Today, 14 July, the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia was signed by the Estonian-Russian agreement on cooperation in the field of pension insurance. This was BakuToday According to the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia, noting that since the document was signed Estonian Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia, a member of the Reform Party Hanno Pevkur, with the Russian side – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia in Estonia Merzlyakov.
It is noted that the new contract will ensure the continuation of the pension the pensioner when moving from Estonia to Russia and vice versa, and will promote the rights of citizens of Russia, Estonia, as well as those of statelessness, received pensionable service in Estonia and Russia.
The new treaty replaces in effect since 1993 interim agreement on social security, the validity of which, like the protocol attached to it, expire on 15 October this year, and will be crucial for resolving all issues related to pensions and social benefits for pensioners – the citizens the two countries. So, with the signing of a long settled controversial issue of military pensioners – citizens of Russia, as well as offsetting the pension age for those individuals who have worked in two states and is now retired in one of them. Also, the new agreement addressed the issue of pension insurance permanent residents of Estonia with the status of “non-citizens.”
As reported in an interview Pevkur Estonian radio, according to a new contract, if the person worked in Russia, coming to live in retirement in Estonia, the pension he will pay the Russian side in accordance with Russian law. And vice versa. In addition, if such person had worked until his retirement in Estonia, to its pension payments connects the Estonian side in accordance with his seniority in Estonia.
As reported BakuToday earlier, on 30 June the Estonian government has authorized the Minister of Social Affairs, Member of the Reform Party Hanno Pevkur to sign an interstate treaty with Russia on Pension Insurance. Agreement on Pension Insurance, as well as the border treaty and the treaty on military graves was considered prior to his signing of the July 14 one of the most “difficult to be realized” in the Estonian-Russian relations.
