OREANDA-NEWS. July 30, 2013. "The Government tightly controls the reduction of wage arrears, in particular at enterprises of housing and public utilities. So, wage arrears in this sector decreased in 1.6 times or more than UAH 14 million (up to UAH 23 million) in 2012.

And during 6 months of this year wage arrears has declined by UAH 9.4 million (or 41%)," vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Olexandr Vilkul said at off-side meeting of the board of the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services in Donetsk.

He noted that arrears of wages fully paid at enterprises of housing and public utilities of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kyiv, Odesa, Rivne, Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv regions, Sevastopol city and Kyiv city.

Also since the beginning of the year arrears of wages at enterprises of housing and public utilities decreased in 15 regions, in particular in Kirovohrad and Kharkiv regions by 88% and in Zakarpatya region by 70%.