Real Incomes of the Population Under Socialism, the amount of material benefits and services that can be purchased by members of socialist society for their incomes in the form of individual remuneration for labour (see Real Wages) and of payments and benefits from social consumption funds. Real incomes depend on the price level of consumer goods and services, and rent and taxes, as well as on cash income and volume of free services and services at reduced rates. In the USSR the real incomes of the workers and employees consist of wages with all kinds of bonuses, and what is alloted from the social consumption funds for education, health, social security, etc. The real incomes of collective farmers consist of incomes in money and in kind from the collective farm (see Payment for Work on Collective Farms) and from personal plots, and the payments and benefits from the social consumption funds. The real incomes of collective farmers are rising faster than those of the workers; as a result, the incomes of these two population groups are gradually becoming equal. Highly important was the introduction of guaranteed remuneration on collective farms and a uniform system of pensions and social security. The incomes in less prosperous families are rising faster than those of the rest of the population. The index of real incomes gives the best insight into the living standards of the people. Furthermore, the social achievements of socialist society, such as elimination of unemployment, reduction of the working week and working day, etc., should not be overlooked. In the USSR, real per capita incomes double approximately every fifteen years.