Why do you need to apply for your pension on time?

The UAPF reminds that persons who have pension savings in the UAPF, formed through mandatory pension contributions and (or) mandatory professional pension contributions, and who have reached the generally established retirement age, as well as persons with disabilities of the first and second groups, if the disability is established indefinitely, have the right to receive pension payments from the UAPF according to the established schedule.To assign pension payments from the UAPF in connection with reaching retirement age, recipients must promptly contact the Public Service Center at their place of residence, and for payment in connection with the establishment of disability of the first or second group indefinitely - to the UAPF divisions, including through the UAPF website if there is an electronic digital signatures. Documents can be submitted to the Public Service Center along with the application 10 days before the recipient reaches retirement age. We strongly recommend that you adhere to this deadline, because... this is especially important for receiving a state pension, the assignment of which requires verification of work experience based on the submitted documents.

In addition, according to the law, the assignment of old-age pensions and state basic payments is made from the date of application. Such a day is considered the day of registration of the application and necessary documents in the State Corporation “Government for Citizens” (hereinafter referred to as the State Corporation, PSC).

             Let us remind you that people who have reached the generally established retirement age can receive an old-age pension: men upon reaching 63 years of age, women upon reaching 61 years of age in 2024. Pension payments from the UAPF are made until pension savings are exhausted.

 

Meanwhile, in order to provide proactive services for making pension payments from the UAPF to persons who have reached retirement age, have pension savings in the UAPF and have not applied for their payment, the UAPF conducts an annual reconciliation together with the State Corporation to determine whether these citizens have assigned pension payments according to age and state basic pension payment from budgetary funds.

Based on the results of the annual reconciliation, when identifying persons who have assigned pension payments from budgetary funds, the UAPF makes pension payments to them within the framework of the relevant agreement concluded with the State Corporation.

 

Thus, according to the results of the annual reconciliation as of March 1 of this year, out of about 200 thousand persons who have reached retirement age, have pension savings in the UAPF and have not applied for their payment, according to the State Corporation:

• about 45 thousand people are not recipients of old-age pension payments/basic pension;

 

about 92 thousand people are recipients of pension payments based on age/basic pension/long service at the expense of budgetary funds, of which:

- about 20 thousand citizens this year independently applied to the Public Service Center at their place of residence for a pension payment from the Unified Pension Pension Fund;

- about 72 thousand citizens were assigned pension payments from the UAPF in a proactive format based on the results of the reconciliation;