Overview
- About 37 million recipients of insurance pensions received increases this year, nearly 10 million working pensioners had recalculations including earned points from August 1, and 5.5 million people aged 80 and over gained from an automatic recalculation.
- Since integration, average federal pensions roughly doubled in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, rose about 81% in Donetsk and 62% in Luhansk, with current averages cited at roughly 21.2–24.1 thousand rubles across these regions.
- Nearly 1.7 million pensions have been assigned in the newly integrated territories, while about 100,000 residents still receive regional pensions due to earlier retirement-age rules.
- Around 3,000 applications for the expanded pregnancy-and-birth allowance for full-time students arrived in the first two weeks since September 1, with an average payment of about 90,200 rubles.
- The Social Fund says it has paid 750,000 childbirth allowances since the start of the year, including 600,000 for employed mothers via social insurance and 150,000 for mothers not working at the time of birth.