About closing pension accounts without savings
UAPF searches for pensioners who did not apply for payment
In the current year, the UAPF began to check with the State Corporation "Government for Citizens" for the presence in the information system of the authorized body in the field of social protection of the population of persons who have reached retirement age, who are assigned pension payments by age and the state basic pension payment at the expense of budget funds, but have not applied to the UAPF for the payment of pension savings. The reconciliation will also be carried out for the presence of the authorized body of the mobile phone numbers of recipients registered in the state database to provide a proactive service for receiving pension payments from the UAPF
We remind you that since October 11, 2018, a composite service for submitting a single application in connection with reaching retirement age has been introduced on the "one window" principle, in which a recipient who has reached retirement age applies with a single application and a package of documents to the divisions of a State Corporation (i.e., to the PSC).
However, in the information systems of the UAPF there are about 200 thousand accounts (200 160 accounts), for which payments from the Fund are not made. At the same time, citizens who have reached retirement age already receive funds from the budget. Most of them became pensioners before October 11, 2018.
The UAPF has carried out work on identifying these depositors and has now formed a list of persons to whom payments from the Fund will be made from April 1, 2021. This category of citizens will be sent an SMS message to a phone number (it must be registered in the database of mobile citizens) with a proposal to provide a proactive service for the appointment of a pension payment from the UAPF. After obtaining consent, these citizens will receive payments from the UAPF to the bank accounts previously submitted by the recipients to the State Corporation when assigning age pension payments and the state basic pension payment.
It is important to note that in accordance with the provisions of the Rules for the Implementation of Pension Payments, pension payments from the UAPF at the expense of mandatory pension contributions and mandatory professional pension contributions are made monthly according to the established schedule.
The amount of the monthly pension payment is defined as one-twelfth of the annual amount of pension payments calculated in accordance with the Methodology for calculating the amount of pension payments approved by the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 02.10.2013 No. 1042 (hereinafter referred to as the Methodology). According to the Methodology, starting from April 1, 2021, the annual amount of pension payments in the first year of pension payments will be calculated as the product of the amount of pension savings by the rate of pension savings payments – 6.5 %.
In subsequent years, the amount of the monthly pension payment will be recalculated by increasing the amount of the monthly pension payment for the previous year annually by the indexation rate of pension payments – 5%.
At the same time, the calculated amount of the monthly pension payment is paid in the amount of at least 70 percent of the subsistence minimum established for the corresponding financial year by the law on the Republican budget (in 2021 – 24,011.40 tenge = 70% * 34,302).
If the amount of pension savings on the date of application does not exceed twelve times the minimum pension established by the law on the republican budget for the corresponding financial year, this amount is paid to the recipient from the UAPF at a time (in 2021 – 519,264 tenge = 12 * 43,272).
In the event that the balance of pension savings on the IPS after the implementation of the next monthly payment is less than 70 percent of the subsistence minimum established for the corresponding financial year by the law on the republican budget, this balance is paid together with the amount of the next payment.