ECONOMIC RESEARCH
TITLE
Dynamics of the Post-Soviet Mandatory Pension Insurance System
and Basic Pension Income
Ekaterina A. Smirnova
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https://doi.org/10.52180/1999-9836_2024_20_3_5_385_396
AUTHOR
Ekaterina A. Smirnova
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4703-3171
SPIN-код: 4549-7878
РИНЦ AuthorID: 673507
ResearcherID ABD-3297-2020
Scopus Author ID: 57222903526
FOR CITATION
Smirnova E.A. Dynamics of the Post-Soviet Mandatory Pension Insurance System and Basic Pension Income. Uroven' zhizni naseleniya regionov
Rossii=Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia. 2024;20(3):385–396. https://doi.org/10.52180/1999-9836_2024_20_3_5_385_396
(In Russ.)
ABSTRACT
The paper is devoted to the study of the post-Soviet mandatory pension insurance system and the possibility of implementing such an
element as a universal basic pension income into it. Domestic and foreign scientific publications, legislation, as well as statistical data in
the field of pension provision served as sources for the analysis. The paper found out that the issue of setting of minimum guarantees for
pensioners at a level not lower than the pensioner's subsistence minimum level remains relevant to this day. In this connection the paper
tested the hypothesis that the introduction of a universal basic pension income, which in fact will replace the basic part of the old-age labour
pension (fixed payment to the insurance pension) and social supplements to the pension, in the pension structure will allow to establish
a minimum pension level for all pensioners by a single payment (universal basic pension income), which will make the Russian pension
system more transparent, open, understandable and allowing a pensioner to have an income at least below the pensioner's subsistence
minimum level. To test the hypothesis an analysis of the types of pensions and their structure was carried out, and criteria for setting the
boundaries of the minimum pension were determined. One of the results of the study was an approximate calculation of the additional funds
needed to bring the basic part of the labour pension (universal basic pension income) to the subsistence minimum level of a pensioner
(as of 2023). It is concluded that with additional financial support from the state and changes to the structure of expenditures of the Social
Fund of Russia, the introduction of a universal basic pension income for recipients of old-age pensions, disability pensions and survivor's
pensions would be quite achievable.
KEYWORDS
pension, retired person, pension system, mandatory pension insurance, the basic part of the old-age labour pension, fixed payment to an insurance pension, social supplement to the old-age pension, universal basic income, universal basic pension income
AUTHOR BIOGRAFY
Ekaterina A. Smirnova – PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Basic Department of the Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation «Human Resource Management», Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
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