For several years now, police officers have been afraid that the length of service required to receive a departmental pension will increase for them. Although the government has not officially introduced such bills, many within the Ministry of Internal Affairs are mentally prepared for the emergence of such a project at any moment. This also affects the staffing level of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - it is declining, partly because many employees prefer not to wait for such a reform, but leave after reaching 20 years of service. Let's figure out whether the length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs can increase to 25 years as early as 2020, what is the latest news about the situation within the system against the backdrop of such rumors.
Pension reform and police officers
There has been talk for a long time that the length of service for military personnel and equivalent security forces (including the Ministry of Internal Affairs) may increase. Moreover, it cannot be said that these conversations are completely unfounded. High government officials also announced the development of such plans.
In the summer of 2020, Russians were dumbfounded by pension reform. The authorities announced that the retirement age will begin to rise in 2019. Over ten years, the retirement age for civil pensioners will increase by five years - to 60 years for women and 65 years for men.
At the same time, when the first version of the reform was presented, journalists asked members of the government whether there were similar plans for the security forces. First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov responded to this question in June 2020 by saying that some plans were indeed being worked out.
Minister Siluanov, in a fit of frankness, said that the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Defense are working on changing the length of service for receiving a pension.
Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova also spoke indirectly about these plans at the same time, in the summer of 2020. She said that “for now” the pension reform project does not affect the security forces. But the key word is “yet.”
Since employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (as well as the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Russian National Guard) are by law equated to military personnel, their possible joint plans of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Defense directly affect them. If the length of service of the military increases, it will also increase for the police.
Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are leaving service without waiting for reform
Nothing followed the summer 2020 revelations from government officials. No projects for increasing the length of service for security forces have been publicly announced, and there is no mention of their possible inclusion in the Duma. But many employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs decided not to wait for possible reform. Moreover, there was no clear rejection of plans to increase seniority either.
In 2020, the staffing level of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs fell to its lowest level in recent years - 92.6%. The planned level is 95%.
The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not comment on this, but the Accounts Chamber in October 2020 named the main reason. Everyone who had reached 20 years of service left the police en masse. Having barely earned the required length of service for retirement, employees left the system. The Accounts Chamber is confident that this is a direct consequence of concerns about the revision of the conditions for obtaining a departmental pension.
The head of the Moscow interregional trade union of police and the Russian Guard, Mikhail Pashkin, is sure that this is not the only issue. The very conditions of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are such that employees who have very little left before 20 years of service endure only until that cherished day when this length of service is achieved. Constant pressure from management, extracurricular work, a practical ban on traveling abroad - it is very difficult to serve for a long time in such conditions. Police officers retire after length of service and take quiet civilian jobs.
As for the possible increase in length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Pavlov believes that such a reform would cause great damage. Employees will begin to quit en masse, and potential fresh personnel will think three times about whether it is worth going to serve under new conditions.
Will the length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs be increased to 25 years from 2020?
For now, it is impossible to answer with certainty either yes or no. If a law on increasing the length of service for security forces appears, it will be the same surprise as the law on pension reform in 2020. Officials in Russia do not really involve society in plans that directly affect the interests of this same society.
For the same reason, it is impossible to judge in advance about the form in which an increase in seniority in the army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs could take place. Seniority can be dramatically increased for everyone. Or you can postpone the reform so that it affects only recently hired employees. Experienced personnel could serve calmly and understand what awaits them in the future.
With the second version of the reform, it would even bring some benefit. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs would no longer be nervous due to a lack of understanding of what awaits them. Young personnel would have time to come to terms with an increase in length of service (especially if it was accompanied by improved conditions of service). And experienced employees would stop being nervous, knowing that the law clearly assigned them the old 20-year service.
In the meantime, completely different laws that are being adopted in the Duma add to the nervousness. Thus, in the summer of 2020, the maximum terms of service for officers and generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were increased. Generals can remain in service up to 65 years (was 60), colonels - up to 60 years (was 55), majors and lieutenant colonels - up to 55 years (was 50). All others can serve in the system only up to 50 years.
Although the authors of this bill emphasized that the changes had nothing to do with a possible increase in length of service, not everyone believed them. Many felt that police officers would be given longer service, and reform would begin with senior management.
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Interregional Trade Union of Employees and Workers of Internal Affairs Bodies of the Sverdlovsk Region, Mikhail Pavlov, says that rumors about increasing the length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to 25 years have not been officially refuted. At the same time, the expert believes that reforming the pension system in the police can be carried out in different ways. For example, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can be given a choice - to retire upon reaching their length of service or according to the age limit.
The increase in the retirement age, which began gradually in Russia in 2020, will not affect employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was stated by the head of the contractual legal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Avdeiko.
Let us remind you that now Russian police officers need at least 20 years of experience to retire. In addition, you can retire upon reaching the age limit for service (from 45 to 65 years depending on rank) or due to disability. “Here we take a firm position: such events were not planned and are not planned. We see an opportunity to increase the age limit for serving in the internal affairs bodies, please do not confuse it with length of service, which gives the right to receive a pension,” Avdeiko emphasized.
Ministry of Internal Affairs pensions in 2020 - latest news about increases
For many employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the future departmental pension is what keeps them in the service today. It's no secret that serving in the police, especially “on the ground,” often involves hellish conditions.
People stick around only because the Ministry of Internal Affairs can offer the highest salary in their city, and after 20 years of service they can retire.
The latest news about the increase in pensions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2020 suggests that indexation will again be higher than inflation, and current employees do not yet need to worry about increasing their length of service.
Will the length of service of police officers be increased?
Concerns about the increase in length of service in the police have been circulating for years.
Rumors within the Ministry of Internal Affairs have long been saying that in order to retire, police officers will soon need to serve not 20 years, but five years longer - 25. These rumors also come from the Ministry of Defense.
