There will be an increase in wages for employees of the pension fund. Systems approach

Despite the shortage of the budget for the indexation of pensions, the Pension Fund will increase the salaries of its employees, follows from the draft budget of the Pension Fund of Russia. The document provides for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists in 2017 - 83 billion rubles are allocated for the maintenance of personnel. This year, less was allocated for the same purposes - 78.7 billion rubles. In total, an additional 4.3 billion rubles will be allocated to increase pensions. Taking into account the fact that the average pension in Russia this year amounted to just over 12 thousand rubles, more than 358 thousand average pensions will be allocated to increase the income of PFR employees - or the annual maintenance of about 30 thousand pensioners.

The indexation of pensions in full this year was not carried out. FROM February . At the same time, the salaries of PFR employees will increase by at least 5.5%, and most likely by a large amount.

The fact is that next year it is planned to reduce the staff of the PFR, since next year the function of the fund for the administration of insurance premiums will be transferred to the tax authorities.

As Life was told in the press service of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, "the staff is expected to be reduced by approximately 11.8 thousand people next year." Considering that 121.7 thousand specialists are currently working in the Pension Fund, their number will decrease by 10%.

Interesting: earlier The Accounts Chamber noted that the administration of contributions to the PFR is largely large quantity specialists - about 20 thousand people. So it is obvious that the reduction will not affect all those involved in the administration of contributions.

In addition, the process layoffs, obviously, will last for a year, but even with the current number of staff, on average, about 56.8 thousand rubles will come out for the maintenance of one specialist in 2017. This is 5.4% more than this year - 53.9 thousand rubles. And if we assume that the PFR will reduce all unnecessary employees at the beginning of the year, then the content of one remaining employee will increase by almost 17% to 62.7 thousand rubles.

However, there are other benefits that FIU employees like to use. For example, d even middle managersmembers of the Pension Fund of Russia allow themselves to spend 100-200 thousand rubles on air travel, say, from Moscow to Kaliningrad, Simferopol, Sochi and even Geneva and Paris,.

Salaries in the PRF have been growing for several years. Thus, in 2016, on average, 3.7% more was spent on the maintenance of one specialist than a year earlier. In 2015 - content grew by 9.9%.

At the same time, civil servants are now subject to a moratorium on indexing their salaries to inflation. The salaries of officials were already frozen in 2015 and 2016, and now, according to the draft federal budget, they want to extend this moratorium for another three years. The Ministry of Finance even called for the abolition of such a norm of the law on the indexation of salaries of officials. Moreover, the salaries of federal officials were even reduced by 10%, including in the presidential administration and in the government apparatus.

However, these restrictions do not formally apply to the FIU, experts say.

Employees of the PFR are not legally civil servants, since the PFR, although formally a state fund, is an extra-budgetary fund, says Natalia Milchakova, deputy director of the analytical department of Alpari. - Theoretically, the FIU should pay salaries to its employees from own funds without resorting to government assistance.

In fact, more than 40% of all PFR expenses, which this year amount to 7.7 trillion rubles, are covered by funds from the federal budget, that is, the PFR lacks 3.2 trillion rubles for these purposes. At the same time, the composition of expenses, along with the obligation to pay pensions to the population, also includes the planned costs of remuneration for the labor of specialists of the Pension Fund.

It is with the aim of optimizing the costs of the PFR this year for the first time in last years violation of the principle of indexation of citizens' pensions.

True, in the form of compensation, pensioners in January 2017 will additionally receive a one-time payment in the amount of 5 thousand rubles. But such a payment is still much less than the required indexation. Given that, according to Rosstat, the average pension in Russia amounted to 12 thousand rubles, in 2016 pensioners will receive less than 12.8 thousand rubles.

According to the Accounts Chamber, in January-August of this year, the real size of assigned pensions decreased by 3.7%.

The PFR reported that "the salaries of employees of the Pension Fund of Russia are set and increased in accordance with the standards at the level of salaries of employees of other federal departments (agencies)."

Management pension fund back in November 2013, it issued a resolution on one that speaks of indicating the amount of salaries directly for employees. The main initiator of this proposal was Anton Drozdov. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the organization. If you read the resolution, it says that the salary of all specialists must be increased by 5.5 percent.

