Increase of salaries for the pfr employees. Systems approach

The head of the Accounts Chamber, Tatyana Golikova, proposed uniting three social non-budgetary funds - the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR), social insurance (FSS) and compulsory health insurance (MHIF). The merger of funds has not yet been discussed in the government, but in theory it could save more than a quarter running costs on their content.

Tatiana Golikova: The United Compulsory Social Insurance Fund should be public, rather than state-owned. Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS

The head of the Accounts Chamber expressed this idea in the framework of the report on reforming public administration expenditures. She presented it at the Gaidar Forum organized by RANEPA, the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia and the Gaidar Institute.

According to Golikova, 162.8 thousand people work in the three funds, which is only slightly less than half of the number of employees 53 federal bodies authorities subordinate to the government. The cost of maintaining the funds is 143.8 billion rubles a year. "They are fully covered by the insurance contributions that are collected in the budgets of these state extrabudgetary funds like taxes on the payroll, "Golikova emphasized.

According to the head of the Accounts Chamber, it is necessary to eliminate the need to create parallel information systems all three funds: the resources they spend on informatization are quite large. "In the experience of most similar institutions, the pooled compulsory social insurance fund should be a unique management structure, which is not in state, but in public property. Why publicly owned? Because part of the budget of this fund, namely insurance premiums, administers the Federal Tax Service and she remains such an administrator. We are talking about the distribution of those resources that come as a revenue part, "- said Golikova.

According to the vice-rector of the Academy of Labor and social relations Alexandra Safonova, the possible unification of social funds will not be quick. “Taking into account the revision, preparation of the bill, the unified information platform, this is a project of not one or two, but about five years,” he said. In his opinion, the costs of maintaining social funds after their possible merger may decrease by about 20-40 billion rubles.

As Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets later told reporters, the proposal to unite the three social funds was not discussed by the government (the Accounts Chamber is not part of the Cabinet of Ministers and does not have the right to initiate legislation). "The proposals must be balanced, we must understand what result we expect," she stressed. The head of the Ministry of Labor, Maxim Topilin, also noted that he had not yet seen official proposals for the unification of social funds.

In her speech, Tatyana Golikova also touched upon other issues of the efficiency of spending on the public administration system. So, she once again questioned the feasibility of the existence of federal agencies as separate departments. At the suggestion of the Accounts Chamber, agencies with their subordinate network of territorial bodies can be included in the ministries as structural units or even become independent ministries or committees. Agencies that do not have territorial bodies can be transformed into state institutions subordinate to ministries.

In addition, the Accounting Chamber considers the system of remuneration of officials to be actually unbalanced. According to Golikova, in last years there is a significant disparity in the remuneration of civil servants. According to her, salaries of officials of the same category may differ by two or three times. Also in 2016, the number of civilian civil servants was reduced to the level of 2012, but this process affected exclusively the lower level of management and led to an imbalance in the hierarchy of positions, the head of the Accounts Chamber noted.

“It seems to us that it is nevertheless necessary to change the structure of pay by increasing the share of guaranteed payments in its structure and establishing a clear relationship between incentive payments and indicators of the efficiency and effectiveness of civil servants,” Golikova said. In her opinion, this can increase the attractiveness of the civil service and encourage the most financially efficient workers. But such a mechanism will work only if the institution of attestation of civil servants is improved, the head of the Accounts Chamber clarified.

During the crisis, it is most difficult for public sector employees, since in order to save the budget, they are cut in the first place. Indeed, in some government organizations in the pre-crisis years, the state was previously bloated, and now the government is getting rid of the surplus of personnel. Let's figure out what news to expect about the Pension Fund in 2019, whether there will be reductions, and how the work of this state organization will change.

Fund reorganization

It became known at the end of 2014 that the staff of the Pension Fund of Russia was about to lay off. In 2015, according to the then adopted draft, 10% of workers in the Pension Fund were fired. This was the very beginning of the reorganization process of this state structure... The fact is that the PFR has had a budget deficit for several years now, and in such a situation it is difficult and unjustified to maintain a large staff of employees. In this regard, a plan was created for the reorganization of the fund in the coming years.

