Benefits for rural teachers

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The peculiarities of the work of rural teachers are taken into account by the state. Due to increased complexity and tension, as well as for a number of other reasons, teachers are provided with benefits and additional financial payments. Privileges are relevant for all representatives of the profession, regardless of region, specialization and number of children studying. These parameters affect the scope of benefits and the amount of payments, but are not a condition for providing support.

Labor benefits

The main benefits for teachers in rural areas are specified in Art. 47 Federal Law “On Education”:

Reduced working hours. Determined by Order of the Ministry of Education and Science dated December 11, 2014 No. 1601. This also applies to those working in cities. 36 hours a week for teaching staff, social educators, educational psychologists, organizers. 30 hours per week for senior educators, 24 hours per rate for accompanists and music directors, 25 hours for educators working with children with disabilities; 30 hours – teachers of boarding educational institutions, physical education instructors; 18 hours per rate – for teachers in general education institutions, institutions of additional education, teachers in the field of physical education and sports.
Annual extended paid leave. The duration is determined by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated May 14, 2015 No. 466. For employees of educational organizations – 56 calendar days.
Early assignment of an old-age insurance pension if you have at least 25 years of experience.
Providing long-term leave without pay for 1 year with 10 years of experience.
Additional professional training at least once every 3 years.
Additional payments for class management, organizing events, checking homework.
Additional payment for hazardous conditions for chemistry teachers.

Important! These benefits apply to rural and urban teachers.

Discount on utility bills

Registration of utility benefits for teachers working in rural areas is carried out according to the most simplified scheme.
This procedure is a little more complicated if the registration is for a teacher working in the city. If a teacher lives in a private house, but within the city, he can only count on compensation for 2 provided utilities: electricity and heating. For teachers living in an apartment building, the general conditions apply. Initially, the legislation provides only support for teachers working in rural areas. Therefore, a discount on electricity and heating payments is far from the only privilege. For teachers in rural areas, benefits for utilities are provided in the amount of up to 60% of the amount spent. The specified percentage may be adjusted depending on the specific region of residence. This benefit applies not only to teachers alone, but also to all family members living with him in the same house or apartment.

The latest bills that have come into force provide for the provision of a 100% discount on utility bills for teachers. This discount remains for teachers who have already retired. The amount of payments provided cannot in any way be affected by length of service or, directly, retirement.

Benefits for young teachers

Young specialists who come to villages to work as teachers are entitled to “lifting” payments. Their size is determined by regional authorities taking into account the provisions of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 26, 2021 N 1642, approving the Education Development program.

The size of the lifts is usually 1-2 salaries. You can receive money if two conditions are met:

employment within three months from the date of receipt of the diploma;
conclusion of an employment contract for a period of three years.

Payments are made only when moving to work in villages and urban settlements.

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Every year this standard will increase by 1 year until the final value is fixed in 2023 ( 5 years ).
In 2021 and 2021, preferential conditions for retirement will apply - payments will be processed six months earlier than planned. This means that for those who have completed their service in 2021, the receipt of their pension will be delayed only for one and a half years instead of two.

Conditions for retirement of teaching staff under the new law

Employees of the pedagogical sphere carry out their activities in special working conditions. Therefore, a number of state privileges are provided for them. The state guarantees teachers the opportunity to retire earlier than the majority of working citizens. Read the latest news about the conditions and rules for early retirement according to the length of service for teachers in 2021, who has the right to early retirement according to the new law, and how to retire early according to the new law.

All standards for gas and solid fuel are regulated by local authorities. At the same time, they remain at minimally low values, which is compensated by budget payments and government subsidies. To apply for such benefits for utilities, retired teachers need to write an application to the school or educational institution where they teach.

It should be noted that the provision of benefits is carried out on generally accepted conditions, implying a return payment. Those. A retired teacher must first make the required payment on all utility bills. Only after receiving all payment receipts can the state reimburse expenses .

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in case of employment within 3 months;
upon provision of a “red” diploma (increased salary if there was no break between the end of training and the start of teaching);
concluding an employment contract for more than three years.

At the state level, there are no benefits or special conditions for mortgage lending for the purchase of housing by employees of educational institutions. But many regional authorities have established their own special conditions for this category of citizens. In particular, in the Moscow region there is a program under which the teacher is paid 100% of the cost of the purchased housing, the citizen remains to pay the accrued interest for 10 years. This program is carried out with the support of AHML. In the Perm Territory, needy employees of educational institutions in villages and villages are provided with a house with a garden plot. In the Rostov region, rural teachers are compensated for 100% of housing and communal services.

Housing allowances

In January 2021, Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated January 22, 2020 No. 36 was signed. According to it, teachers who move to work in an area with a population of up to 50,000 people will be able to receive an increased allowance - 1,000,000 rubles. When moving to the Far East, payments increase to RUB 2,000,000.

Money is provided to participants in the Zemstvo Teacher program for the construction or purchase of housing and repayment of mortgages.

You can find out about available vacancies for participation in the program on the portal organized at the initiative of the Ministry of Education. Here are the main conditions:

Screenshot from the portal https://zemteacher.edu.ru/.

