Last modified: January 2020
The topic of total seniority is often associated with conversations about the calculation of pensions. However, at the legislative level, such a term is not provided, implying the summation of periods, which is included in the total length of service, when a person worked or was engaged in activities for the benefit of society, which was the reason for granting a citizen the right to use social guarantees, including pensions.
Concept definition
Under the definition of a labor guard is hidden the time when a citizen was engaged in labor, including all periods of labor. The concept allows you to understand the features of the activities carried out, based on the profession, qualifications, working conditions and other characteristics associated with work.
The concept includes any human activity, labor and equivalent, including paid socially useful work, as well as activities related to labor certain social rights.
The duration of employment is calculated in the usual time categories - years and months, days are rounded up if more than 0.5 months have been worked. When calculating the time occupied by human activities, it is the fact of payment. That is, only paid time will be included in the length of service.
During life, a person does not work every calendar day. The employee has days off, holidays, the right to annual leave. This time is not excluded from the total length of service, since it is not reflected in the records in the labor.
There are other time intervals to be taken into account. For workers and workers who issued a decree, it is important to know that caring for a newborn is included in the total calculation. For men, the answer is more interesting. For all employees, these are periods of sick leave or the time when public or state duties were performed that required separation from work.
The concept of total work experience is an outdated concept, replaced since 2002 by the definition of "insurance", after the next pension reform was carried out, aimed at creating a new order of social, pension insurance.
After the latest amendments to the legislation came into force, enterprises began to pay insurance premiums for each employee without fail. The time during which contributions to the Pension Fund were paid for a citizen is included in the total length of service, which will further affect the appointment of a pension payment upon reaching a certain age.
What is included in the work experience
The periods included in the total length of service (insurance) include the duration of the entire period of work or other activities within the Russian Federation, during which the employer deducted contributions. In addition to the paid period of work, the time included in the length of service includes the circumstances that forced you to be absent from the workplace:
- military and equivalent service at the level of legislation, when labor activity was not carried out;
- the period of life spent by the employee not at the workplace, due to the need to provide care for a young child up to one and a half years old (maternity leave for the first four born children), regardless of his gender;
- the time interval when a person was absent from the workplace and did not perform duties due to temporary disability, confirmed by a sick leave;
- days of absence from work due to the need to exercise with the assignment of 1 disability group, for a disabled person from childhood, or for an elderly person upon reaching the 80th birthday;
- the time when, in fact, a citizen remained unemployed due to lack of work, subject to registration with the employment service and receiving benefits from the labor exchange, this also includes the period spent by the unemployed in public employment;
- days spent in custody, exile on charges that were later recognized as illegal, with the subsequent rehabilitation of the convicted or repressed.
Thus, the length of service does not necessarily include working days of periods of employment, but also intervals when labor activity was not carried out for reasons independent of the employee, guaranteed by law.
How to calculate the length of service for the "veteran of labor"
Separate benefits are provided for those who have spent a long period of life working in enterprises or performing other duties. There are two conditions that must be met in order to receive a “veteran of labor”:
- The presence of a total experience of 20-25 years (for men, the figure is higher).
- Accrual of preferential service, taken into account in the early right to retirement.
Labor activity, which began in the years 1941-1945, entails the assignment of a title if he has exceeded 35-40 years (for women and men, respectively). To calculate the veteran experience, generally accepted norms are taken into account, however, there are separate rules that help to increase the accrued period due to the time spent studying:
- Education in vocational institutions, schools of state labor reserves, colleges, retraining courses, subject to the fall of the study period for 1972-1991.
- Years of study in schools, secondary vocational institutions (pedagogical and medical workers), technical schools, universities. Condition - study must take place in the period 1972-1991. The main limiting factor is that before you go to study in the labor force, there must be a record of employment or military service.
- Years spent at a university, vocational school, institution of secondary special education, if their period fell on 1992-2001.
