The Ministry of Social Policy will provide changes to Resolution 709 in the next few days on the payment of living allowance to internally displaced persons.
Only vulnerable categories of IDPs will continue to receive payments from the state, such as pensioners, disabled people, women, women with children, as well as citizens living in frontier territories. The Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, Irina Vereshchuk, announced this on Thursday, January 25, during a national telethon.
He noted that the authorities were forced to reconsider the terms of aid payments to displaced people, as a decrease in budget revenues was recorded.
“We are directly tied to the decisions of our partners. The partners put requests to continuously verify the payments to reduce or optimize them. The point is, according to international standards , two years is enough to adapt,” said Vereshchuk.
According to his data, there are approximately 4.9 million people in Ukraine who are considered internally displaced. Of these, 2.5 million receive monthly payments.
“The number is slightly reduced, because according to their status or by definition, the people who went abroad and live there are not IDPs. And also the people who returned to their homes. They are also not considered internally displaced persons, so their number is decreasing. But there are people leaving the dangerous zones, and every day there are evacuations,” said Vereshchuk.
He added that in 2022 Ukraine allocated 57 billion hryvnias for payments to displaced people. In 2023, this amount increased to 73 billion Hryvnia.
It is planned that in 2024 the money for aid for IDPs will again reach 57 billion hryvnias.
It was previously reported that Ukraine will draw up a list of places of temporary residence for IDPs. International donors will pay for the renovation of these establishments.
From November 1, the rules for processing payments to internally displaced persons applying for such assistance for the first time have changed. To apply for payments to IDPs, one person from the entire family must now apply, instead of each family member separately.
The second phase of a town for displaced people was opened near Kiev
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