In many respects, police officers are equated by law to military personnel, so possible reforms of pensions or principles for calculating pay in the army will automatically affect the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
So far, such conversations have not reached anything concrete. Even with the retirement age raised by five years for civilian pensioners in 2020, there was no talk that something similar would await police officers.
The fears of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs intensified in the summer of 2020, when the law increased the age limit for police officers. But so far these changes do not look like preparation for increasing their length of service. Moreover, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs must be aware of what increasing length of service in the police can lead to.
Many employees will simply leave the Ministry of Internal Affairs system. They will not want to serve an extra five years while waiting for a pension. Who will take their places is also a big question. Vacancies will either not be filled, or lower-quality personnel will arrive, which will reduce the level of police work. And where vacancies cannot be filled, the workload on the remaining employees will increase.
Who will prefer to follow the example of their colleagues who quit.
Increasing the length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs may cause an extremely dangerous chain reaction within the department. It is hoped that there is an understanding of this within the leadership. Even if promotion is carried out, it must be done in such a way that it does not affect the core of existing personnel.
Increase in pensions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2020
In the next three years, funding for military and equivalent pensions (including the Ministry of Internal Affairs) will increase sharply. During 2020-2022, an additional 603 billion rubles will be spent on this.
In 2020, 122.4 billion will be spent on increasing pensions for security forces. In 2021 and 2022 – 240.4 billion each.
Although budget allocations will increase noticeably, the actual treasury expenses for pensions for the military, police and other security officials will not increase so much:
- from 745 to 769 billion in 2020,
- up to 797 billion in 2021 and 2022.
The increase in appropriations is due to the fact that in the previous version of the three-year budget, spending on military pensions was underestimated.
Let's move on to practical numbers. The latest news about the increase in pensions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2020 indicates an indexation of 5.8%
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This is less than the 6.3% by which pensions increased in October 2019. But the same principle of increase will be used.
In October 2020, salaries of current employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will have to increase by 3.8%. This is the inflation that is expected at the end of 2019. Formally, an increase of the same percentage preserves the purchasing power of a police officer's salary.
Since pensions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, like those of the military, are tied to current salaries in the police, in October 2020 they will automatically increase by the same 3.8%. But they will also receive an additional increase - due to an increase in the reduction coefficient. It is through this coefficient that pensions are tied to the salaries of existing employees.
In recent years, the reduction factor has been frozen, although it should increase annually. Since 2020, it has been unfrozen and for now it is planned, due to an increase in the coefficient, to increase the pensions of the military, police and other security forces by an additional 2% relative to the increase in salaries.
What will be the average pension of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2020?
It is officially stated that the average pension of the Ministry of Internal Affairs after indexation in October 2020 is 17 thousand rubles. It is clear that some former employees may have a much lower pension - similar to the situation with ordinary civil pensions.
In 2020, for example, the average old-age insurance pension for ordinary pensioners is 15.4 thousand rubles. But huge numbers of old people survive on 9-10 thousand rubles a month. Average and real pensions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs often correlate approximately in the same way.
In 2020, the average pension in the Ministry of Internal Affairs system after indexation by 5.8% will be about 18 thousand rubles.
For ordinary pensioners, the average payment at the same time will be 16.4 thousand, so the difference between the Ministry of Internal Affairs pension and a simple pension is not so great.
True, we should not forget that a former police officer retires from a departmental pension at a younger age. In addition, he has the opportunity to earn a second pension in civilian life if he manages to complete at least the established minimum civilian length of service.
Upon reaching the generally accepted retirement age, he will be able to receive two pensions, although the civil one will be slightly lower due to the peculiarities of the law.
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Reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2020, latest news
According to analysts, the implementation of a wide range of social and economic reforms will take place in 2020.
The explanatory note states that these changes are aimed at retaining valuable experienced personnel in the service, as well as in order to increase the amount of subsequent state support. According to the bill, the total number of years required to receive a service pension will be 25 years. This applies to all law enforcement agencies - military, police, drug control services and the Federal Penitentiary Service.
- An employee of the departments listed above must have at least 20 years of service if he was dismissed due to: illness; recognition of unfitness for service by a special commission; reaching the age limit; as a result of reduction.
The size of the long-service pension is increasing
The size of the long-service pension will soon increase. If now it is 50% of the salary upon reaching 20 years of service (Article 14 of Law No. 4468-1), then with the adoption of the law it will be 65% of the salary with a subsequent increase of 3% annually, but not more than 85% (in This part of the law does not change).
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Article 14 will also be supplemented with a clause on the assignment of benefits to employees dismissed due to illness, incompetence and layoffs after 20 or more years of service. They are entitled to a pension of 50% of their allowance, with a subsequent increase of 3% annually.
The second section of the bill concerns only the military and amends the chapter of Law No. 306-FZ “On the monetary allowance of military personnel...”, it talks about a salary increase that increases with length of service.
The third section is devoted to the entry into force of the provisions of this document and applies to all categories of employees. It states that when employees of departments are dismissed before January 1, 2020, the conditions for receiving a pension according to the previous version of the law are preserved - that is, 20 years of minimum service.
Types of pensions for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
According to Art. 5 of Law No. 4468-1, employees in the service of the state have the right to choose which pension they will receive - based on length of service or disability, if it occurred as a result of professional activity. In addition, department employees are entitled to a regular pension. According to paragraph 6 of Article 3 of the Law of December 15, 2001 N 166-FZ “On State Pension Provision in the Russian Federation”, they have the right to receive an insurance pension simultaneously with a specialized pension.
To do this, the following general conditions must be met:
- Age (60 for men, 55 for women);
- length of service outside law enforcement agencies (in civilian life) - at least 9 years in 2020 and 10 years in 2020;
- points awarded by the Pension Fund of Russia according to a certain system (minimum - 13.8 for 2020).
