Other periods included in the length of service. What is usually included in the insurance period. A work book is a document that can confirm the duration of an employee’s work

In the process of calculating the insurance period, there are a huge number of nuances that are taken into account when compiling a complete picture. At the same time, there is a certain list of situations in which payments are regulated separately.

Part-time study or full-time study does not provide for the possibility of including this period of time in the general insurance period. The only exception in this case can only be considered voluntary participation in various state pension insurance programs for this period of time.

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Paid leave must be taken into account when calculating the insurance period, because during this period of time the corresponding insurance premium is paid. In accordance with the laws, any period of time during which an insurance payment is made must be included in the insurance period.

The leave that young parents take to care for a child is paid in the same way, since during this period of time they are paid a corresponding benefit from the social insurance fund, from which insurance contributions are paid. The total duration of this time cannot be longer than 36 months, but on average it is the period of time until the child reaches the age of 1.5 years.

In accordance with the order of the Ministry of Health and Social Policy, since 2010, the calculation of payments for sick leave during the general insurance period includes the time you spent in the army and military service, but only time periods after 01/01/2007 are taken into account. Until this point, this activity will not be taken into account.

Difference from labor

Work experience is the duration of a person’s work, which is a prerequisite for the appointment and payment of vacation, pensions, all kinds of benefits and a number of other payments. If we talk about the difference between these concepts, it is worth considering them on two points.

First of all, it is worth noting the legal significance of the right to receive social security. Since a person has insurance experience, he can count on receiving pension payments and various accruals.

The presence of total work experience is provided in order to provide a legal assessment of information about the work experience of the insured person, as well as to determine the total amount of insurance payment for a separate case

Their calculation also differs. Crediting the insurance period provides for periods of work or performing any other activity that took place both before the introduction of the law on December 17, 2001, and after this time. The total length of service is calculated only as of December 31, 2001 and does not include taking into account any other periods of activity that will be taken into account in the length of service.

Periods of unemployment during which a person was paid benefits in accordance with government programs are simultaneously included in both types of length of service. In fact, the period while a person works as a member of a farm, a private entrepreneur, or is engaged in some other similar activity should also be counted towards the insurance period, while the method of earning the work experience has practically no significance. The most important element in this case is the fact of payment of the insurance premium.

What is included in the insurance period according to law?

The insurance period represents a certain period of time during which the policy owner paid an insurance premium to the country's Pension Fund, and it is worth noting that these payments are naturally taken into account later in the process of obtaining a labor pension.

If we talk about which periods are counted in the insurance period, then it is also possible to take into account a number of other time periods in the insurance period, which, in accordance with current legislation, includes the time when a person:

• Works or is engaged in any type of activity on the territory of Russia, and at the same time takes out insurance in advance under the mandatory pension insurance program.
• It does not work on the territory of the Russian Federation, but at the same time it was insured under this program not only according to domestic, but also according to world legislation. This also includes situations where a person independently pays the full list of insurance payments for this insurance option.
• Accepts any payments from the social insurance fund due to loss of ability to work.
• Serves in the military or is engaged in any other activity comparable to it, in accordance with applicable law.
• Accepts payments from the Social Security Fund to provide adequate care for children before they reach age 18 months.
• Receives benefits from the employment center.
• Participates in any public works on a paid basis, if this was initiated by the employment center.
• Moves to some other locality in the direction of his employment center.
• He is in prison or a pre-trial detention center in connection with illegal decisions based on the results of criminal proceedings.
• Caring for a person who has been assigned the status of a disabled person of the first group, a disabled child, or simply a person older than 80 years old.
• Lives with a military spouse while he is performing military service under a contract in some place where there is no possibility of normal employment (compensation can be awarded for no more than 5 years in total).
• Lives outside the country, given the fact that your spouse is an employee of a consulate or diplomatic mission.

Amounts of deposits depending on the period

The total length of service provides for the calculation of a certain estimated pension amount in different amounts depending on how exactly and how long the person worked:

One and a half volumes per time	work or service (not including military service) in the territory of the exclusion zone defined by this status in accordance with the current Law “On the social protection of citizens who were exposed to radiation due to the Chernobyl disaster”; work in the Far North or any other areas that are equivalent to this area.
Double the amount in time	work in specialized anti-plague facilities or leper colonies; work during the Second World War, excluding activities in any areas that were temporarily occupied; living in Leningrad during its siege or serving time in concentration camps during the Second World War; conducting conscription service.
In triple volume during the time	Serving in military units, institutions or headquarters that are included in the active army, as well as in any partisan detachments or special formations during combat operations. This also includes the period of treatment in specialized medical institutions due to military trauma and periods of military service in the exclusion zone. Conducting activities in Leningrad during its siege. Conducted in custody, in places of detention or exile, if a person was unjustifiably brought to criminal liability due to repression with subsequent rehabilitation, including also the number of repressed peoples.

Documentation

In order to confirm your own insurance experience, you need to provide certain documents that confirm insurance with the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for a certain period of time with the corresponding payment of insurance premiums.

The best way to confirm the required periods of work is to provide a work book in accordance with the established sample. In accordance with the law, it is resorted to only if the individual accounting information contains incomplete information about periods of work or information on specific periods of time is completely absent.

If this book is missing, then in this case you can confirm the conduct of activities during a certain period of time with the following documents:

• a written employment contract drawn up in accordance with the norms of labor legislation in force at the time of registration of the labor relationship;
• work books of collective farm workers;
• certificates issued by employers or certain government bodies;
• personal accounts, extracts from issued orders, as well as statements for receiving the corresponding wages.

The same package of documents can be provided if the work book includes incorrect or inaccurate information, or if data for certain periods of time is completely missing.

If we talk about how one can confirm the performance of work under a civil law type contract, which provides for the performance of a certain list of works or the provision of any services, this activity can be confirmed by a document on making mandatory payments, which is provided by the employer, or by a drawn up contract.

Moreover, if a specific period of validity of the contract is not established, only the period of time during which the citizen made mandatory payments will be included in the insurance period.

Likewise, if a person loses documents due to a natural disaster and has no way to recover them, then his work must be supported by the testimony of at least two people who know this person due to joint cooperation with a particular person.

To do this, the victim first needs to contact the Pension Fund and provide a statement requesting to establish a specific period of his work, based on the testimony of other people.

The application must be accompanied by:

• a certificate from a government agency located in the territory of a natural disaster, allowing you to confirm the existence of a disaster and all detailed information about it;
• a document issued by the employer or which will confirm the fact of loss of documents due to a natural disaster, and also certify the inability to restore them;
• a certificate from a specialized archival institution, which confirms the absence of relevant archival information about the duration of work.

If the documents were lost due to the actions of the employer, then in this case the confirmation procedure is similar, but the witnesses will need to provide relevant documents that could confirm their activities for the specified period of time. Determination of the duration of work based on such indications is carried out in accordance with the decision of the Pension Fund.

The article will discuss the differences between labor and insurance experience. What opportunities do they provide, how are they calculated, and how do they differ from each other? Read on.

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In order to be eligible to receive a pension or other benefits, a person must have experience. It can be general labor and insurance.

Which one is used when calculating pensions? In order not to confuse these concepts, it is necessary to understand what the differences between them are.

Basic moments

Experience plays a major role in a person’s financial security, both during his working life and during his retirement.

Experience is not accrued for absenteeism or being on vacation at the employee’s own expense. The insurance period is confirmed by submitting the necessary documents to the Pension Fund.

You can reconcile documents one year before your expected retirement. Proof of work experience is.

If all periods of work activity were indicated in the document, then there will be no problems when calculating a pension or other benefit.

To calculate a pension, a minimum of 5 years of work experience is required. However, its size will be minimal. The insurance period is taken into account when calculating sick leave.

When the benefit is calculated, those periods when the citizen carried out labor or other activities while paying insurance premiums are taken into account.

The longer the experience, the greater the payment. Normally, the calculations look like this:

If the insured employee has less than 6 months of experience, the benefit will be 1% of the salary.
For sick leave, the insurance period begins from the moment of the insured event. Calculated in calendar days.

What it is

The insurance period is the total duration of the periods when a person was officially employed and the employer paid contributions for him.

The insurance period includes the following periods:

• military service (or equivalent);
• the spouses were in a military camp, which made work impossible (less than 5 years);
• diplomatic spouses were abroad;
• the person had temporary disability (with continued payment);
• the benefit was paid by the labor exchange;
• a woman cared for a baby for 1.5 years;
• the employee took part in paid public works;
• period of imprisonment if proven innocent;
• the person cared for a disabled person or a person over 80 years of age.

Insurance experience is measured in months. A month will be credited as full if the contribution amount for it is not lower than the minimum.

If the amount is lower, then the person has the right to pay extra so that the month is counted as full for calculating the length of service.

Work experience is a period of various types of activity necessary to receive payments - benefits from the state, pensions.

Contains quantitative and qualitative characteristics. The first is the length of experience. The second is the working conditions (harmfulness, danger, etc.).

What are their functions

The main purpose of work experience is to perform correct calculations in order to establish the exact amount of the pension. It is also taken into account when calculating social benefits and state benefits.

Citizens with work experience will be able to apply for a pension - based on length of service or upon reaching age.

The length of time during which a person has paid contributions to the Pension Fund gives him the right to receive a pension.

That is, the longer the period of payment of contributions, the greater the size of the pension. The insurance period makes it clear whether a person has the right to receive an old-age pension or not.

In addition, it is necessary both for assigning a pension on a general basis and on an early one.

Current standards

Work experience is the total number of days of work or other activity before 2002. The size of the pension until January 1, 2002 depends on its duration.

After this date, its size depends on the insurance premiums that were paid by the employer.

The difference is this:

Starting from 2015, the insurance period is calculated not by dates, but by points, summing which, an individual coefficient for calculating a pension is obtained.

The presence of work experience plays a primary role in the financial security of a citizen, both during his active working life and during his years of retirement.

One of the types of length of service, that is, the time when a person is officially employed and the necessary contributions are sent to the pension fund for him, is insurance length of service.