After the entry into force of the Federal Law "On Labor Pensions", training was no longer included when calculating the length of service, therefore, when determining the right to claim the title of "veteran of labor", only those whose studies began no later than 12/31/2001 can count on the inclusion of academic years. Besides
In accordance with the Federal Law of December 28, 2013 N 400-FZ, this document is not applicable from January 1, 2015, with the exception of the rules governing the calculation of the amount of labor pensions and subject to application in order to determine the amount of insurance pensions in the part that does not contradict the specified Federal Law.
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Special experience
The seniority includes a special variety, called, according to tradition from Soviet times, special.
Accrual occurs due to the performance of work duties in special conditions:
- harmful production;
- special branch of activity;
- severe climatic characteristics;
- special benefits due to special employment in certain positions or professions that affect earlier retirement, increased deductions, etc.
The special attitude to the calculation of pensions and the appointment of benefits, in comparison with the list of the Soviet period, has been seriously reduced.
You can get it:
- citizens with 1-2 disability groups, due to injuries or occupational diseases, working under special conditions;
- workers of hot shops, in underground conditions;
- categories of professions involving the inclusion of length of service (employees in the field of education, doctors, military personnel).
How is it calculated
The difficulty is the correct definition of the labor periods included in the length of service. It is calculated according to the dates of hiring and dismissal of the employee, rounding the duration in days up to a whole month.
The main documentary justification for determining the term is the work book. If a loss occurs, the employee will have to retrieve the records from the previous places of work, asking each of them for confirmation in the form of a certificate or an order for hiring and dismissal.
When calculating the duration of work taken into account for part-time workers, it is possible to choose which of the places of employment to take the term. A person chooses the employer where labor deductions were higher. If the part-time work experience exceeded the main one, or part-time work is more profitable for further pension calculations, then the employee has the right to choose an additional place of employment.
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For those who care about their future, work experience is not just years spent at work, but a guarantee of benefits, compensations provided for by the Russian Federation, as well as a future pension.
Types of work experience
There are several types of work experience:
- general (all labor activity of a person, including cases prescribed by law);
- special (assumes work experience in professions or institutions that are associated with difficult working conditions or disabilities of varying degrees);
- continuous (assumes a period of activity, upon reaching which benefits or allowances appear);
- insurance (this is the entire period of employment, during which insurance premiums were paid).
At first glance, seniority is the totality of the entire period of work activity. But there are moments at which seniority is also counted, we will consider them below.
Periods included in the length of service
1. Caring for a child under one and a half years old. There is one limitation at this point: no more than four and a half years in total per parent.
2. The period during which care was taken for a disabled person of the first group or a pensioner, the return of which is more than 80 years.
3. Temporary disability (sick leave).
4. When receiving unemployment benefits, for this you need to be in the employment service.
5. Passing service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation or equivalent to it.
6. Participation in public works, if these works were paid.
7. The length of service also includes moving to another locality, if this need is carried out in the direction of the employment service.
8. The length of service may be accrued to the spouses of military personnel if they could not find a job due to the fact that there was no work in the profession at the place of service of the spouse. There are limitations here: in total, no more than five years are taken into account.
9. For a similar reason, which is above, the length of service is counted to the spouses of employees who perform their work in diplomatic centers and consular offices of the Russian Federation. The restriction is the same: no more than five years.
10. Another period may be the period of detention or detention in places of deprivation of liberty, if criminal liability is removed (recognized as invalid).
An important point on the first point is that from 01/01/14 there was a change in the total period (before that it was three years), therefore, if the pension was issued before this date, then it is subject to recalculation.
If you are going to retire or get a job, then you must know what seniority is and how to calculate it correctly. After all, not only the amount of future social payments, but also some allowances from the state will depend on the amount of experience.
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Definition of “Work experience”
The length of service for both men and women is the number of years that a person has worked at work. In some cases, the length of service may include a period when a citizen did not work for one reason or another. All these circumstances are described in the labor code of the Russian Federation. The total length of service can be calculated using a work book, in which all periods of a citizen's labor activity are entered.
The note! The rights to social benefits of a person will depend on the number and other characteristics of the length of service.
