Working retirees will not receive payments: Who will be affected by the restrictions?

The Pension Fund announced that there are special conditions for calculating the pensions of citizens who receive pensions for long service. If such a retiree decides to return to work, the payment of retirement funds is suspended. This is stated in the material on Radio Track.

This applies to situations where a person returns to a job that, under current law, allows them to retire early based on length of service. In this case, if the citizen starts another job, retirement payments will continue to accumulate.

Who can retire early:

• education and health workers;
• artists;
• pilots and flight crew members;
• machine operators (docker-mechanizers);
• members of the locomotive crew.

The list of preferred specialties may vary. The possibility of early retirement also depends on how data about your business activities is entered.

What is a pension in Ukraine?

The last indexation of pension payments took place in March 2023. Despite this, there is growth in pensions and it is not planned. In particular, payments to scientists, members of parliament and employees of self-government bodies increased in July.

Now pensions in Ukraine are as follows:

• 0.6% of people receive up to 2000 hryvnia;
• from 2001 to 3000 hryvnia – 29.5%;
• 3001 to 4000 hryvnia – 21.3%;
• 4001 to 5000 hryvnia – 15%;
• 5,001 to 10,000 hryvnia – 23.2%;
• Above 10,000 hryvnia – 10.4%.

Previously Focus He wrote that if a Ukrainian citizen does not use his bank account for more than 6 months, pension payments may be suspended.

Let us also remember that some Ukrainian pensioners are entitled to receive an additional payment to their pension of 25% of the subsistence level.