Terms and Definitions

Under insurance experience one should understand the total duration of the periods (in total) when the citizen officially worked and insurance premiums were received by the Pension Fund for him.

It would be more accurate to expand this definition and, regardless of work activity, consider the insurance period as the total period when a citizen received insurance payments or taxes to the Pension Fund.

Included in the insurance period includes not only periods of labor activity, but also others:

These periods can be counted provided that before or after them the citizen worked officially (regardless of the duration). Insurance experience is calculated in the order of calendar time; if some periods coincide, at the choice of the citizen, one of them can be taken into account. This type of length of service does not include periods that a citizen has when establishing a pension according to the laws of a foreign state.

The presence of a large number of listed periods insurance experience different from labor. The first concept is broader and may include labor and other periods, while the second concept exclusively shows the time of a person’s official employment. Accordingly, the insurance period is usually longer than the actual work experience.

The very possibility of receiving such a benefit will be determined by the availability of the necessary length of service, and the amount of payment will directly depend on its duration:

• if a citizen has 8 or more years of experience, he will be paid 100% of average earnings for sick leave;
• if you have 5 to 8 years of experience, the citizen will receive 80% of the average salary;
• with up to 5 years of experience, the payment will be 60% of average earnings;
• if the employee’s work experience is less than six months, not more than one month (this also applies to maternity benefits).

It should be noted that a certificate of incapacity for work entitled to a woman for pregnancy and childbirth, with a work experience of at least six months, will always be paid in the amount of 100% of average earnings.

Nuances in various situations

From 2019, when determining the insurance period, close attention will be paid to the following nuances, which will now be taken into account for calculations:

• the entire period of service in the armed forces or internal authorities and other law enforcement agencies. These years will be taken into account in full;
• if a person was temporarily disabled and received benefits during this period, this period will also be included in the insurance period. Only it will need to be documented;
• care for children up to 1.5 years, but no more than 6 years in total - in this case, the period cannot be higher than the upper specified limit and is accrued only to one of the parents;
• the time when a person was not officially employed can now also be counted if for the entire period he was registered at the labor exchange and received unemployment benefits;
• caring for a disabled child or a person over 80 years of age;
• the period of detention, if the person’s innocence is proven, the entire period of stay will be credited to the person in full.

The specifics of the calculation for representatives of Belarus, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and a number of other countries of the former union are regulated by an international agreement within the framework of pension provision and are calculated individually for each specific case.

The insurance period for calculating sick leave is described in the following video:

To begin with, it is worth deciding on the concept of insurance experience itself. And this, in simple words, is all those periods, in their total value, for which you paid insurance contributions to the country’s Pension Fund; they are also taken into account when applying for a labor pension. It is possible to have and include other periods that are part of the insurance period.

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According to the legislative norms of our country, the following time intervals can be included in the insurance period:

• When you worked or were engaged in any type of activity on the territory of our country and were insured under the compulsory pension insurance program (insured persons - hereinafter).
• When you worked or were engaged in any type of activity outside the territory of our country, you were also insured under the compulsory pension insurance program, both according to our legislation and worldwide; and also subject to self-payment for this type of insurance.
• When you completed military service or other activities that are equivalent to it, according to the legislation of the Russian Federation.
• When did you receive benefits from the state fund for temporary loss of ability to work?
• When you received benefits from the state social insurance fund for child care until the child was 18 months old, but not more than 36 months in total.
• When did you receive benefits from the employment center?
• When you participated in paid public works assigned by the employment center.
• When you moved to another city or any other locality for a job to which the employment center sent you.
• When you were in prison due to unfounded decisions in criminal cases, regression, rehabilitation and exile plans.
• When you cared for a disabled person of the first group, a disabled child or a person over 80 years of age.
• When you lived with your spouse, a military man, while performing military service under a contract, where there was no possibility of your employment (this period cannot exceed five years in total).
• When you lived outside the country, provided that your spouse is an employee of a diplomatic or consular mission, according to the list approved by the government (this period cannot exceed five years in total).

Important! All of the above time intervals can be taken into account in the insurance period, provided that before or after them you have a full-fledged work experience or another type of activity, during which insurance payments were paid to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

There is also a special insurance period

It includes the labor activity of a person who works in a workplace with harmful working conditions. Or in difficult climatic conditions outside the country, where a special status applies to the payment of insurance premiums for compulsory state pension insurance.

Insurance experience and work experience, what is the difference?

To begin with, let's define the concept of length of service - this is a period established by law, periods in the total value that give the right to calculations and payments for vacations, sick leave, assignment and payment of pensions and similar benefits.

There are two main differences between insurance and work experience:

1. Legislative assignment of length of service when receiving any social security:
   • If you have an insurance period, then you have the full right to calculate and pay a pension.
   • If there is a general insurance period, then it will need a legislative assessment of the length of service as such and clarification of the amount of insurance payments.
2. Carrying out calculations and calculations based on length of service:
   • The insurance period will include all periods both before and after the approval of the law of December 17, 2001.
   • The length of service will include periods available as of December 31, 2001, and will not include periods included in the insurance period.
   • Both types of experience will include periods when you were at the labor exchange and received.
   • The insurance period includes all your activities as an individual entrepreneur, a member of a farm, etc.
   • It does not take into account how seniority is earned; what is more important is the payment of insurance premiums. Therefore, it is important to control and pay insurance premiums. They are all your social guarantees to the extent required by law.

The importance of the insurance period when calculating sick leave benefits

When calculating sick leave benefits, your entire insurance record is taken as a basis. And the amount of payment is directly proportional to its total duration. You can divide sick pay by periods:

1. Provided that the insurance period is five years, sick leave payment will be equal to 60% of the average monthly salary.
2. Provided that the insurance period is between five and eight years - 80%.
3. Provided that the insurance period is more than eight years - 100%.
4. Provided that the insurance period is less than six months, the payment will be equal to one minimum monthly salary with the influence of the regional coefficient.

Important! The insurance period for sick leave is calculated based on the date of occurrence of the insured event and has a calendar calculation. We remember that calculations are made on the basis of full calendar periods, and this can make dramatic changes in the amount of payment.

Counting the period of military and army service into the insurance period

On January 1, 2010, by order of the Ministry of Health and Social Policy, it was approved that the calculation of payments for sick leave during the period of general insurance coverage includes the time when you served in military and army service. However, only after January 1, 2007. Until this moment, no records are kept of this activity.

Important! Provided that this requirement had a significant impact on the amount of payment. It will be produced additionally from government funds.

Starting from January 1, 2010, all time spent in military and army service is included in the insurance period.

Is study included in the insurance period?

Full-time study and correspondence studies at universities do not give the right to include this period in the general insurance period. An exception is only in cases of voluntary participation in the state pension insurance program for a given period.

Is vacation included in the insurance period?

Paid leave is included in the insurance period, since during its period the insurance premium is paid. And according to the law, all periods during which insurance payments were made are necessarily included in the citizen’s insurance experience.

Is child care included in the insurance period?

Parental leave is also paid, since during this period you receive benefits from the social insurance fund. Which makes insurance contributions on it.

Let us remind you that the total duration of this period cannot exceed 36 calendar months. And on average, it is equal to the period after your child reaches the age of 1.5 years and provided that one of the parents has left.

Work experience is the total duration of periods of work and other activities taken into account when determining the right to certain types of pensions under state pension provision, which are counted in the insurance period for receiving a pension provided for by the Federal Law “On Labor Pensions in the Russian Federation”.

Work experience is divided into the following types:

1. Total labor (insurance) length of service – the total duration of periods of work and (or) other activities taken into account when determining the right to a labor pension, during which insurance contributions were paid to the Pension Fund of Russia, as well as other periods counted in the insurance period.

The insurance period includes periods of work and (or) other activities performed by citizens of the Russian Federation:

On the territory of the Russian Federation, provided that during these periods insurance contributions were paid to the Pension Fund of Russia;
outside the territory of the Russian Federation - in cases provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation or international treaties of the Russian Federation, or in the case of payment of insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of Russia.

The value of the insurance period:

Is the basis for receiving an old-age pension, disability from a general illness, or in the event of the loss of a breadwinner from a general illness;
associated with it is the possibility of early retirement in old age.

2. Continuous work experience is determined by the duration of the last continuous work at a given enterprise, institution, organization, as well as the time of work or other activities at different enterprises, if the deadlines established by law are met when moving from one job to another.

a) systematic failure, without good reason, to fulfill the duties assigned by the employment contract or internal labor regulations;

d) the commission by an employee performing educational functions of an immoral offense incompatible with the continuation of this work.

The value of continuous work experience:

The amount of temporary disability benefits depends on its duration. In this case, continuous length of service is calculated by the day of temporary incapacity for work;
its duration affects the amount of remuneration based on the results of work for the year;
It is associated with the establishment of additional payments and allowances to tariff salary rates.

3. Special length of service – the total duration of a certain work activity (service).

The meaning of special work experience:

Taking into account special work experience, an old-age pension is established in connection with special working conditions and work in the Far North;
taking into account length of service, a long-service pension is established;
The size of the percentage increase in wages and the annual remuneration for length of service depends on the length of special work experience.

Years of work experience

The Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation has made changes to the calculation of length of service and average earnings of a citizen for sick leave. The length of service is calculated based on all entries in the work book (not the insurance record).

As for the amount of payment for sick leave, it is calculated taking into account the average earnings for 2 years. Moreover, payments for various social benefits are not included in the final amount, but per diem and travel allowances for the billing period are allowed to be included in the amount.

So, how is the length of service for sick leave calculated:

1. Firstly, this calculation can be made using a “calculator” - a special program that can be found on the Internet without any problems.
2. If you are counting manually, then first write down each period of work in individual organizations in a column.
3. Separately for each column, calculate the time you worked, subtracting the date of hiring from the date of your dismissal.
4. Add up the results that you got.
5. A year of experience is considered to be 12 months, a month is 30 days.
6. Work experience on the certificate of incapacity for work is indicated in years/months/days, even if it exceeds eight calendar years.
7. Up to 5 years of experience: payment is 60 percent of earnings for 24 months of work. 5-8 years: 80 percent. And from 8 years old: already 100 percent.
8. In this case, average earnings are calculated by adding all amounts earned (those on which taxes were paid) and dividing the resulting amount by 730.