What is a pension fund. How wages have changed in recent years

The pension fund should be called the largest of the funds outside the budget in terms of the amount of resources mobilized. And even from all the funds from which funds are directed to social goals, this fund is considered the largest. Financial management of pension funds may include the following parameters:

Trust cathedral and accumulation of premiums.
Financial payments of pensions.
Control with the participation of tax authorities of the fund and the like.

As in all other organizations, the pension fund has its own expenses and income. For example, income comes from the insurance premiums of residents, as well as from employers. There are also voluntary contributions. And if we take into account the expenses of the organization, then they are aimed at paying care benefits, paying state pensions and logistical and financial support for activities. Insurance payments are the main source of income generation.

Salary increase program for pension fund employees

It is also necessary to pay attention to the fact that in the same 2013 a draft decree of the President of the country was made. It implied an increase in salaries for the heads of the Pension Fund of Russia by as much as three times. In 2014, these officials should have received a five-fold increase in salaries. However, no one announced these facts, since the real salaries of the heads of the Pension Fund are a secret.

The decree also dealt with the monthly increase for PF workers. This was published in early 2014. but already in September of that year, employees began to receive an increase in their salary. It should also be recalled that competent and hardworking employees already had quarterly increases to their salaries. But the management team was also given a bonus of 2.7 percent of cash incentives.

The expected salary increase for fund employees was frozen in 2015-2016. Salaries for Russian citizens have stopped growing. One could observe the rise of the conference in the labor market. By reducing staff, employees did everything possible to reduce their costs.

If we proceed from such tasks, then we can see a tendency to reduce or delay salaries. Demand labor force also became less by 4 times, the number of unemployed immediately increased. And when people are interviewed for a job, you can see a huge competition.

What to expect in 2018?

The state has proposed to reduce spending from its budget for 2018 in the amount of 600 billion rubles. and the most important reason was the decision to impose sanctions, as well as lowering the level of oil prices on the world market. Freezing the wages of state employees is not yet included in the plans of the country's leadership. Only now the Ministry of Finance was asked not to index the salaries of the military, civil servants and other certain categories of Russian citizens. And all due to the fact that such plans will be able to ease the budget for 2018. People in our time still continue to hope that by the middle of 2018 the situation will become stable and the increase in salaries for employees of the pension fund will still take place.

Real numbers and payroll

Despite the fact that the country does not have enough budget for the indexation of pensions, the Pension Fund is ready to increase the salaries of its employees. The document provided for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists back in 2017 - 83 billion rubles were allocated for the maintenance of personnel. at present, less is allocated for such purposes, namely 78.7 billion rubles. and to allocate an additional 4.3 billion rubles for raising pensions. If we take into account the fact that the average pension in the country amounted to just under 12,000 rubles, then more than 358,000 average pensions will be allocated to increase the income of PFR employees, or the annual maintenance of about 30,000 pensioners.

In 2017, full indexation of pensions was also not carried out. Since February, they have been indexed by only 4 percent, while consumer price growth for 2016 was 12.9 percent. But the wages of pension fund employees will increase by at least 5.5 percent.

Also for 2018, it was planned to reduce the staff of the Pension Fund, because next year the function of the pension fund for the administration of insurance premiums will be transferred to the tax authorities. As the PFR press center said, next year they are expecting a reduction in staff by about 11.8 thousand people. If we take into account that today the organization employs 121.7 thousand specialists, then their number will decrease by 10 percent.

Fund reorganization

It became known at the end of 2014 that the reduction of PFR employees was coming. In 2015, according to the then adopted project, 10% of workers in the Pension Fund were fired. This was the very beginning of the process of reorganization of this state structure. The fact is that the PFR has had a deficit budget for many years, and in such a situation it is difficult and unjustified to maintain a large staff of employees. In this regard, a plan was created to reorganize the fund over the coming years.

In 2019 massive layoffs not expected. A relatively small number of positions will be removed from the state. Ordinary employees of district offices will be the last to be affected by the layoffs, the bulk staff units will be removed from administration. Many FIU clients are worried that there will be more queues, but in reality this is not the case. Specialists working with citizens are not going to be fired in the coming years.

