Draft bill #9638 of August 21, 2023
Cosponsors: a group of 64 MPs from factions Servant of the People, European Solidarity, Holos, and Batkivshchyna and groups Trust, For the Future, Platform for Life and Peace with Davyd Arakhamia as the first signatory
Status: adopted in the first reading
Who is affected: service members, police officers (140 thousand persons), and employees of the civil protection service (74 thousand persons).
Summary of the bill:
· if police officers or employees of the civil protection service are detained as a result of armed aggression, taken hostage, or missing under special circumstances, they continue to receive their compensation, including:
– salary
– rank pay
– seniority bonus
– other types of additional monthly payments
· families of these police officers and employees of the civil protection service will be paid a monthly allowance under the procedure and in the amount set by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
· if police officers or employees of the civil protection service voluntarily surrender or abandon their service, they will not receive any compensation
· in case of dismissal, service members and police officers, in addition to the compensation for unused vacation, will also receive the following additional payments:
– seniority bonus based on annual basic and annual additional vacation
– additional vacation for service members who have underage children or adult children with a group I/subgroup A lifelong disability
– additional vacation
· if a service member or police officer dies, their compensation is paid to family members
· the bill sets the amount of one-time financial assistance after discharge from military service.
What is right: service members and police officers will have better social security.