Work experience - how does it affect the size of your pension?

According to the law, length of service has a direct impact on the size of the future pension. For the period before January 1, 2002, the pension depends on the length of your work experience and salary, for the period after - on the amount of insurance contributions that were sent to your account in the Pension Fund from employers.

Full work experience will be 25 years for men, 20 for women. With this length of service, the pension will be 55% of average earnings. For years worked beyond these years, the length of service coefficient increases (1 year - by 1%, but not more than 20%). That is, working pensioners have their length of service coefficient adjusted every year, starting in August.

Work experience, as is known, is divided into:

General: the total duration of work, which does not depend on breaks in the length of service.
Continuous: is important when receiving bonuses (benefits) to the pension.
Special: covers only certain positions, industries, etc. For example, work experience in the Far North, under difficult conditions, in hazardous industries, etc.

We count the length of service

The minimum years of work experience for work experience is, as mentioned above, 25 for men, 20 for the fairer sex. Less experience? This means that the pension will be correspondingly smaller.

Also, the right to a pension is determined for a citizen by the insurance period and the period for which contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation were paid, automatically deducted from the salary.

Maternity leave is a separate item. Each type of length of service includes maternity leave (according to the law); subsequent leave to care for each of your children up to 3 years old, leave without pay and, in some situations, leave to care for a child up to 6 years old.

The work experience also takes into account:

Time spent by an employee on sick leave and on vacation.
Registration as unemployed and receiving benefits. Plus community service activities.
Lack of work, but at the same time voluntary payments of insurance contributions to the PRF.

Total work experience

Total length of service (TS) is the total duration of labor and other socially useful activities until 01/01/2002, as well as other socially significant periods established by law.

OTS is taken into account when assessing the pension rights of insured persons acquired before 01/01/2002, i.e. before the entry into force of Federal Law No. 173 “On Labor Pensions in the Russian Federation”.

The duration of the OTS directly affects the estimated size of the labor pension and the amount of the estimated pension capital, which is reflected in the individual personal account (ILA) of the insured person as of 01/01/2002.

GTS is also taken into account when determining the right to an old-age pension of citizens affected by radiation or man-made disasters, according to the Federal Law “On State Pension Provision in the Russian Federation”. Other categories of citizens are assigned an old-age labor pension if they have a compulsory pension for at least five years with a reduction in the normal retirement age depending on the fact and duration of residence or work in the relevant zone of radioactive contamination in the manner prescribed by Law of the Russian Federation No. 1244-1 “On social protection of citizens, exposed to radiation as a result of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant."

The periods included in the TTS are listed in paragraph 3 of Art. 30 Federal Law “On Labor Pensions in the Russian Federation”:

Periods of work as a worker, employee (including hired work outside the territory of the Russian Federation), member of a collective farm or other cooperative organization; periods of other work in which the employee, not being a worker or employee, was subject to compulsory pension insurance; periods of work (service) in paramilitary security, special communications agencies or in a mine rescue unit, regardless of its nature; periods of individual labor activity, including in agriculture;
periods of creative activity of members of creative unions - writers, artists, composers, filmmakers, theater workers, as well as writers and artists who are not members of the relevant creative unions;
service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other military formations created in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation, foreign intelligence agencies, FSB bodies, federal executive authorities that provide for military service, former state security bodies of the Russian Federation, as well as in state bodies security and internal affairs bodies of the former USSR (including during periods when these bodies were called differently), stay in partisan detachments during the civil war and the Great Patriotic War;
periods of temporary disability that began during the period of work, and the period of being on disability of groups I and II, received as a result of an injury associated with production or an occupational disease;
the period of stay in places of detention beyond the period assigned during the review of the case;
periods of receiving unemployment benefits, participating in paid public works, moving in the direction of the employment service to another area and finding employment.

Calculation of the duration of periods of labor and other socially useful activities before January 1, 2002, included in the total length of service in accordance with this paragraph of the law, is carried out in calendar order according to their actual duration, with the exception of:

Periods of work during a full navigation period on water transport and periods of work during a full season in organizations of seasonal industries, which are included in the total length of service for a full year of work, regardless of the actual duration of these periods;
periods of work in leper colonies and anti-plague institutions, which are included in the total length of service at double the rate;
periods of service in military units, headquarters and institutions that are part of the active army, in partisan detachments and formations during hostilities, as well as time spent in treatment in medical institutions due to military trauma, periods of military service in the exclusion zone, determined in accordance with The Law of the Russian Federation “On the social protection of citizens exposed to radiation as a result of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant”, which are included in the total length of service in triple amount;
periods of work in the city of Leningrad during the blockade (from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944), which are included in the total length of service in triple the amount;
periods of work during the Great Patriotic War (from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945), with the exception of work in areas temporarily occupied by the enemy, which are included in the total length of service at double the rate;
periods of work in the regions of the Far North and areas equated to regions of the Far North, which are included in the total length of service at one and a half times;
periods of conscription military service, which are included in the total length of service at double the rate;
periods of detention, stay in places of detention and exile for citizens who were unjustifiably prosecuted, unjustifiably repressed and subsequently rehabilitated, including from among the repressed peoples, who are included in the total length of service in triple the amount;
periods of residence in the besieged city of Leningrad and stay in concentration camps during the Great Patriotic War, which are included in the total length of service at double the rate;
periods of work or service (with the exception of military service) in the exclusion zone, determined in accordance with the Law of the Russian Federation “On the social protection of citizens exposed to radiation as a result of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,” which are included in the total length of service at one and a half times.

Work experience for pension

Before the new law on pension provision for citizens of the Russian Federation came into force in 2002, length of service was of primary importance, since the size of the pension was determined by the number of years worked by the citizen. In addition, in the old pension system, continuous work experience had a significant impact on the amount of benefits.

Since 2002, the situation has changed dramatically: now, in order for a citizen to have the right to a pension, it is enough for him to have 5 years of insurance experience (which legally coincides in length with labor). The fact is that during the period when a person works under an employment contract, is in the service of state and municipal bodies, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia or the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the employer is obliged to pay insurance premiums for him. It is their volume over the total period of work that will determine what pension will be accrued to the employee after his retirement. Persons who carry out entrepreneurial activities without forming a legal entity - individual entrepreneurs - are also required to pay insurance premiums for themselves and their employees.

As a general rule, when calculating length of service, calendar calculation is used, and the amount of time actually worked is taken as the basis. However, the law provides for cases when this rule does not apply. The most common example of this kind is the length of service of military personnel: when citizens serve under conscription, it is calculated on the basis of 1 day of service for 2.

When calculating length of service, there may be other features provided for by current legislation. For example, spouses of military personnel living together with them have the right to count such time of residence into their work experience: before 1992 - in full, regardless of the location of the unit, subsequently - only periods during which the spouses were forced not to work in due to the lack of employment opportunities in their specialty at the place of deployment (provided that they were officially recognized as unemployed at that time).

It must also be said that the length of service includes both the time that a citizen worked on the territory of the Russian Federation and periods of work outside its borders. If, at the same time, a citizen carried out labor activities outside the country, he has the right to apply for pension provision only in cases provided for by Russian legislation and international treaties of the Russian Federation, or if he independently paid pension contributions to the Pension Fund.

Pension experience for men

The retirement age of a man in Russia, as a general rule, begins when he reaches 60 years of age. There are also pensions for long service when serving in municipal or government service. Depending on the type of work carried out and in the presence of certain conditions established by special legislation, retirement age may even occur at 45 years or earlier.

At the same time, the length of service taken into account when assigning a pension usually includes the following periods:

Military service (including conscription);
receiving insurance payments due to disability;
being on parental leave to care for a child up to 1.5 years old (one of the parents - for each of the children, but not more than 3 years in total);
care by a citizen for a disabled person of group 1 or 2;
caring for a disabled child or an elderly person over 80 years of age;
detention of citizens who were subsequently rehabilitated (as well as illegally repressed).

It should also be noted that these periods should be taken into account only if they were preceded or followed by periods of official labor activity of the given citizen. In other words, if a person cared for a disabled child, but did not work either before or after this leave, this period will not be taken into account when calculating his pension.

Women's pension experience in Russia

Women have the right to receive a pension upon reaching the age of 55, as well as in the case of early retirement due to the nature of their work activities in cases provided for by law.

The calculation of pension length in Russia for women follows the same procedure as for men. It should also be said that in addition to the above-mentioned features of calculating length of service for women, length of service includes periods of maternity leave, as well as additional leave provided, guaranteed by legislation aimed at protecting motherhood and childhood.

Insurance work experience

The concept of “insurance period” is associated with the reform of the pension insurance system.

The insurance period is the periods of labor (and other) activity of the insured person, for which insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation are accrued and paid, as well as other periods counted towards the insurance period.

The presence of insurance experience confirms the right of citizens to a labor pension. “Other activities” means periods during which taxes and (or) insurance contributions were transferred to the Social Insurance Fund for the insured person in case of temporary disability and in connection with maternity.

This could be activity as an individual entrepreneur, lawyer, notary, etc.

Other periods also include work in non-CIS countries, CIS countries (with which Russia has concluded agreements on social security), at the Baikonur complex of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and in international organizations.

The main document confirming periods of work under an employment contract, periods of state civil or municipal service, is still the work book.

If it is not there, or it does not contain certain records of work, or the records contain incorrect or inaccurate information, then the length of service can be justified by written employment contracts, certificates from former employers, extracts from orders, personal accounts, fund certificates on the payment of insurance premiums and statements of issuance of wages, as well as other documents.

An employment contract and a certificate from the territorial office of the Social Insurance Fund confirming the payment of insurance premiums confirm the period of work until October 6, 2006 for individual entrepreneurs, since before that day they were not required to make entries in the work books of their employees.

