OREANDA-NEWS. October 18, 2011. The provision of pensions in 2012 will be carried out according to norms of the current legislation in due time and in full. Also by the Government are accepted a number of other measures aimed at ensuring of a decent standard of living of veterans of war and creation of conditions of their life-support, provided by the Memorandum of interaction and cooperation between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Union of Afghanistan Veterans (soldiers-internationalists), which has been signed on September, 30th 2011.

The Cabinet of Ukraine at planning of draft of the State Budget of Ukraine for 2012 considers expenses on provision of pensions in 2012, the payments counted taking into account fund, an index of inflation of 107.9 percent and the level of a living wage for the persons who have lost work capacity since January, 1st - 823 UAH, since April, 1st - 839 UAH, since July, 1st - 845 UAH, since October, 1st - 857 UAH and since December, 1st - 869 UAH (compared to 800 UAH, provided in December, 2011).

The average size of the minimum pension will correspond to the size of a living wage for the persons who have lost work capacity and amount to 842 UAH that by 75.2 UAH more than during the current year.

In the draft of the State Budget of Ukraine for 2012, the volume of transfers in the Pension Fund of Ukraine will amount to 48.3 billion UAH, including, on a covering of deficiency of means of the Pension Fund of Ukraine of 2.2 billion UAH. It is planned that the deficit of the Pension Fund on payment of pensions in 2012 will decrease for 87.6 percent (or by 15.6 billion UAH) in comparison with current year.

Under such circumstances look-ahead expenses on provision of pensions of citizens which should be carried out at the expense of means of the State Budget, in 2012, it will amount to 48.3 billion UAH, including the proposed expenditures are provided into:

- Increase of pensions for disabled veterans – 465.5 million UAH;

- Surcharge increase to pension or the monthly lifelong maintenance to members of families of the lost (missing) persons referred to in paragraph 1 of Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine "On Status of Veterans, Guarantees of their Social Security" – 63.7 million UAH;

- Surcharge increase to pension or the monthly lifelong maintenance to members of families of the died persons referred to in paragraph 1 of Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine "On Status of Veterans, Guarantees of their Social Security" – 43.7 million UAH;

- Surcharge increase to pension or the monthly lifelong maintenance to members of families of the died military men referred to in paragraph 1 of Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine "On Status of Veterans, Guarantees of their Social Security" – 22.5 million UAH;

- Increase to pension or the monthly lifelong monetary maintenance to children of war – 419.1 million UAH and so on.

Thus, provision of pensions in 2012 will be carried out according to norms of the current legislation in due time and in full. The minimum pensions will be paid in amounts, not below the living wage established by the legislation for the persons who have lost work capacity, realisation of the accepted decisions on the sizes of provision of pensions will be provided, the expenses on pension insurance of separate categories of citizens (the persons passing urgent military service, carrying out care of the child or the invalid, etc.) will be carried out at the expense of means of the State Budget.

In the draft of the State Budget of Ukraine for 2012, the decision of a number of social issues is provided, for what additional resources of the budget (against indicators of 2011) are directed primarily:

For maintenance of payment of increase of pensions for disabled veterans, surcharge increase to pension or the monthly lifelong maintenance to members of families of the lost (missing) persons, the died persons referred to in paragraph 1 of Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine "On Status of Veterans, Guarantees of their Social Protection" increasing pensions, disabled liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, increase to a pension or a monthly cash allowance life to children of war by the budget program 2506020 KPKV "subsidy for the payment of pensions, allowances and increases to pensions, appointed by different pension programs" are provided expenses for 2012 in the amount of 610.0 UAH that it is increase of 13.6 percent, namely 5 501.0 million UAH;

For maintenance of payment of the single monetary help to veterans of war and victims of Nazi prosecutions (KPKV 2501150) till May, 5th in the increased and uniform sizes expenses for 2012 in the amount of 610.0 million UAH are provided that it is increase of 10.9 percent, namely 60.0 million UAH.

In order to realize the rights of persons with the limited physical possibilities for successful integration into active public life, improvements of conditions of ability to live of this category of citizens by maintenance of invalids with the prosthetic and orthopaedic shoes, special means for orientation, dialogue and information interchange, other means of rehabilitation, maintenance of invalids and invalids-spinals sanatorium treatment and rendering of the corresponding help by it in prosthetics in stationary branches at the orthopaedic enterprises in the budget draft for 2012 is planned increase in volume of assignments at actions for social labour and professional rehabilitation of invalids for 175.8 million UAH (or 23.3 percent) in comparison with current year. In particular, expenses on maintenance of preferential categories of the population with technical and other means of rehabilitation to 138.6 million UAH are increased; Assignments for sanatorium treatment of invalids and payment of indemnification for not used sanatorium treatment – 25.1 million UAH are increased.

The Ministry of Social Policy is also developed the draft Procedure of distribution of sanatorium permits in sanatorium establishments of the Ministry of Social Policy which is studied now by structural divisions of the Ministry and further would be co-ordinated with public organisations of veterans of war.

It is sent for the coordination in interested central enforcement authorities and other document - developed by the Ministry of Social Policy the project of the decision of the Cabinet of Ukraine "On Education Advisory Council for the improvement of social protection of war veterans and Approval of the Advisory Board." Now the certificate draft is co-ordinated without remarks by the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. After the Justice Ministry legal expert draft Act in the prescribed manner will be sent to the Government. At the same time, the Ministry of Social Policy is formed structure of the Advisory Council of representatives of the central enforcement authorities and public organisations of veterans of war and the plan of work of the Advisory Council for 2011 works enough.

The All-Ukrainian public organisations of veterans, as of 10/13/2011 are financed absolutely according to plan assignments, namely, from the beginning of year is allocated by 7.8 million UAH. For realisation of the detailed analysis of a condition of financing at local level of public organisations of veterans of war of Ministry of Social Policy, the corresponding letter is sent to regional state administrations.