Position of pension payments in a structure of provision of the Russian pensioners

In the article a structure of financial provision of pensioners in the Russian region is analyzed. At the present stage pension payments are its dominant component. The system of pension payments fulfils a basic function - keeping of active existence of elderly person in a postlabour stage. The domination of pension payments in the general structure of financing is explained by their mandatory nature, and also by complexity of implementation of the other ways of provision. The changes in labor market, and also the health level considerably reduce possibilities of continuation of labor activity at a retirement age. The most demanded, but insufficient methods of correction of financial position are maintaining subsidiary farm and a side job. The inefficiency of provision structure causes self-identification of pensioners with a low-provided social group. The changes of an economic and demographic situation define the need in deep reforming of the pension system and the structure of its providing.