Types of work experience
In order to calculate the length of service correctly, it is necessary to define the types of experience, as well as to know how to correctly calculate. So, there are 3 types of experience:
- General work experience. Total work experience is the total number of years worked. When calculating the total length of service, the position or salary is not taken into account. The total number of years when a person worked for any enterprise or firm is calculated. The amount of a citizen's pension will depend on this type of experience.
The note! It is worth noting that the years of study of a person at an institute or university can also be taken into account in the total experience. The corresponding entry is made in the work book after graduating from a higher educational institution or after receiving a diploma.
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The further amount of the pension will not depend on this type of seniority, but it may affect additional benefits for the worker. An example of such benefits may be vouchers to sanatoriums, additional bonuses and other cash payments, as well as subsidies for utilities and other services.
The note! This type of experience includes a period when a citizen held a certain position in one of the enterprises for a certain number of years (continuously).
- Special experience. The type of experience in which the number of years worked in a particular profession or position is taken into account. This experience includes the professions of military personnel, work in special services and bodies, etc.
In addition to these types of experience, there is also an insurance experience, which takes into account the periods when a citizen made insurance contributions to the Pension Fund. This type of seniority is taken into account when a person retires for old age.
The work experience includes the following periods:
- Unemployment registration.
- Service in the army, police department, as well as institutions of the system of correction of citizens.
- Maternity leave and raising a child up to 1.5 years.
- Participation in public works.
- Long-term and short-term stay in exile or prison.
- Disabled care.
These periods are stipulated by law and will be included in the general length of service of a citizen, if before that a person worked at least 1 day, while enrollments were made to the Pension Fund of Russia.
Calculation of seniority
It is quite simple to calculate the length of service, for this you need to calculate the number of years worked, which are indicated in the work book. The minimum work experience is 20 years for women and 25 for men. If the length of service in your work book is lower, the amount of the pension will be reduced accordingly.
It is worth noting that the right to a pension also depends on insurance contributions to the pension fund. As a rule, these contributions are deducted from the salary of workers in formal employment. If, for one reason or another, a citizen is not officially employed, contributions on his behalf to the pension fund may not be made. That is why the government of the country is doing everything possible to ensure that every citizen is confident in his future and is introducing new pension reforms and systems.
The note! In order to calculate not only your length of service, but also the amount of monthly income after retirement, you need to contact the accounting department at the place of work and ask for a printout confirming insurance transfers, as well as an algorithm for calculating a pension.
Rules for calculating continuous work experience
Since 2007, when calculating the pension, the amount of continuous service is not taken into account. The amount of the pension depends only on the periods of time when the citizen made insurance payments. Only in some cases may the amount of continuous experience be required, for example, when comparing it with insurance.
The insurance period also includes the following periods:
- Time spent caring for children until they are 1.5 years old (but no more than 4.5 years in general). It is worth noting that until 2014, a total period of only 3 years was taken into account.
- A period of temporary disability, for example, pregnancy, when payments were made from the social. insurance.
- Army and service in the Russian Armed Forces.
- The time of caring for the disabled, including children, while the care must be carried out by an able-bodied person.
- The time of residence of the family of military personnel in the area where they cannot get a job. In this case, the maximum insurance period is 5 years.
- Time of residence of spouses (wives / husbands) abroad. If one of the spouses was sent to work abroad as a diplomat or researcher, his wife or husband has the right to receive an insurance period of up to 5 years.
All the aforementioned periods are taken into account only if the citizen worked before and after any of the periods.
It is a well-known truth that a good old-age pension requires a good salary, received as long as possible in youth and maturity. But how many years do you need to work in order to be guaranteed a pension? In other words, what should be the length of service for calculating a pension?
The necessary conditions
Since 2015, working Russians have had a new pension system consisting of two separate components: an insurance pension and pension savings. The second of them is not yet working, so it remains to earn the first - insurance pensions. In order to qualify for them, you must:
- Men must reach the age of 60, women - 55 years. There are exceptions to this rule, when old-age insurance pensions are assigned ahead of schedule.
- Have the necessary experience for accruing an insurance pension, which is equal to 15 years, but this indicator will be valid only after 10 years, but for now it will consistently increase, starting from 6 years this year.