The fund will start working for the most part from individuals, businessmen will report to the tax. The plans for the coming year include the disbandment of one of the largest departments and the reduction of more than sixteen thousand specialists. The division responsible for the administration of the payment of contributions to off-budget funds will be disbanded. From the beginning of next year, the tax inspectorate, and not the FIU, will work on this. Relevant legislative acts already signed.

What changes have been made to the current codes

At the beginning of July 2016, several federal laws:

No. 243 - on amendments to the Tax Code regarding the administration of insurance premiums;
No. 250 - on changing the provisions of legislative acts (parts one and two of the Tax Code);
No. 346 - on amendments to the Budget Code (Article 46 and part two of Article 47 will be corrected).

The law came into force at the beginning of 2017, as the transfer of powers takes a lot of time. Previously, almost 16,000 people were involved in keeping records of insurance premiums. All of them will be laid off, but qualified employees will have the opportunity to get a new job:

in the Pension Fund in another position;
in tax office(in a similar department created).

A sharp increase in the number of unemployed in the country due to the new initiative is not expected. However, it will be possible to get a new place in most regions only after certification. Unqualified employees will not be accepted for similar workplace. The knowledge testing procedure is necessary in order to increase the effectiveness of the fund. According to recent inspections, some employees do not fulfill their duties in full.

Why it is necessary to cut employees

The government, making a reduction in the FIU, pursues several goals at once:

reduces fund spending wages;
strengthens the payment discipline of entrepreneurs;
optimizes the work of the organization;
makes reporting easier for entrepreneurs.

Among them, the primary goal is to change the order of reports for entrepreneurs and tighten control over the contribution of funds to extra-budgetary funds. It is known that every fifth owner of a society with limited liability does not pay dues even by court order. In this regard, the filling of the PFR cannot be called effective. The fact is that at present, contributions to off-budget funds are not assigned the status of tax and the responsibility for non-payment of them is less.

By liquidating the administration department and transferring its powers to the tax department, the government transfers the status of payments to another branch of legislative law. Responsibility for failure to fulfill their obligations under it will be more serious.

A positive aspect will also be the reduction in the cost of wages for fund specialists. Now only qualified employees will work, and the reduction in their number will not only reduce the burden on the budget, but will also allow salaries to be indexed in a timely manner. According to the results of two years (2016 and 2017), about 20% of the fund's employees will be laid off.

Where will businessmen submit reports?

One of the advantages of the updated Tax Code is that the burden on entrepreneurs in terms of the number of inspectors will be reduced. They will not need to withstand regular inspections by the FIU, but will only report to the tax authorities.

On the one hand, the solution of issues on contributions on the basis of the one-stop shop principle in the Federal Tax Service is a positive development. On the other hand, business representatives fear that the terms of inspections will henceforth be significantly increased. Previously, representatives of the FIU carried out a desk audit within ten days, while the tax authorities worked with documents for a month. This significantly hampered the work of Russian companies.

Deputies respond to the fears of businessmen that the reduction of employees of the Pension Fund and the delegation of their duties to the tax service will be carried out as quietly as possible for business. There will be more specialists in the Federal Tax Service, so no increase in data processing time is expected. Additionally, over the next three years, new reporting forms (more simple) and data processing programs will be introduced.

Businessmen should be wary of the introduction of more severe measures for late payment of contributions. The Ministry of Justice has already prepared a package of amendments to the Criminal Code, which are developed similarly to the points on non-payment of taxes.

How did the FIU react to this news?

Representatives of the Ministry of Labor and the leadership of the Pension Fund oppose the initiative of the authorities. They see no reason to transfer authority to the tax service. The main arguments of the opponents of the initiative:

All reports are subject to quick desk review;
most payers submit documents in in electronic format, which is very convenient for both specialists and businessmen;
high collection rates (this claim has been refuted by recent data);
debugged system.

None of these arguments in the government was considered weighty. The ability to submit reports remotely exists in the Federal Tax Service. Contributions to the budget and funds are interconnected. If they are administered in one place, any errors and underpayments will be found faster.

A few years ago, the Federal Tax Service was already involved in pension contributions. Then the department could not cope with the load, and its efficiency was not great. Now it is planned to create on the basis tax service a new department that will be responsible for insurance premiums. This should optimize the work on collections to all off-budget funds.