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Social support for teaching staff in rural areas

Why does the teaching profession require special measures of social support? The profession of a teacher has always been considered responsible and difficult, requiring a large amount of physical and emotional costs. In addition, the teaching profession is one of the most socially important and significant. Education and training of the younger generation is one of the priorities of any state. The future of the state depends on what knowledge and skills children acquire. Therefore, the result of the work will depend on how motivated and professional the teacher is. Benefits for teachers are necessary measures to retain experienced specialists in the profession and attract young workers. Benefits and social guarantees for teachers are reflected in many regulations of the Russian Federation. A special category of workers consists of rural teachers and young specialists.

Answers to questions about the provision of benefits to teachers are covered in the following regulations:

Labor Code of the Russian Federation dated December 30, 2001 No. 197-FZ (as amended on July 3, 2016);

Federal Law No. 273-FZ of December 29, 2012 “On Education in the Russian Federation” (hereinafter referred to as the Law);

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated October 26, 2013 No. 963 “On providing compensation for expenses for living quarters, heating and lighting for teaching staff, managers, deputy heads, heads of structural divisions and their deputies who are on staff at their main place of work in federal state educational organizations, living and working under an employment contract in rural settlements, workers’ settlements (urban-type settlements)” (hereinafter referred to as the Government Decree);

Regulatory acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of education.

In addition, employees can find information about the provision of benefits in the current Charter of the educational organization or collective agreement.

The Labor Code of the Russian Federation identifies teachers as a special category of workers who are granted the following rights.

For teaching staff, a reduced working time of no more than 36 hours per week is established.

Teaching staff are provided with an annual basic extended paid leave, the duration of which is established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Pedagogical workers of an organization carrying out educational activities, at least every 10 years of continuous teaching work, have the right to long leave for a period of up to one year, the procedure and conditions for the provision of which are determined in the manner established by the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing state policy and legal regulation in the field of education (Labor Code of the Russian Federation, Article 333–335).

Federal Law-273 “On Education in the Russian Federation” also defines social guarantees for teaching staff. (clauses 1,2,5,8 of Article 47).

According to clauses 1,2,5,8 of Art. 47 of the Law, employees of an educational organization have the following labor rights and social guarantees:

the right to reduced working hours;

the right to additional professional education in the profile of teaching activity at least once every three years;

the right to an annual basic extended paid leave, the duration of which is determined by the Government of the Russian Federation;

the right to a long vacation for a period of up to one year at least every ten years of continuous teaching work in the manner established by the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing state policy and legal regulation in the field of education;

the right to early assignment of an old-age insurance pension in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation;

the right to provide teaching staff registered as in need of residential premises, out of turn, with residential premises under social tenancy agreements, the right to provide residential premises of a specialized housing stock;

teaching staff of educational institutions are required to undergo periodic free medical examinations, which are carried out at the expense of the founders;

teaching staff of educational institutions in order to facilitate their provision of book publishing products and periodicals are paid monthly monetary compensation;

Teaching staff of educational institutions, in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation, enjoy the right to receive a long-service pension before they reach retirement age, to free living space with heating and lighting in rural areas, workers' settlements (urban-type settlements), to priority provision of living space ; the amount, conditions and procedure for reimbursement of expenses associated with the provision of these measures of social support are established by legislative acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

A separate paragraph in this article defines the rights of teachers working in rural areas

“Teaching workers living and working in rural settlements, workers’ settlements (urban-type settlements) have the right to receive compensation for expenses for living quarters, heating and lighting. The amount, conditions and procedure for reimbursement of expenses associated with the provision of these measures of social support to teaching staff of federal state educational organizations are established by the Government of the Russian Federation and are provided through budgetary allocations of the federal budget, and teaching staff of educational organizations of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, municipal educational organizations are established by the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and are provided through budgetary allocations from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (clause 8 of Article 47 of the Law).”

The government decree establishes for teaching staff, managers, deputy heads, heads of structural divisions and their deputies, who are on staff at their main place of work in state educational organizations, living and working under an employment contract in rural settlements, workers' settlements (urban-type settlements), a monthly compensation for expenses for living quarters, heating and lighting in the amount of 1,200 rubles. Such monthly compensation is carried out on the basis of documents confirming the right of employees to receive it (an employment contract or work book, a copy of an identity document with a mark of registration at the place of residence or another document confirming the place of residence) available to organizations, without requiring additional documents.

Compensation is carried out by the organization from the day the employee has the right to receive it simultaneously with the payment of wages for the first half of the current month, reflected in a separate statement.
Compensation is paid simultaneously with wages for the first half of the current month and on the basis of documents confirming the right of employees to receive it, available to organizations (without requiring additional documents).

The list of benefits provided to rural teachers is regional in nature, and in each region it is individual. Let's consider the main points that some local authorities can legislatively offer to teachers working in rural areas.

Most often, employees are provided with the following benefits.

A one-time allowance for transfer to rural areas, the so-called “lifting allowance”. The benefit should help the young specialist get comfortable in a new place and survive until his salary is paid.
Increase in salary. Such rate increases can last up to a year, but in some individual cases up to 2-3 years.
Payment of bonuses based on the results of the first 3 years of employment.
Also, many regions provide discounts on intercity transport.