- Gain the sum of individual pension points (coefficients) - at least 30, but this indicator will also be introduced only after 11 years, but for now it will consistently increase, starting from 6.6 this year.
The amount of individual pension points (coefficients) is determined by the accrued and paid insurance premiums to the OPS system and by how long you have been for calculating a pension.
What is an insurance pension and insurance experience?
Seniority is a period of time in a person's life that affects the acquisition of a certain status (work experience, service experience, professional experience, etc.). On the other hand, experience is a special measure of a person's labor activity, which has both quantitative and qualitative characteristics.
In previous years, the possibility of receiving and the amount of benefits was influenced by the length of service for calculating a pension, which is the time a person carried out official labor activity with the production of pension contributions to the OPS system.
But, as mentioned above, it is precisely the insurance period that is required for an insurance pension. How does it differ from the concept of "work experience for calculating a pension"?
The Federal Law (FZ) No. 173, which was in force until 2015, operated with the concept of an old-age labor pension, which included two components: insurance and funded. The new Federal Law No. 400, which entered into force at the beginning of this year, removed the general concept of "labor pension" and at the same time elevated its insurance component to a separate type of pension provision. This is a visible evidence of the market thinking of Russian legislators, who indicated in the preamble to the law that the basis for an insurance pension can be not only labor activity, but also other socially useful activities of citizens carried out in a state with a market economy.
Some analysts equate the labor pension under Federal Law No. 173 and the insurance pension under Federal Law No. 400 based on the similarity of their definitions in both laws. Hence, in their opinion, the identity of the terms "work experience" and "insurance experience for calculating a pension" follows. However, the second of these concepts is undoubtedly wider, since includes, in addition to periods of work with the payment of insurance premiums to the Pension Fund, also periods when such payments could not be made, and the citizen did not officially work (for example, the time when he received unemployment benefits). 
What is the difference between the insurance component of the labor pension under Federal Law No. 173 and the insurance pension under Federal Law No. 400?
The changes affected the principle of accrual and conditions for the provision of pensions. For labor pensions, the total pension capital denominated in rubles was calculated. For an insurance pension, pension capital is accumulated in the form of points (pension coefficients) with an annual value in rubles increased by the state. To receive a labor pension, it was only necessary to accumulate seniority. The insurance pension will require a minimum period for calculating a pension (in fact, a minimum insurance period) and the sum of individual pension points (coefficients) at a level of at least six years and a value of 6.6 points, respectively, for the current year.
From 2016, these figures will increase. By 2024, it is planned to achieve the maximum established by Federal Law No. 400: the required length of service for calculating a pension will be 15 years, and the required amount of points will be 30 points. 
If you immigrated to Russia
The length of service for calculating pensions under Federal Law No. 400 includes those periods of time when work or other activities with the payment of insurance payments to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation were carried out on the territory of the Russian Federation. What if you moved to Russia from a CIS country and received Russian citizenship? Is the length of service earned outside the Russian Federation taken into account when calculating the Russian pension?
Yes, it is taken into account, but partially. In 1992, all CIS countries (except Azerbaijan) concluded a special agreement on this issue. It determined that if citizens move to other countries within the CIS, then when calculating their pension in the new country of residence, their entire work experience is taken into account (note, it is “work experience”, because the agreement of 1992!), Acquired in the territory of the former USSR until 03/13/1992
The work experience of an immigrant outside the Russian Federation after the start of the pension reform in it, i.e. since 2002, added to the Russian insurance record upon confirmation of the payment of insurance premiums in the PF of the former country of residence.
What periods of forced absence from work are included in the length of service?
Federal Law No. 400 takes into account the rights of those citizens who are forced to interrupt their work and, accordingly, the payment of insurance pension contributions. A person may temporarily lose his job and live on welfare, fall ill and be on sick leave for several months, mothers take care of small children, people take care of sick or elderly relatives. Often the wives of contract servicemen cannot find work in small military towns. There are also many cases when people are unfairly sentenced to imprisonment, which interrupts their insurance experience. Finally, citizens simply do military service in the RF Armed Forces or other government agencies.
