In our difficult time, many, even having received the right to pension payments, continue to work. The state provides certain benefits to working pensioners, which give them some advantages over their non-working colleagues.
Labor benefits for working retirees
Finally, the milestone has been reached, which for many becomes one of the key moments in conscious life. A person receives the right to pension payments. As a rule, this happens when men reach 60, and women - 55 years. But one does not need to think that now for these people who have received a new social status, everything is over, and it remains only to stay at home or engage in household plots. On the contrary, the new Labor Code provides certain benefits to working retirees.
First of all, it is worth noting that a pensioner, having the same rights as his younger colleagues, has some benefits. So, for example, an employer cannot refuse a job applicant by referring to his age. Also, retirement cannot be a reason for dismissal. With staff reductions in the organization, workers with higher qualifications and labor productivity gain an advantage. If the pensioner decided to leave his place of work, he has the right not to work out the two weeks that are laid down by the Labor Code. Especially for them, a separate reason for dismissal is provided - retirement.
An employment contract for a senior citizen
Speaking about what privileges working pensioners may still have, it should be noted the opportunity to conclude an employment contract that has fixed terms. The nature of the work to be done does not matter. It should be noted that such an agreement is concluded only with pensioners, which include people who have retired at an old age, and those to whom a pension has been assigned in connection with difficult or harmful working conditions ahead of schedule. It should be noted that such an agreement is concluded only with the consent of both parties. In other words, if a pensioner opposes such an agreement, and the nature of the work allows you to conclude an indefinite agreement, the employer does not have the right to insist on an urgent one.
It should be noted that for an already working pensioner, his retirement cannot be considered as the reason for transferring an unlimited employment contract to a fixed-term category. In the event that it is established at the trial that the employee was forced to sign a fixed-term contract, he is automatically recognized as unlimited.
Holidays for a working pensioner
Considering what benefits have working pensioners we can not say that in addition to the next vacation, laid down for all working citizens, they have the opportunity to take additional days of rest. At any time convenient for him, a working pensioner can get a vacation of 14 days, but, unfortunately, without payment. After the employer receives a written application, he must provide the requested rest days. In addition, the following persons are entitled to an extra weekend:
- working disabled people - they can be granted unpaid leave up to 60 days;
- for participants in the Second World War a vacation of 35 days is provided.
These days a pensioner can use both at one time and in parts, breaking their number into a year.
Reduced working hours
By agreement with the employer, additional benefits may be provided to working pensioners in the form of a reduced working week or working day. Of course, this is not mandatory for the employer, but in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation certain categories of citizens are listed, at whose request the organization’s leadership can make such concessions. For example, these include persons who care for a sick member of a disabled family member, about which a medical report issued in the prescribed manner is provided.
Dismissal
If a pensioner decided to quit his job, he has the same rights as other citizens. Since the Labor Code does not provide for an article on termination of the employment contract related to retirement, the reason is usually formulated as dismissal at will. In the event of a reduction, the pensioner also retains all rights. He is supposed to pay severance pay in the amount of average monthly earnings, while he remains equal to his average monthly earnings for two months of payment.
Tax incentives for working retirees
People retired, regardless of whether they continue to work or not, the state provides certain tax benefits. First of all, it is exemption from personal income tax for certain types of income. These include pensions, the cost of vouchers that were purchased at their own expense, as well as material assistance received from the employer. Tax benefits for working retirees also consist in the fact that they are completely exempt from property tax.
In addition, when acquiring or selling real estate, a plot of land for building a house, which includes shared property, and also when purchasing at the expense of credit funds, a deduction from the personal income tax base in the amount of:
- 1 million rubles - in the sale of property owned;
- 3 million rubles - for interest on targeted loans and borrowings, including mortgages that were taken to build or purchase real estate;
- 2 million rubles - for the actually incurred expenses that were made when buying real estate, a plot for its construction, major repairs and finishing works.
Increase in pension payments
Speaking about what benefits are given to working pensioners, one cannot but mention the indexation of pension payments. Working citizens who already receive an old-age pension are entitled to recalculate it. This is due to an increase in retirement points.
If a citizen receiving a pension is officially employed, then the organization makes various social contributions, including to the Pension Fund. At the same time, there is an accumulation of unaccounted pension points. Every year in august recalculation of pensions. At the same time, the points that were accumulated for the previous year are added to those already on the pensioner's personal account. This continues until the citizen decides to stop his labor activity.
Medical Benefits
In addition to the required social benefits funded from regional budgets, working pensioners are given a full medical examination, which is carried out every three years, and free flu vaccination after the pensioner reaches the age of sixty years.
Occupy a special place labor veterans. Privileges working pensioners - labor veterans - in addition to the 50% discount on medications prescribed by a doctor for outpatient treatment, they also include a number of services in municipal clinics and other healthcare institutions. For example, they have the opportunity to undergo free treatment at the dentist, including the right to free manufacture or repair of a denture. The exception is those cases when the product or its parts are composed of expensive materials.
Benefits for working military pensioners
Another category with additional benefits is military pensioners. In addition to all the benefits eligible for retirement, they can take advantage of the following services:
- free medical care in departmental institutions;
- free continuing education or continuing education;
- receiving a second pension (having settled down and having worked the due period for a civil specialty);
- placement in civilian specialties out of turn;
- reduced fare once a year to the place of treatment;
- certain benefits for grandchildren and children when placing them in preschool institutions and schools;
- in the event that a citizen has retired due to long service or reduction, health condition or age and has been recognized as needy, he has the right to housing.
Cons of Retirement
Unfortunately, labor activity after receiving pension benefits gives not only benefits to working pensioners. They are deprived of some payments that their non-working colleagues can take.
This primarily refers to social benefits that can only be received by non-working pensioners. Another benefit that working pensioners cannot take is receiving compensation or free travel to a place of rest or spa treatment. Thus, the question of which is more profitable - to work after retirement or to enjoy a well-deserved rest, remains controversial.
On the one hand, material benefits to working pensioners often make their work more profitable for them than before receiving pension benefits, but, on the other hand, while continuing to work, they lose many of the benefits provided by the state.
