Why Adults and Children Need SNILS

In the Russian Federation, for every citizen of the Russian Federation, as well as every foreign citizen and stateless person (regardless of age, including children and teenagers), from the moment they are registered in the personalized accounting system, the Pension Fund of Russia opens an individual personal account with a permanent insurance number for the individual personal account (SNILS), which is issued once and for life.

Throughout a citizen’s working life, the compulsory pension insurance (CPI) system records the data required to award, pay, and recalculate a pension. First and foremost, this includes insurance contributions received by the fund for the citizen’s future pension, as well as their length of service. Wherever a citizen has worked at different times in their life, including in a secondary job, information about their employment record and their employers’ insurance contributions to the pension system is sent to the Pension Fund of Russia and stored as their individual data, which determines their future pension entitlements.

SNILS is the number of your individual personal account with the Pension Fund: a sequence of 11 digits. Today, SNILS is a unique identification number that provides access to all government and municipal services, benefits, and allowances. The unique SNILS number lets you use government services without carrying around a pile of documents and copies.

WHY ADULTS AND CHILDREN NEED  SNILS:

• For work and pensions

When someone starts a job, their employer needs their SNILS to make contributions to the fund for the employee’s future pension. The same account also records information about their employment record and salary, as well as the citizen’s voluntary contributions. All this information will be needed in the future to award their pension. The higher the official salary and the longer the period during which the employer made contributions to the Pension Fund of Russia, the more pension points and pension savings the citizen will have. The more points recorded in the pension account, the higher the pension will be.

• To receive government services electronically

Government and municipal services are now widely available online. For example, using the government services portal at www.gosuslugi.ru, you can obtain or renew an international or Russian passport without waiting in line, check the status of your individual personal account with the Pension Fund of Russia, pay utility bills, and much more. You can register on the government services portal and receive services only if you have a SNILS.

• To receive government benefits

SNILS is used to compile registers of citizens entitled to government social services and benefits.  For example, this includes receiving free medicines, including for children.

• To reduce the number of documents required to receive various services

SNILS serves as an identifier for information about a citizen in the interdepartmental information exchange system. Using it, government agencies independently request the documents required to provide various government services and social benefits. As a result, citizens spend less time obtaining certificates and documents that must be submitted to different agencies. For example, when obtaining a maternity (family) capital certificate.

Source: https://sfr.gov.ru/branches/voronezh/news/~2021/10/15/232222

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