How to restore SNILS (Individual Personal Account Insurance Number) through State Services

Today, SNILS is not just a citizen’s “green card,” but also a new pass to the electronic world of government services.

Every year, millions of adults and children register with the Pension Fund. They receive their unique insurance number. Along with a passport and TIN, it has become a familiar document for us. But not everyone knows about its purpose and capabilities.

And don’t think that it is issued only to adults. You can find out how to obtain this document and where to go by reading our information.

What is SNILS and how does it stand for

SNILS is the Insurance Number of an Individual Personal Account the Pension Fund to record all important insurance periods in a person’s life, as well as to record accumulated individual pension points.

People often use this abbreviation to refer to the pale green laminated card. It easily fits in your passport or wallet.

Photo SNILS

This is exactly what an insurance certificate issued to a person by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation looks like. This document is confirmation of registration in the compulsory pension insurance system.

The 11 digits in the certificate are the same individual personal account number. Thanks to it, the Pension Fund can easily identify you among all your namesakes. This is possible because before you receive SNILS, your personal data is entered into the database. The information contains, in addition to the Last Name, First Name, Patronymic and date of birth, the person’s place of birth (region, district, locality).

Registration of membership in the personal accounting system of the state pension authority is carried out by applying there with the necessary documents.

At their core, SNILS and TIN have a common purpose. After all, the tax service also assigns a number to include the taxpayer in its database. But still, these are different numbers, as is the information stored on them.

Important: Each Pension Fund number exists in one unique version and is not repeated by anyone else. Its digital expression remains unchanged. Even when replacing an insurance certificate, changing personal data, or restoring a lost document.

Personalized accounting in the compulsory pension insurance system

From April 1, 2021, SNILS can be obtained electronically.

You can obtain an insurance certificate for compulsory pension insurance yourself or through your employer.

From September 29, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation announces registration in the individual (personalized) accounting system using a new form. Employers should be prepared for the fact that upon hiring an employee may present such a notification document instead of a SNILS card, including in electronic form.

The notification will contain the same information as in SNILS.

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Individual (personalized) accounting in the compulsory pension insurance system has a legal basis in the Constitution of the Russian Federation and is regulated by Federal Law No. 27-FZ of April 1, 1996 “On individual (personalized) accounting in the compulsory pension insurance system,” other legal acts, and international treaties and serves to collect, systematize and store information about citizens registered in the OPS system.

The only body authorized to carry out individual pension accounting is the Pension Fund.

The goal of creating a personalized accounting system in the compulsory health insurance system is to further improve it by creating a unified accounting information base that will speed up and simplify the assignment of pensions, taking into account the labor results of each insured citizen, while ensuring the reliability of data on his experience and income, which directly affects the amount assigned pension.

The certificate is a document in the form of a light green plastic card with anti-counterfeit elements. Contains:

• personal data of the specified person (full name, place of birth, gender);
• date of registration with the Pension Fund;
• SNILS.

The OPS certificate contains important information about the person, his work experience, working conditions and transferred insurance premiums, which are stored in a systematic form on the personal account. The Pension Fund of Russia bodies monitor the reliability of information provided by policyholders on the length of service and income of insured persons. This document occupies an important place in the current system of labor relations.

From April 1, 2021, the Pension Fund of Russia stopped issuing such certificates, replacing them with paper certificates. Accordingly, if a person loses his SNILS card, instead the Pension Fund will issue a certificate confirming registration in the OPS system.

SNILS is indicated by a series of numbers, located under the name of the document (insurance certificate) and at the same time is the number of the pension certificate. It contains control bits that allow you to identify inaccuracies made during the accumulation and processing of incoming information.

The number consists of eleven digits, of which 9 are divided into three groups, three digits each, and a two-digit check number.

If for some reason you do not have an insurance certificate and you need its number, you can find it out:

• by applying with your passport to the Pension Fund office;
• in the human resources department at the place of work;
• via the Internet, using the State Services portal or the Pension Fund website.

It must be remembered that SNILS and the information received from it are strictly confidential and cannot be obtained by telephone. Data can only be disclosed in person or after confirmation of registration on the State Services website.

