The Government approved amendments to the Law on the State Social Insurance Pensions. These simplify the method of calculating the pension for persons who worked at institutions or enterprises, but the documents showing that these paid contributions into the state budget while in service are absent from the archives of these institutions or enterprises for objective reasons, such as fires, floods or armed conflicts.

In such cases, the pension is calculated based on the average monthly official salary determined for each category of recipients on the day the retirement application is submitted.

Other amendments refer to the period during which the decision on the provision of the right to pension must be adopted. Thus, there will be avoided situations when a legal norm allows presenting documents within 30 days, while another norm stipulates that the decision on the size of the pension must be taken within 15 days. Thus, the period for taking the decision on the right of the pension or for rejecting the retirement application is extended to 30 days of the submission day.

The amendments will be submitted to Parliament for adoption.