What pension is due
At the end of your service, you can count on a pension. If an employee decides to return to service in the internal affairs bodies, he temporarily loses the right to receive a pension. Payment of this measure of social support is carried out at the expense of the federal budget, financing is carried out centrally.
For length of service, pension compensation is established in the following amounts:
- employees who have served for 20 years or more - 50% of the salary;
- for each year over 20 years - 3% of salary;
- In total, pension benefits cannot be more than 85% of salary;
- with a total work experience of 25 years, of which at least 12 years relate to service in the ranks of internal affairs bodies - 50% of the salary;
- for each year over 25 years - 1% of salary;
- If the employee re-enters the service, upon subsequent dismissal his pension is recalculated taking into account the additional years of service.
It is also worth noting that the law provides for a minimum pension for long service. Currently, this figure is set at RUB 3,626. 71 kop.
Supplements to the long-service pension may be assigned if the pensioner:
- is a disabled person of the first group - 100% of the calculated pension amount;
- reached the age of 80 – 100% pension;
- does not work and has disabled family members dependent on him (1 dependent - 32% of the calculated pension amount, 2 - 64%, 3 or more - 100%). This supplement is calculated if the specified dependents do not receive a social or insurance pension;
- participant in the Great Patriotic War - 32% of the calculated pension;
- WWII participant who has reached the age of 80 – 64% of the pension.
The law provides for an increase in the amount of pensions for some categories of pensioners. This happens if the pensioner is:
- Hero of the Soviet Union, Russia - 100% of the calculated pension amount;
- holder of the Order of Glory of three degrees - 100% of the pension;
- Hero of socialist labor, Hero of Labor - 50%;
- Champion of the Olympic, Paralympic, Deaflympic Games - 50%;
- awarded the Order of Labor Glory of three degrees, the Order “For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR” of three degrees - 15%;
- former minor prisoner of a fascist concentration camp – 32%;
- an unreasonably repressed person – 16%;
- a person awarded the badge “Resident of besieged Leningrad” - 32%;
- disabled since childhood due to injury during the Great Patriotic War - 32%.
An order to increase seniority and what it means
The concept of length of service is understood as a certain period of work of a person in a government structure, after which he has the right to go on vacation with the provision of a lifetime pension.
Legislative provisions relating to service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs
The procedure for civil service in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is regulated by the federal law of 2011. Accrual of length of service, according to Article 38 of the Federal Law, is necessary for:
- calculating the monthly allowance;
- assigning pensions to civil servants;
- lump sum benefit after dismissal;
- provision of additional vacation days;
- incentives;
- nomination for awards;
- provision of other social benefits, payments and guarantees.
Accordingly, all calculations are based on the established mandatory number of years of work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The work activities of employees of this government structure are very extensive and have varying levels of severity and responsibility. Therefore, there is the concept of preferential inclusion of certain years in the total length of service.
According to the same Article 38 of the law, the following periods can be taken into account in the work experience in the form of preferential enrollment:
- A person’s services in certain positions that are considered harmful according to the legislation of the Russian Federation.
- Services under special conditions provided for by Russian legislation.
- Services in the territories of the Far North and equivalent territories.
When taking into account the total non-preferential length of service, according to the new project, the following types of activities of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are taken into account:
- Work in the structural divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs itself.
- Periods for filling government positions.
- Filling positions in customs authorities.
- Work in the prosecutor's office.
- Working as a judge.
- The duration of training in vocational education at a higher or secondary specialized educational institution is no more than 5 years.
- Probationary period for employment in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
- Filling executive positions.
- All business trips.
- Periods of suspension of activities of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
- Military service.
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Read about indexation of military pensions here.
Based on the listed periods of work of the employee, the length of service of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs must be at least 20 years for retirement.
But if an employee has an age limit and he no longer has the right to hold this position due to his age, then it must meet the following requirements:
- the total work experience must be at least 25 years, half of which must have served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
- when serving in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for all 12.5 years, the employee had to be certified accordingly, he had to be awarded a special or military rank;
- The citizen must be at least 45 years old.
Only if all 3 conditions are met can a long-service pension be assigned to a citizen who has less length of service.
If one or more conditions are not met, then the citizen has the right to apply for an old-age pension if he meets the necessary conditions. If a citizen does not meet the requirements for both types of pensions, he will be assigned a social old-age pension.
Latest changes in the Federal Law of the Russian Federation on increasing the length of service of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
The federal bill regulating the procedure for service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs was amended in April of this year. These changes have already come into force in July and are still in effect.
The first changes began back in 2011, when the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began. Then the police were renamed the police, and serious staff changes and personnel changes took place.
Currently, changes have been made in 2 main areas:
- increasing seniority;
- raise employee wages.
Read about long service pension here.
It is planned to increase the length of service required for retirement in 2 stages. Currently, this experience must be at least 20 years.
Until the beginning of 2020, all employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can retire to a well-deserved pension, having served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 20 years. If they continue their service, they are awarded bonuses in the amount of one-fourth of their future pension.
The second stage will begin at the beginning of 2020, when the mandatory length of service will increase by 5 years and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be able to retire only after 25 years of service.
Pension benefits are currently calculated as the sum of salaries by position, rank and bonus, multiplied by a reduction factor. It currently stands at 69.45%. From the beginning of 2020 it will be 72.23%.
The salaries of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs should increase every year, despite the increase in the minimum required length of service. The following increases are planned over the coming year:
- the first increase in February 2020 by 7-8 percent relative to the total income of employees;
- the increase will occur due to an increase in salaries and allowances.
Who is entitled by law to additional allowances and preferential payments according to the project on increasing length of service?
