The package of bills on pension reform developed by the Ukrainian government and voted by the country's Parliament in the first reading early July should be finally endorsed in September, thereby it will allow launching as soon as possible the process of pension modernization for 9 million recipients, Groysman told reporters during a Wednesday visit to Kherson region, the government press service reports.
Since the beginning of 2016, nearly 586,000 retired and elderly people residing in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine have lost access to their pensions as a result of verification procedures introduced by the Government of Ukraine, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
As part of the pension reform, the government plans to raise pensions from October 1, which, according to preliminary estimates, will affect 5.6 million Ukrainians, as well as to abolish the taxation of working pensioners, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said during his annual report.