What is compulsory pension insurance and snills. What is snils and what does it look like

A green pension insurance card is perceived by many as some kind of useless appendage to "real" documents - a passport, for example. But in the United States, a person's insurance number is extremely important, and without the state analogue of SNILS, it is impossible to get an official job, rent an apartment, or open a bank account. Russia is gradually moving in the same direction, albeit in zigzags. In this article we will talk about what SNILS is, what opportunities it opens up, whether it is possible to change the insurance certificate and how to get a duplicate of it if necessary.

SNILS is the Insurance Number of an Individual Personal Account. In Russia, this term is understood as the set of digits of the identification code of the insured citizen, and the laminated insurance certificate (so to speak, material evidence of the existence of the account), and the actual account number to which charges are made by employers or the state throughout life. SNILS action is regulated federal law"On compulsory pension insurance in the Russian Federation" (No. 167-ФЗ dated 15.12.2001).

The SNILS format is as follows: 123-456-789-01 , the number is assigned according to a special algorithm that excludes forgery and duplication.

The front side of the insurance certificate contains:

• insurance number of an individual personal account;
• surname, name, patronymic of the owner;
• owner gender
• Date and place of birth;
• date of registration in the pension system Russian Federation(in some cases differs from the actual date of receipt of the certificate).

An insurance number is assigned to a person once in a lifetime. And in the future, no matter what happens to the citizen (the surname changes, leaves the country for several years, and then returns, and so on), the identification code remains the same. Registration in the pension insurance system is mandatory for both residents of the Russian Federation and for foreigners officially working in Russia.

Why SNILS is needed

SNILS was conceived as a Russian analogue of an American card social insurance... It was assumed that the insurance number will become one of the main documents of the citizen, according to which they will determine where and how much the citizen worked officially, what contributions were paid for him by employers, where he works at the moment, as well as assign pensions, social benefits, benefits and other state services. However, the introduction of SNILS was somewhat ahead of its time: when green certificates appeared (in 1998, and then, in a modernized form, in 2003), the country did not yet have unified databases on public services, social security, and even the archives of social insurance were not fully translated into electronic form.

Since the mid-2000s, the situation has begun to change. Now the information correlated with the insurance number of the individual personal account:

• contains complete data on employers' deductions (to the Social Insurance Fund and the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation) for the entire period of the employee's work experience (meaning the insurance period since 2002);
• it is used to form state registers of citizens (within the framework of the exchange of personal data of a citizen between various departments);
• required for authorization on the portal of public services.

It was planned that SNILS would become the basis of a universal project e-card- means of personal identification, which were going to be tied to the number of the insurance certificate.

UEC began to be issued on January 1, 2013. The card made it possible to log in to the State Services portal, obtain an electronic signature remotely and use it to certify various documents.

She served as a pensioner's identity card, replaced the compulsory medical insurance policy, was universal travel card, had its own and performed more than 10 functions.

However, due to foreign policy complications, the increased threat of data confidentiality and the general high cost of the UEC project, it was terminated in December 2016.

Nevertheless, the government of the Russian Federation did not abandon the idea of ​​combining all possible electronic services and identifiers within the framework of the "Electronic Passport" project, but today its implementation has also been suspended.

How to issue SNILS

Now citizens of the Russian Federation receive an insurance certificate almost immediately after birth. To do this, the mother or father with their passport and birth certificate must visit the department The Pension Fund or the MFC at the place of residence or actual residence (in the regions where the MFC provides such services).

When contacting PFR insurance the certificate should, according to the assurances of the official website of the Pension Fund, be issued immediately if you have already completed the application form ().

Through the MFC, SNILS registration takes 5 days. This procedure applies to all children under 14 years of age. Teenagers over this age have the right to independently apply to the FIU with their passport.

Adult citizens, as well as foreigners officially employed in Russia, can receive SNILS in two ways:

1 When employed.

If an employment or civil law contract is concluded with you for the provision of services / performance of work, the employer is obliged to send your data to the FIU no later than 14 days later. There, in 5 days they will assign an identification number, draw up an insurance certificate, send it to the employer, and he will give it to you.

2 Independently in the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation or in the MFC

Here the algorithm is the same as in the case of children (only you apply with one passport). By filling out the questionnaires, you will receive SNILS at the FIU immediately, and through the MFC - within 5 days. ...

Another way to get SNILS is to issue a notarized power of attorney and supply it to your representative, who will submit documents on your behalf and receive an insurance certificate.

