RANEPA expert announced an increase in all types of pensions in 2027

Expert at the Presidential Academy (RANEPA) Tatyana Podolskaya said that next year all types of pensions will be increased. She spoke about this in a conversation with RIA Novosti.

Insurance payments

Podolskaya emphasized that all types of pensions will increase, including insurance, social and military. According to her, so far the increase indicators are preliminary. The expert recalled that insurance pensions are now indexed twice a year in accordance with the decision made in 2026.

From April 1, insurance pensions will be additionally increased by 3.3 percent. The mechanism will be based on the growth rate of average wages and Social Fund income. The change in insurance pensions in February and April will affect both working and non-working citizens. At the same time, payments to working pensioners will be recalculated additionally in August. The size of the increase will depend on the amount of individual pension coefficients accumulated for 2026.

Also in August, the size of funded pensions will be determined: they will be changed using income from investing pension savings.

Social and military pensions

Podolskaya clarified that social pensions will tentatively increase by 6.8 percent from April 1. The Ministry of Labor has not yet established the exact coefficient, since it is related to the growth rate of the pensioner’s cost of living. Such payments are intended for Russians who do not have enough length of service and pension coefficients to apply for an insurance pension. Social pensions are assigned to disabled people and people who have lost their breadwinner and who have no insurance coverage at all.

Earlier, Alexei Govyrin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Small and Medium Enterprises, said that the final amount of indexation of payments to pensioners will depend on a number of factors. Among them are inflation for 2026, the dynamics of increases in salaries and Social Fund income per pensioner.

Automatic assignment

From 2027, old-age insurance payments will be assigned automatically, warned Ekaterina Medyakova, an expert at the Federal Methodological Center for Improving the Financial Literacy of the Population of the Presidential Academy. From January 1, older Russians will not need to submit applications and additional documents to qualify for these subsidies from the state.

In turn, Govyrin recalled that in 2026, some Russians will receive an additional payment to their pension for dependents and rural experience.

Average benefit amount

In 12 regions of Russia, the average pension amount in August 2026 exceeded 30 thousand rubles. The highest average pension was recorded in Chukotka - 42.2 thousand rubles. Next come the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (38.9 thousand rubles), the Magadan Region (37.8 thousand), the Kamchatka Territory (37.5 thousand) and the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (37.2 thousand rubles).