Federal Law No. 400 includes all such non-insurance periods in the insurance period, if before or after them the persons had periods of work or other activities with the payment of insurance premiums. Therefore, the concept of "insurance experience" includes the length of service for calculating a pension and the periods of absence thereof, listed in Federal Law No. 400. 
Calculation of seniority for calculating a pension
Federal Law No. 400 establishes a calendar procedure for calculating the insurance period, i.e. one calendar year of work (or other activity accompanied by insurance payments) is equal to one year of the insurance period. It may happen, for example, that during the period of caring for a small child, a citizen also looked after an elderly relative. Other coincidences of two non-insurance periods in time are also possible. In this situation, any of these periods can be recorded in the insurance period at the choice of a citizen.
Self-employed citizens, farmers, citizens employed by individuals have the right to include in their insurance experience those periods of work (activity) during which insurance payments were made to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.
If citizens who receive pensions for length of service, as well as for disability received in the course of civil service, also apply for an insurance pension, then their length of service does not include periods of service taken into account when calculating the pensions they receive.
There is an interesting situation with the calculation of insurance experience for authors of works of literature and art, who usually sell licenses for their use and pay contributions to the PF from the amounts received. If in a particular year the amount of payments in the PF from such an author was more than the fixed contribution determined by Federal Law No. 212, then one full calendar year is included in the author's insurance experience. If the amount of the author's payments in the PF for the year is less than the fixed contribution under Federal Law No. 212, then a period calculated in months in proportion to the amount paid is included in his insurance period. 
How is the length of service calculated and confirmed for calculating a pension
In our country, the calculation of the insurance experience is divided into two time intervals:
- prior to the activation of the system of universal personalized accounting in 1996 in accordance with Federal Law No. 27;
- after the introduction of Federal Law No. 27.
In the first interval, in addition to individual accounting data (if any), it is possible to confirm the presence of insurance periods that are included in the insurance period with certificates from employers, government agencies or municipalities. In the second interval, such confirmation is made only according to information from the universal personalized accounting system.
If the documents on the work of a citizen relating to the first time interval are irretrievably lost due to a natural disaster and cannot be restored, then the periods of his work on the territory of the Russian Federation can be established based on the testimony of two or more witnesses. It is allowed to use this method of confirming the insurance period and in case of loss of documents through no fault of the employee due to careless storage, destruction due to malicious intent, etc. 
What is the conversion of pension rights
Before the beginning of the pension reform in the Russian Federation in 2002, two factors influenced the size of the pension:
- The total length of service for calculating a pension (or, in other words, the total length of service). It, like the insurance period according to Federal Law No. 400, is defined as the total duration of labor and other activities useful to society until January 1, 2002, including some periods when a citizen was forced to work (their list is much less than that of the insurance period). The total length of service is not associated with any insurance premiums.
- Average monthly earnings either for the last two years before retirement, or for any five years of work.
Consequently, the amount of the pension until 2002 was determined by the length of service and earnings in the chosen period of time.
Since 2002, each citizen began to accumulate estimated pension capital on his personal account in the Pension Fund from the monthly insurance premiums paid by employers. But what should the authorities of the Russian Federation do with the pension rights accumulated by citizens who worked before 2002? How to connect them with the accumulation of insurance premiums?
This problem was solved by the conversion of pension rights carried out in 2002. It consisted in converting these non-realizable rights into an equivalent estimated pension capital denominated in rubles. In 2010, this capital was increased as a result of valorization for all citizens by 10%, and for persons who had seniority in the period before 1991, by an additional 1% for each year of experience.
Is continuous service required to receive pension benefits?
There is no legal definition of this type of experience in the current legislation. But, having analyzed a number of existing regulatory documents, we can conclude that the continuous length of service for calculating a pension is the duration of the last work at one enterprise without a break or at a number of enterprises, provided that the breaks in work did not exceed the established periods (usually from one to three months in depending on the reason for the interruption of employment).
According to the current legislation, when determining the size of the insurance pension, the continuity of service is not taken into account. From 01.01.2007, according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the amount of benefits paid in case of temporary disability also does not depend on this indicator. Now it is calculated only by insurance experience.
