The Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on allocation of one billion roubles to social additional payments to pensions in 2017.

      The funds are distributed among the budgets of the Republic of Komi, Yakutia, Kamchatsky, Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories, Arkhangelsk and Moscow Regions. The additional payments will be received by 407 thousand people, as the press service noted. “The federal budget for 2017 provided for interbudgetary transfers in the amount of 6.4 billion roubles for additional payments in 2017” - the document says. The money was distributed among 13 constituent entities that applied for co-financing of additional payments.