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Pension Fund of Uzbekistan to stop accepting paper documents from 2027

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In Uzbekistan, from January 1, 2027, the Pension Fund will stop accepting documents and information from citizens in paper form, transferring services to a digital format. This is provided for by the presidential decree of September 28, the Pension Fund under the Ministry of Economy reported.

According to the document, the fund's services are planned to be fully transferred to interactive and proactive forms. Already from November 1, 2026, citizens recognized as unemployed due to a reduction in the volume of work or the closure of an enterprise will be automatically assigned an old-age pension without a separate application - two years earlier than the scheduled deadline (men at 58 years old, women at 53 years old). At the same time, the right to refuse the assigned payment is preserved. From January 1, 2027, without appeal, they will begin to assign a pension for the loss of a breadwinner: the Ministry of Justice, when registering a death, will transfer information to the information system of the pension authority.

A number of services will switch to online mode through the Unified Portal of Interactive State Services and public service centers. From November 1, 2026, workers in hazardous industries and other beneficiaries will be able to submit electronic applications for early retirement. From December 1, 2026, it will be possible to remotely apply for recalculation of payments based on archival data and submit an application for transfer from one type of pension to another. If the amount of the new pension is lower than the current one, the old payment will remain unchanged.

From the beginning of 2027, through the Unified Portal and public service centers, it will be possible to transfer payments to receive cash, resume suspended accruals, as well as obtain certificates of deductions and taxes. In addition, the "My Pension" service will be launched on the government portal: users will be able to check the accounted periods of work experience, education and military service, calculate the amount of future payments, request certificates from state archives and receive notifications one year before reaching retirement age.

What it means

From January 1, 2027, it will be impossible to submit documents to the Pension Fund on paper - all appeals will be transferred to public service centers and the Unified Portal. At the same time, some payments, including early retirement for laid-off unemployed and payments for the loss of a breadwinner, will begin to be formalized automatically without collecting certificates.

Published 29 September 2026, 18:01 · No updates · Russian original

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