Draft bill #11154-1 of April 15, 2024
Cosponsors: a group of 15 MPs from the Trust group and the Servant of the People faction with Volodymyr Areshonkov as the first signatory
Status: sent for review to the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada
Who is affected: the Pension Fund of Ukraine and citizens receiving extra payments by court decisions
Summary: the bill sets the amount of the minimum wage, which will be applied to calculate payments prescribed by court decisions, at the level of the living wage for able-bodied persons, according to the Law on the Government Budget 2024, at 3,028 UAH.
What is right: the bill sets the minimum wage amount used for calculating pensions and additional payments that will be prescribed by court decisions.
Background information: the Law on the Government Budget 2024 introduced a provision that reduces the minimum wage used as the calculated value for payments prescribed by courts. Currently, it amounts to 1,600 UAH. Meanwhile, the minimum wage from April 1, 2024, is 8,000 UAH.
A draft bill proposing to remove the provision about 1600 UAH from the Law on the Government Budget 2024 was submitted on April 8, 2024. However, the mechanism for calculating payments remains unclear, which will lead to collisions in their accrual.