Ivan Urgant’s father named the size of his pension

“I hope no one is going to leave me”

Celebrities keep talking about their retirements. Actor Andrei Urgant, father of Ivan Urgant, lives in St. Petersburg. He admitted to MK that his pension is only enough to pay for an apartment. Due to the fact that the costs are several times higher than the allowance from the state, he is forced to work. Andrei Lvovich told MK correspondents about what kind of pension he would like to receive.

“My pension is enough for me to pay utility bills,” Urgant Sr. says. – I have a long experience – count, from 20 to 60 years. And my pension is 18,500 rubles.

– Surcharges, as I understand it, artists are not paid in St. Petersburg?

– We do not have any allowances in St. Petersburg. Sometimes I am invited to act in films, I participate in entreprises. I don’t stop working. Now I am an individual entrepreneur, and all my calculations go through IP. I am a law-abiding taxpayer, all my life I regularly donated money to the Pension Fund. But people hunchback all their lives, working from morning to evening, and receive very small pensions. I think that the calculation is that people simply do not live up to retirement age.

What income class do you belong to?

– I can’t complain about my life, I’m not starving. There are performances, permanent television programs in which I take part. So I think that I am a representative of the middle class. Not the poor, of course, but not the highest either. I receive an average salary in the country, which allows me to live not richly, but with dignity.

– What kind of pension would you like to receive? Is $100,000 a month enough?

– To live with dignity – yes, you can for 100 thousand. I think that I now receive 100 thousand a month on the total income. But not at the expense of pensions, but at the expense of individual labor activity. If something happens to me – I think that there will be problems.

But I still have a family, relatives. I hope that no one is going to leave me if something happens. And people who are left alone on a pension of 15-20 thousand rubles, of course, are at a huge risk. Because no one will help them. Direct way to the nursing home, and there you understand what.