From the start of 2025, Kazakhstani citizens have been paid pensions totalling 1 trillion 745.9 billion tenge from the republican budget. Of this amount, 564.7 billion tenge was allocated to the basic pension, and 1 trillion 181.2 billion tenge to the solidarity pension. The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population reports this.
As of 1 June 2025, the number of pensioners in the country is 2 million 481 thousand people. The average total pension has reached 143,502 tenge. Of this, 95,814 tenge is accounted for by the solidarity pension, and 47,688 tenge by the basic pension.
From 1 January 2025, the size of the basic pension payment was increased by 6.5%, and the solidarity pension by 8.5%, which is 2% above the forecast inflation rate. The increase was implemented in accordance with the forecasts of the National Bank and the President's instruction for the annual increase of the basic pension.
According to the five-year plan in effect since 2023, the minimum basic pension is increased annually until it reaches 70% of the subsistence minimum (SM), and the maximum basic pension until it reaches 120%. Since the start of this year, the minimum basic pension is 32,360 tenge, and the maximum is 50,851 tenge.
The allocation of the basic pension payment has been carried out individually since 1 July 2018, taking into account the length of participation in the pension system. This length of participation includes both years worked before 1998 in the solidarity system and periods of paying mandatory pension contributions (MPCs) after 1998.
If the length of participation is 10 years or less (or absent), the basic pension equals 70% of the subsistence minimum. For each year over 10, an additional 2% is added. Thus, with 20 years of service, the basic pension is 90% of the SM, and with 30 or more years, it reaches a maximum of 110%.
In this case, the period of participation in the funded system is determined by the number of months for which MPCs were paid — even if contributions were made several times in a single month, it counts as one month.
The amount of the solidarity pension, paid upon reaching retirement age, depends on the length of service as of 1 January 1998 (at least 6 months) and the average monthly income in the pre-retirement period.
Earlier, the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, commented on the reform of taxation and the social priorities of the state.
"Our state is a social state, therefore we will continue to invest in education and healthcare; this is our constitutional duty," the President noted.