The territorial bodies of the Pension Fund issued a certificate to all insured persons until April 1, 2019. After this date, a paper certificate is issued instead. If a citizen begins his labor activity (gets a job for the first time) and does not have a SNILS, the employer will send information to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, where he will open an individual personal account and be assigned an insurance number (SNILS) is the responsibility of the policyholder.

A personal account in the OPS system, in the absence of one, is opened automatically upon transmission of information from the employer about the citizen’s employment.

The only institution where you can obtain SNILS is the Pension Fund.

• If an individual is engaged in self-employment or entrepreneurship and pays contributions independently, then to receive it, you must visit the Pension Fund at your place of residence and, presenting your passport, fill out an application form.
• Children who have reached the age of fourteen receive SNILS on their own. Educational institutions where minors study do not process and register SNILS.

From 04/01/2019, instead of plastic certificates indicating the SNILS number, a citizen registered in the Pension Fund accounting system will be issued a confirming certificate.

Recently, agreements on interaction are increasingly being concluded between the Pension Fund of Russia and the MFC, and you can also obtain SNILS by contacting the multifunctional center at your place of registration. The largest group of adults who are not yet insured by the Pension Fund and do not have SNILS are military personnel and employees of other law enforcement agencies who have only service experience.

To obtain it, you will need a passport and a completed application from the insured to register him in the personal system. accounting.

When registering a child, you will need a passport of one of the parents and a birth certificate. For children under 14 years of age, the application form must be signed by their parents or legal representatives.

To obtain a SNILS number, a citizen of a foreign state or a stateless person who is temporarily staying or residing in Russia (with the exception of highly qualified specialists in accordance with Federal Law No. 115-FZ of July 25, 2002) should come to the Pension Fund at the place of residence, present your passport and fill out the form.

Foreigners should take into account that a notarized translation of an identity document may be required if the passport details are in a foreign language.

A foreign citizen, if he has an official contract with an employer, has the opportunity to obtain a SNILS number through him.

If the insurance certificate was lost for some reason, the citizen will no longer be able to restore it. From April 1, 2021, Russia has canceled the issuance of plastic certificates, replacing them with paper certificates confirming registration in the OPS system.

You can obtain a certificate by contacting the territorial body of the Pension Fund or ordering a document through the State Services portal or Personal Account on the Pension Fund website.

Let me remind you again. The insurance number is assigned to you once for life. You may lose or damage your plastic card. In this case, it is necessary to restore the document. This will also be needed if you have changed your full name.

Procedure for obtaining a duplicate:

1. Employed citizens can contact their employer, the MFC or directly to the Pension Fund and write an application.
2. Unemployed and self-employed citizens must come to the Pension Fund office and order a duplicate.

When changing personal data, the old certificate must be attached to the application. You will receive a new document with the same number.

In your PF personal account online, you can restore your SNILS. The finished document will be sent to you by email. But to obtain a green card, you will still have to contact a branch or MFC.

The Pension Fund of Russia has begun issuing a new type of insurance number, but this does not mean their mass replacement; their owners will be those who receive the document for the first time, restore or replace it. Of course, if you wish, you can apply for a duplicate on your own initiative, replacing the old card with a new one.

The document has not undergone any fundamental changes, in particular those affecting the color of the plastic card and the information contained on its reverse side regarding information about gender reassignment. This was done for ethical reasons, but this circumstance does not eliminate the need to report a changed gender to the pension fund, since the age of retirement directly depends on this.

The old SNILS, a sample of which can be seen below, does not require replacement and is considered valid.

Sample of a new type Sample of an old type
Summing up what has been said and answering the question of why SNILS is needed, it can be noted that in addition to what was listed earlier, it is planned that this number will be assigned to the card in electronic form, which will allow you to receive not only the services of a pension, social, medical plan, but also replace a number of other mandatory documents, for example, TIN.

We recommend that you find out how to obtain a TIN.