If a citizen did not work under an employment contract and was not in the civil service, then for the periods of time during which he was engaged in other types of activities, the payment of social insurance payments is confirmed by documents from financial authorities or certificates from archival institutions.

The following are equivalent to payment of insurance contributions to the Pension Fund:

For the period before January 1, 1991 - contributions to state social insurance;
for the period from January 1, 1991 to December 31, 2000 - insurance contributions to the Social Insurance Fund;
for the period after January 1, 2001 - taxes credited to the Social Insurance Fund (UST, single tax paid when applying the simplified tax system, UTII, Unified Agricultural Tax);
for the period after January 1, 2003 - insurance contributions for compulsory social insurance in case of temporary disability and in connection with maternity, paid by lawyers, individual entrepreneurs, including members of peasant (farm) households, individuals not recognized as individual entrepreneurs, family , family communities of small peoples of the North.

Work periods are calculated on a calendar basis based on a calendar month (30 days) and a full year (12 months). In this case, every 30 days are converted into calendar months, and every 12 months - into full years.

In this case, the reasons for dismissal from previous jobs and the duration of breaks between them (jobs) do not matter.

The insurance period includes:

Periods of work under an employment contract;
periods of state civil or municipal service;
periods of other activities during which a citizen was subject to compulsory social insurance in case of temporary disability and in connection with maternity.

Along with periods of work and (or) other activities, the insurance period of citizens insured in the compulsory pension insurance system when calculating pensions includes other, so-called non-insurance periods:

The period of military service, as well as other equivalent service;
the period of receiving state social insurance benefits during the period of temporary disability;
the period of care of one of the parents for each child until he reaches the age of 1.5 years, but not more than 3 years in total;
the period of receiving unemployment benefits, the period of participation in paid public works and the period of moving in the direction of the state employment service to another area for employment;
the period of detention of persons unjustifiably prosecuted, unjustifiably repressed and subsequently rehabilitated, and the period of serving their sentences in places of imprisonment and exile;
the period of care provided by an able-bodied person for a group I disabled person, a disabled child or a person who has reached the age of 80 years;
the period of forced unemployment of spouses of military personnel serving under contract, together with their spouses in areas where they did not work due to lack of employment opportunities, but not more than 5 years in total (from January 1, 2009);
the period of residence abroad of spouses of employees of diplomatic missions and international organizations, but not more than 5 years in total (from January 1, 2009).

To recalculate previously established labor pensions, the Law provided for a preferential procedure for citizens to submit applications. If a person applied for recalculation from January 1 to December 31, 2009, it will be made from January 1, 2009. After this, recalculation will be made from the first day of the month following the month of application to the territorial body of the fund.

All of the listed “non-insurance” periods are counted in the insurance period, provided that they were preceded and (or) followed by periods of work and (or) other activities (i.e. the citizen was insured for at least one day).

If some periods coincide in time, only one of such periods is taken into account at the choice of the person applying for a pension. For example, in the case of simultaneous care for several children under the age of 1.5 years. If the second child was born a year after the first, then 1.5 years of care for the first child and 1 year of care for the second child can be included in the mother’s insurance period.

Or another option:

The mother of a disabled child is in an employment relationship. If insurance premiums are paid for it, since work under an employment contract and caring for a disabled child were carried out at the same calendar time, then only one of these periods can be included in the insurance period.

The period of care of one of the parents for each child until he reaches the age of 1.5 years, but not more than 3 years in total, is taken into account only when calculating the length of service for the right to a labor pension; this period is not taken into account in the amount of the pension.

The presence of insurance experience at the time of granting a pension is one of the main conditions for granting an old-age labor pension on a general basis.

The minimum duration of insurance coverage is 5 years.

To assign an early retirement pension in old age, the duration of the total insurance period for men is at least 25 years and for women at least 20 years. When calculating other types of labor pensions: for disability, for the loss of a breadwinner, not the duration of the insurance period itself is taken into account, but its actual existence. In the absence of any insurance experience, a social pension is established.

The employee must ensure that the insurance experience is documented, since the responsibility for collecting the necessary documents to confirm the insurance experience rests with the insured person (i.e., the employee himself).

Documents issued to confirm periods of work (service, activity) must contain:

Number and date of issue;
last name, first name, patronymic of the insured person to whom the document is issued;
date, month and year of birth;
place of work and period of work, profession (position);
basis for issuance (orders, personal accounts and other documents).

If the submitted document on periods of work (service, activity) indicates only years without indicating exact dates, the date is taken to be July 1 of the corresponding year, and if the day of the month is not indicated, then the 15th day of the corresponding month is taken as such.

The size of the future pension directly depends on the completeness of payment of contributions received to the individual personal account of the insured person.

Important for retirement planning. Failure to pay insurance contributions for compulsory pension insurance for a certain period may lead to the fact that this period of time will simply not be counted in the insurance period, and incomplete or partial payment will lead to an underestimation of the insurance and funded parts of the labor pension, the amount of the calculated pension capital when indexing it and failure to receive investment income.

This has already been felt by those citizens who began to retire after the adoption of the new pension legislation.

Only individual entrepreneurs and persons working abroad can pay insurance premiums for themselves. Employers-insurers do this for everyone else.

As for individual entrepreneurs, lawyers, and notaries engaged in private practice, the Law provides for the payment of pension contributions in the form of a fixed payment for oneself personally no later than December 31 of the current tax period (year).

Moreover, 2/3 of this amount is used by one payment order to finance the insurance part of the labor pension, and 1/3 (by another payment order) is used to finance the funded part.

The procedure, terms for calculation and payment of fixed payments are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

From January 1, 2010, individual entrepreneurs are required to pay insurance premiums based on the cost of the insurance year, which is determined in relation to insurance premiums as the product of the minimum wage for the current year (established by federal law at the beginning of the financial year) and the insurance premium rate, increased by 12 times.

Continuous work experience

Continuous work experience is determined by the duration of the last continuous work at a given enterprise, institution, or organization.

When moving from one job to another, continuous work experience is maintained provided that the break in work does not exceed one month.

In the following cases, continuous work experience is maintained if the break in work does not exceed two months:

A) upon admission to another job of persons who worked in the regions of the Far North and equivalent areas, after dismissal from work upon expiration of the employment contract;
b) when applying for work in the Russian Federation after being released from work in institutions, organizations and enterprises of the Russian Federation abroad or in international organizations;
c) upon employment in the Russian Federation of citizens who have moved from countries with which the Russian Federation has entered into agreements or treaties on social security, after being released from work in institutions, organizations and enterprises of these countries.

In the following cases, continuous work experience is maintained if the break in work does not exceed three months:

A) upon admission to work of persons released from enterprises, institutions and organizations in connection with their reorganization or liquidation or implementation of measures to reduce the number or staff of workers, as well as upon admission to work of workers and employees dismissed from units, institutions, organizations and from enterprises of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in connection with reduction measures;
b) when entering work after the end of temporary incapacity for work, which, in accordance with current legislation, resulted in dismissal from the previous job, as well as when entering work after dismissal from work due to disability or after dismissal of disabled people on other grounds for which more preferential benefits are not established conditions for maintaining continuous work experience;
c) when entering a job after dismissal due to a discovered incompatibility of the employee with the position held or the work performed due to health conditions that prevent the continuation of this work.

Continuous work experience is maintained regardless of the duration of the break in work:

A) upon entering a job after dismissal of one’s own free will in connection with the transfer of the husband or wife to work in another locality;
b) upon entry to work after dismissal of one’s own free will in connection with old-age retirement or after the dismissal of an old-age pensioner for other reasons.

Continuous work experience is not retained when entering a job after termination of an employment contract for the following reasons:

A) systematic failure, without good reason, to fulfill the duties assigned by the employment contract or internal labor regulations;
b) absenteeism or showing up to work while drunk;
c) the entry into force of a court sentence by which a worker or employee is sentenced to imprisonment, correctional labor outside the place of work, or to another punishment that precludes the possibility of continuing this work;
d) the commission by an employee performing educational functions of an immoral offense incompatible with the continuation of this work, etc.

Periods of work experience

The length of service may also include periods when a citizen, for objective reasons that the state recognized as valid, could not carry out labor activities.

Types of work experience:

Civil service experience - total length of service in the civil service;
Insurance length or work experience - the total duration of labor or other work during which insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation were regularly paid;
Special length of service is the duration of a certain work or other activity, after which early retirement may be granted.

Calculation of work experience

Today, 5 years of work experience is enough to receive a labor pension.

The total insurance/work experience includes all periods of labor or other activity provided for by the federal law of the Russian Federation, regardless of interruptions in work under an employment contract, and during which insurance contributions were paid to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

The length of service also includes the following periods:

Military service, service in internal affairs bodies, bodies and institutions of the penal system, and their families;
receiving social benefits due to temporary disability;
one of the parents caring for their child until he reaches the age of 1.5 years (but not more than three years in total);
receiving unemployment benefits;
moving in the direction of the state employment service to another area for employment;
when a citizen participated in public works;
stay in places of imprisonment or exile;
when a citizen was unreasonably brought to criminal liability;
when a citizen was repressed, but subsequently rehabilitated;
care by an able-bodied person for a disabled person of group I, a disabled child, as well as the period of a citizen who has reached 80 years of age.

These periods are counted into the insurance period if before or immediately after them there was a period of work during which contributions to the Pension Fund were made.

Studying is not included in the insurance period.

Special work experience is a period of social or labor activity in special conditions, such as hazardous industries, work in difficult climatic conditions and areas that were exposed to radioactive radiation. After these periods of work, a preferential pension is established, as well as a long-service pension.

Calculation of continuous work experience

Continuous work experience is the duration of the last continuous period of work for one or more employers.

Since January 1, 2007, according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the calculation of sick leave does not depend on continuous work experience. Now the amount of temporary disability benefits is calculated on the basis of work/insurance history and depends only on the periods during which insurance contributions were made.

When calculating the pension amount, continuous work experience is not taken into account.

