theme №347 16.02.1999 (1999)

The theme of the day is a decent old age.

During the economic crisis, everyone is struggling.

But we must not forget that there are at least two categories of people to whom the state is obliged to help at all times: children and the elderly.

In the country, 38.5 million pensioners, the subsistence minimum at the end of 1998 amounted to 717 rubles, the average pension is 403 rubles 02 kopecks, but even this money is not seen by old people, delays in the payment of pensions stretched for many months.

How and why does this happen?

When and how did the government generate huge debts to the pension fund?

How to make money from the budget, does it make sense to introduce professional pension schemes and where to look for support?

Is it possible at all worthy old age in our country?

Visiting the program, the Minister of Taxes and Levies of the Russian Federation Georgy Boos, the Minister of Labor and Social Development Sergey Kalashnikov, the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy Vladimir Lisichkin.

Also in the discussion are the president of the International Confederation of Consumer Societies, Alexander Azuan, the president of the Russian Union of Flight Attendants Sergei Plevako, the head of the Moscow Tax Service Gennady Bukaev.

The program includes the following plots:

Mutual support society "Dandelion" in Krasnoufimsk.

The life of the heroes of the Second World War, former military pilots Alexander Baryshnikov, Alexei Saranin and Peter Vladimirsky (using the excerpt of the movie "Some Old Men Are Going to the Battle," 1973, directed by LF Bykov).

Actors Lyudmila Volkova and Yevgeny Khavrichev about life in the House of Veterans of the stage named after AA Yablochkina (commentary by the chairman of the Union of Russian Theater Workers Alexander Kalyagin).