The SNILS certificate is produced in the form of a green laminated card (as of today). The following details must be present on it (they are listed in accordance with the order they are on the card - from top to bottom):

• at the very top of the document in the middle is the name of our state (Russian Federation);
• in the middle of the next line in large capital letters the name of the document “INSURANCE CERTIFICATE” is given, and on the line below in smaller font in capital letters “STATE PENSION INSURANCE” is added;
• then in the center of the line there is an 11-digit individual personal account number, unique for each insured citizen (the first sequences of three digits are separated from each other by hyphens, and the last 2 digits of the account number are separated from the rest of it by a space);
• below on the left side of the document the full name is indicated in capital letters. citizen (the surname should be printed to the right of the abbreviation “Full Name”, the first name should be printed on the next line strictly below it, and, finally, the patronymic name should be printed on the third line);
• then, starting from the left edge of the card, the person's date and place of birth are printed;
• below on the left is the gender of the SNILS card owner (male or female);
• finally, the last line of the front side of the document indicates the date of registration of the citizen with the Pension Fund;
• on the back of the card there is information regarding the rules for using the SNILS document.

Why do you need an insurance number?

Every year the possibilities for using SNILS are expanding. Previously, a personal number in the Pension Fund was needed only to record length of service and insurance contributions . Today you can check your pension savings through your personal account of the pension fund.

To date, an insurance number in the Pension Fund allows you to use government services via the Internet. Logging into your personal account and registering on the government services portal is possible using your insurance certificate.

SNILS is also needed to reduce the number of required documents in various government agencies. With its help, government agencies, through a system of interdepartmental interaction, will themselves request the necessary documents.

Using the insurance certificate number, various preferential registers .

Still, the main advantage remains the same. Using your SNILS number online, you can find out information about your generated pension rights. For this purpose, an extract from the pension fund database is used. And this includes pension savings in your pension account (including voluntary ones) and official work experience, which will be counted when assigning an insurance pension.

It turns out that this is a kind of virtual work record book for an employee. It keeps records not only of the employee’s insurance coverage, but also of his salary. This way you can find out in a timely manner whether your employer pays insurance premiums. A “gray” salary in an envelope can leave you without a pension.

Pensioners can also check their pension and find out the size of their pension online. This is possible using your personal account on the Pension Fund website. In this case, the size of the pension for working pensioners will be indicated in full, that is, due to them upon dismissal from work.

Functions of the insurance certificate

The main functions of this document include:

• access to numerous government services is provided, since registration on various sites requires you to provide personal data, which includes the pension certificate number;
• during official employment, a complete package of documents is submitted to the employer, which includes SNILS;
• when registering social benefits and benefits, the document is handed over to representatives of the Pension Fund and other government funds;
• You can send your child to any educational or preschool institution only if you have a green card.

Relatively recently, a certificate was required only for citizens who received a pension or social benefits, but now it is issued for each person immediately after birth.

Where to get a number

Obtaining SNILS is currently not difficult. This procedure has been simplified as much as possible for quick and convenient registration.

Personalized records of all insured persons are maintained only by the Pension Fund. However, you can also contact them through multifunctional centers of municipal and government services and the human resources department of your employer.

As required by the current pension legislation, all citizens must be insured: working, unemployed, children, teenagers, military personnel.

As a rule, nowadays you can quickly obtain an insurance certificate immediately upon registration and without queues.

Why do you need a card and what opportunities does it provide?

1. The certificate, or rather its number, contains data on the person’s insurance experience and his pension contributions . This information will be required to assign or recalculate material support.
2. Using this document, you can issue benefits, allowances , as well as a number of other documents. It is required in almost all institutions: social security authorities, the passport office, the tax office, etc. Without an insurance certificate, today it is impossible to obtain a foreign passport, open an individual entrepreneur, or even take out a loan from a bank.
3. The number of this document may be required for registration on the State Services website , which provides the opportunity to use the services of government agencies online.
4. An insurance document is required for women to register maternity capital .

Important! SNILS must be kept by its owner. The information contained in the personal account number is strictly confidential.

Is it mandatory for unemployed citizens and children to receive a card? Everyone will need to register with the OPS , since the development trends of the OPS system in recent years show the need to obtain this document.

• In 2015, legislation expanded the categories of recipients of this document. Now it needs to be issued to all people living in the Russian Federation, including foreigners without Russian citizenship.
• In the future, it is planned to link SNILS to a universal electronic card, which will replace all documents (TIN, medical policy, passport, etc.).
• More and more government services are tied to the number of this certificate, which once again proves the need to obtain it.

How to get

It should be said that the personalized accounting unit of the Pension Fund does not burden applicants with the need to collect and submit a large number of documents. Their number is minimal.