Currently, the amount of the bonus depends on the age, status and marital status of the employee. Additional allowances are given to those who have:
- 1 dependent 32%;
- 2 dependents – 64%;
- 3 – 100%.
In addition, a 100% premium is given to elderly disabled people who have lived to 80 years of age and disabled people of group 1.
One-time payments to pensioners
Since the beginning of this year, additional one-time payments in the amount of 5,000 rubles have been introduced for pensioners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This payment is due to absolutely all employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it is of an undeclared nature. It must be accrued as a one-time payment to all relevant persons.
The annual payments of “13 salaries” will also remain.
Pensioners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the military will have their pensions indexed in 2020 – In civilian life
What do you think is the largest structure ever created in Russia in terms of the number of people involved? Undoubtedly, these are military and paramilitary bodies. On the Internet they are called security forces.
These include the Armed Forces, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, firefighters, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The latter occupy a special place in this list. They protect and maintain order on the territory of our country day and night. Their number exceeds 800 thousand employees.
But how does the state treat these employees? Do fellow police officers spend their old age with the same dignity as they devote themselves completely and completely to service? The security forces themselves are dissatisfied: pension provision does not pamper them. But maybe next year something will change? How much will Ministry of Internal Affairs pensions be indexed in 2020? Will the reduction factor for former police officers be abolished: answers to these and other questions in this review.
Police pensions - latest news
The pension structure for police officers differs from the usual civilian pension. The fact is that the Ministry of Internal Affairs belongs to the law enforcement agencies (army, Ministry of Emergency Situations, etc.), and they are on completely different benefits.
If for civilians the pension amount is calculated based on the points accumulated over the entire period, then for military retirees, including police, the long-service benefit is assigned as a percentage of the current salary (or, more correctly, allowance).
The payment of police pensions is characterized by the law of the Russian Federation under number 4468-I. For all persons who fall under the scope of this decree (listed in Article No. 1), a strict procedure for the calculation, indexation and payment of old-age benefits is defined.
In the future 2020, no fundamental changes in pension calculation rates are expected, with the exception of a moratorium on indexation of the reduction coefficient. The period of its validity (moratorium) just ends after the 12th strike of the chimes on December 31, 2020. This means that the pension of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will again receive an additional source of indexation from January 1, 2020.
But how much will they add? Reading the official paper, namely Article 43, which both specifies the indexation rate of 2% and determines the possibility of increasing this coefficient in accordance with the inflation rate in the country, it becomes not clear what to expect for the police.
But let's try to figure it out. What can former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs expect in 2020, based on the experience of past years?
Police pension: is it possible to live on?
In 2010, Russian security forces, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, received a significant increase in their allowances. From that moment on, young people began to strive to serve in the army under a contract. Also, in local police departments in the regions, the number of young officers wishing to build a career in this particular path has increased.
This is no coincidence, because employees could fully receive:
- good pay;
- free visits and treatment in departmental hospitals and hospitals;
- maintenance (free food in canteens, uniforms and other material benefits);
- departmental housing (apartments and dormitories) for temporary use.
Also, security forces could count on receiving ownership of an apartment, subject to submitting an application and serving a certain number of years.
Let’s take a closer look at the wages and pensions of retirees. After allowances increased noticeably in 2010, paying pensions became more difficult. After all, the length of service benefit directly depends on the current level of remuneration.
To understand what we’re talking about, let’s look at how pensions were calculated for police officers who retired.
How is the pension calculated?
For employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in order to retire, one of two conditions must be met.
- Serve at least 20 years. In this case, the retiree is entitled to a benefit equal to 50% of the additional income. If a person remains in service after 20 years of service, his future pension is indexed by 3% for each year.
- With a total experience of 25 years, exactly half of which (12.5 years) is service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It does not matter where the person worked for the rest of the term. The amount of the pension under this retirement scheme is the same as in the first case. But the annual increase during continued service is already less - for each year you can get +1% to the payment.
It is worth noting that the maximum amount that a retired police officer can earn is 85% of the DDV. This corresponds to a length of service equal to 32 years. This procedure applies only to the first case (that is, when a person served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs immediately after graduating from the relevant educational institution). For the second case, with an increase in payments by 1%, it is impossible to reach the 85% level.
DDV is a monetary allowance that is taken into account when calculating the amount of the pension. For each retiree, its size is different and is equal to the allowance that the police received at their last duty station. This includes all bonuses for rank, merit and other achievements.
In addition, retirees are entitled to bonuses for the presence of disabilities received during the performance of their official duties, as well as in other life situations. The full list of allowances is specified in Law No. 4468-I.
Reducing factor - saving the budget
In order to prevent impoverishment of the budget, after increasing allowances for security forces in 2010, parliamentarians introduced an adjustment (lowering) coefficient in 2012. Its value at that time was 54%.
Now the pensions of former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to be additionally multiplied by 0.54. In fact, this innovation contributed to a reduction in benefits by almost 4 times (taking into account the first reduction of 50-85%).
But not everything is so bad, officials assured from high stands. After all, this is only a temporary state of affairs. A mechanism is provided to ensure that this new reduction factor is increased to 100%. To this end, Article 43 4468-I of the law stated the following (among other things):
... ensure an annual increase in the reduction factor by 2% until the indicator reaches 100% of the value. If possible, annual increases may be made by more than 2%, in accordance with the state budget law.
This state of affairs was perceived with a large degree of negativity by all retired security forces, including the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is no accident. After all, if you make calculations, then the reduction coefficient will be able to reach 100% (that is, a complete abolition of the reduction in old-age benefits) only by 2044 (subject to a 2% increase).
But the government nevertheless met halfway and ensured an annual increase in the reduction coefficient even higher than the inflation rate officially established by the federal budget.
Will there be a premium in 2020?
