The representatives of UKROP in Ternopil have received several appeals from the citizens, who were called for service during mobilization in a special period starting from March 2014, and who have been in the ATO zone.
After military discharge the residents of the region faced a number of unresolved problems regarding their social protection. Against this background, on August 2, at the initiative of the UKROP faction at the session of Ternopil Regional Council, the deputies voted for an appropriate appeal to the leadership of the state.
According to the former military, the service in army during mobilization period is not counted by the Ministry of Social Policy as an insurance period for pension accounting. As from March 2014 to June 2016, the military have got zero in all the graphs in the form of reference OK-5, which is the main basis of pension accounting. People lose the opportunity to include the period of service while calculating their pension. At the same time, the minimum length of service will be gradually increased to 35 years. Given this problem, Andriy Ratushnyak, the member of the UKROP faction in the Regional Council, has prepared an appeal to the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers regarding elimination of violations in social protection of ATO participants and submitted it for consideration during the session.
“We ask to urgently amend the current legislation and include the military service of all mobilized persons, without exception, to the insurance period for pension accounting,” states the appeal.
Having supported this appeal with the majority of votes, deputies require to explain why the service was not included to the employment period, whether the unified social tax was paid for these persons during the specified period, and how the similar problems, faced by the servicemen called for the regular service from the year 2000, would be resolved.
It is to be recalled, at the end of July the MPs from UKROP appealed to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman. The Cabinet of Ministers should provide an explanation of the grounds on which citizens, called for service during mobilization in a special period, do not receive a well-deserved early retirement from the age of 55 on an equal basis with other war veterans.
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