certain economic difficulties.

Despite the lack of indexation, neither citizens of the Russian Federation nor those who have received the status of migrants will suffer material losses. In 2021, each person receiving government support will receive a payment in the amount of 5,000 rubles.

The policy of the Russian Federation in matters relating to migration and the presence of foreigners in Russia is aimed exclusively at improving the living conditions of migrants, their employment and government support.

Thanks to this, not only people with poor living conditions, but those with unique professional skills are coming to the country. They are able to ensure a significant increase in the level of labor and professional resources of the state.

At the same time, the percentage of transferred taxes increases significantly. For this reason, benefits and pension transfers provided to displaced persons will not be cancelled. But they may undergo some changes.