The visitor will be required to prove his identity (for different occasions, the law provides for a list of possible documents for this).

To receive SNILS for a newly applied citizen, a Pension Fund specialist will need two documents:

1. Passport of the interested person;

When the applicant does not have a passport, in order to receive SNILS, identification must be done with one of the following documents:

• Military ID;
• Officer's ID;
• International passport;
• Diplomat's passport;
• Resident card;
• Certificate of release from prison;
• Refugee certificate.

2. Completed ADV-1 questionnaire (issued upon application).

The questionnaire form is filled out by the visitor in handwritten form (in block letters), or typed and printed on a computer by a customer service specialist. Information is entered on the basis of the original identification document. In both cases, the applicant puts a handwritten signature on the application form.

A list of personal data determines the uniqueness of a person when identifying a citizen. They further form the content of the first part of the personal personal account.

You can download, print, fill out this ADV-1 form in advance and apply with a full set of documents.

During initial employment, the employer himself issues an insurance number for the employee in the event of his absence.

Replacement of certificate

If your data changes, for example, after marriage or a change of passport, it is necessary to exchange the issued SNILS. This is necessary for the Pension Fund to correct your personal data.

If the insurance certificate is replaced and the changed personal data is brought into line, the required documents include:

• Passport;
• Previously issued certificate (withdrawn for subsequent destruction);
• Document confirming the change;
• Unified application form ADV-2 (for change of insurance certificate).

All photocopies of the originals are made by Pension Fund employees, who also certify the authenticity of the copy made for their organization. After receiving the documents, changes are made to the personal registration data and a certificate is issued with the corrected data.

The number remains the same, only personal information changes. The rule applies: whoever submitted the application receives a new document (the employer or the citizen himself).

Reasons for replacement

Almost all civil documents have to be changed sooner or later. What is the situation with the pension insurance certificate?

It does not have an exact expiration date. Re-production of SNILS is required if there are grounds for it. They usually include the following circumstances:

• damage to a document;
• theft or loss of insurance certificate;
• changing a person’s personal data;
• gender change;
• detection of typos in SNILS.

The insurance certificate is not simply reissued. Moreover, to implement the task, you will need to prepare a certain package of certificates. It will be larger than the previously studied lists.

Restoring lost SNILS

If a person has lost his insurance certificate, he receives it again from the Pension Fund. To issue a duplicate, you will need to fill out an application: personally or through the HR department of the employer (the policyholder).

After some time, the document will be produced. It is received by the person from whom the application was accepted. If the issue was dealt with by the policyholder, he will receive a document and a statement to hand it over to the insured person against signature. When a citizen applies in person, he must also pick up the finished document himself.

To restore SNILS, you can contact any territorial department of the fund, and not just where it was originally issued. This simple procedure will require the presentation of a passport (or an alternative document).

Today it is possible to receive a duplicate of the certificate in electronic form (pdf) in your personal account on the Pension Fund website.

Registration via the Internet

How is the SNILS number generated? The digital combination can be anything. There is no algorithm for creating it. Only the last 2 digits of the identifier in the Pension Fund will be special. This is a control number.

Is it possible to issue a pension insurance certificate online? No. Neither on the website of the Pension Fund of Russia, nor on the “State State Green Card” of the insured person? A citizen over 18 years of age will only need a passport and an application in the prescribed form. If you have a temporary residence permit, also a certificate from your place of residence.

Registration of stateless persons and foreigners in the Pension Fund system

A citizen of another country, as well as a person without specific citizenship, is subject to insurance in the main pension system of the state when employed in Russia. For these purposes, he submits to the Pension Fund documents confirming his identity and legality of stay in Russia (visa, work permit). Since 2015, the legislator has abolished the requirement for foreign citizens to document the existence of labor relations.

Attention: To fill out ADV-1 for a citizen of another country, you will need a translation of an identification document in a foreign language into Russian with a notary certification of the authenticity of the translation. Typically, this work is done by an organization of professional translators.

Dates of issue

What do the numbers in SNILS mean? As already mentioned, this is simply a unique digital record that represents the identifier of a person insured in the pension system of the Russian Federation. It has no other interpretation.

