Money for children and disabled people: What changes are expected in payments in 2024?

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal announced the government’s intention to pursue pension reform; Thanks to this, the pensions of some citizens will increase and reach 30-50% of the minimum salary of a Ukrainian. In addition, the 2024 State Budget also includes changes in the amount of social assistance paid to children and disabled people. I learned the details of the new fees Focus.

The Council of Ministers approved the 2024 State Budget Draft. According to the adopted document, they plan to increase the minimum cost of living and the minimum wage from January 1. In particular, we are talking about the following quantities:

• minimum cost of living – 2,920 UAH;
• minimum salary – from January 1 it will be 7,100 UAH, from April 1 – 8,000 UAH (in September 2023 it was 6,700 UAH).

In connection with this increase, the size of social payments for various categories of Ukrainians should be changed, since pensions and social benefits “depend” on the level of subsistence and the size of the minimum wage.

Social payments 2024: payments for children

The amount of payments for children is related to the minimum subsistence level. The following payments are expected to be made in 2024:

• assistance to women on maternity leave who are unemployed or individual entrepreneurs – 757 UAH;
• state payments for children in case the father evades alimony – 1,281.5 UAH for children under 6 years old and 1,598 UAH for children 6-18 years old;
• Allowance for a child under 6 years of age for whom custody has been established – 6,407.5 UAH, if there is a disabled child – 8,970.5 UAH;
• Allowance for a child aged 6 to 18 years, whose custody has been established – 7,990 UAH, for a disabled child – 11,186 UAH;
• assistance to a person caring for a sick child – 5,126 UAH for children under 6 years old, 6,392 UAH for children 6-18 years old.

Aid for disabled and low-income people in 2024

Payments to disabled people, low-income people and carers are also linked to the living wage.

Aid for people with disabilities in 2024:

• Disability since childhood, group I – 2,361 UAH.
• disability since childhood, group II – 1,888.8 UAH;
• disability since childhood, group III – 1,416.6 UAH;
• Disabled children under 18 years old – 1,652.7 UAH.

Help for carers:

• for a person with group I disability – 4,722 UAH for subgroup A and 2,361 UAH for subgroup B;
• for persons with disabilities of II and III groups 17 70.75 UAH (if there is a decision of the medical commission on the need for care);
• For a disabled child under 6 years of age – 5,163 UAH for subgroup A, 1,281.5 UAH for other cases;
• For a disabled child aged 6-16 years – 6,392 UAH for subgroup A, 1,598 UAH for other cases.

Government aid to low-income families Calculated in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On State Social Assistance to Low-Income Families”:

• for healthy people – 1,362.6 UAH;
• for persons who have lost the ability to work or are disabled – 2,361 UAH;
• for children – 3,331.9 UAH up to 6 years old, 4,154.8 UAH for children 6-18 years old, 3,936.4 UAH for children 18-23 years old, if they are studying;

We should also note that Shmygal, who announced the 2024 budget draft, announced that the deficit will reach 42 billion dollars. The official is confident that Ukraine’s partners will help close the gap.

We remind this before Focus He talked about a new cash assistance program that internally displaced people can receive. They also published an explanation of why some Ukrainians who worked on the collective farm all their lives during the Soviet period received lower pensions.