My mother received an SMS message with the text that she has savings in the UAPF. What's it? After all, she's been retired for five years? Is this not a "divorce"?
The UAPF, together with the State Corporation "Government for Citizens", annually performs an annual reconciliation for persons who have reached retirement age and have pension savings in the UAPF.
In the process of reconciliation, the specialists of the UAPF notify persons who have reached retirement age and receive a pension from the state budget about the need to apply for pension payments from the UAPF.
Let's explain why this happens: to assign an old-age pension and a state basic pension, as well as to receive payments from mandatory pension contributions and mandatory occupational pension contributions from the UAPF, citizens need to apply with a single application and a package of documents only to the Public Service Center of the State Corporation "Government for Citizens".
However, until 2018, when, in all likelihood, your mother retired, there was no such service: upon reaching retirement age, citizens submitted documents separately to the State Corporation for receiving a basic pension and an old-age pension and separately to the UAPF for receiving payments from pension savings. Some citizens who applied to the State Corporation and started receiving state payments did not apply for payments to the UAPF.
It is for such non-applicants that work is being carried out to assign pension payments from the UAPF by sending an SMS message from the unified number of the State Corporation 1414 to the phone number registered in the database of mobile citizens. It is enough for those who have received such messages to send a reply message, no other additional appeals and submission of documents to the UAPF or PSC are required.
Further, payments from the UAPF, together with age-related pension payments, are credited to bank accounts that were previously provided to the State Corporation when assigning the state basic pension payment.
At the same time, the amount and term of pension payments from the UAPF depend on the balance of pension savings in the recipient's individual pension account.