Benefits and social guarantees for young professionals

Benefits and social guarantees for young specialists - graduates of vocational education institutions are established by the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (Part 10, Article 47 of Federal Law No. 273-FZ).

State authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation can determine the category of teaching staff who can be considered “young specialists” (there is no such concept in federal legislation) and can establish social support measures for them. It is worth noting that this is precisely the right, but not the obligation of the authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

A specific list of existing social guarantees and measures of social support for teachers is provided for by regional legislation. You can find out about such support measures from the executive authority of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation that manages the field of education.

Author - Safiulina Nuria Romanovna
15.06.2017
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Housing benefits

According to the law, teachers who need improved housing conditions can receive housing under social rental contracts out of turn. Also, benefits can be established by regional authorities. For example, in the Kaliningrad region, subsidies are provided for repaying the down payment on a mortgage - 20% of the total cost of the loan. In the Moscow region, with the support of AHML, 100% of the debt is repaid from the budget, and the borrower only has to pay the accrued interest.

In St. Petersburg, on the basis of the Law of 2005 on the target program “Housing for Public Sector Workers,” you can purchase real estate or pay off your mortgage profitably with the help of the state.

The following conditions apply to most programs:

teacher age – up to 35 years;
minimum work experience – 1 year;
recognition of a citizen as needing improved housing conditions.

Detailed requirements depend on regional authorities.

Rural teachers and doctors may be deprived of utility benefits

A plan has been published on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development to optimize the regulation at the federal level of the powers of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The department proposes to “adjust” the provisions of federal legislation regulating the right of rural teachers to compensation for expenses for living quarters, heating and lighting, simply by excluding these benefits from the Law “On Education in the Russian Federation.”

As officials explain, the abolition of federal benefits for teachers in rural areas is proposed “in connection with previously made decisions to increase wages for teaching staff.” In addition, it follows from the same legislative inventory plan that the issue of excluding a similar measure of social support in relation to medical workers has been worked out.

A member of the State Duma Committee on Agrarian Issues, Arkady Ponomarev, sent a letter (available to the Parliamentary Gazette) to the Ministry of Economic Development with a request to exclude from the published “road map” the clause that would abolish compensation for utility bills for rural doctors and teachers. According to the deputy, the revision of benefits for this category of citizens contradicts the “Strategy for Sustainable Development of Rural Territories of the Russian Federation for the Period until 2030,” approved by the Government in 2015. The document, in particular, prescribes, on the contrary, to expand social support measures for medical workers, attract specialists from other professions to rural areas, and create attractive conditions for living, working and developing the personal potential of Russians living here.

“As you know, utility bills are one of the key items of family expenses,” the deputy’s letter says. — Deprivation of rural doctors and teachers of these compensations will reduce their income level. While the President of Russia regularly draws attention to the need to improve the level of well-being of these specialists. Motivate with additional financial and other incentives.”

The lack of young qualified personnel is one of the most pressing problems in rural areas, the parliamentarian notes. The shortage of rural teachers today is estimated at four thousand people, and the shortage of medical workers at 27 thousand. The main reasons for the unattractiveness of work in rural areas are low income and social vulnerability. There is a colossal gap between living conditions in villages and big cities.

“The close attention of the president, the parliamentary corps and civil society institutions to the development of the human resources potential of rural areas confirms the need to preserve the full range of measures to support specialists that the village needs most,” writes Arkady Ponomarev, calling on the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin to be excluded from the legislation optimization plan proposal to abolish utility benefits for rural doctors and teachers.

Benefits for honored teachers

The honorary title “Honored Teacher” is awarded on the basis of Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated September 7, 2010 N 1099 for personal merits in teaching, training winners of Olympiads at various levels, retraining or training of teaching staff. As a rule, such status is given no earlier than 20 years from the start of teaching activity.

Regional authorities have the right to independently determine whether benefits will be provided to honored teachers. In most cases, they are paid a premium of 15-20% of the rate.

If, after retirement, a teacher receives the title “Veteran of Labor,” he has the right to take advantage of the following benefits:

free travel on public transport (coupons issued);
compensation for the cost of paying for utilities or fuel (for non-gas supply houses);
pension supplements.

It is important to consider that all payments and benefits for honored teachers are also determined by regional authorities. You can find out the exact list in Social Security.

Compensation payments

It should also be noted the peculiarities of allocating compensation benefits to teachers working in rural areas. The Law “On Education” determines that the adjustment and assignment of amounts of material compensation for paid housing and communal services for rural teachers are directly related to the powers of specific regions.

In most options, teachers are compensated for the following costs :

Rent for living space or certain services for performing repair work and paying for living space;
Compensation of funds spent on providing a centralized heating system or operating installations that consume gas as fuel, in accordance with readings recorded on meters or according to a pre-approved volume of consumption;
Compensation for the use of solid fuel according to certain standards;
Payment for electricity taking into account the standards established for 1 m2 of area.

Such benefits can be provided to teachers even after retirement if they have already worked for at least 10 years.