Pension is recommended to be started three months before the appropriate age. This time will be enough to prepare all the necessary documents, order extracts, collect certificates and other papers. Prepared papers should be contacted by an authorized body that will accrue and pay benefits. The list of documents for applying for an old-age pension includes a variety of certificates from archives, from the place of work, copies and originals of employment contracts, and much more.
Retirement Prep
A few months before the retirement age, it is recommended to begin the preparation of documents, namely:
- View work book. If the future pensioner is working, then you can ask for a book in the personnel department. This must be done in advance to see how the information is written in it. If inaccuracies or errors are identified, then immediately indicate them to the employee of the personnel department.
- Check the information transmitted by the employer to the Pension Fund, having received the relevant extract from SNILS. It is easiest to verify this information by contacting the PF.
- Request a salary certificate for the last five years (it is necessary if the employee worked before 2002).
- Contact the PF at the place of registration and consult if any other documents are needed. It should be noted that not all citizens will be paid benefits in the PF. For example, the pensioners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are paid by the accounting department of the department in which the future applicant is still working.
All papers in advance included in the list of documents for applying for an old-age pension will help specialists make all the necessary requests and receive answers on time.
Deadlines
An old-age insurance pension is awarded if several conditions for its provision have been met at once:
- Citizens must be 55 years old for women and 60 years old for men.
- A future pensioner must have at least eight years of experience (this figure has been increasing annually since 2017).
- To be assigned a payment, you must have more than eleven pension points (they will also increase every year).
These requirements apply only to the main type of pension. When assigning disability benefits or loss of a nurse, other conditions are provided.
To assign different types of benefits, you need to know what documents to prepare for retirement.
Insurance pension
There are two types of insurance pensions: old age and disability. In the first case, the list of documents for applying for an old-age pension includes:
- Information about the experience calculated according to the decree No. 1015 of 2014 “On approval of the rules for calculating the insurance experience”.
- Information about the coefficient confirmed by the extract from SNILS.
- Information about family members, including the disabled.
The list of documents for applying for an old-age pension also includes:
- Documents confirming the right to early appointment of an old-age insurance pension.
- Information about the birth of children.
- Information about dependents.
If the retirement age is reached, and there are disabled children in care, you must provide a document confirming that other family members do not receive the established insurance pension for the same child.
Old-age pension for state security
The old-age allowance for state security provides for the assignment of benefits to those who suffered from radiation sickness at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The list of documents for obtaining an old-age pension for state security includes:
- Documents confirming participation in the aftermath of the accident.
- Certificate of residence in the danger zone.
- A certificate of the presence of radiation sickness and other consequences of exposure to radiation.
- A document confirming that a citizen is disabled due to a disaster at a nuclear power plant.
- Information about seniority.
This information must be accompanied by information on dependents, disabled family members, residence in areas of the COP, in areas with severe climatic conditions. The final list of documents depends on the category of applicants.
We transfer all prepared papers to the Pension Fund and arrange a pension. Documents must also contain a statement.
Decor
Modern technology has greatly simplified the application for a pension. Now it can be done via the Internet on the PF website. The application must indicate:
- FULL NAME;
- SNILS;
- registration address and address of residence;
- applicant phone number;
- passport data.
The application also makes notes on the type of pension that the applicant is counting on and how to receive it. After filing the application in electronic form, the citizen is provided with information about the necessary documents that may be required to be submitted to the FIU. Also, after confirming the application, the date and time of the personal visit to the Pension Fund is displayed . By this day, all of the listed documents should be prepared.
Right to early retirement
Some categories of citizens are eligible for early retirement. To receive it, you must contact the FIU, where they will tell you how to apply for a pension. Fund employees will give a list of necessary papers that will need to be prepared by the time of the second visit to the Pension Fund.
A citizen entitled to an early retirement pension can fill out an electronic application. After confirmation, a list of documents to be collected will also be provided. It usually takes about two weeks from the moment you apply to the day you visit PF. This time is not always enough to collect a package of documents, since the application is submitted no earlier than a month before the birthday.
After a citizen visits the Pension Fund on the appointed day and submits documents for registration of an early pension, he will receive a receipt on their acceptance.
Who is eligible for early retirement?
The right to early retirement pension arises from citizens whose specialty is on List 1 and 2, in one of the small lists. Also, those who worked in the conditions of the Far North and areas equivalent to it, and those who belong to a special category of citizens, are entitled to pre-term benefits.
For early retirement, you must have seven years of experience and reach the age specified by law. For each profession, a certain age and experience is prescribed.
To apply for early retirement, you need: passport, SNILS, work book and military ID. These documents should be visited by the PF, where they will give an explanation of what other papers will be needed to draw up benefits.
Application Review
During the reception of a citizen, the specialist carries out identification of the person, and also checks the correctness of filling out each document. When working, the specialist checks the originals and copies, notes the discrepancies. If something is missing in the package of documents, the citizen is immediately informed about this.
After consideration of the attached documents, the PF specialist registers the acceptance of the application and provides a receipt, which indicates the date of acceptance of the papers and the timing of the application.
After accepting the documents, the PF specialist conducts a detailed analysis of each document. He checks the validity of the accrual of benefits, evaluates the information provided and determines the compliance of the information provided with reality. After that, a decision is made on the calculation or refusal to assign a pension.
It happens that the organization in which the future pensioner worked is liquidated or the citizen moved. In order for all documents to be ready at the time of retirement, you should visit the PF in advance and find out which documents may still be required and when you need to come to apply.