Loading ...Russia’s Pension/Retirement Benefits
Since 1996, Russia’s constitution has provided citizens and residents with the right to free healthcare. This is provided by the state through the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund (also called the OMI or Obligatory Medical Insurance). Appointment and payment of pensions affect 40 million pensioners.
People that reach retirement age in Russia (60 for men, 55 for women) get free transportation, their retirement income is not taxed unlike here in the US (e.g., 85% of the US Social Security Annual benefit amount is subject to regular income tax), are exempt from property tax, get 100% government health care..no copay, no deductibles, no 80/20 provider/patient split (US Medicare is 80/20 with a $233 yearly deductible)…all FREE. Pensioners receive 50% discount on electric/water usage, reduced cost for cell phone, free admission to museums, concerts, and other public events, once a year trip all free for up to 3 weeks to sanctuaries located in the south of Russia for mineral baths, food, housing and holistic therapy and that is just a few of the perks. For anyone, Cell phone cost in Moscow, $9 a month, internet $10 a month but pensioners get a lower rate. For a pensioner a cell phone is approx. 350 rubles = $6.
According to the law, a pensioner after 70 years of age is reduced the payment for major repairs of a house by 50 percent, and after 80 years of age, it is canceled altogether. At the same time, he must be the owner of the apartment, live in it or pay for utility services. The benefit is provided if the pensioner lives alone and does not work or lives with relatives who have a disability or have retired due to old age and do not work. The preference is compensatory in nature: a person pays the full amount for the overhaul, and then part of it is returned to the account.
Short videos of a government clinic and the modern just built metro system on the outer ring my wife took yesterday. Notice no graffiti, free of crime, clean, modern and superior to any US System. The Soviet Metro system as Fully has displayed in a post is also magnificent in its beauty. I have been on it and attest to its splendor.
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Thanks for this post Predator
This is a mind altering bombshell. NO ONE knows any of this here in the “First World”
UNFREAKINGBELEIVABLE
We still think of Russia as a backward place !
Look how they treat their pensioners and old folks as opposed to here !
All new information – thx Predator
Predator – good information in so far as benefits. What about their freedoms? I grew up and lived the first half of my life when Russia (USSR) was extremely oppressive to their people. I know this because I have talked to immigrants from Russia that worked at the same company I did. What are the conditions like now days? Are they free to act as they want? I am curious because I really don’t know the current conditions over there. For example, can they publicly criticize Putin? I could go on and on, but since you have posted this – I hope you will post a follow up about their freedoms. Thanks.
Ken, If you don’t mind sharing with me what time frame you lived there and where in Russia? I’ll do a separate post soon on the Freedoms but first prefer to ask more on this subject with my wife before doing so but what I can share is that when we visited Moscow in 2008 I can say the freedom was no different than here in the US. We visited Red Square, ate at numerous restaurants, went to different high and low end type shopping malls, electronic stores, Car dealerships, parks, auto parts stores, used the Soviet era metro, used taxis and interacted with people. At that time they liked Americans. The city and roads are maintained exceptionally clean which caught my attention.
During my career post graduation in Electrical Engineering I first worked at the Johnson Space Center on the Space Shuttle Simulator software guidance navigation and control system and spent a lot of time in Houston, TX. Then afterwards changed my career path by going into the Nuclear Power Electric Generating Stations as a sub contractor. Worked at probably a dozen or more throughout a 20 year period. At that time there were over a hundred nuclear power stations so I was able to experience different cities, people, etc. After visiting Moscow…my opinion only… I prefer living there than here compared to any major US city. Every imaginable product was available there too. Also, at that time it was completely safe in Moscow for women to walk the streets at anytime day or night. Crime was almost non existent. My wife has traveled to many countries and she tells me that Americans are the most friendly and helpful and are probably more like Russians than any other country. I’ll ask her about the Putin thing you brought up to. Lastly, my wife was born in 1975 and grew up during the Soviet era and her grandparents fought in the great patriotic war so she has both perspectives pre and post Soviet times.
Predator – sorry, didn’t mean to give you the impression that I lived in Russia, only talked to immigrants from there. The oppression I have heard about occurred into the 80’s. Just wondering what it is like now. Thanks.
Ken, My apologies for misreading your initial response and see that now. According to my wife when I asked about what are the consequences if you criticize Putin publicly she said what is the sense of a question like that where in the western world you can be imprisoned for going against the narrative. However, she sent me a link from an interview with Putin October 2020 that briefly gives an overview on the subject and policy which is consistent today and pasted below. The life during the 70’s up to the breakup was in her opinion better than today. At that time everything in terms of normal everyday necessities including housing, water, electricity, health care, transportation, food, clothing etc., were provided by the state and everyone’s life was pretty much equal and content. Of course, there were not too many luxury items from outside Russia unless one traveled and brought back things which her father did on occasion from Italy and other places. The strong industrial base there produced soviet products making it independent from the outside world. Most people did work and were paid and had money to spend on other things. Also, children in the summer could go to pioneer camps and learn different crafts and have fun playing.
https://tass.ru/obschestvo/9648375
MOSCOW, 7 October. /TASS/. Punishment for reposting dangerous fakes and other rules of behavior on the Internet are needed, but they have nothing to do with a ban on criticism of the authorities. This was stated by the President of Russia in an interview for the TASS project “20 questions to Vladimir Putin.”
“On the Internet, the same general human rules and norms that apply in human society should apply,” he said, noting that the Internet allows the distribution of “any kind of content.” That is why Putin considers punishment justified when it comes to spreading “fakes and lies that can cause general panic”, methods of committing suicide or child pornography. “It can harm our people,” the head of state explained.
The President did not agree with the opinion that one can fall under sanctions for criticizing the state. “Criticism of the authorities is not forbidden here, it is forbidden to desecrate the symbols of the state – the flag, the coat of arms, the anthem,” he said. “Mocking the symbols of the state offends every citizen. Therefore, this is simply the protection of the interests of society, and this is done in any civilized country,” Putin explained.
The 20 Questions for Vladimir Putin project, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of his work in senior government positions, started on February 20, 2020. 17 episodes were posted on the agency’s resources, however, due to a radical change in the global information agenda, TASS decided to suspend the project. This series is the final one.
Watch the final series of video interviews on the website: https://putin.tass.ru/.
Good information. It is very hard to find information these days that doesn’t have spin on it, either one way or the other. It’s good to talk to real people instead of reading narratives that try and drive you to their position.
I am looking forward to your future posts. Thanks again.
Excellent dialogue KenS and Predator
An example of civil discourse and a quest for truth
I have learned as well
Thanks both