No massive layoffs are expected in 2019. A relatively small number of posts will be removed from the staff. Ordinary employees of district offices will be dismissed last, the bulk of the staff will be removed from the departments. Many clients of the FIU are concerned that there will be more queues, but in reality this is not the case. Specialists working with citizens are not going to be fired in the coming years.

The fund will start working mostly with individuals, businessmen will report to the tax office. The plans for the coming year are to disband one of the largest departments and lay off more than sixteen thousand specialists. The unit dealing with the administration of the payment of contributions to extrabudgetary funds will be disbanded. From the beginning of next year, the tax inspectorate will work on this, not the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. The relevant legislative acts have already been signed.

What changes have been made to the current codes

At the beginning of July 2016, several federal laws:

• No. 243 - on amendments to the Tax Code regarding the administration of insurance premiums;
• No. 250 - on changing the provisions of legislative acts (parts one and two of the Tax Code);
• No. 346 - on amending the Budget Code (46 and part two of Article 47 will be amended).

The law came into force at the beginning of 2017, since the transfer of powers takes a lot of time. Previously, almost 16 thousand people were involved in keeping records of insurance premiums. All of them will be laid off, but qualified employees will have the opportunity to get a new job:

• in the Pension Fund in another position;
• v tax office(in a similar department created).

A sharp increase in the number of unemployed across the country due to the new initiative is not expected. However, it will be possible to get a new place in most regions only after certification. Unskilled employees will not be accepted for a similar workplace... The knowledge testing procedure is necessary in order to improve the effectiveness of the fund. According to the latest inspections, some employees do not fulfill their duties in full.

Why it is necessary to cut employees

The government, while downsizing in the FIU, pursues several goals at once:

• reduces the fund's expenses on wages;
• strengthens the payment discipline of entrepreneurs;
• optimizes the organization's work;
• makes reporting easier for entrepreneurs.

Among them, the primary goal is to change the order of reports for entrepreneurs and tighten control over the contribution of funds to extra-budgetary funds. It is known that every fifth owner of a limited liability company does not pay contributions even by a court decision. In this regard, the staffing of the FIU cannot be called effective. The fact is that at present, contributions to extra-budgetary funds have not been awarded tax status and there is less liability for non-payment.

By liquidating the administration department and transferring its powers to the tax, the government transfers the status of payments to a different branch of legislative law. Responsibility for failure to fulfill their obligations under it will turn out to be more serious.

Reducing the costs of wages for the fund's specialists will also be a positive moment. Now only qualified employees will work, and the reduction of their number will not only reduce the burden on the budget, but will also allow timely indexing of salaries. At the end of two years (2016 and 2017), about 20% of the fund's employees will be laid off.

Where businessmen will submit reports

One of the advantages of the updated Tax Code is that the burden on entrepreneurs will decrease in terms of the number of inspectors. They will not need to withstand regular checks by the FIU, but it will only be enough to report to the tax authorities.

On the one hand, the resolution of issues on contributions based on the principle of one window at the Federal Tax Service is a positive moment. On the other hand, business representatives fear that the timing of inspections will now be significantly increased. Previously, representatives of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation carried out a desk audit in up to ten days, while the tax authorities worked with documents for a month. This made the work of Russian companies much more difficult.

The deputies answer to the fears of businessmen that the reduction of employees of the Pension Fund and the delegation of their duties to the tax service will be carried out as imperceptibly as possible for business. There will be more specialists at the Federal Tax Service, therefore, no increase in data processing time is expected. Additionally, over the next three years, new reporting forms (simpler) and data processing programs will be introduced.

Businessmen should be wary of introducing more severe measures for late payment of contributions. The Ministry of Justice has already prepared a package of amendments to the Criminal Code, which are developed similarly to the clauses on tax evasion.

How did the FIU specialists react to this news?

Representatives of the Ministry of Labor and the senior staff of the Pension Fund oppose the initiative of the authorities. They see no reason to delegate authority to the tax service. The main arguments of the opponents of the initiative:

• all reports undergo a quick desk review;
• most payers submit documents to in electronic format, which is very convenient for both specialists and businessmen;
• high collection rates (this statement has been refuted by the latest data);
• debugged system.