The annual indexation of pensions for military personnel, firefighters, police officers and other retired security officials occurs by the inflation rate, which is indicated in the budget legitimized by a federal decree.
According to the law, the increase in payments will be made from October 1. That is, in 2020 pensions will also be increased on October 1. It is not clear why, but indexation is carried out almost at the end of the year (and inflation begins already on January 1).
The inflation index has been set for 2020. It is 3.8%. It is by this amount that allowances and, accordingly, pension payments will increase. But security forces should also tune in to an additional increase in money by increasing the reduction factor. It has never been indexed since 2017. It remained at the same level (72.27%).
The reduction factor was usually indexed from the beginning of the year (January 1). But in 2020, in accordance with Federal Law No. 460, it was decided to increase by 2% from October 1, 2020.
This is an indicator of the difficult situation of the entire structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The fact is that a large number of Russians serving in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are on state support.
And an increase in pensions, even a minimal one, has a noticeable impact on the state budget.
Therefore, as part of the future so-called reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which will begin in 2020 and continue until the end of 2024, a number of measures have been developed that will help to achieve a noticeable reduction in the burden on the budget.
As for the reduction coefficient, in 2020 it should be increased by 2%, as specified in Article 4468-I of the law. After indexation, the calculation of pensions for police retirees will change. This means that the total growth rate in 2020 will be 3.8+2=5.8%.
Reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs 2020: what to expect?
The structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has many ramifications. There are many positions here that, in fact, are not involved in law enforcement in any way.
First, we will indicate which units are included in the Ministry of Internal Affairs system.
- Police.
- State traffic inspectorate.
- Investigation Department.
- Migration Service.
- State drug control.
In addition to these departments, the structure includes:
- educational institutions (police schools);
- medical institutions (hospitals, specialized clinics);
- resort establishments.
These structures are supported by the state. This means that pension benefits for employees of these agencies are accrued in the same way as for police officers. This state of affairs has a significant impact on the budget.
In order to increase allowances for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, pensions for retirees, and at the same time reduce the burden on the budget, parliamentarians decided to carry out a reform. And although no official government decree has yet been issued in this regard, there are several opinions of high-ranking officials that have leaked onto the Internet.
What to expect from the reform: latest news
At one of the meetings of parliamentarians, the current Minister of Finance A. Siluanov said literally the following:
We are working (together with the Ministry of Defense) to gradually increase the minimum length of service, upon reaching which the right to receive a pension benefit arises.
Now security forces can retire after serving for 20 years. It is proposed to increase this value to 25. And although these are only words, there are prerequisites for the implementation of what the government has planned. In August 2020, the country's President Vladimir Putin signed a decree. The document allows certain ranks to remain in service for 5 years longer. Namely:
- majors and lieutenant colonels - up to 55 years old;
- colonels - until they reach 60;
- generals - 65.
For now this is voluntary. If a person still wants to serve for the good of the Motherland, he can stay. And if not, then no one will force you. But this “voluntary formulation” may turn into an obligation with another unimpressive amendment.
It is also planned to transfer all departmental hospitals to the Ministry of Health. This can and will have a positive effect on reducing budget funds. But now all “Ministry of Internal Affairs officers” will have to go to regular clinics, where the conditions are not so great. Long live private clinics. Well, is it profitable? And to whom?
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And the author would like to end this article with a happy happy ending. Yes, somehow it doesn’t work out. Quite by accident, the author came across bill number 802513-7.
The document contains only 2 pages, which literally say the following:
The second part of Article 4468-I of the law is suspended until January 1, 2021. From January 1, 2020, take the value of the reduction factor equal to 73.68%.
If we omit all government officialdom, this wording means that in the future 2020, the increase in the reduction coefficient by the established 2% has been canceled.
Source: https://avin-kursk.ru/pensiya/pensioneram-mvd-i-voennym-proindeksiruyut-pensii-2020-god.html
How is seniority calculated for military personnel to retire?
This category of civil servants includes citizens who perform their official activities in the military units of our country. Military experience is a special type of experience awarded to employees of the FSB, army and other law enforcement agencies.
What is required for pension provision - calculation
To receive pension benefits, these citizens must meet the following requirements:
- length of service of 20 years;
- or work experience of 25 years and half service in the military forces.
Military personnel who served not only in the Russian Federation, but also in the USSR have the right to receive such a pension.
Military pensions include employees of the following structures:
- criminal services;
- Ministry of Emergency Situations;
- FSB;
- foreign intelligence;
- fire service;
- construction and engineering troops;
- civil defense troops.
A serviceman becomes a pensioner only when he receives an official order to transfer to the reserve.
In addition to the listed military service, length of service includes the following periods:
- service in the security forces of the CIS countries;
- time of illegal detention;
- breaks in service;
- service in the FSB and other similar departments of Russia and the USSR;
In some cases, preferential crediting of work experience in an increased amount is provided. These situations are covered by law:
- difficult working conditions, such as parachute jumping, flying service;
- service associated with constant presence near nuclear weapons;
- work related to the elimination of the consequences of nuclear accidents;
- service in the territories of the Far North and in areas equivalent to them;
- time of participation in hostilities.
The calculation of length of service for retirement is carried out by the competent authorities of the structure where the employee worked before being transferred to the reserve. For correct accrual, the employee must provide all evidence of his official activities.
Pension benefits are calculated similarly to employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Salaries by position and rank are summed up and multiplied by the bonus for length of service. If the length of service was mixed and the length of service is less than 20 years, then the allowances are taken from the amount of the social pension.
The main point is that the pension cannot exceed 85% of the average monthly income during service.
Supplements to the basic pension are subject to:
- 1 disability group 100%;
- for reaching 80 years of age 100%;
- WWII participants 32%;
- for dependents: three – 100%, two – 64%, one – 32%.
