Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine #723 of June 4, 2026

Who is affected: internally displaced persons; local self-government bodies, military administrations; the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the Pension Fund of Ukraine.

Summary:

  • expands the list of grounds for refusing to grant a housing voucher. Assistance is now also refused to:
    • those who, after February 24, 2022, sold or otherwise terminated their ownership of housing;
    • those who have already received state support on mortgage loans through the programs of JSC “Ukrainian Financial Housing Company” or under Resolution #998 (a program of compensation for mortgage payments for IDPs and residents of frontline territories whose housing was damaged by hostilities);
    • those who registered their place of residence in occupied territory after the start of the occupation;
  • sets a specific date, July 24, 2026, as the deadline for the notarial certification of certain actions within the framework of the program;
  • transfers the function of reviewing applications from the oblast level to the local level: an application is now reviewed by a commission at the IDP’s place of residence in accordance with the registration certificate;
  • establishes a clear application review period of 30 calendar days;
  • introduces cross-verification between registers: the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Justice will verify the facts of termination of housing ownership since February 2022, the Pension Fund of Ukraine will verify the facts of the use of mortgage state assistance, and the Ministry of Finance will carry out ongoing and retrospective verification up to the moment the voucher is used.

What is right:

The logic of the changes is clear and justified: a housing voucher is assistance for those who truly have nowhere to live, not for those who have already received other state support or have independently disposed of their property.

The provision on refusing those who sold their housing after February 2022 closes a real loophole that theoretically allowed a person to sell an apartment and then claim a voucher as a “person without housing.”

Transferring the review of applications to the local level is the right step: an oblast commission physically cannot know the individual circumstances of each applicant, whereas a local council can.

The system of cross-verification between registers, if it works technically, is a significantly more effective verification instrument than relying on documents submitted by the applicant themselves.

What is wrong:

The most acute problem is the caveat “where technically possible,” which is repeated in all the key provisions: the check of the real estate register, the receipt of data from the Pension Fund, and verification by the Ministry of Finance all occur only if the systems are technically capable of interacting. If not, the procedure for electronic interaction is “determined by the holders of the resources,” which effectively means uncertainty. In this situation, a person does not know under which scenario their application will be reviewed.

Alternative solution:

The caveat “where technically possible” requires a specific deadline by which the technical interaction must be put in place, as well as an alternative verification mechanism for the transitional period that is clear and uniform for all applicants.

What happened:

The resolution is a technical but important clarification of the housing voucher program for IDPs from the occupied territories: it closes several obvious loopholes that allowed assistance to be obtained by persons who were not entitled to it, and at the same time attempts to make verification more systemic through inter-registry data exchange.

The transfer of review to the local level and the fixed period of 30 days are steps in the right direction. The real quality of the reform will be determined by how quickly the technical infrastructure for inter-registry interaction is ready to operate: until it functions fully, a significant part of the provisions of the resolution remains conditional.