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Russia Advances Pension Changes With Mass Recalculations and Proposal to Lift Care Allowance

A new rule now counts more childcare toward work records for benefits.

Overview

  • The Social Fund recalculated pensions for about 400,000 mothers with five or more children after the Jan. 1 removal of limits on crediting childcare up to 1.5 years.
  • Most recalculations were completed proactively using existing records, with additional requests available via Gosuslugi or client services, and new retirees have eligible periods counted automatically.
  • Between Jan. 1 and 10, the Fund decided on more than 210,000 applications and issued over 2 million information services; 123 veterans applied for rehabilitation, 115 began treatment, and 47 received travel tickets under a new option.
  • From Jan. 1 to 11, operators handled over 220,000 consultations, while 2025 totals included 37 million contacts, about 67,000 fraud reports, and numerous atypical inquiries.
  • LDPR lawmakers submitted a bill to raise the home‑care add‑on for people aged 80+ and first‑group disabled to the minimum wage, as officials cited current parameters: a doubled fixed payment of 19,169.38 rubles for those groups, a care allowance of 1,413.86 rubles, and a 2026 salary threshold of 248,250 rubles per month to earn the maximum pension points.