Prime Minister of
Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk commissioned the Ministry of Social Policy to
urgently prepare a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers on the increase
of welfare standards by 6%, which would envisageautomatic
increases in wages and pensions without unnecessary bureaucratic procedures. This
issue wasconsidered during an extraordinary Government’s meeting
on Monday, March 21.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
reminded that the Government had taken a decision to carry out the
first stage ofraising social standards from May 1 – by 6%.
The Parliament upheld this decision of the Cabinet of Ministers,
recalled the Head of the Government.
"Unfortunately,
the procedure is entwined with bureaucracy and so tedious that
last year when we raised wages and pensions by 13% and 19% respectively, it
took weeks to issue dozens or rather hundreds of
orders to ensure people receiving improved social standards",
said Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Given this, the
Prime Minister instructed Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Pavlo Rozenko to immediately
ready a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the increase
of social standards by 6%: "This regulation should provide for automatic
increase in social standards avoiding signing hundreds of different
kinds of orders by the line Ministries".
"The Ministry
of Finance has the appropriate resource in the state budget so that from
May the citizens of the country could obtain higher social payments,"
he stressed.
"This is the
first stage. But in general, throughout the year we will have an increase
of 12%," said the Head of Government.
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