None of these arguments were considered valid by the government. The ability to submit reports remotely also exists at the Federal Tax Service. Contributions to the budget and funds are interrelated. If you administer them in one place, any errors and underpayments will be found faster.

Several years ago, the Federal Tax Service was already engaged in pension contributions. Then the department could not cope with the load, and its effectiveness was not great. Now it is planned to create on the basis of tax service a new department that will be responsible for insurance deductions. This should streamline the collection of all extrabudgetary funds.

Despite the lack of budget for the indexation of pensions, the Pension Fund will increase the salaries of its employees, follows from the draft budget of the Pension Fund of Russia. The document provides for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists in 2017 - 83 billion rubles have been allocated for the maintenance of personnel. This year, less has been allocated for the same purposes - 78.7 billion rubles. In total, 4.3 billion rubles will be allocated to increase pensions. Taking into account the fact that the average pension in Russia amounted to just over 12 thousand rubles this year, more than 358 thousand average pensions will be allocated to increase the income of PFR employees - or the annual allowance of about 30 thousand pensioners.

The indexation of pensions in full was not carried out this year. WITH February . At the same time, the salaries of PFR employees will grow by at least 5.5%, and most likely by a large amount.

The fact is that next year it is planned to reduce the PFR staff, since from next year the function of the fund for administering insurance premiums will be transferred to the tax authorities.

As Life was told in the PFR press service, "in next year staff reduction is expected by about 11.8 thousand people. "Considering that now 121.7 thousand specialists work in the Pension Fund, their number will decrease by 10%.

Interesting: earlier The Accounts Chamber noted that a much larger number of specialists are involved in the administration of contributions to the PFR - about 20 thousand people. So it is obvious that the reduction will not affect all those involved in the administration of contributions.

Moreover, the process layoffs, obviously, will stretch for a year, but even with the current number of staff, on average, about 56.8 thousand rubles will be released for the maintenance of one specialist in 2017. This is 5.4% more than this year - 53.9 thousand rubles. And if we assume that the PFR will reduce all unnecessary employees at the beginning of the year, then the content of one remaining employee will grow by almost 17% to 62.7 thousand rubles.

However, there are other benefits that FIU employees like to use. For example, d even middle managerslinks of the Pension Fund of Russia allow themselves to spend 100-200 thousand rubles for air travel, say, from Moscow to Kaliningrad, Simferopol, Sochi and even Geneva and Paris.

Salaries in the PRF have been growing for several years. So, in 2016, an average of 3.7% more was allocated for the maintenance of one specialist than in the previous year. In 2015 - content increased by 9.9%.

At the same time, a moratorium on the indexation of their salaries to the level of inflation is currently in effect for civil servants. The financial support of officials was already frozen in 2015 and in 2016, now this moratorium, according to the draft federal budget want to extend it for another three years. The Ministry of Finance even advocated the abolition of such a provision of the law on the indexation of officials' salaries. Moreover, the pay of federal officials was even cut by 10%, including in the presidential administration and in the government apparatus.

However, these restrictions do not formally apply to the FIU, experts say.

Employees of the PFR are not legally civil servants, since the PFR, although formally a state, but off-budget fund, says Natalya Milchakova, deputy director of Alpari's analytical department. - In theory, the FIU should pay salaries to its employees from own funds without resorting to government assistance.

In fact, more than 40% of all PFR expenses, which this year amount to 7.7 trillion rubles, are covered by funds from the federal budget, that is, the PFR lacks 3.2 trillion rubles for these purposes. At the same time, the composition of expenses, along with the obligation to pay pensions to the population, also includes the planned costs of remuneration of the specialists of the Pension Fund.

It is with the aim of optimizing the PFR's expenses this year for the first time in recent years, the principle of indexing citizens' pensions was violated.

True, in the form of compensation, pensioners will receive an additional one-time payment in the amount of 5 thousand rubles in January 2017. But this payment is still much less than the required indexation. Considering that, according to Rosstat, the average pension in Russia was 12 thousand rubles, in 2016 pensioners will receive less than 12.8 thousand rubles less.

