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Over 60,000 Kazakh residents sign retirement annuity contract. Qazaq TV News

Over 60,000 Kazakh residents sign retirement annuity contract. Qazaq TV News #annuitycontract #Kazakhresidents #Kazakhstan #Pensionpayments #insurancemarket Nearly 61,000 residents in Kazakhstan secured lifelong pension payments. They purchased annuities worth over 280 billion tenge (over US$675 million). This was stated at a briefing in the Central Communications Service by a spokesperson of Kazakh Agency for Regulation and Development of Financial Market Sagi Azhibek. He recalled that Kazakh citizens can sign the retirement annuity contract from January 1 of this year. The service is available for people aged over 45. They transfer their savings to life insurance companies. The speaker also told about the legislation’s innovations. From this year, spouses and close relatives can combine their pension savings to purchase the annuity from life insurers. For example, if one of them does not have enough money on his or her pension account, while the other has a surplus, both