What will happen if you do not issue SNILS

By law, receiving insurance number an individual personal account is a mandatory procedure, all people officially working on the territory of the Russian Federation must be registered - both citizens of the country and foreigners.

The identification number has long been the subject of conspiracy insinuations on the theme "they counted us all" and "this is the devil's number." Therefore, a certain stratum of people has formed in society who do not seek to obtain SNILS (and oppose its appropriation to their children) for ideological reasons.

What is the risk of lack of insurance certificate?

Despite the fact that, according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the attitude government agencies to citizens cannot be due to the presence or absence of any documents, in everyday life it is difficult without a green laminated card.

• Firstly, problems will inevitably arise when trying to officially find a job. The Law "On Compulsory Pension Insurance in the Russian Federation" obliges both the employer and the employee to register all changes in the employee's insurance record in the state pension insurance system. Violation of this requirement leads to a fine for the employer, and who will like that?
• Since 2016 financial statements legal entities and individual entrepreneurs related to HR administration are tied to the insurance numbers of employees' personal accounts - you simply cannot receive a salary if you do not have SNILS.
• In the absence of an insurance certificate, it will not be possible to issue benefits, as well as register on the Portal of Public Services, which means not to put the child on the queue in the kindergarten, not to make an appointment with the doctor remotely, the documents will have to be collected in paper form and brought to each authority separately, and so on.
• If there is no insurance number for an individual personal account, there will be big problems with recovery insurance experience and deductions to the FIU in previous periods. You will have to run through the archives, look for the reporting of enterprises and re-register the pension individually in manual mode.
• Often SNILS is the second document required when applying for loans in commercial banks... But even if the insurance certificate is not required to be presented, then any specialist of the credit department will be alerted by the absence of identification number when the information about the borrower will begin to be checked.

FAQ

What if I have lost my certificate?

In case of loss of the "green card" from SNILS, the identification number of the insured person does not disappear anywhere, it is still assigned only to you, and all deductions from employers and your length of service are still taken into account on the account. However, there are situations when the evidence is needed, so to speak, in kind.

It is not difficult to recover the card. If you are officially employed, come to the personnel department and write an application to the territorial body of the Pension Fund for the issuance of a duplicate insurance certificate (the application form will be prompted by an employee personnel service).

If you individual entrepreneur, a lawyer or a notary, you must contact the FIU yourself by filling out an application () Non-working citizens should act according to the same algorithm. If you do not live in the region where you are permanently registered, you do not need to go anywhere - the FIU also accepts applications at the place of temporary registration.

There is one more way. Not so long ago, a service for obtaining a duplicate online was launched on the PFR website (you can apply through Personal Area, and then pick up the ready-made certificate from the territorial body of the FIU).

I got married and changed my last name. Will the insurance number in the certificate change, and do I need to change the green card itself?

A personal identification number is assigned to a person once and does not change throughout life. But the information specified in the insurance certificate must be similar to those contained in the passport.

Therefore, after changing your surname, you need to apply for an exchange of insurance certificate to the personnel department at the place of work or to the territorial department of the PFR (or to the MFC, if this service is provided in your region). An old “green card” must be attached to the application. At the same time as when issuing a new insurance certificate, you will receive a card with a changed surname.

What should I do if my surname is spelled incorrectly on the insurance certificate?

The correctness of the information reflected on the insurance certificate must be checked immediately upon receipt. If you see an error, immediately inform the HR specialist or the representative of the FIU. There are two options here:

1 The spelling of your last name is garbled in the pension insurance data system. This can cause unpleasant consequences in the event of, for example, restoring your experience through archives, manually. An incident is possible, which in bureaucratic language is called "multiple registration of the insured person" - the system will contain two of your personal files, with different surnames. Formally, after checking your passport, you will be a person who does not have an identification number, it will be issued, and your seniority will be recorded on two different accounts. If everything is in order with your experience, problems will emerge already at the stage of assigning a pension, when you have to prove that, for example, Ivan Petrovich Sinyakin is you, Ivan Petrovich Sidyakin.

2 The operator, for some reason, incorrectly entered your name in the form when printing the insurance certificate card. In this case, the number of the insurance retirement account assigned to you remains with you, and all charges are made correctly. But upon presentation of the document, as in the first version, there will be difficulties: if the surname is not yours, then the officials will have questions.

To avoid trouble in any of the above options, immediately contact the FIU using any of the methods described above. Changes will be made both to the insurance certificate itself and, if necessary, to the registration record at the same time as the new certificate is issued.