When calculating the total length of service, the periods during which a citizen could not work are limited.

But sometimes, when calculating the insurance period, it will be necessary to compare it with the continuous work experience (as of January 1, 2007) and if the insurance period turns out to be less than continuous, then the amount of the benefit will be calculated based on the continuous work experience.

Confirmation of work experience

When calculating length of service, periods of work or other activities that are included in it, which took place before the citizen’s registration as an insured person in accordance with the Federal Law “On Individual (Personalized) Accounting in the Compulsory Pension Insurance System”, are confirmed by documents issued in the prescribed manner by employers or relevant state (municipal) bodies.

The main document confirming the periods of work under an employment contract is the work book. In its absence, as well as in the case where it contains incorrect and inaccurate information or there are no records about individual periods of work, written employment contracts, certificates issued by employers or relevant state (municipal) bodies, extracts from orders, personal accounts and payroll statements.

The periods of work under a civil law contract, the subject of which is the performance of work or the provision of services, are confirmed by the specified contract. In this case, the duration of the period of work included in the insurance period is determined according to the validity period of the contract, and if it is not established, then based on the period of payment of mandatory payments for the employee.

Periods of work on the territory of Russia before registration of a citizen in the personalized accounting system can be established by the pension authority based on the testimony of two or more witnesses who know the citizen from working together with the same employer, if work documents are lost due to a natural disaster (earthquake, flood, hurricane, fire and similar reasons) and it is impossible to restore them. In some cases, it is possible to establish length of service based on the testimony of two or more witnesses in the event of loss of documents and for other reasons (due to careless storage, intentional destruction and similar reasons) not through the fault of the employee.

The rules for calculating and confirming length of service are set out in detail in Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 555. They, in particular, establish that:

The duration of the length of service established by testimony cannot exceed half of the insurance period required for the assignment of an old-age labor pension (this is 5 years when assigning an old-age labor pension on a general basis and the insurance period for the early assignment of an old-age labor pension, specified in the relevant subparagraphs of paragraph 1 of Art. 27 and 28 of the Law on Labor Pensions);
- when establishing the period of work based on testimony, it is taken into account starting from the employee reaching the age at which it is permissible to conclude an employment contract in accordance with the labor legislation in force on the day the employment relationship arose;
- witness testimony is taken into account only for the period of joint work when the witness has reached the age at which it is permissible to conclude an employment contract in accordance with the labor legislation in force on the day the relevant labor relationship arose.

After registering a citizen in the personalized accounting system, the length of service must be confirmed on the basis of information from the individual (personalized) accounting.

According to paragraph 3 of Art. 19 of the Law on Labor Pensions, if the personalized accounting data does not contain the information necessary for assigning a labor pension, the body providing pensions explains to the person applying for a pension what additional documents need to be submitted.

If a citizen goes to court to confirm his work experience (no matter whether it took place before or after registration in the persuchet system), he has the right to present any evidence confirming his work experience, including the testimony of witnesses.

In practice, situations often arise when the Pension Fund authorities refuse to grant an early old-age pension for work in special working conditions due to insufficient information about the periods of work contained in the employee’s work book and the impossibility of confirming them with other documents, inconsistency in the wording of the job title ( profession) contained in the employee’s work book, the name of the position (profession) giving the right to such a pension, as well as the absence of the necessary certificates clarifying working conditions and the nature of the work performed; the inability to confirm periods of work to include them in the insurance (work) length of service when assigning a pension due to the lack of relevant documents from successor organizations and archival institutions; as well as the lack of necessary information on the insured person in the individual personalized accounting data.

Lists of relevant jobs, professions, positions, specialties and institutions (organizations) and the rules for calculating periods of work (activity) and assigning said pension are approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia, on the proposal of the federal executive authorities, by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 516 (clause 2), has been granted the right, in agreement with the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, to establish the identity of the names of the professions of workers and professions, taking into account which the right to preferential pension provision is granted, as well as the identity of positions and organizations (structural divisions) in relation to all categories of workers for whom an old-age labor pension is established early in accordance with Articles 27 and 28 of the Law on Labor Pensions (not to be confused with the identity of the work actually performed, which is established individually in each specific case - which is discussed below) . The basis for establishing identity may be documents submitted by federal executive authorities and information on the individual (personalized) registration of the insured person, from which it should be clear that the nature of the work in the profession (position) is similar to the nature of the work in the profession (position) provided for in Article 27 and 28 of the Law or Lists of relevant types of work.

In accordance with the List of documents approved by Resolution of the Ministry of Labor of Russia and the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation No. 16/19pa, documents confirming the the nature of the work performed or working conditions that give the right to early assignment of an old-age labor pension (clause 1, article 27 and subclause 7-13, clause 1, article 28 of the Law on Labor Pensions).

The procedure for confirming periods of work giving the right to early assignment of an old-age labor pension, in accordance with Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 516, should be approved by the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia in agreement with the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, but is not yet available. Therefore, today the bodies providing pensions, when resolving these issues, are guided by the general rules for confirming length of service, which are set out above.

It is better when information about the work is reflected in the most complete way in the work book:

The full name of the enterprise, institution, workshop, site or other structural unit is indicated;
- profession or position;
- date of admission, transfer and dismissal of the employee.

If there are no requirements for indicators of the nature of work and working conditions in the Lists, and the work book contains sufficient and reliable information about the production, profession (position) of the employee, then additional documents confirming the length of service giving the right to early pension provision are not required. If the work book data about the profession and production is not enough, then the employer can issue the employee additional certificates about his work, based on the constituent documents of the organization, job descriptions, etc.

But sometimes confirmation of not only the profession or position is required, but also indicators of working conditions. For example, a feature of the list of professions (positions) is that their full meaning in some cases is determined not only by the name of the profession (position), but also by the exact indication of the labor function, production operation. Sometimes the labor function depends on the direct employment of the employee in the technological departments provided for in the Lists. Often, an employee’s profession is determined not only by its name, but also by indicating the name of the machines, mechanisms, and units operated or maintained by the employee, as well as the nature of the work performed on them. Important are the requirements for those professions and positions that are determined by the place (object), structural unit of work, characterizing the conditions of the production environment.

In cases where the work book does not contain all the necessary information or if the legislation provides for additional factors (except for the names of professions and positions) for assigning this pension, the employer issues the employee a clarifying certificate about the nature of the work he performs, which indicates on the basis of which documents it is based. issued.

The main documents for this may be: orders to assign an employee to certain workshops, areas, equipment, staffing schedules, workplace certification cards for working conditions, records of actual employment in jobs that give the right to early retirement (where this is necessary for specialized repair services and workshops), job and work instructions, technological regulations, inventory list of main equipment, a unified tariff and qualification directory of works and professions of workers, a safety briefing book, task logs, technical data sheets of equipment and other documents of the enterprise confirming the fact of working in hazardous conditions.

In a number of cases, when the enterprise has not retained the necessary documents, but for a number of years the production technology and equipment have not changed, the nature of work and working conditions of workers have not changed, documents valid at the enterprise at a given period of time can be used to confirm special experience (however , in this case, the immutability of equipment, technology, etc. requires additional confirmation).

In any case, questions about which jobs belong to the Lists, which employees are employed in jobs that give the right to early assignment of an old-age pension, fall within the competence of the employer and are confirmed by available documents containing the necessary information.

The basis for assignment to a specific production provided for by the Lists may be technological regulations, documents of planning and production departments that characterize a structural unit according to production characteristics, ETKS, each issue of which represents a list of professions for one or more productions. The nature of production can be judged by the names of structural divisions (shops, sections, etc.). The issue of classifying a specific production as production, employment in which gives the right to pension benefits, can be considered in accordance with the All-Russian Classifier of Economic Activities, put into effect on January 1, 2003, and for the period before this date - in accordance with the All-Russian Classifier of Economic Activities, products and services and the All-Union Classifier of Industries of the National Economy. Production means the manufacture of products specified in the Lists, regardless of whether the organization (enterprise) as a whole is engaged in the manufacture of these products or only a workshop, site, department, etc.

In accordance with the previously existing procedure for confirming work experience (clause 9 of Article 30 of the Law on Labor Pensions allows for the use of the previously existing procedure for confirming work experience) and the currently valid Rules for calculating and confirming insurance experience for establishing labor pensions No. 555, special experience for an employee’s direct application to the Pension Fund cannot be confirmed by witness testimony (except in cases of loss of documents as a result of emergency situations).

However, when considering this category of cases in courts, judges proceed from the following position: “the nature of the work can be confirmed by testimony, since the pension legislation does not contain any restrictions on the methods of proof and the court has the right to take into account any means of proof provided for by the Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation, including the testimony of witnesses.”

According to the resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 25, “in the event of a citizen’s disagreement with the refusal of the pension authority to include in the special work experience the period of his work that, in the plaintiff’s opinion, is subject to inclusion in the special work experience, it is necessary to take into account that the question of the type (type) institution (organization), the identity of the functions performed by the plaintiff, the conditions and nature of the activity with those jobs (positions, professions) that give the right to early assignment of an old-age pension must be decided by the court based on the specific circumstances of each case established at the court hearing (nature and specifics, conditions of the work carried out by the plaintiff, the functional duties he performs in his positions and professions, workload, taking into account the goals and objectives, as well as the areas of activity of the institutions, organizations in which he worked, etc.).”

In some cases, it is required to confirm permanent employment in the relevant types of work (for example, in accordance with clause 4 of Rules No. 516, periods of work performed continuously full-time are counted as special length of service, unless otherwise provided by these Rules or other regulatory legal acts ).

The duration of a full working day (shift) is determined based on normal or reduced working hours in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. Special breaks for heating and rest provided to individual employees, due to technology, production organization or climatic conditions, are included in working hours.