How long does it take to issue SNILS? By law - 21 days. In practice, the document is usually issued approximately 2 weeks after it is ordered. For newborns and minor children, the service can be expedited. Most often, a SNILS for a baby is made in 10 minutes, sometimes in a couple of hours.

More accurate information must be clarified with the specific authorized body. Only then will it be possible to understand how quickly the insurance certificate will be issued. There is no need to think about deciphering the SNILS number. This is a unique digital combination that has no special explanation.

When the policyholder applies for registration

For citizens who do not have SNILS and have entered into an employment contract, all work to obtain a personal account number is performed by the employer. The HR service requests from the employee a completed and signed application form and, together with his or her passport data, contacts the Pension Fund. In this case, an additional inventory of the transferred documents is drawn up.

The employer's representative also receives the completed documents of his employees. The Pension Fund draws up a statement for issuing certificates. Upon receiving the document in hand, the employee signs the statement. Then she returns back to the FIU.

What documents are needed to obtain SNILS for a child?

A child of any age can be registered with the Pension Fund. In recent years, this happens almost immediately after birth. The presence of an insurance certificate in a child is associated with his participation in social projects, the assignment of benefits, and the provision of other benefits.

For these purposes, they visit the institution of the Pension Fund of Russia or the MFC. The list of documents in both cases appears to be the same.

Any parent can receive SNILS for a child When a child does not have parents, these actions are performed by a legal representative (guardian). There is no need to present the child himself. At the age of up to 14 years of age, father or mother represents:

• your passport;
• fills out a unified application form - questionnaire;
• child's birth certificate.

Also, the administration of educational and preschool institutions can process insurance certificates for their students. Having previously requested the necessary documents from the parents. The latter, having provided copies to the responsible person, after a while receive a laminated card of their child from him.

A child’s SNILS is obtained in another way by issuing a universal electronic card. Here it is assigned automatically.

Upon reaching the age of 14, having received a citizen’s passport, a teenager has the right to insure himself. He will need to fill out columns ADV -1 and present a passport to the employee of the territorial department or management of the Pension Fund or MFC. Mom and dad may not be present.

The registration of an insurance certificate for a newborn can be carried out by the civil registry office that registers the birth. If there is an agreement on interdepartmental cooperation between two organizations (PFR and Civil Registry Office), the number is issued to the adult along with the birth certificate.

Why is SNILS necessary?

SNILS is required:

1. To get a job.
2. For free services from the state:
   treatment, both conservative (therapeutic) and surgical, as well as free medicines
3. training, etc.
4. For benefits from the state:
   monthly payments for a child under the age of one and a half years
5. vouchers, etc.
6. For retirement.
7. For the portal "Government Services". Without it you cannot identify yourself. This portal provides a lot of opportunities - obtaining a passport and international passport, paying traffic police fines, making an appointment with a doctor, etc.

The document we are considering is required in other cases, for example, without it it is impossible to have a universal electronic card (UEC), which combines several documents, or, say, to register maternity (family) capital.

How to check

Having an individual personal account insurance number guarantees that you are registered in the compulsory pension insurance system. This means that during official employment, this pension account may receive information necessary for assigning a pension.

It is necessary to check the availability of SNILS. This is necessary primarily for students just starting to work, as well as for military retirees who plan to work in civilian life and additionally obtain a second military pension.

If you do not know or do not remember whether you have such a number, then in order to find out your SNILS you need to contact the nearest pension fund with your passport. If you are registered on the government services portal, then in your personal account of the Pension Fund you can get a duplicate and find out your number in the Pension Fund online . It will be indicated in the document received after placing the order. This procedure is free and does not require any cash outlay.

Why does a minor need a document?

Many parents are perplexed: why does a child need a pension certificate who does not work anywhere and, due to his age, cannot independently apply for government services?

This is not about pension savings. Today, when enrolling a child in kindergarten or school, the minor is sometimes required to have a SNILS. After all, it is this identifier that is needed to register for discounted meals, vouchers to country camps, and sanatoriums. SNILS is also the key to social services, and not just to a personal account with the Pension Fund.

If the child is under 14 years of age, then the parents receive a document for him on the basis of a birth certificate. SNILS are even issued in the name of newborns, which is very convenient for parents - the registry office employees, when registering the baby, will independently transfer all the necessary information to the Pension Fund. Parents will only have to visit his office to pick up the document.