BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

10/11/2006

Duma ratifies Russia-Belarus treaty on social security

MOSCOW, November 10 (Itar-Tass) - The State Duma ratified on Friday the Russia-Belarus treaty on cooperation in the sphere of social security. It was signed in St.Petersburg on January 24, 2006.

Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development Lyubov Glebova presented the document to the Duma. According to her information, "it is a balanced document, aimed at creating a contractual and legal basis for Russian-Belarussian cooperation in the sphere of social security."

She explained that the treaty established the procedure for calculating and paying temporary disability allowances, maternity allowances, allowances for families with children, unemployment allowances, as well as allowances on labour injury or professional disease. It provides for the payment of old-age pensions, disability pensions and pensions on the loss of the provider. According to the treaty, each contracting party will calculate and pay pensions in proportion to the period of labour record, started on its territory after March 13, 1992. The pension will be calculated and paid by the party, on whose territory the person lives at the time of his applying for the pension.

According to Glebova, the treaty "streamlines the levying of insurance fees within the framework of mandatory pension insurance in accordance with the legislation of the contracting party, on whose territory the insured person works."

Sergei Antufiev, deputy head of the Duma committee for the affairs of CIS and relations with compatriots, said in his turn, that the treaty reduced perceptibly the time needed for the calculation of pensions for the people, who moved to Russia from Belarus, or who are going to do it soon. The time will be reduced to a month, starting from the day of the termination of the payment of the pension in Belarus.

At the same time, Antufiev continued, the implementation of the treaty will involve additional expenditures from the federal budget on pension support for 32,300 people, who moved from Russia to Belarus. The sum will be approximately 84.5 million roubles a year, including 10.6 million roubles from the mandatory pension insurance reserves.

Source:

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