The concept of a full working day is contained in paragraph 5 of Resolution of the Ministry of Labor of Russia No. 29. It refers to the performance of work in the working conditions provided for by the Lists for at least 80 percent of the working time. In this case, the specified time includes the time for performing preparatory and auxiliary work, and for workers performing work using machines and mechanisms, also the time for performing routine repair work and work on the technical operation of equipment. The specified time may include the time of work performed outside the workplace in order to ensure basic job functions. If employees, due to a reduction in production volumes, worked part-time, but performed full-time work that gave them the right to a pension due to special working conditions, then a special length of service giving them the right to a pension due to special working conditions , is calculated by him according to the time actually worked.”

To confirm permanent full-time employment, logs and time sheets, personal accounts, etc. can be used.

At the same time, in accordance with the “Methodological recommendations for conducting documentary (on-site) checks of the reliability of information about periods of work giving the right to early pension provision according to Lists No. 1 and 2”, approved by the Deputy Manager of the State Institution - PFR Branch for Moscow and Moscow Region region: “if an organization or its specific division (workshop, site, etc.) worked stably, without downtime, then there is no need to check the permanent employment of workers hired for permanent work (practically for the period before 1992, the stability of work in industry, construction and transport was observed)".

Calculation of work experience

Documents confirming periods of work (service, activity) included in the insurance period are presented by the insured person at the place of destination and payment of benefits (to the employer or the territorial body of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation).

In the absence of a work book, as well as in the case where it contains incorrect and inaccurate information or there are no records about individual periods of work, the following are accepted to confirm the periods of work:

Written employment contracts drawn up in accordance with the labor laws in force at that time;
certificates issued by employers or relevant state (municipal) bodies;
extracts from orders;
personal accounts;
payroll statements.

Documents issued to confirm the length of service must contain:

Number and date of issue;
- last name, first name, patronymic and date of birth of the employee;
- place and period of work, profession (position);
- grounds for issuing a document (for example, orders, personal accounts).

If the first name, patronymic or last name of a citizen in the document on insurance experience does not coincide with his first name, patronymic or last name indicated in the passport or birth certificate, the fact that this document belongs to this citizen is established on the basis of a marriage certificate, a certificate of change of name, certificates from competent bodies (officials) of foreign states or in court.

If the periods of work (service, activity) included in the insurance period coincide in time, one of such periods is taken into account at the choice of the insured person. The choice must be confirmed with a statement indicating the period selected for inclusion in the insurance period.

Calculation of periods of work (service, activity) is carried out in calendar order based on full months (30 days) and a full year (12 months). In this case, every 30 days of these periods are converted into full months, and every 12 months of these periods are converted into full years. If the submitted document on periods of work (service, activity) indicates only years without indicating exact dates, the date is taken to be July 1 of the corresponding year, and if the day of the month is not indicated, then the 15th day of the corresponding month is taken as the date (clause 27 Rules for calculating insurance experience).

The amount of some types of social benefits depends on the length of the employee’s insurance coverage.

Thus, when calculating benefits for temporary disability, the duration of the insurance period must be known for two purposes:

Depending on the length of the insurance period of the insured person (employee), the amount of temporary disability benefits is determined as a percentage of average earnings;
- the size of the maximum amount of temporary disability benefits paid for a full calendar month depends on the length of the insurance period.

In addition, the maximum amount of maternity benefits paid for a full calendar month depends on the length of the insurance period.

The general procedure for calculating the duration of the insurance period of the insured person is established by Art. 16 of Federal Law No. 255-FZ.

Detailed Rules for calculating and confirming the insurance period for determining the amount of benefits for temporary disability, pregnancy and childbirth, approved by Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia No. 91;

Let's consider the procedure for calculating an employee's insurance experience (used to determine the amount of social benefits) according to his work book.

Please note that entries in the work book taken into account when calculating the length of insurance must be drawn up in accordance with the labor legislation in force on the day they were entered into the work book (clause 24 of the Rules for calculating the length of insurance).

According to clause 7 of the Rules for calculating the insurance period, the insurance period is determined when the employer assigns benefits on the day of the occurrence of the corresponding insured event (temporary disability or maternity leave).

For the purpose of determining the duration of the insurance period, a month of insurance period is equal to 30 calendar days, and a year of insurance period is equal to 360 calendar days (30 days x 12 months). Therefore, when calculating the length of service, first of all it is necessary to determine the number of calendar days in the periods included in the employee’s insurance period. Then calculate the number of complete months and the number of complete years.

Types of work experience

One of the most important legal facts with which the legislator associates the emergence of most legal relations in the field of social security is length of service. Its presence significantly affects the scope of rights of disabled citizens in the field of social security.

Work experience is understood as the total duration of labor activity (work, study) and other socially useful activities, both paid and unpaid. Work experience, as a special measure of the magnitude of work activity, has quantitative and qualitative characteristics.

A quantitative characteristic of work experience is its duration; a qualitative characteristic reflects the nature and conditions in which labor activity takes place (harmfulness, severity, danger, etc.).

Depending on the qualitative and quantitative characteristics, the following types of work experience are distinguished:

A) general labor;
b) special labor;
c) continuous work;
d) insurance.

Special work experience

Special length of service is the total duration of a certain work activity (service).

The following types of special work experience are distinguished.

1. Special length of service taken into account when granting an old-age pension early:

Men and women, if they have worked, respectively, for at least 10 years and 7 years 6 months in underground work, in work with hazardous working conditions and in hot shops and have an insurance record of at least 20 and 15 years, respectively;
men and women, if they have worked in jobs with difficult working conditions for at least 12 years, 6 months and 10 years, respectively, and have an insurance record of at least 25 and 20 years, respectively;
women if they have worked as tractor drivers in agriculture, other sectors of the economy, as well as as drivers of construction, road and loading and unloading machines for at least 15 years and have an insurance record of at least 20 years;
women if they have worked for at least 20 years in the textile industry in work with increased intensity and severity;
men, women, if they have worked respectively for at least 12 years, 6 months and 10 years as locomotive crew workers and workers of certain categories who directly organize transportation and ensure traffic safety on railway transport and in the subway, as well as directly as truck drivers in the technological process in mines, open-pit mines, mines or ore quarries for the removal of coal, shale, ore, rock and have an insurance record of at least 25 and 20 years, respectively;
men, women, if they have worked respectively for at least 12 years, 6 months and 10 years in expeditions, parties, detachments, on sites and in teams directly on field geological exploration, prospecting, topographic-geodetic, geophysical, hydrographic, hydrological, forest management and survey work and have an insurance experience of at least 25 and 20 years, respectively;
men, women, if they have worked respectively for at least 12 years, 6 months and 10 years as workers, foremen directly in logging and rafting operations, including maintenance of machinery and equipment, and have an insurance record of at least 25 and 20 years, respectively;
for men and women upon reaching the age of 50 years, if they have worked for at least 20 and 15 years, respectively, as machine operators for complex teams during loading and unloading operations in ports and have an insurance record of at least 25 and 20 years, respectively, etc.

2. Length of service:

A) in military and equivalent service;
b) employees of the prosecutor's office;
c) customs officials;
d) length of service in connection with:
with work in emergency rescue services;
with work in civil aviation;
with teaching activities;
with medical and other work to protect public health;
with creative work on the stage of theaters and in other theatrical and entertainment organizations and groups.

Social work experience

The insurance period is not uniform; It is possible to distinguish between regular insurance experience and special insurance experience.

The legal significance of the insurance period is that it is necessary to determine the right to certain types of social security (insurance pension, temporary disability benefits, etc.).

The legal definition of the concept of “insurance period” is given in Art. 3 of the Law on Insurance Pensions is the total duration of periods of work and (or) other activities for which insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation were calculated and paid, as well as other periods counted towards the insurance period, taken into account when determining the right to an insurance pension and its size. This definition is fully applicable to regular insurance coverage.

The total insurance period includes periods of work and (or) other activities that were performed on the territory of the Russian Federation, provided that during these periods insurance contributions were paid to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

Insurance premiums must be paid for the following citizens:

– working under an employment contract or under a civil law contract, the subject of which is the performance of work and the provision of services, as well as under a copyright and licensing agreement;
– those who provide themselves with work (individual entrepreneurs, lawyers, notaries engaged in private practice);
– who are members of peasant (farm) households;
– working outside the territory of the Russian Federation in cases provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation or international treaties of the Russian Federation, or in the case of voluntary payment of insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation;
– who are members of tribal, family communities of small peoples of the North, engaged in traditional economic sectors;
- clergy, etc.

Work performed while serving a sentence is included in the insurance period starting from September 1, 1992.

Along with work, other periods are included in the regular insurance period (Article 12 of the Law on Insurance Pensions):

1) the period of military and law enforcement service;
2) the period of receiving compulsory social insurance benefits during the period of temporary disability;
3) the period of care of one of the parents for each child until he reaches the age of one and a half years, but not more than six years in total (until 2015, it was possible to include in the length of service periods of care for children until they reach the age of 1.5 years, no more 4.5 years in total);
4) the period of receiving unemployment benefits, the period of participation in paid public works and the period of moving or resettlement in the direction of the state employment service to another area for employment;
5) the period of detention of persons who were unjustifiably prosecuted, unjustifiably repressed and subsequently rehabilitated, and the period of serving their sentences in places of imprisonment and exile;
6) the period of care provided by an able-bodied person for a group I disabled person, a disabled child or a person who has reached the age of 80 years;
7) the period of residence of spouses of military personnel performing military service under a contract, together with their spouses, in areas where they could not work due to lack of employment opportunities, but not more than five years in total;
8) the period of residence abroad of spouses of employees sent to diplomatic missions and consular offices of the Russian Federation, permanent missions of the Russian Federation to international organizations, trade missions of the Russian Federation in foreign countries, representative offices of federal executive authorities, state bodies under federal executive authorities or as representatives of these bodies abroad, as well as to representative offices of state institutions of the Russian Federation (state bodies and state institutions of the USSR) abroad and international organizations, the list of which is approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, but not more than five years in total.

The specified periods are included in the regular insurance period if they were preceded and (or) followed by periods of work and (or) other activities (regardless of their duration).