Conclusion

SNILS or insurance number of an individual personal account is a mandatory attribute of every citizen of the Russian Federation, as well as foreigners officially working in our country. All information about seniority and deductions to the Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund, which employers made for the employee throughout the entire career of the latter, are tied to this number. Based on this information, a person is assigned a pension, benefits are paid, and so on.

Initially, it was assumed that SNILS would become the main project of a universal electronic card, as well as several others, but now its most frequent use is as an identifier when entering the Public Services Portal, which allows you to use a large number of public services provided remotely.

You can get SNILS through your employer or in the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation at your place of residence, as well as in many MFCs in the country. In the same place, you can restore the insurance certificate in case of loss and exchange it after changing the surname.

Assigned by SNILS once in a lifetime, it is valid indefinitely.

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In 1997, a system of personified registration of the pension rights of our citizens was introduced in Russia. Enacted law "On compulsory (personified) accounting in the compulsory pension insurance system" No. 27-ФЗ dated 01.04.1996 was the beginning of a qualitatively new management of the pension system. Now all information about work activity has been stored on personal accounts citizens and recorded electronic.

The basis of the current pension insurance is payment of insurance premiums employers in the FIU. Such payments, made by policyholders in relation to each employee during the period of his employment, form the basis of the future pension of a citizen.

Every citizen of Russia, as well as foreigners living on the territory of our country, and stateless persons who work and pay insurance premiums to the Russian FIU, are insured persons.

In confirmation of this fact for such persons, the FIU opens an individual personal account with an unchanged number once and for all.

Insurance certificate of state pension insurance

The insurance number of an individual personal account (SNILS) is personal account number a citizen who is an insured person. This number is indicated on the card in green... It is an insurance certificate and confirms that a citizen is a participant in the compulsory pension insurance system (OPS). The "green card" contains basic information about its owner. It says:

• account number;
• surname, name, patronymic of the citizen;
• date and place of his birth;
• date of registration in the FSA system.

The need to obtain SNILS is explained by several factors:

Handle with application for a duplicate and a passport must:

• directly to the PFR office at the place of registration or actual residence for citizens who do not have a permanent job;
• in the FIU at the place of registration as an insurer for a citizen who is a private entrepreneur, notary or lawyer;
• to the staffing service for working citizens.

A duplicate of the pension certificate will be issued within 30 days from the date of submission of the application based on the data available on the personal account of the citizen.

Conclusion

The introduction into our life of the insurance number of an individual personal account pursues two main goals:

• maximum accounting of pension rights and control for their accumulation on the part of citizens themselves for the formation of a future pension;
• Spread information technologies in everyday life for convenience citizens.

Since many public services are provided to parents in relation to their children, it is advisable to receive SNILS from infancy. For themselves, adults can get it on their own in the FIU or when applying for a job.

The number of the pension certificate is unique and confirms the date of registration of a citizen in the OPS system.

As a rule, the first official employment involves the opening of a special individual number for any employed citizen. Its main purpose is considered to be the accumulation of insurance premiums from the employer throughout the entire working period. This account has a special and unchanged number called SNILS.

However, even today, not everyone has an idea of ​​what SNILS looks like and what it is for. Let's try to understand in detail some of the intricacies of formation pension contributions, the purpose of SNILS and its features.

SNILS - what is it for?

Pension is a topic that concerns not only pensioners, but also all working and officially employed citizens. Formation of pension start practicing from the first day official work, that is, in his youth. This means that any citizen should have access to information on the appointment of such an identification account as SNILS

In pension offices for all citizens, a personal account is opened, where certain amounts will be transferred from employers, who will eventually form labor part pensions. When a person reaches the retirement age, he will be paid a certain amount from this account every month. This is why his insurance is so important.

Insurance of pension contributions is an necessary condition for all Russian citizens since 2002. This means that every citizen, regardless of his category, is an insured person and will definitely receive a pension.

Receiving a pension is a right available to anyone, which is fixed by the issuance of a special certificate, which is called the insurance certificate of compulsory pension insurance (abbreviation SSOPS). The pension insurance certificate is a green laminated card, slightly larger than a credit card.

It indicates the main personal data of the person who receives it: last name, first name, patronymic, date of birth, place of birth, gender.

In addition, the insurance is applied a specific set of eleven digits, which is called SNILS. The abbreviation stands for the insurance number of an individual personal account. The first nine digits, separated by a hyphen, are the insurance number of this account. The last two control the account, they only have a confirming function. A photo of a citizen on this document is not required.

