A group of members of parliament from the Opposition Bloc faction has registered in the Verkhovna Rada a draft resolution to resume the financing of social benefits to residents of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
According to a statement posted on the parliament’s website on Thursday, the authors of the bill are Natalia Korolevska, Yuriy Pavlenko, Serhiy Liovochkin, Nestor Shufrych, and Oleksandr Vilkul.
However, the text of the draft resolution has not yet been posted on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.
As reported, Cabinet of Ministers resolution No. 595 of Nov. 7, 2014 stipulates that payments from the national budget, the Pension Fund’s budget and budgets of other mandatory social insurance funds in populated areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions that are temporarily not under the government’s control will be made only after the Ukrainian government regains control of the said territories.
The Cabinet of Ministers said that pensions and social benefits to citizens residing on militant-controlled territories in the east of Ukraine would be paid after the liberation of these territories. Pensions and social benefits can be obtained by residents who moved to settlements controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
On Nov. 26, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said that 600,000 retirees from Donbas were already receiving pensions on the territories controlled by Ukraine.