According to the Accounts Chamber, in January-August this year, the real size of assigned pensions decreased by 3.7%.

The PFR reported that "the salaries of employees of the Pension Fund of Russia are established and increased according to standards at the level of salaries of employees of other federal departments (agencies)."

Management pension fund back in November 2013, it issued a decree that says about the indication of the amount of wages directly for employees. The main initiator of this proposal was Anton Drozdov. He is also the chairman of the board of the organization. If you read the resolution, it says that salaries for all specialists are required to increase by 5.5 percent.

What is a pension fund. How the salary has changed in recent years

The Pension Fund should be called the largest of the funds outside the budget in terms of the amount of resources mobilized. And even of all the funds from which funds are channeled for social purposes, this fund is considered the largest. The management of the finances of pension funds may include the following parameters:

• Target cathedral and accumulation of insurance premiums.
• Financial payments of pensions.
• Control with the participation of the tax authorities of the fund and the like.

As in all other organizations, the pension fund has its own expenses and income. For example, income comes from residents' insurance premiums, as well as from employers. There are also voluntary contributions. And if we take into account the expenses of the organization, then they are aimed at the payment of care benefits, payment of state pensions and material, technical and financial security activities. Insurance payments are the main source of income generation.

Salary increase program for pension fund employees

We must also pay attention to the fact that in the same 2013 a draft decree of the President of the country was made. It meant a threefold increase in the salaries of the heads of the Russian Pension Fund. In 2014, these officials were supposed to have their salaries increased fivefold. However, no one announced these facts, since the real salaries of the heads of the Pension Fund are kept secret.

The decree also dealt with a monthly increase for PF employees. This was published in early 2014. but already in September of that year, employees began to receive an increase in their salary. It should also be reminded that competent and hardworking employees already had quarterly increases to their salaries. But the management team also received a bonus in the amount of 2.7 percent of cash incentives.

Expected level increase wages for fund employees was frozen in 2015-2016. Salaries for Russian citizens stopped growing. One could observe the rise of the conference on the labor market. By reducing staff, employees did everything possible to reduce the amount of their costs.

If we proceed from such assignments, then we can see a tendency to decrease or detain salaries. Demand labor force also decreased by 4 times, the number of unemployed immediately increased. And when people are interviewed for jobs, there is a lot of competition.

What to expect in 2018?

The state has proposed to cut spending from its 2018 budget in the amount of 600 billion rubles. and the most important reason was the decision to impose sanctions, as well as a decrease in the level of oil prices in the world market. The freeze on public sector wages has not yet been included in the plans of the country's leadership. Only now the Ministry of Finance proposed not to index the salaries of the military, civil servants and the rest of certain categories of Russian citizens. And all because such plans can ease the budget for 2018. People in our time still continue to hope that by the middle of 2018 the situation will become stable and that an increase in salaries for employees of the pension fund will still take place.

Real numbers and payroll

Despite the fact that the country does not have enough budget for the indexation of pensions, the Pension Fund is ready to increase the salaries of its employees. The document provided for an increase in expenses for payments to its specialists back in 2017 - 83 billion rubles were allocated for the maintenance of personnel. at present, less has been allocated for such purposes, namely 78.7 billion rubles. and to allocate an additional 4.3 billion rubles to increase pensions. If we take into account the fact that the average pension in the country was slightly less than 12 thousand rubles, then to increase income FIU employees more than 358 thousand average pensions will be sent - or the annual maintenance of about 30 thousand pensioners.

In 2017, there was also no full indexation of pensions. Since February, they have been indexed by only 4 percent, while consumer prices rose 12.9 percent in 2016. But the salaries of employees of the pension fund will grow by at least 5.5 percent.

Also, in 2018, it was planned to reduce the PF staff, because the next year the function of the pension fund for administering insurance premiums will be transferred to the tax authorities. As the press center of the Pension Fund of Russia said, next year they expect staff reductions by about 11.8 thousand people. If we take into account that today the organization employs 121.7 thousand specialists, then their number will decrease by 10 percent.

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