Future pension reform should protect first of all the interests of Ukrainians who receive miserable pension, although they have worked for the development of the state for many decades. These are the people who have taken well-deserved rest before 2011-2012.
This was stated form the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada by the MP from UKROP Iryna Konstankevych on April 7.
“Our state has humiliated these people, bringing them to poverty and actual edge of surviving,” said Iryna Konstankevych.
The MP has noted that those citizens who have worked for 30, 40 or even more years, during all this time were investing their health and forces in the development of the country, but also they were paying pension contributions, hoping for a decent support in the future. However, the state has granted these people with a minimum pension of 1400 hryvnias, which has not been also indexed and adjusted for almost five years. In addition to social and economic components, the problem has also a moral aspect, because these generations have faced terrible trials and overcome post-war years of Soviet totalitarianism.
“Now when independent Ukraine demonstrates such an attitude to its citizens, they have a question: who they are in this country and what this country is for them,” said Iryna Konstankevych. The MP has called on her colleagues in Parliament to control implementation of the reform and to repair injustice.
Iryna Konstankevych has also appealed to the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada asking him to include to the agenda a bill ensuring fair scholarships (№ 5612), which was initiated by UKROP. It proposes to provide legislatively at least 50% of students with the right to receive academic scholarships and to establish clear criteria for its accounting.
