April 9 this year Deputy Head of the Department Salingreeva N.I. in an interview on the Kokshe TV channel, she spoke about the increase in the size of the monthly calculation index and the minimum pension. The increase also affected the minimum size of the basic pension payment and the living wage. From April 1, 2020, the monthly calculation index was 2 778 tenge, it was 2 651. The minimum pension was 40 441, it was 38 636. The subsistence minimum was 32 668, it was 31 183. The minimum size of the basic pension payment was 17 641, it was 16 839. The minimum wage remained at the same level - 42,500 tenge.
With the increase in the subsistence level, the state social benefits for disability, in case of loss of the breadwinner, will increase. Also, with an increase in the monthly calculation index, the lump-sum allowance for the birth of a child, the monthly allowance for caring for a child up to one year old will increase. Special state benefits paid to certain categories of citizens, such as war veterans, equated to them, rehabilitated people, Chernobyl victims, and so on, will increase. All these payments will be made in the month of May. Pensioners don't need to go anywhere. Everything will be done automatically.