Abstract:

The article deals with the pension system, based on constitutional principles, accumulated by Russian and foreign experience. The article substantiates the need for a new pension reform, which proposes specific measures to solve existing problems.The methodological basis is founded on both general scientific methods (analysis, comparison, measurement) and special ones (in particular, statistical). The first twenty of a rating GlobalAgeWatchIndex 2015 includes countries mostly (14 of 20) with the retirement age from 65 years and above. At least 12 states have decided to rise the retirement age (in most cases, to 67 years). In the vast majority of countries of the former USSR, the retirement age is higher than in the Russian Federation. At the same time, despite the taken steps and the changes carried out in the Russian pension system, a significant part of the problems remained unresolved (gender inequality in the age of appointment of an old-age insurance pension; the procedure and conditions for the appointment of a social pension; trust in non-state pension funds, etc.).The practical significance of the research results is in the possibility of their use for making specific decisions on the modernization of socio-economic processes by specialists of public authorities, their application by student and teaching community in the educational process in higher and secondary special educational institutions.