The idea of repealing the Pension Reform adopted in 2018, proposed by the party “A Just Russia – For Truth,” is becoming one of the main topics of the pre-election political season.
This was stated by experts during a round table meeting, which was held in Moscow in the studio of the Tsargrad TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The delayed effect has led to the fact that right now a protest electorate of people of pre-retirement age - those born after 1968 - has begun to form. As you know, it is they who will be most affected by the reform, and against the backdrop of the economic crisis and unemployment, the “image of the future” is painted the darkest for them...
Public sentiment is sharply and rapidly moving to the left. If in the “zeros” the Communist electorate fled to United Russia (who paid pensions stably), now it is drifting again, only now to “SR-ZP” and the “Pensioners Party”.
The reasons are clear: the communists give an idealized picture, the achievement of which requires a new revolution, at a minimum. “A Just Russia, on the contrary, paints a very clear picture: pensions of 30 thousand rubles from the distribution of oil rent, a progressive tax scale (to fill the budget), an unconditional basic income,” said political scientist Ilya Grashchenkov.
His colleague, political scientist Konstantin Kalachev, believes that measures from regional authorities would help defuse the situation. For example, a number of entities with excess income could introduce special social payments to people of pre-retirement age.
“We have donor regions, rich regions. There is a serious problem with employment of people of pre-retirement age. Well, in the end, if we are a federation, although in fact we are a unitary centralized state, perhaps individual regions could somehow compensate people of pre-retirement age for the losses that they will incur in the future.
A simple example, let’s say I’m 57 years old, if my income is below the subsistence level, I receive a basic unconditional income at the level until I start receiving a social pension,” Kalachev said.
The idea was developed by political scientist Oleg Bondarenko. He recalled the unfair situation when, for example, Moscow pensioners receive a higher pension compared to residents of the Moscow region, most of whom work and pay taxes in the capital:
“It’s completely unfair when you live somewhere in Podolsk or Zvenigorod, Odintsovo, Krasnogorsk, Khimki, where 70 percent work in Moscow, pay taxes at the place of work to the capital’s budget, and are deprived of social benefits.
Of course, this is unfair, of course, it is necessary to create some kind of sub-regional payment opportunities, when donor regions will pay not only for themselves, but also for those neighboring regions from where they draw physical strength, thanks to which they live. Or we need to take it and simply redistribute the taxation system, make sure that people pay taxes not at their place of work, but at their place of registration,” Bondarenko said.
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