Retirement-Age Increase: A Legal Analysis
An important stage in the development of the Russian pension system was the adoption of Federal Law No. 350-FZ of October 3, 2018 “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on the Pension Awarding and Payment”, which summed up a long public discussion on raising the retirement age in our country. Despite the wide coverage of the social, economic, demographic and other aspects of this decision, there is a shortage of publications that consider this issue from the formal legal side, which is no less significant. Retirement-age increase is associated with the introduction of a large number of changes to the legislation, many of which generate contradictions, violate the consistency of the legal matter. Also, the legal consequences of retirement-age increase are not limited to the sphere of pension legal relations and have an intersectoral nature. All this determines the relevance of the issues studied in the article. The purpose of the study is to conduct a detailed legal analysis of individual legislative changes related to retirement-age increase. To achieve this goal, the following tasks are solved: the contradictions arising in connection with the separation of the age of awarding of an old-age insurance pension and a funded pension are considered; the problem of uneven age increase in relation to early old-age insurance pensions is investigated; a legal assessment of the validity of maintaining the same conditions for most of the grounds for early retirement is given; the issues of the impact of retirement-age increase on relations related to the calculation of insurance pensions are touched upon; the legal consequences that retirement-age increase entails for related relationships are revealed. Research methods: historical, dialectical (analysis, synthesis, generalization, classification), formal-legal, logical, systemic. The conducted research made it possible to identify a number of contradictions caused by the changes made to the pension legislation, to identify violations of the systemic relationship of regulatory requirements and to outline ways to improve legal regulation.