"Northern" experience
The "Northern" seniority for calculating a pension is an indicator provided for those who live in the Far North and in areas equivalent to it, as well as for those who previously worked in such an area. Citizens of these categories can retire early (insurance). This right is given to women from the age of 50 and men from the age of 55, who have worked, respectively, from 15 or from 20 calendar years in the Far North or in areas that are equated to it, if they have an insurance mandatory experience for accrual of pensions from 20 and from 25 years, respectively.
Women with two or more children who have worked, respectively, from 12 or from 17 calendar years in the Far North or in areas that are equated to it, can also retire at the age of 50 if they have a mandatory insurance period of 20 years. years.
In addition, men and women who have worked in the Far North for 25 and 20 years respectively in fishing, reindeer herding or hunting can receive a pension at the age of 50 and 45.
The situation in Ukraine
How is the length of service for calculating a pension calculated in a neighboring state? Ukraine has gone through the same stages as the Russian Federation with the system of providing pensions to citizens. So, starting from 1991 and ending in 2004, it was regulated by the Law on Pensions, which provided for the accrual of pensions based on seniority and average monthly earnings for a certain period of time. In the same way as in Russian legislation before the start of the pension reform in 2002, Ukrainian pension legislation combined the periods of work of a citizen and some periods of forced absence from work into the concept of "general seniority".
Since 2004, the Law on Pension Insurance came into force, which is an analogue of Federal Law No. 173 and operates with the concepts of insurance experience and insurance premiums. In subsequent years, there were several attempts to continue the pension reform in Ukraine, but they did not lead to specific changes in the legislation, except for a gradual increase in the retirement age for women to 60 years.
Certain changes aimed at tightening the rules for granting pensions to selected categories of workers are taking place this year. Starting April 1, with the appointment of old-age pensions on preferential terms for work in harmful and difficult conditions, the retirement age for women will gradually increase from 45 to 50 years. In parallel, the total length of service, which is necessary for assigning preferential pensions to both men and women, will gradually increase by 5 years.
Seniority pensions will now also be awarded after a longer total length of service, and for some categories of workers - after a longer required length of service. This applies, in particular, to the workers of locomotive crews, workers of geological exploration parties, logging and timber rafting, sailors, teachers and doctors, artists, etc.
Sooner or later, but every person at a certain stage of life begins to be interested in how the length of service is calculated and what the size of the pension will be. Many people mistakenly confuse the total work and insurance experience, not understanding what data should be taken as the basis for calculating a pension. Today you will learn what is included in the length of service, what periods of life the state does not take into account, and on what indicators the size of the minimum social payment in old age depends.
The total length of service includes the entire period of your employment, that is, from the moment of registration to the last day at the workplace. It should be remembered that according to the laws of the Russian Federation, the state does not take into account the total experience, and the calculation of the pension is carried out thanks to the insurance experience. What is it? The insurance period takes into account only those months of your activity when the minimum insurance tax was paid to the pension service. That is, if, for example, you worked abroad for a year and did not pay taxes, then this period will not be taken into account when calculating your pension.
There are four types of experience:
- general;
- special;
- insurance;
- continuous.
We will take a closer look at each of them a little later, but for now, let's take a look at what intervals of professional activity are directly included in the total length of service.
What is included in work experience?
Many people are interested in the question of whether the time while one of the parents was sitting at home with a small child is counted in the total length of service. According to the laws of Russia, you can stay with a child for a year and a half, and during this period the state undertakes to independently pay a pension contribution for you. But here it is necessary to take into account some subtleties of the legislation, since one person cannot take maternity leave for more than four and a half years during his entire life. How it works?
The formula is pretty simple: Divide 4.5 years by 1.5 and get three maternity leave. Therefore, in the case of the fourth child, you either take full responsibility and refuse state assistance, or go to work, leaving the baby in the custody of the second parent.
Each parent is entitled to four and a half years of maternity leave.