The reverse side of the insurance certificate contains the name of the printing house that prints this state document, as well as basic information on correct use certificates, measures to obtain a duplicate, etc.

Insurance number is personal for each insured person. It is determined automatically thanks to the Pension Fund system. The insurance account contains all information about seniority and all deductions made by the employer.

Photos and samples of SNILS are presented on the official website of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation or on other related Internet pages.

So, why is it necessary pension insurance certificate, namely SNILS for a citizen of the Russian Federation?

• to list sums of money working citizens to future pension accounts;
• to register on the portal of public services;
• to get a universal electronic card;
• to collect a package of documents for the right to receive social benefits and subsidies;
• to interact with various social authorities and medical institutions.

The insurance number of the personal account is required to identify a person in the insurance system of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. Using this number in the fund, at any time, they can track information on pension accruals received for each working citizen who has a certificate.

Moreover, information about a person, determined by SNILS, is widely used by various social services and medical institutions when providing services. According to the insurance certificate it is easy to determine the amount of amounts received by the MHIF and the human right to use certain benefits and subsidies. Most documents and types of benefits, such as disability benefits, maternal capital, a generic certificate, an electronic card for accessing public services and many others, it is impossible to issue without an insurance certificate. That is why it is so important to obtain this certificate for both working people and unemployed people, students and schoolchildren.

Individual SNILS number gives the right to receive government services in electronic form via the Internet. The receipt of the pension also depends on the citizen's certificate containing the SNILS account.

When applying for a job and applying for a job, the employer is obliged to ask the citizen for information on the insurance certificate. This is necessary to transfer to his account the amounts that form the pension. However, if the employer does not require SNILS data, this indicates that the employment takes place informally. Unofficial registration excludes the transfer of pension accruals by the employer, which will further affect the amount of the pension.

SNILS is issued in the offices of the Pension Fund. For insurance, you need to contact your local office at the place of registration. Package of documents, necessary for SNILS registration:

• passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation;
• application form.

You can ask your employer for the same questionnaire. Two weeks after submitting the application, the person receives a ready-made certificate of compulsory pension insurance.

The document is subject to mandatory replacement if at least one item of personal data is changed. To do this, you also need to contact the Pension Fund and write an application. After checking all the data by specialists of the Pension Fund, the insured person receives a duplicate card in his hands, while the individual card remains unchanged.

Currently insurance number issued already in childhood... The student needs to fill out a questionnaire with data at the place of study, where two weeks later he will be given a ready-made certificate. To obtain a certificate for a younger child attending kindergarten, one of the parents must contact the head of the institution and fill out a questionnaire. However, at present, an insurance certificate is already necessary for an infant, since it is asked for in many medical and other institutions. Therefore, in order to obtain a certificate for a child, you must also contact the branch of the Pension Fund at the place of registration.

What is SNILS for a child?? Since obtaining pension insurance is compulsory for all citizens of the Russian Federation, it is best to do it as early as possible. Moreover, soon it is planned to introduce a universal electronic card, which will contain general information about a citizen, including SNILS. Therefore, do not postpone, it is better to do the design of this document now.

What does SNILS look like and what is it for?

Most of a person's life is associated with his work activity. And it doesn't matter what area he is in. As long as people are young and energetic, they worry little about the future. But sooner or later, old age will come, which means that you will not be able to carry out your duties as before.

To ensure a decent existence for elderly people who have gone on a well-deserved rest, the state provides for a pension insurance program. To do this, each citizen is assigned a special code, which is equivalent to a personal account number. More about SNILS and its decryption it will be farther.

This abbreviation (Insurance Number of an Individual Personal Account) is usually called a complex of unique data assigned to each Russian citizen, regardless of his age. It includes:

• a plastic card(certificate) with identification code;
• the actual account number for accruals.

Due to the presence of a special pension contribution, the future pensioner gradually accumulates savings in the insurance system, and deductions are made automatically, that is, guaranteed and obligatory.

Important. The assignment of SNILS in the Russian Federation is made once and is retained with the owner throughout his life. No adjustments, changes or additions to it are provided by the legislation, except for special, specifically stipulated cases.

Detailed information on the insurance certificate of compulsory pension insurance is provided on the official websites of the State Services and, in particular, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

There, the main provisions of the pension insurance system are explained in an accessible form. In fact, with the entry into force of 12/15/2001, the old-style pension certificates were completely canceled and new ones were introduced using modern means of protection. And the details of a plastic card are much more difficult to forge - a multi-digit digital code is randomly selected by a computer, while the user's personal data is completely safe.

