INFORMATIONAL MESSAGE
Kazakhstanis have deposited over 428 billion tenge to their accounts in the UAPF
Since the beginning of 2020, pension contributions in the total amount of 428.2 billion tenge have been received on depositors' accounts, which exceeded the figures for the first 5 months of 2019 by 12%. Of the total amount of contributions, more than 95% of percent are receipts to the UAPF for mandatory pension contributions (OPV) – 408 billion tenge, over 20 billion tenge were received for mandatory professional pension contributions (OPV), 134 million tenge were transferred for voluntary pension contributions (DPV).
Over 385 billion tenge was paid by legal entities for mandatory pension contributions, 21 billion tenge from individuals, and 2 billion tenge from payers of the Single Aggregate Payment (ESP).
The total number of active depositors who replenished their individual pension accounts at least once this year (January – May 2020) exceeded 8.3 million people. This is 1.2 times more than the number of active depositors for the whole of 2019, then this figure was 6.6 million people.
Recall that in the first five months of 2020, the number of individual pension accounts in the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund increased by 1 million units. On the first of January of this year, the number of IPS was 10,672,567 units, and by June 1, 11.6 million (11,682,546). Most IPS were opened in April - 954,952, the second most popular month was May - 52,530, followed by February - 30,455 new IPS.
In May, there was a decrease in ESP contributions compared to the previous month. So, in April, over 3 million contributions were made, in May the number of contributions under the ESP amounted to 317,573 units. It is important to emphasize once again that the ESP is intended for individuals engaged in entrepreneurial activity without registration as an individual entrepreneur, as well as those who do not use the labor of an employee, do not provide services to tax agents and (or) sell the products of personal subsidiary farms to other individuals (annual income should not exceed 1,175 MCI). Payment of the ESP gives the right to make pension savings and, depending on the length of participation in the pension system, gives the right to receive a basic pension payment; to be a participant in the compulsory social health insurance system; in cases of disability, loss of work, loss of breadwinner, pregnancy and childbirth, adoption of a child, child care up to 1 year to receive social benefits payments.