To receive these bonuses, there is a mandatory condition that pensioners should not be employed as civilians. Also, if the second parent is a pensioner, then the family loses allowances for dependents.
This is important to know: Sample order to cancel a previous (previously issued) order
Every year, the reduction factor established when assigning a pension should increase by an average of 2% until it reaches 100%. This year it was 69.45%, and next year it will be 72.23%.
Read about work experience for retirement in this article.
Thus, the calculation of pensions for military personnel does not differ from those for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Procedure for retirement of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
If an employee has decided to resign, then the first thing he must do is submit a letter of resignation. Without this document it is impossible to leave your workplace in the ministry. It will take some time to review the submitted report, so you should submit it taking into account that you will not leave your workplace immediately.
Next, after submitting the report, you need to submit an application to the pension fund. It is he who deals with the procedure for considering the issuance of payments and providing a preferential pension, regardless of the position held.
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The application will also be considered here for a certain period of time.
After completing all the procedures, you will receive a written response indicating whether your resignation was refused or whether you are allowed to resign.
Drawing up a report on retirement
In order for a ministry employee to resign, he must submit a letter of resignation. This report is drawn up and submitted on a specially prepared form, which is subsequently given to management.
The form must indicate a certain number of data not only about you, but also about your family, namely:
- Personal data – last name, first name, patronymic, year of birth, residential address.
- Position held.
- General information about the family and its members.
In addition, you need to indicate the reason for dismissal, as well as what type of preferential pension you will be assigned in the future.
Benefits and payments, pension supplement according to the new bill
To attract personnel to the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the state provides them not only with prestigious wages and a guaranteed pension, but also with additional benefits and privileges. The main ones include:
- obtaining housing ownership or social rent;
- medical and sanatorium treatment;
- subsidy for housing and communal services;
- support for families in the event of the death or disappearance of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Under certain conditions, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and their families may be provided with ownership of an apartment or other residential premises purchased at the expense of budgetary funds of the structure where the employee serves. This right can be exercised by:
- family members of an employee who died while on duty, or who died from an illness or injury received during service;
- employees who received group 1 or 2 disability as a result of performing official duties.
In this case, widows after remarriage lose the right to this property.
If the family of an employee who serves in the Ministry of Internal Affairs is recognized as in need of housing, they can receive real estate for social rent with the subsequent transfer of this apartment to municipal ownership.
Also, an employee with his family or alone has the right to rent housing in the locality at his place of service, without using the right to social housing. Or using this right if he proves that during his service he cannot get to social housing every day.
For widows, these rules also apply only until remarriage.
In the event of the death of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, his family receives the right to compensate the full cost of the following utilities:
- payment for repairs to their individual home;
- payment for repairs of an apartment building;
- payment for fuel and its transportation if the family lives in a house without central heating;
- installation and use of landline telephone and radio;
- all utilities.
Widows are deprived of this right upon remarriage.
Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have the right to receive free medications, prostheses and other necessary medical products, as well as free medical care in specialized medical organizations. His family and dependents have the right to free treatment and free medications when treated on an outpatient basis.
After an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has completed 20 years of service, he and his family have the right to receive free vouchers to a sanatorium at least once a year. If an employee did not have time to earn this length of service due to a disability that occurred during the performance of his official obligations, the cost of the trip to him and his family will cost 25% of the total cost.
In the event of the death of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs while on duty or due to injury or illness caused during service, his family has the right to:
- Compensation for expenses for moving to another place of residence with transportation of up to 20 tons of property.
- Monthly allowance for children.
- Annual allowance for summer camp for children.
Cash compensation once a year to the burial place of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to a sanatorium-resort organization. This compensation applies to all types of transport, except taxis.
In addition to benefits, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are also entitled to payments:
- financial assistance once a year;
- business trips;
- in case of forced professional temporary relocation, allowances, daily allowances and compensation for using your own transport are paid;
- the cost of travel by all paid modes of transport except taxis (to a medical resort center, to a medical institution);
- for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the territories of the Far North, travel is paid once a year to any place on vacation in Russia and 1 more family member;
- payments in the first year after dismissal during the first year upon dismissal in special cases;
- payments for unused vacation days;
- payment for moving a family with property weighing up to 20 tons.
In addition, a one-time benefit is provided for dismissed employees. It amounts to 7 salaries for those with work experience of more than 20 years and 2 salaries for other persons.
conclusions
The state pays good additional payments for the fact that employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs continue their work experience, despite the possibility of retiring. In addition, pension payments for this category of citizens are among the highest compared to other government employees.
But recently, state policy has been aimed at increasing the retirement time of people. And first of all, this reform affected employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 2020, the length of service for retirement will be increased to 25 years.
But along with this innovation, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs continue to have high wages, which the state also promises to increase annually. And on the plus side, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and their families have a wide list of benefits and privileges that are not available to every citizen of Russia.
What is length of service
Long service should be understood as a special right granted to employees of law enforcement agencies, according to which, in the presence of special factors, they have the right to retire before reaching the age established by the state.
Let us remind you that from 2020 this age is set at 60 years for women and 65 years for men.
The right to early retirement in the Ministry of Internal Affairs based on length of service is provided because the duties performed by these employees are often associated with risks to their health. Therefore, each law enforcement officer can exercise his right to early retirement and receive appropriate accruals.
The basic rule is this:
- 20 years of experience in law enforcement agencies is required; it is necessary to submit a corresponding application.
This is important to know: Order 535 of August 22, 2005 of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia
However, there are exceptions to every rule. Thus, you can retire based on length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia if the following factors are present:
- If the total length of service is 25 years, half of which was formed as a result of working in one of the law enforcement agencies;
- If, based on the results of certification, the corresponding military rank was received;
- If the citizen has reached the age of 45 years.