In addition, the existing legislation of the Russian Federation provides, as a mandatory requirement, the registration of all working residents of the regions of Russia in the FIU.

It also applies to foreigners staying on the territory of the Federation in connection with work under a contract or an employment contract.

What is SNILS for?

In the future, its presence promises a lot of advantages - this is why SNILS is needed.

At first, when entering the portals of the State Services, this code facilitates registration and speeds up the process of resolving an issue or obtaining advice.

Secondly, on the basis of personal data, information is exchanged between various services and departments, which may receive a citizen's appeal.

Thirdly According to analysts' forecasts, in just a few years, the personal code number should replace all other means of personal identification that will be used in contacts with medical institutions, administration and similar cases.

And finally fourthly, the number on the insurance policy contains all the information about the amount of work experience, the exact amount and duration of transfers for a future pension.

SNILS in the photo (see above) looks like a plastic card of light green color, outwardly very similar to a bank credit card. It contains information about the insured, including:

• birth data (place, date);
• the gender of the owner is also indicated there;
• personal account number in the Pension Fund;
• service information about registration.

Thus, it becomes clear what SNILS is and what kind of document it is: with its help, you can trace the entire history of the movement of savings on pension contribution owner.

Attention. The insurance identifier is a personal tool for recording seniority, transfers to the FIU and, ultimately, collecting data for the total determination of the amount of retirement benefits. Its transfer to third parties is excluded. Otherwise, the use of personal information for personal gain is possible.

Consequences of the absence of SNILS

Without a formalized insurance certificate, various problems may arise in the state pension insurance system. For example, they have the right to refuse employment, although there is no administrative responsibility for this. Article 2 of the Federal Law N167 of 12/15/2001 interprets this procedure unambiguously, as obligatory, both for the employer and for the employee.

Thus, the absence of SNILS, for example, in employment, threatens with responsibility for the employer's administration. Since 2016, all the financial statements of enterprises are tied to an insurance policy - this is what SNILS is for an adult citizen. And it will also be useful to a child who will also grow up someday, get a profession and come to get a job.

In addition, by not registering with the pension fund, a person deprives himself of the right to receive benefits, and at the same time creates many other difficulties for himself. A person without officially issued pension insurance will have to write applications by hand, collect numerous visas from officials, and then independently transfer documents to authorities, wasting precious time. And this is instead of simply presenting a card with a unique number or entering it on the State Services portal.

Also, access to the relatively easy and quick registration of one-time benefits, access to health insurance is closed. It will be much more difficult to reconstruct the whole picture of seniority and related contributions to the pension fund.

Every year the number of paper documents decreases, more and more attention is paid to modern secure identification means. Without insurance policy recalculations of pensions and social payments will have to do not in unified system, but on an individual basis. It will be more difficult to get a loan, a bank loan or a loan. And employees are unlikely to be very happy about the prospect of wasting time working with such clients.

Results or what gives the right to own SNILS

As you can understand about SNILS from the decoding of the abbreviation, there is nothing wrong with it, and its presence does not impose any special obligations on the owner.

Improvement of electronic data processing systems, the use of simplified identification significantly accelerates the search for the necessary information about the full length of service, the amount of accrued pension payments and recalculations using a unique digital code.

Personification is also attached to it on the websites of the State Services (State Services, etc.) and medical insurance. The legislative framework, on which the procedure for pension insurance is based, is periodically revised, which makes it possible to take into account all the current changes, to make the process of citizens' appeal extremely friendly and comfortable.

To receive the code, you do not need to stand in queues, make an appointment, and so on. Official employment automatically allows you to obtain an insurance certificate, and most of the worries (collection and transfer of documents, issuing a card) are assigned to the employer.

In the shortest possible time - no more than 3 weeks, the applicant becomes the owner of a personal account in the pension fund, and everything further is done fully automatically, without human intervention. Such a procedure can (and should) be carried out in relation to minor children: due to the fact that the number is assigned once and does not change anymore, you do not have to worry about it in the future.

The restoration or replacement of the certificate is also not difficult: you will need to contact the staff of the fund, write a statement in the prescribed form and get new policy... Moreover, this is done only in extreme cases: when changing the place of residence, surname and or first name, gender. Re-issuance is carried out in the same terms established by law as a new card.

