If you have 20 years of work experience, you can get a Veteran of Labor, and with it, benefits that do not save current retirees, but definitely help them survive.
When we are young and most importantly healthy, we don’t think about the fact that time flies faster than the wind and soon an unwanted old age will nevertheless come, and diseases and the prospect of living on the same pension will come with it. But how to live my dear one, even the most talented mathematician will not be able to solve such a problem. Because prices are rising for almost everything by leaps and bounds, and with them the rent, utilities, and medical care. But, in spite of everything, I want to live, and if you have 20 years of work experience, you can get a Veteran of Labor, and at the same time benefits that do not save current pensioners, but definitely help them survive.
In Soviet times, a person who deserved the title of "Veteran of Labor" and, having received the relevant document, could count on guaranteed benefits, but since 2005 Federal Law No. 122 "On the Monetization of Benefits" was adopted, and the assignment of such a title was suspended, according to adopted legislative standards, it became impossible to get a Veteran of Labor.
Of course, financial difficulties played a decisive role. So according to this law, beneficiaries were divided into: regional and federal. So among the federal recipients of benefits were war veterans, blockade workers, Heroes of the Union, Labor, people with disabilities, etc., they accept their payments from the federal budget. Among the regional recipients of benefits: labor veterans, victims of political repressions, home front workers, remained as wards of regional structures, which were supposed to establish the amount of compensation based on their capabilities. Each region stopped in front of an independent decision on the fate of veterans, and it is also important that each of the regions reacted differently.
In the Russian Federation there are regional centers that have abolished all benefits for labor veterans at the local level, except for those who received this title even before the adoption of new legislative norms. After the adoption of this law, some regions left everything as it was before its adoption. For example, in Moscow, most of the benefits remained at the same level and Veterans of Labor have a 50% discount on housing, telephone services, free commuter and city transport, as well as spa treatment. There are also payments in the form of compensation, for example, in the Tomsk region in order to receive the title of Veteran of Labor, you must have at least 25 years of work experience for men and 20 years for women. But at the same time, the pensioner should have departmental insignia of state awards.
Instead of benefits, monetization allowed people to get their hands on money for which they could buy medicine and go to the resort. But, unfortunately, the compensation of benefits did not become widespread, since it is difficult to imagine how a veteran can get a ticket to a sanatorium, they are not enough to cover basic expenses. Of course, in almost all regions, veterans have a 50% discount when paying for housing, and in all regions, beneficiaries use free public transport.
In order for you to be awarded the title of Veteran of Labor, you do not need to wait for retirement. You need to collect all the relevant documents (award document, passport, work book) and go to the social protection department for your place of residence. From time to time, both in the government and in social spheres, the question arises of transferring regional beneficiaries to federal ones, but, unfortunately, as always, there is simply not enough money for this.