As a general rule, the insurance period is calculated in calendar order on the basis of a full year (12 months), with every 30 days of these periods converted into months, and every 12 months of these periods converted into full years. If the time of work coincides with other periods, when calculating the insurance period, one of such periods is taken into account at the choice of the person applying for a pension.

There are two exceptions to this rule:

1) when calculating the insurance period, periods of work during the full navigation period on water transport and during the full season in organizations of seasonal industries determined by the Government of the Russian Federation are taken into account in such a way that the duration of the insurance period in the corresponding calendar year is a full year (for seasonal industries include: peat, logging, butter and cheese making, dairy industry, meat, fish, sugar, fruit and vegetable industry, timber rafting and forestry);
2) if the insurance period is calculated for military pensioners or cosmonaut pensioners (when determining their share of the labor pension), the periods taken into account when determining the right to a “military” pension are not taken into account.

Special insurance length of service is the total duration of periods of labor activity in working conditions that differ from normal ones.

The following types of special insurance experience can be distinguished:

– according to working conditions;
– by organizations and positions;
- in the area where the activity was carried out.

The legal significance of special insurance experience is that the right to early old-age insurance pensions depends on its availability.

Article 30 of the Law on Insurance Pensions describes working conditions, employment in which requires early pension provision (underground, mining, in hot shops, etc.), and periods of work included in the special insurance period are contained in special lists approved by Government resolutions RF.

Special insurance experience for working conditions includes:

– experience in underground work, work with hazardous working conditions and in hot shops;
– experience working under difficult working conditions;
– women’s work experience as tractor drivers in agriculture and other sectors of the economy, as well as as drivers of construction, road and loading and unloading machines;
– women’s work experience in the textile industry in jobs with increased intensity and severity;
– work experience as working locomotive crews and workers of certain categories directly organizing transportation and ensuring traffic safety on railway transport and the subway, as well as as truck drivers and directly in the technological process in mines, open-pit mines, mines or ore quarries in export of coal, shale, ore, rock;
– work experience in expeditions, parties, detachments, on sites and in teams directly on field geological exploration, prospecting, topographic-geodetic, geophysical, hydrographic, forest management and survey work;
– work experience as workers and foremen (including senior ones) directly at logging and timber rafting sites, including servicing mechanisms and equipment;
– work experience as machine operators (docker-mechanizers) of complex teams during loading and unloading operations in ports;
– work experience as a crew member on ships of the sea, river and fishing industry fleets (with the exception of port ships constantly operating in the port waters, service and auxiliary and traveling ships, suburban and intracity vessels);
– work experience as drivers of buses, trolleybuses and trams on regular city passenger routes;
– length of service of citizens (including those temporarily sent or seconded) in the exclusion zone to eliminate the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant;
– work experience as a civil aviation flight crew;
– work experience in direct flight control of civil aviation aircraft;
– work experience in the engineering and technical staff in direct maintenance of civil aviation aircraft.

The calculation of special insurance experience for working conditions is carried out according to special rules that establish possible cases of summation of experience. For example, periods of work with difficult working conditions can be combined with underground work, work with hazardous working conditions and in hot shops; working in railway transport, as well as as truck drivers in the mining industry; geological exploration and survey work; work in logging and timber rafting; work as a crew member on ships of the sea, river and fishing industry fleets and the work of citizens in the exclusion zone to eliminate the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Special insurance experience for organizations and positions includes:

– work experience as rescuers;
– experience of working with convicts in the penal system;
– work experience in the State Fire Service;
– teaching experience;
– work experience in healthcare institutions;
– experience of creative activity on stage in theaters or theatrical and entertainment organizations.

Special insurance experience in the area where the activity was carried out includes employment in the regions of the Far North and areas equated to the regions of the Far North. The list of regions of the Far North and localities equivalent to them covers the Murmansk region, districts of the Arkhangelsk region, cities and districts of the Komi Republic, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a number of districts of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Magadan and Kamchatka regions, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), etc.

Sick leave work experience

From the norms of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, it is quite obvious that a sick leave certificate (officially called a certificate of incapacity for work) is a document on the basis of which benefits for temporary disability are paid.

This provision is provided for in Article 183 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, which requires the employer to pay benefits in accordance with federal laws. The Federal Law “On the provision of benefits for temporary disability, pregnancy and childbirth of citizens subject to compulsory social insurance” and Order of the Ministry of Health N 624n “On approval of the Procedure for issuing certificates of incapacity for work” approve the very procedure for issuing sick leave and the procedure for providing benefits.

In accordance with these regulations, the amount of temporary disability benefits paid on the basis of sick leave directly depends on length of service.

Thus, for those who have insurance experience of less than 5 years, the payment will be only 60% of average earnings, insurance experience of 5 to 8 years will entitle them to receive benefits in the amount of 80% of average earnings, and experience of 8 or more years allows pay the insured person 100% of his average earnings.

For those employees who received benefits in the amount of 100% before the entry into force of the new social security rules, the duration of the insurance period is not taken into account, and the amount of the benefit is retained. As for workers whose work experience has not exceeded six calendar months, their benefits will be equal to the amount of the minimum wage.

In addition, there is a clearly defined range of insurance events, in connection with the occurrence of which benefits are provided. Among them:

Illness or injury leading to loss of ability to work;
caring for a sick family member;
quarantine of the citizen himself, as well as his child (under 7 years old who attends a preschool educational organization) or other incapacitated family members;
the need for stationary prosthetics;
sanatorium-resort follow-up treatment in specialized organizations in the Russian Federation, indicated immediately after treatment in a hospital.

In all of the above cases, benefits are paid in amounts depending on length of service, as indicated above, and for the entire period of temporary disability. An exception is cases of sanatorium-resort follow-up treatment, where benefits for the period of stay are paid for no more than 24 calendar days, not counting tuberculosis diseases. Also, disabled people have the right to receive benefits for only 5 calendar months a year in total, while they can apply for payment for no more than 4 consecutive months a year.

The procedure for providing benefits to persons who work under fixed-term employment contracts with a validity period of less than six months is separately considered. For them, due to the urgency of the contract or employment contract, payment of benefits is provided for no more than 75 days of temporary disability, with the first day of payment being the day when the employee was supposed to begin performing work duties.

The importance of seniority

Pension provision is basic and one of the most important social guarantees for the stable development of society, since it directly affects the interests of the disabled population, and the number of this population is over 25 - 30% of the population of any country. This issue also indirectly concerns the entire working population.

For the Russian Federation, this issue is very relevant at this time, since according to the Ministry of Economic Development, in Russia today there are 47.9 million payers of the Unified Social Tax (UST) and there are 38.7 million pensioners.

The problem of the pension system of the Russian Federation is the gap between public consciousness and the realities of the economic and social life of the country. For example, the majority of the population still believes that pensions are financed by the state, while since 1991 the state has ceased to play the role of the main donor of pensions.

The right of Russian citizens to pension provision upon reaching the appropriate age is guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 7, paragraph 2 of Article 39).

Currently, the old-age labor pension in Russia consists of three parts: basic (guaranteed by the state, and its size is established by law in the form of a fixed amount), insurance (differentiated part, depends on the results of the work of a particular person) and funded (formed only for citizens 1967 year of birth and younger).

In connection with labor and other socially useful activities counted in the total length of service, the following basic types of pensions are assigned:

By old age (by age);
- on disability;
- social;
- for length of service.

Modern pension reforms involve the creation of so-called funded pension systems. Under such a system, contributions accumulated in the pension system through payments by the employee and his employer are not spent on payments to today's retirees, but are accumulated, invested and generate income until the payer retires. All the payer’s savings and all his investment income received on these savings are his personal property, which will ensure the payment of the pension.

An elderly person under this system does not depend on either the state or the younger generation. In this case, there can be no pension equalization, while at the same time the economy receives enormous resources for long-term investments.

The basic principles by which an increasing number of countries are switching from a pay-as-you-go system to a funded system are as follows:

A) with a funded pension system, there is a direct connection between how much a person earned and what the size of his pension will be. Money in pension accounts is the property of citizens, not the state, therefore the reliability of pension provision in the savings system increases;
b) the demographic situation in the world today is such that there are gradually fewer and fewer people working per elderly person;
c) the funded system increases the rate of savings in the country, which is very important for accelerating economic growth, especially since the main factor determining the low level of pensions in the Russian Federation is the state of the economy and labor productivity.

However, if there is a shortage of financial resources within the pension system, a process of redistribution occurs from recipients of maximum pensions to recipients of minimum ones. As a result, the dependence of the pension size on length of service and average earnings is reduced. This further reduces interest in paying insurance premiums. As a result, the financial situation of the pension system is deteriorating. Under these conditions, supporting the minimum pension amount leads to a decrease in the maximum; citizens consider it unfair to assign almost the same pension when people make different contributions to the development of the economy; this leads to a deterioration in the payment of insurance premiums, and the cycle repeats.

The need for pension reform in the Russian Federation is generally recognized. The current pension system does not satisfy many: pensioners - due to the clearly low size of pensions; employers - due to prohibitively high insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation; the authorities - due to the dissatisfaction of a significant part of the population with the low standard of living of pensioners; regions - since some of them - donors must share significantly with others, and the latter believe that the subsidies allocated to them are too small.

Existing funded pension programs are stalling. People in general are not always inclined to rational economic behavior. The state should much more strictly motivate entrepreneurs and working citizens to create personal and corporate pension savings, and the owners of these savings should be citizens, and not the state or corporations. The activities of institutions managing pension money need to be made as transparent as possible; only under such conditions will the trust of the generation of future retirees increase in 2020 and beyond.

It is necessary to explain to the population the need and expediency of the funded principles of pension financing, both in the mandatory and voluntary parts. The state, for its part, can also use the levers of material incentives for citizens to participate in savings systems, both through tax breaks and through the payment of subsidies to certain categories of citizens forming their pension savings.

Work experience gives each person guarantees for the payment of temporary disability benefits and old-age and long-service pensions. Despite the shortcomings of the legislation on pension provision, work experience today continues to be the main way to ensure one’s existence after the termination of active work.

