For the category of citizens who retired or received a right due to other circumstances (hazardous production, disability, caring for an elderly person / disabled person), the state, in addition to the corresponding financial payments, is entitled to travel compensation for various types of transport. In order to go through the procedure of applying for benefits in 2018, people will need to visit the local social security authority.
Features of the program
In order to fully finance the support program, the federal as well as the regional budget will be involved. All payments are made in accordance
with existing legislation. The peculiarity of relaxation is that compensation is divided into several types:
- Free travel in full - the issuance of the appropriate travel or ticket (for a number of categories of pensioners).
- Material (retirees receive money in the form of additional payments to the pension) compensation.
- Preferential fare (partial payment).
The law establishes groups of pensioners who can count on one of the types of compensation.
Who and what benefits laid
Compensation, benefits and other types of subsidies related to travel, rely on citizens in need of social support from the state. According to the laws in force in 2018, you can apply for registration:
- women - from 55 years;
- men - 60 years old.
There are also pensioners who leave for a well-deserved rest earlier - from the age of 50 (the conditions are spelled out in the Labor Code and the laws of the Russian Federation). All retirees receive the right benefits, which will take effect when using urban public transport. This concept includes:
- underground;
- buses (in the city, intercity);
- trolley buses;
- trams.
Attention! In 99% of cases, benefits are not available for travel in the route and regular taxis.
Compensation consists in obtaining the right to completely free travel or compensation of a part of the cost (from 30% to 80%, depending on the type of transport and region). You also need to remember that the preferential fare for people who have reached retirement age is jointly funded by regional and federal budgets, which is why the amount of payments or the percentage of discounts may vary.
Each year, there are changes in the amounts, economic factors influence this process, and the scheme of accrual of benefits changes. To clarify all the emerging issues, it is recommended to contact local social services every year.
Additionally, in addition to preferential travel, established as a federal benefit, retirees can enjoy local subsidies that operate in a particular region.
For pensioners working in the North, the possibility of registration of benefits for travel to the place of rest and back (in the country) is provided. Transport privileges can be used by military retirees and people who worked before retirement in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and in bodies that ensure proper state security.
At the regional level
Local (regional) benefits are also being developed by the authorities. They are considering the possibility of introducing special fares. Additionally, there are a variety of methods for implementing allowances - partial or full payment, issue of a travel card.
Features: the size of the benefits (in% or in monetary terms), as well as the procedure for its granting to citizens, the regions establish and develop independently (but relying on federal legislation), taking into account the existing local assistance programs.
For pensioners living in the Moscow region, in 2018 free travel on transport (of municipal importance) and trains, trains will be replaced. Now, the benefit will not be a travel compensation in the form of issuing and processing a travel ticket, but an increase in money transport compensation (the money is charged and added to the pension received every month).
Benefits for public transport
Reliefs concerning the travel of retirees on public transport are common throughout the country. The exception is the segment affecting long-distance transportation (benefits can only be used by pensioners of the North).
Preferential transportation will require prior registration of a special ticket. Also, at the federal and local levels, special rules for the passage of citizens who have reached retirement age have been developed and implemented.
Attention! There are no privileges in fixed-route taxis, private buses (they can be provided solely by the owner of the company at his request).
Discount tickets (with partial or full payment due to the budget of the region) for commuter trips made by bus or train, in 2018 are provided to certain categories of pensioners - they get the opportunity to completely free travel. Additional benefits - seasonal discounts (include flights) for long-distance travel by train - for residents of Siberia and the Far East, the Far North.
Who is entitled to free travel in public transport
The following groups of pensioners can use the public transport free of charge (with 100% payment from the state):
- Veterans (participants and disabled) of the Great Patriotic War.
- Family members in which the military died or were injured during the fighting.
- Liquidators of the Chernobyl accident.
- Pensioners with the status of a rear worker.
- The heroes of labor (the title received during the Soviet era), as well as their family.
- Prisoners of war, people who survived imprisonment in camps during the Second World War.
- Disabled people
- Pensioners with the title of "Honorary Donor".
- Victims of political repression, rehabilitated.
- People raising children with disabilities.
Children and others who receive a survivor’s pension also use the right to free travel.
Underground
Those pensioners who have a social card (for Moscow) will use the metro for free. People of retirement age living in other regions will receive a regional benefit if it is developed by local authorities.
To whom is an exemption for train travel
A concession at the federal level is also provided for travel by train (federal benefit recipients enjoy). For other categories of compensation are provided individually according to regional legislation.
Free travel on this type of transport in 2018 for pensioners living in the Moscow region is replaced by compensation payments (an increase of 2 times is provided). Saving benefits will remain with:
- persons with disabilities;
- veterans of the Great Patriotic War;
- Interior Ministry officials.
Also, the opportunity to ride the train free of charge will remain with those pensioners who have a Moscow residence permit (the benefit applies to electric trains within the Moscow Ring Road).
Pensioners who live in St. Petersburg will be able to get a seasonal discount of 90%, the benefits are from May to October. For residents of LO provides a discount of 85%.
In intercity buses
In 80% of cases there is no discount for retirees. Compensation can be provided by private bus lines (on an individual program). In some cases, there is a benefit, including free baggage allowance, for labor veterans.
Compensation travel to a place of rest and back
Compensation for travel to the place where the beneficiary will receive treatment - relief provided for by the federal program.
It allows you to get a discount (25-100% depending on the group) for travel 1 time per year. The route must pass within the country.
To obtain benefits, you need to write an application to the Pension Fund, social support bodies. Spreads in the reserved seat, economy class in aircraft, inland waterways (3 category of cabins). Compensation applies to sea transport, as well as buses.
Where to get a travel card
You can get a pass in PF. Contact should be in the department, located at the place of residence of the pensioner. To do this, you will need to write an application and submit documents - a passport and status confirmation (pension certificate, VTEK certificate, confirmation of the status of labor veteran, and others).
How to issue a free ride
In order to get a free pass, the pensioner will need to visit the social security authorities (at the place of residence). You need to submit an application and submit documents confirming the right to benefits or compensation. She begins to act from the 1st of the next month after the appeal.
You can also refuse to travel free of charge on a certain type of transport (train, train). In exchange, the pensioner will receive an appropriate surcharge (charged each month and is included in the amount of the basic pension).
