OREANDA-NEWS The State Duma of Russia ratified the Agreement between the Russian Federation and Tajikistan on cooperation in the field of pensions on Tuesday, June 28. The Agreement was signed in Dushanbe on September 15, 2021.

The document is based on the proportional principle and provides for the distribution of financial responsibility of the parties for the provision of insurance coverage for pension rights that were or are acquired on their territories.

The Agreement applies to citizens of the Russian Federation and Tajikistan, as well as members of their families. The subject of the Agreement includes all types of insurance pensions, funded pensions and other payments at the expense of pension savings, social pensions (which are assigned and paid to citizens of the Russian Federation), and burial allowance (which is paid by the party on whose territory the burial was carried out).

If the insured person changes his or her permanent residence and moves to a third country, the payment of the assigned pension will be carried out by the party that appointed it, either on the territory of this party, or transferred to the territory of the other party.

Pensions established prior to the entry into force of the Agreement shall be retained and not revised, with the exception of the social (federal or regional) additional payment to a pension in the Russian Federation, and in case of a change of permanent residence by the insured person (when he or she moves to another country), whose pension was assigned on the basis of the 1992 Agreement.