The Labor Code of the Russian Federation became the first federal law to propose a legal definition of social partnership, which is a system of relationships between employees (employee representatives), employers (employers' representatives), government bodies, local governments, aimed at ensuring coordination of the interests of workers and employers in matters regulation of labor relations and other relations directly related to them.

The fundamental difference of the new laws is that in order to obtain the right to an old-age pension, it is enough to have only five years of insurance experience (the total duration of periods of work and (or) other activities), during which insurance contributions were paid to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, as well as other periods counted in the insurance period.

In many ways, modern legal regulation of seniority is based on regulations that have long been morally outdated (and this despite the adoption of a whole set of laws). There is no doubt that their updating and systematization are necessary. The rules on various types of length of service (often even contradictory to each other) are “scattered” across dozens of normative acts at different levels. It is possible that the ideal option would be to adopt three or four consolidating acts that would incorporate all the provisions on seniority that are not regulated by legislative acts. It is necessary to think about how to legally ensure the correct calculation of length of service and what to do to create a transparent and understandable pension system.

Consideration of length of service in modern social security law is possible only in line with the reform of pension legislation. And among the significant shortcomings of modern pension reform, experts note that the amount of length of service has virtually no effect on the size of the employee’s future pension. Meanwhile, it would be fair for the employee’s earnings and length of service to determine the amount of his pension, and he would be interested in paying pension contributions that would be used to support current retirees.

Unfortunately, the legislator did not listen to the opinion of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation that young workers, to the same extent as experienced workers, may need insurance coverage, and retained the general procedure for determining the amount of temporary disability benefits depending on the duration of work. It has been established that insured persons with an insurance period of less than 6 months are paid temporary disability benefits and maternity benefits in an amount not exceeding the minimum wage for a full calendar month.

The rule of law is based on social partnership. As a social state, the Russian Federation is called upon to direct its policies towards ensuring conditions for a decent life and free development of people. Providing conditions for citizens to exercise social, social and labor rights is one of the principles of the activities of a legal democratic social state.

It is important to understand that in the field of social security there is no single legal relationship into which a citizen can enter and within its framework receive all the required benefits.

Justice is a worthy reward for good work, without leveling and fleecing the hardworking in favor of the lazy and idle, I believe that the exception to this rule is age and health. Therefore, when distributing funds, the unconditional priorities should include: a secure old age for those who have already served their time, support for children and youth at the beginning of their life’s journey and care for people with disabilities, inclusion of studies in technical schools and institutes that were previously excluded from the length of service, as well as taking into account work experience when calculating pensions after 2002.

Now more than ever there is a need for the formation of new independent trade unions that will actually protect hired workers and defend their interests in relations with employers.

The size of the pension largely depends on the length of insurance coverage. More precisely, from the time during which contributions to the Pension Fund are paid. These contributions cannot be less than a certain minimum. Therefore, if an employee receives a salary “in an envelope” and signs on the payroll for an amount less than the minimum wage, he is simply deprived of his insurance period.

Currently, our country, like the whole world, is experiencing the consequences of the global crisis; it seems to me that in order to stabilize the situation, a program is needed to control migration flows to Russia, in which it is necessary to provide for the attraction of labor resources only in accordance with the urgent needs of the regions, enshrined in the relevant regulations documents or quotas.

Work experience documents

The main document confirming work experience is the work book. In the absence of a work book, as well as in cases where the work book contains incorrect and inaccurate entries, or does not contain records about individual periods of work, certificates, extracts from orders, personal accounts and statements for the payment of wages, certificates are accepted to confirm work experience , characteristics, written employment contracts and agreements with notes on their execution, labor, service and registration lists, membership books of members of cooperative fishing artels and cooperative artels of disabled people and other documents containing information about periods of work.

In the absence of these documents, pay books and trade union membership cards, and trade union member registration cards are accepted as evidence of work experience. In this case, paybooks confirm periods of work only for the time for which there are notes on the payment of wages, and trade union membership cards or trade union member registration cards - for the time for which there are notes on the payment of membership fees from wages or scholarships.

The working hours of persons engaged in self-employment, who had registration certificates or patents issued by the executive committees of local Soviets of People's Deputies, are established according to certificates from financial authorities confirming their payment of taxes on income received from this activity.

The working hours of persons engaged in labor activities on an individual or group lease basis are established according to certificates from the state social insurance fund.

Since January 1, 1991, the working hours of persons engaged in individual labor activities, as well as persons engaged in labor activities on an individual or group lease basis, are established based on certificates of payment of insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the RSFSR.

In confirmation of military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR, state security and internal affairs bodies, stay in partisan detachments during the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, the following are accepted:

Military IDs;
- Red Army books;
- certificates from military commissariats, higher military units, headquarters and institutions of the USSR Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and the RSFSR, the State Security Committee of the USSR and the RSFSR;
- certificates from archival and military medical institutions;
- records of military service entered into the work book on the basis of documents.

The time spent in partisan detachments and formations during the Great Patriotic War is established according to certificates from the headquarters of the partisan movement or archival institutions (at the place of activity of the partisan detachments and formations).

Military service in the active army during hostilities, including during the performance of international duty, is counted towards the length of service in a preferential calculation on the basis of certificates from military commissariats, issued in the manner determined by the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (the certificate form is attached).

To confirm service in the internal affairs bodies, records of such service entered into the work book on the basis of documents are accepted, and in their absence - certificates issued in the manner determined by the Ministries of Internal Affairs of the USSR and the RSFSR.

The time of service in paramilitary security, in special communications agencies and in mine rescue units is established in the manner set out in clause 1.1. of this Regulation.

The time of study in higher, secondary special and vocational educational institutions, in graduate school, doctoral studies and clinical residency, in schools and courses for personnel training, advanced training and retraining is confirmed by diplomas, certificates, certificates, as well as certificates and other documents issued based on archival data and containing information about periods of study.

In the absence of such information in the documents, certificates of the duration of study at a given educational institution in the relevant years are accepted as evidence of study time, provided that the documents indicate the end of the full educational period or its individual stages.

The duration of temporary incapacity for work that began during the period of work is established by certificates issued at the place of work or by medical institutions.

The time of care for a disabled person of group 1, a disabled child under 16 years old, an elderly person, if he needs outside care based on the conclusion of a medical institution, is established by the social security authority at the place of residence of the person for whom care was provided, based on:

Applications and passports of the person who cared for these persons (extracts from the passport are made in accordance with the current procedure). For persons living together with people in need of care, no other documents are required;
- for persons living separately from those in need of care - confirmation of the person for whom care was provided, and if it is impossible to receive it (due to death, health status) - members of his family or an examination report;
- documents certifying the fact and duration of disability (for disabled people of group 1 and disabled children) and age (for the elderly and disabled children).

The following documents can be accepted as evidence of disability: an extract from the examination report at the VTEK, a medical report, a pension certificate, a benefit recipient's certificate, a certificate from the social security agency and others, and in relation to disabled children who have not received appropriate benefits, medical certificates institutions that their disease is provided for in the Medical Indications for which a child under the age of 16 is recognized as disabled, and about the time of registration of the child in a medical institution for this disease.

Certificates from medical institutions can be accepted as documents certifying the need for outside care.

The time of a non-working mother's care for young children is established according to documents certifying the birth of the child (birth certificate) and the child's attainment of 3 years of age (passport extract, marriage certificate, death certificate, certificates from housing authorities, etc.).

The length of stay of rehabilitated citizens (including citizens from among repressed peoples) in places of imprisonment, exile (special settlement), or detention is confirmed by a certificate from the department of internal affairs of the region, territory, republic from which the rehabilitated citizen was released.

The certificate indicates the decision of judicial and non-judicial authorities, on the basis of which the citizen was unreasonably convicted, indicating their reversal and the grounds for termination of the case.

Citizens from among the repressed peoples are considered rehabilitated on the basis of the RSFSR Law “On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples”. No additional documents on rehabilitation are required.

The period of residence of wives of officers, warrant officers, midshipmen and long-term servicemen with their husbands in areas where there was no possibility of their employment in their specialty is confirmed by certificates issued by commanders (chiefs) of higher military units, institutions, military educational institutions, enterprises and organizations, in the manner determined by the USSR Ministry of Defense (certificate form attached).

At the same time, for the wives of military personnel discharged from active military service before January 1, 1990, the period of residence with their husbands in areas where there was no possibility of their employment in their specialty is confirmed by certificates issued by military commissariats.

The period of residence in Leningrad during its siege during the Great Patriotic War from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944 is established on the basis of:

Certificates from housing authorities: extracts from the house register or apartment lists, capital cards, etc.,
- documents on the timing of evacuation from Leningrad: evacuation certificates, mobilization orders, etc.,
- certificates from the Leningrad social security authorities confirming the absence of information at the place of residence about leaving or being sent for evacuation.

This time is counted toward the length of service on a preferential basis, regardless of the age of persons living in Leningrad during the specified period.

To confirm the period of stay in the temporarily occupied territory of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, certificates from the executive committees of rural (village), district or city Councils of People's Deputies are accepted. The specified period is counted towards the length of service if there is a certificate from the state security authorities indicating that the citizen did not commit a crime against the Motherland at that time.

The period of residence of persons forcibly removed from the temporarily occupied territory of the USSR on the territory of states that were at war with the USSR, and the stay of prisoners, including children (regardless of age), in fascist concentration camps, ghettos and other places of forced detention during the Great Patriotic War Patriotic War is confirmed by any documents of that time containing the necessary information.

In the absence of such documents, certificates issued by archival institutions, state security or internal affairs bodies at the place of arrival of the indicated persons in the USSR, as well as by the Office for the Search of Soviet and Foreign Citizens of the Executive Committee of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of the USSR or witness statements are accepted (see. clause 2.6 of these Regulations).

The time spent living on the territory of states that were at war with the USSR, and being in fascist concentration camps (ghettos and other places of forced detention) during the Great Patriotic War is counted as work experience if there is a certificate from the state security authorities, which indicates that this citizen at that time period did not commit crimes against the Motherland.