At its core, this opportunity was one of the prospects for this complex work. However, in the near future, in connection with the decision to increase the length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it may lose its relevance.
The issue of increasing the retirement age was considered and further in the table we give examples:
| date | Age for a man to retire | A woman's retirement age |
| 2018 | 61 | 56 |
| 2019 | 61,5 | 56,5 |
| 2020 | 62 | 57 |
| 2021 | 62,5 | 57,5 |
| 2022 | 63 | 58 |
| 2023 | 63,5 | 58,5 |
| 2024 | 64 | 59 |
| 2025 | 64,5 | 59,5 |
| 2026 | 65 | 60 |
| 2027 | 65 | 60,5 |
| 2028 | 65 | 61 |
In 2020, there was a significant increase in salaries for security forces, and according to estimates, the amount of funds allocated for pensions doubled compared to 2012. In connection with these circumstances, there is a need to increase the increase in length of service to 25 years in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Who is entitled to a pension?
Law of the Russian Federation No. 4468-1 of February 12, 1993 provides for pension contributions to internal affairs bodies employees and members of their families. Pensions are received by employees who have accumulated a total length of service of 20 years (this figure serves as an indicator of length of service in service in the authorities), and by employees who have been injured due to severe injuries (hereinafter referred to as disabled people). In the event of the death of an employee, his family is entitled to fixed payments stipulated by the Law.
When an employee turns 45 years old, and during this time he develops a total of 25 years of work experience, maybe more (the length of service must include 12 years + six months of service in the authorities), he is also paid a certain amount.
An employee who turns 60 years old (for men) and 55 years old (for women) begins to receive a pension. In this case, the following points are taken into account: at least 11.4, which increase annually by 2.4 points to a 30-point indicator.
ATTENTION! It is necessary to take into account that additional payments can be received by disabled people from childhood and people who have turned 80 years old, as well as participants of the Second World War, heroes of the USSR, the Russian Federation, awarded the Order of Glory.
If an employee receives various degrees of injury, illness or injury during the performance of official duties, as well as if he becomes disabled after dismissal (after no more than 3 months), he is also awarded a pension.
In the event of the death of an employee, the pension is due to his family, regardless of the length of service of the deceased employee. After the death of a husband, a police officer, his wife receives payments when she reaches 50 years of age, and when raising children under 8 years of age, the widow’s age is not taken into account.
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Will the length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs be increased to 25 years in 2019?
It is impossible to unequivocally answer the question: will the length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs be increased to 25 in 2020, since to date no clarifications, much less laws, have been adopted in this area.
However, we should not forget that raising the age of civilians was discussed long before the official adoption of the relevant decision and changes in legislation. And many until recently did not believe that this would happen. But the decision was still made.
Also with the security forces, in connection with the increase in the general retirement age, the issue of increasing the length of service in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has again become urgent. Therefore, depressive tendencies began to emerge among law enforcement officers, which were mainly justified by the reluctance to work an extra 5 years:
- Workers who already had the right to preferential retirement urgently began to submit relevant reports;
- Workers who do not occupy the highest ranks in law enforcement agencies and receive low wages simply began to leave their ranks. The prospect of retiring in 20 years motivated many, but not everyone wants to serve for an additional 5 years, since upon reaching the specified age, finding employment in other areas will be problematic than at the age of 5 years younger.
The widest publicity for these indicators could be obtained from a Buryat newspaper, which collected data from its region. However, similar trends exist everywhere, but not everyone talks about them so openly.
One factor remains clear - the adoption of such a decision will entail a lot of discontent on the part of the military and employees, so the introduction of the reform should occur especially softly and smoothly, even over several years.
What do they write about the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the press?
The head of the metropolitan police proposes to eliminate operational investigative units both within the central apparatus of the Criminal Investigation Department and in the criminal investigation departments in district departments. They plan to use the freed-up staff to strengthen units in regional police departments. The document, which Izvestia reviewed, states that the Ministry of Internal Affairs appreciated the proposal, but partially supported it. Experts are confident that personnel optimization will contribute to the prevention of crimes and increase their detection, and in the end only high-level specialists will remain in the central office.
A serious reform of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department will primarily affect the operational investigative units. It is proposed to eliminate them both as part of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Main Directorate of the Metropolitan Police, and in the criminal investigation departments of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the administrative districts of Moscow. The letter signed by Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Arkady Gostev states that this proposal is supported.
The idea, after the abolition of the operational investigative units in the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, to strengthen the district police departments with the vacated headquarters was also approved by the senior management. This step will make it possible to strengthen with operatives those units that, as the Ministry of Internal Affairs themselves put it, work “on the ground.”
As follows from the document, the ministry considers the reform correct and proposes to extend it not only to the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, but also to the Drug Control Department and the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption. Both of these structures have their own operational-search units both in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow and in the district police departments. “The adoption of a similar decision on carrying out measures to optimize the organizational structure of these divisions” is called expedient in the letter.
But the ministry was skeptical about the proposal to establish colonel ranks for heads of departments and deputy heads of departments of the Criminal Investigation Department of the capital’s police headquarters. “Its implementation will introduce an imbalance in the existing scale of special ranks for positions of commanding staff,” the deputy minister said in his review.
Currently, the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department has six operational investigative units, each of which has a chief and two deputies - a total of at least 18 chiefs in “colonel” positions. It is worth noting that the criminal investigation departments of the district police departments have their own investigative units with a colonel as their chief, that is, about 70 more managers for the entire capital. What will happen to those who now manage the operational-search units is not specified in the document.
Izvestia asked Anatoly Vyborny, a member of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, to evaluate the reorganization of the capital’s criminal investigation department. According to him, personnel changes will have a positive impact on the law enforcement system.