The second aspect, which is part of the total length of service, is the temporary disability of a person, when he was unable to work, but insurance payments were made anyway. In simple terms, this period is called sick leave, and almost every citizen knows how often he can take advantage of this opportunity and under what conditions.
Interesting, but true. The time a person is in prison or under arrest is also included in the total length of service and is subsequently considered the basis for calculating a pension. But only if a miscarriage of justice was proven and the sentence was overturned.
By applying for help to the employment service and applying for a minimum allowance, a person can also apply for this period to be included in the total length of service.
The time while you were caring for a disabled person of the 1st group, a war veteran or a pensioner over 80 years of age will also be taken into account when calculating the pension.
Diplomats who were forced to work abroad are still considered respectable taxpayers and may qualify for high benefits in old age.
It is worth noting that for people who served in the military forces of the Russian Federation or other structures equated to it, there is a separate scheme for calculating pensions.
Note: Until 2012, full-time education was equated with labor activity and was included in the total length of service. But since contributions to the pension fund are not received during this period, it was decided to take away this privilege from students and not take into account the period of study at universities.
Important! It must be remembered that all of the above points are taken into account only if you worked before the moment of "vacation" and after. That is, if you worked for 10 years, then spent 3 years at home with a disabled person of the first group, and then went back to work, those three years will be equated to work. But if you took care of the old man for 5 years and did not go to work, this period of time will burn out.
When calculating the pension, only professional activity in the territory of the Russian Federation is taken into account
What is not included in the length of service, and how can it be confirmed?
In fact, everything that was not listed above is not automatically taken into account when calculating the pension, and this should not be further emphasized. But still there are some points that many people seem obvious, but in reality it turns out not to be so. Let's dispel a few myths:
- Being in concentration camps during the Second World War is not included in the seniority, exactly like the period of stay in occupied Leningrad.
- The time you spent caring for young HIV-infected children will also not be taken into account when calculating your pension.
- If you have to stay at home with a one and a half year old child for more time than the state is ready to provide in the form of sick leave, this is your own business and the insurance period will not be counted.
There are two ways to confirm your work experience today:
- The most common and convenient option is to record from a work book. If it has been lost, you can provide statements of pension tax payments, a certificate of employment or an employment contract.
- If the work book was lost along with accompanying documents as a result of a natural disaster or a sudden move, you can confirm your work experience using the testimony of witnesses directly related to this period of life or occupation.
To confirm the insurance experience in case of loss of documents, two or three testimonies are required
How is total work experience calculated?
So, having found out what periods the state takes into account when calculating the minimum pension, it is necessary to figure out what formula this procedure takes place. First of all, let's note that according to Russian law, men have to work 25 years before retirement, and women 20.
If you have worked diligently all these years and fulfilled the requirements of the pension fund, the monthly payment will be 55% of your previous earnings.
Important! At the moment, the following program is in force in the Russian Federation: for each additional year worked out, the state pays an additional 1% to the pension, but in the total amount, the amount of the additional payment should not exceed 20%. Accordingly, working pensioners not only receive a salary, but also increase the amount of social benefits.
The calculation of experience is carried out in two ways: preferential and simple. With a simple option, the amount of the pension is calculated using a computer or manually summed up, taking into account all the previous places of work of a person.
Should be remembered that if your work book does not contain the exact date of employment, then the middle of the month (about the fifteenth day) or the middle of the year - the first of July is taken as the basis.
What is continuous work experience?
For example, if you quit your job and found a suitable vacancy within one month, then the time while you were not working will still be counted as continuous work experience. If a pregnant woman does not work and at the same time is engaged in raising a child up to fourteen years old, this also falls into the category of “continuous experience”.
The higher the length of service and the official salary, the higher the pension
Important! Continuous work experience is in no way connected with the general one, and it is not taken into account when calculating the minimum pension.
What is it for then? In cases where there are very few entries in the work book and the total length of service exceeds continuous, the state will calculate according to the second indicator.
So, let's sum up. I hope you remember what is not included in the total length of service, and what indicators the state takes into account to calculate the pension. The higher your official salary was, the higher the social payment will be which is not less than 55% of the salary.
