“If it weren’t for the children, I would have died of hunger”: Russians talked about their pensions

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The journalists of “Present tense” visited several cities and decided to find out from passers-by pensioners what their salary is and what is enough for them.

Vladivostok

The first pensioner who comes along says that her pension is 8700 rubles ($ 154). Last time she was paid a pension supplement of 18 rubles (30 cents).

“Isn’t this funny? Let this pressure not be given at all. Medvedev wanted to send her “to poverty.” They wouldn’t make people laugh,” says the pensioner. “It’s bad in Ukraine, it’s bad for pensioners everywhere, but right here here they’re suffocating with happiness.”

Another pensioner said that in her youth she grabbed any job, and she didn’t care whether the salary was “white” or “black”. The main task was to get the children on their feet. When the time came for retirement, I began to receive 7704 rubles ($125).

"And what? And where? Forced to work. I can't by profession. I am a 5th grade baker. It’s hard work in my profession, so I wash the floors wherever I have to, together with the Uzbeks,” she said.

But the third woman even stated that “if it weren’t for the children, I would have died of hunger.” “I can’t afford to go somewhere on vacation, I can’t even afford to go to my sister in Nakhodka,” the woman added, pointing out that her pension is 10 rubles ($000).

The fourth pensioner receives a pension 9700 rubles ($ 172) and this despite the fact that she worked as a bricklayer all her life and now walks with a cane.

Moscow

The first oncoming pensioner in the capital said that he has a pension of 14 000 rubles ($ 248), but the man doesn’t have enough money and he has to earn money.

“In Greece, where there is neither gas nor oil, there is nothing, the pension is 37 rubles ($000), in Germany $657, in Finland $1400. This is what I understand - a pension,” added the passerby.

The woman said that she has a pension 16 000 rubles ($ 284) and this is with the Moscow surcharge. She added that simply retirement without the help of someone from the family can not live.

Krasnoyarsk

In Krasnoyarsk, a woman did not say the size of her pension, adding that she is less than 10 000 rubles ($ 177). She receives such a pension after 39 years of work in science. The last time the pension was increased by 200 rubles ($ 3,5).

Leningrad Region

The first journalists here met a soldier who is not much saddened by the size of the pension. But he says he has to work, not without it. He continues to work in the military part of civilian personnel. He has enough pensions for food and clothes.

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