Overview

• Lawmakers from A Just Russia — For Truth submitted to the government a bill to recalculate working retirees’ insurance pensions for 2016–2024 and pay the underpaid amounts under Federal Law No. 400-FZ.
• The initiative was authored by party leader Sergei Mironov and State Duma committee chair Valery Gartung.
• Mironov said working retirees did not receive annual indexation from 2016 through 2024, and he noted that indexation was reinstated on January 1, 2025 for 7.8 million people.
• Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov said the 2026 insurance pension increase would be raised if 2025 inflation ends above 7.6%.
• The Labor Ministry previously stated that pensions are set to rise by 7.6% on January 1, 2026, lifting the average insurance pension by nearly 2,000 rubles to about 27,100 rubles.