— Now there are problems with the quality of law enforcement practice, and above all “on the ground.” Therefore, it is necessary to increase the detection of crimes and the work of the institution of inevitability of punishment. And for this it is necessary to carry out a fairly effective personnel policy locally, with a sufficient number of workers,” he said.
The deputy emphasized that in Soviet times the main task of law enforcement agencies was to prevent the commission of offenses.
— When it comes to preparing an offense, both district police officers and detectives should be aware of this and take timely measures to prevent it. Crime prevention is beneficial to both the state and potential victims,” explained Anatoly Vyborny.
As for the colonels, the deputy noted that after the reorganization, only specialists with a capital “S” will remain in the law enforcement system.
“I’m sure the management will definitely make sure that they remain in their place in the system.” The main thing is that there should not be that extra layer that does not know what to do, but comes up with different things that create problems for both colleagues and citizens. Recent events with the journalist showed that there is such a layer and it needs to be removed,” said Anatoly Vyborny.
According to the chairman of the Moscow Police Union, Mikhail Pashkin, the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department has long been in need of reorganization.
— Recently, MUR employees have performed some kind of supervisory function over territorial divisions, while there is a severe shortage of personnel there. For example, in the operational investigative unit of the TiNAO Internal Affairs Directorate, out of 66 employees, only 30 were recruited, but 15 of them actually work, Mikhail Pashkin told Izvestia.
He noted that the colonels left without work would most likely prefer to retire than to start working “on the ground.” The freed up finances can also be spent on strengthening territorial units.
Also, as part of the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, starting from 2020, operatives can be relieved of the work of initiating criminal cases, and the right to make procedural decisions on crimes can be transferred to investigators. The first deputy head of the Main Directorate for Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Police Major General Alexander Frolov, sent this recommendation to the heads of all regional departments of the Criminal Investigation Department and the State Administration (U) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (the document is available to Izvestia). He explains the relevance of his initiative by the fact that 85% of operatives spend up to 70% of their working time every day on pre-investigation checks, which interferes with their main job - solving crimes. In addition, frequent violations when refusing to initiate cases reduce public trust in the police. This conclusion was made based on the results of an internal departmental study. Its results have already been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Police General Vladimir Kolokoltsev.
Now employees of the Criminal Investigation Department (CR) and the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (EDiPK) have to study reports of crimes, conduct pre-investigation checks and make decisions about initiating criminal proceedings. It follows from the document that this negatively affects the performance of operatives’ basic duties - they do not have enough time to prevent and solve crimes, and work with sources of information. In addition, this practice violates the principle of legality when making procedural decisions and reduces citizens' trust in the work of the police.
According to the data cited by Major General Alexander Frolov in his letter, in almost half of the territorial departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, intelligence officers are increasingly refusing to initiate criminal proceedings. From 2014 to 2020, they canceled more than 1.2 million decisions, and opened only 216 thousand criminal cases, which were mainly suspended due to lack of evidence.
“The current negative practice contradicts the rule for regulating criminal procedural relations enshrined in Art. 41 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, which prohibits the conduct of an inquiry to persons who carried out operational investigative measures to solve crimes,” said Alexander Frolov.
He emphasized that the Prosecutor General’s Office also agrees with this (resolution of May 25, 2020 No. 69-21-2016). They also believe that for police officers “procedural activity is not the main job function.”
The fact that it is necessary to remove procedural functions from operatives was also shown by a survey conducted by the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia together with the Federal State Institution "VNII of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia", the results of which were presented by Alexander Frolov. More than 1.2 thousand SD employees in the Chuvash Republic, Krasnodar, Primorsky and Kamchatka territories, as well as in the Amur, Astrakhan, Ryazan, Smolensk, Omsk and Yaroslavl regions took part in the study.
Almost 85% of operatives daily spend up to 70% of their working time on pre-investigation checks, which prevents them from solving crimes, carrying out operational and preventive monitoring of those with previous convictions, and identifying persons involving minors in criminal activity.
And this despite the fact that every year more than 1.5 million criminal cases for crimes of past years are removed from the register after the statute of limitations has expired, 97% without identifying the criminal. Only every third person under administrative supervision falls under the surveillance of operatives. And minors are brought to criminal responsibility 26 times more often than the adults who pushed them to commit crimes.
In addition, according to the survey, 41% of SD employees do not have the necessary qualifications to make procedural decisions, so 80% of them have already been punished for errors. Since 2014, the number of operatives brought to disciplinary liability for an unfounded decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case has increased by 15% (more than 14 thousand people). 73% of employees believe that the current practice of systemic violations when making decisions significantly reduces the level of public trust in the work of the police.
New rules for security forces
Pension payments for employees of law enforcement agencies today are among the highest, so the lion's share of funds from the budget to provide them is directed precisely there.
However, the government plans to reduce such expenses, and the main tool that can be used will be to increase the length of service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The main reasons can be formulated as follows:
- Reduce budget expenses, the lion's share of which goes to the payment of pensions. This desire is due to the need to update the fleet of equipment, modernize the system, etc.;
- Increase the amount of monetary allowances and the payment of bonuses;
- Reduce the total number of security forces.
Another reason that has received publicity is the increase in average life expectancy. The government now considers the retirement figures for security forces to be underestimated and inconsistent with global trends. However, if we consider them from the side of office employees. But in relation to an operational employee who works seven days a week and with irregular working hours, retirement upon reaching 50 years of age will be equated to nonsense.
As already mentioned, from some sources, a bill on changes in this area has already been prepared and many believe this issue has been resolved. It is currently being actively discussed, but there is no effective date.
In the near future you can expect:
- Increasing the minimum retirement age from 45 to 50 years;
- Increasing the total length of service to 25 years in the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
- Cancellation of the right to early retirement due to a reduction in the number of employees.
