Pension reform will leave more than 10 million Russians unemployed
If pension reform is implemented in Russia, by 2025 about 12 million citizens will be left without jobs and pensions. This was stated by Oleg Shein, a member of A Just Russia, during a plenary session of the State Duma, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“90 percent of the country’s population opposed the anti-Russian law on raising the retirement age. At the suggestion of the Confederation of Labor, FNPR, parliamentary parties and civil activists, demonstrations were held in more than a hundred cities of the country, in which about 70 thousand people took part. This is geography that did not exist even during the protests against election fraud in 2011.
Last week, RBC published pictures with reference to the central headquarters of United Russia, which, as an argument about the need to raise the retirement age, states that there used to be 97 million workers in the country, and now there are only 76. But these numbers are dishonest. The maximum number of workers has always been 90 million. And today there are not 76 million workers in the country, but according to Rosstat estimates, 81,5 million people. This is how you can have a serious conversation when millions of people are swinging back and forth within the framework of the argument of supporters of raising the retirement age.
It is said, and quite correctly, that if the retirement age is raised within the framework of the proposed law, 1,5 million people will not retire next year. But at the same time, the Ministry of Economic Development says that 300 thousand jobs will be created in the country next year. The question is: why force 1,5 million people into the labor market? How will the addition of 1,2 million unemployed have a positive effect on the ratio between working people and pensioners?
By 2025, the given parameters for raising the retirement age will assume that 13,7 million people will not see pensions. At the same time, 1,8 million jobs will appear on the labor market. We are talking about 12 million unemployed,” Shein explained.
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