The Pension Fund of Russia recommended drawing up a document on compulsory pension insurance even for newborn children. Every year this document becomes more and more important, and the personal account of any citizen of Russia is used not only for calculating pension payments, but also for implementing preferential programs for social and medical insurance of citizens.
How to get a pension certificate for a child under 14 years old
In order for the child to have an individual insurance number, his parents must contact the nearest branch of the pension fund. Parents must register their baby 's birth certificate and their passports to register their son or daughter. Two documents are a confirmation of the relationship of applicants and determine the right of parents to receive and store information about the account number and all information on it. In the FIU, parents fill out an ADV-1 questionnaire. This should be done very accurately, since any incorrectly completed data may interfere with the correct accrual of funds to the account of the insured person.
How to get a pension certificate for a child over 14 years old
If a child of 14 years old does not work, but is a school student or student, then there are two ways to obtain a certificate. The student’s parents can apply to the pension fund by presenting two passports: their own and the child’s passport, by filling out a questionnaire and then receiving a certificate within a month, or the child himself can apply by providing his passport and filling out the questionnaire on his own.
How to get a pension certificate if the child has started working
In this case, like all other employees, he can apply to the employer, who undertakes to obtain a certificate for him based on the employee’s passport data. There is the possibility of self-employment of a able-bodied citizen to a pension fund. In this case, the employer only needs to submit a copy of the certificate.
How to get a retirement certificate for a disabled child
For a disabled child, a pension certificate is one of the main documents by which he can receive medical care and social benefits, therefore it is issued at any age with a birth certificate and passport of the persons who care for him (parents, guardians). Since 2011, when the age limits for obtaining a pension insurance card were lifted, children with disabilities can obtain this certificate without providing certificates of disability.
You can ask for a child’s pension insurance certificate upon admission to kindergarten or school, as well as when contacting a medical institution, because in Russia a single database is being created in which each person will be personified by a special number indicated in the pension certificate. This will give every child the opportunity to receive benefits that are regulated for him not only by the Russian authorities, but also by regional ministries. So, in the Sverdlovsk region, the national project “Health Care” is being implemented, under which all children under the age of 3 have the right to receive free medicines (according to the list of preferential medicines approved by the regional authorities). For poor and large families, the age of children who may become participants in the program has been increased to 6 years.
Since 2012, pension insurance in the Russian Federation has been directly linked to electronic universal card systems that contain information from several documents of each citizen: a medical policy, a bank card, an identity card and a pension insurance certificate. Therefore, an insurance pension certificate becomes a guarantor for receiving medical services and municipal benefits that are provided to children from birth.