A personal account in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation - and this is exactly how SNILS is translated, in the near future, according to the plans of civil servants, should become a universal identifier for customer service on various portals of social services. It will make it easier to pay a fee, fine or income tax, resolve your issues in the State Administration. Therefore, without further ado, SNILS is the future.

Consider in this article questions regarding the need to obtain this document, we will learn about the rules for issuing SNILS by different categories of the population and the conditions for replacing and issuing a duplicate. First of all, let's define this abbreviation, what is SNILS. This is the individual insurance number of the personal account of the insured citizen. It is necessary so that in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation it is possible to streamline the individual data of each employee of the Russian Federation and the funds transferred by the employer to his personal pension account to form a future pension.

The individual number personal account is unique and refers to a specific person. This individual personal account records all information about the insurance premiums paid by the employer for the period of the entire labor activity of the person. All this is then taken into account when assigning a pension or recalculating it.

In addition, this insurance number will be needed in order to be able to use the electronic portal of public services, receive benefits, and also in some cases help to reduce the list of required documents when receiving certain services.

Where do you get SNILS?

The assignment of an individual insurance number, as well as the issuance of this green card, is handled by the FIU.

Receiving SNILS by a child

This document can be issued at any age... When it comes to receiving SNILS a child under 14 years old, then for this one of the parents needs to apply to the FIU at the place of residence or actual residence with a child's birth certificate and their passport. There you need to fill out a special form and after about two weeks you can pick up the document. And if obtaining an insurance number is necessary for a child who has already reached the age of 14, then he can do it on his own, because at that moment he already has his passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.

Receiving SNILS for an adult citizen

There are two ways:

• at the time of getting a job;
• when you independently apply to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation at the place of your permanent registration or temporary, as well as at the actual place of residence.

In the first method, at the time of the conclusion of the employment contract, the employer is obliged, within fourteen days, to submit to the territorial body of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation information about the employee, as well as a completed application form. After the transferred data, SNILS will be issued within three weeks and will be transferred first to the employer, and he, in turn, will issue it to his employee.

The second method of obtaining involves an independent appeal of a citizen to the Pension Fund, presenting a passport and filling out a special questionnaire. Registration procedure in in this case will be three weeks already. This method is resorted to by those citizens who are going to make contributions voluntarily to the FIU.

Receiving SNILS by foreign citizens

Exists compulsory pension insurance law in Russia. A citizen of another country or a person who does not have any citizenship temporarily staying in the territory of the Russian Federation has the right to become a participant in the compulsory pension insurance program and apply for an individual insurance number, but subject to two conditions simultaneously. Namely:

1. A foreign citizen is not a highly qualified specialist who was recognized as such based on the provisions of the law on foreign citizens in the Russian Federation. "
2. And necessary requirement is the existence of an employment contract concluded for an indefinite period or labor contract of an urgent nature for a period of at least six months.

Can I find out the SNILS number from my passport?

There is such an opportunity. You can find out your individual insurance number by looking at your "green card", but if you don't have one at the moment, you can go with your passport to the Pension Fund branch at your place of residence.

Personal data that is printed on the "green card" must necessarily correspond to the information that is indicated in the citizen's passport. In this regard, when changing the surname, it is required to change the insurance certificate. For this procedure, an application for the required replacement of the "green card" is filled in and sent by the citizen or his employer to the FIU. In this case, the old SNILS must be attached to this application. When exchanging SNILS all data remain unchanged, except for the surname of the citizen.

What to do if a SNILS document is lost?

SNILS is the document whose data remain unchanged throughout a person's life. But the "green card" itself can be lost. But it is very easy to restore it. Therefore, if you lost it, then do not worry, you will be given a new one with the same data without any problems.

At work, you can go to the personnel department with a formalized statement about the loss of a document and the need to issue a duplicate. And if you are a citizen of a self-employed category, this means individual entrepreneur, a lawyer, any lawyer, etc., then you should contact the FIU at the place of registration as an insured with a completed application for the need to issue a duplicate.

For non-working citizens, it is required to write an application for the restoration of SNILS in the PFR at the place of permanent or temporary registration or actual residence.

When will a duplicate SNILS be issued?

In all cases, after submitting an application, you will be issued and given a duplicate of your individual insurance number within four weeks.

Here, perhaps, are all the main points, nuances and rules regarding the question of what SNILS is, what it is for, the methods and conditions for obtaining it for a different category of the population, as well as its replacement.