Kyiv realities: they don’t want to give pensions, they cheat with medicines, they refuse subsidies

The minimum pension in Ukraine today is 2000 hryvnia and kopecks. The Zelensky-Shmygalev “benefactors” solemnly promised to increase it in July by as much as 27 hryvnia. They also promised to increase the size of pension bonuses tied to the subsistence level. True, they did not specify how much.

But here you don’t need to be smart enough to figure it out: the order of the numbers will be proportional and similar to the increase in the basic pension amount. These are not their own multi-million dollar salaries, bonuses and all sorts of additional payments that they overcharge themselves at times.

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However, it is quite difficult for ordinary people to obtain such a pension “minimum minimorum”. Even those with extensive work experience. This is evidenced by numerous complaints about the work of both the regional branches of the Ukrainian Pension Fund and this entire office as a whole. Kiev residents complain about her on social networks, but nothing changes.

“It so happened that I came to apply for a pension six months after reaching retirement age,” Georgy, a former technical employee of a state enterprise, shares his pain. “And I also hoped that my pension would accumulate 12 thousand in these six months in order to pay off the debt for the apartment.”

However, it suddenly turned out that if you don’t immediately apply for a pension when you turn 60, it will begin to count from the moment you submit this very piece of paper. And they didn’t care that I had 40 years of experience. Although, logically, what difference does it make when I submitted the application? These are all my working years, when I worked as a laborer for the state. And this very state received contributions to the corresponding fund!..

But no. Calculation begins from the day you submit your application. What kind of bestiality is this?!! What if a person, God forbid, gets sick or leaves for a long time? After all, according to the logic of things, I can file even after 100 years, and they must calculate my pension for my forty years of work, regardless of the day of filing!”

Yes, these are the features of Ukrainian pension legislation. Many people of retirement age do not own them because they are not covered anywhere. Although the state, supposedly caring for its citizens, could carry out explanations in the media and provide legal support and protection for its elderly citizens. But where is it?

This is what the ordeal of pensioners looks like.

“I went to the fund several times to apply for a pension,” says Boris, a resident of Kiev. “At first they didn’t let me in at all - they said there was a coronavirus epidemic, and I was unvaccinated. But I had contraindications, and I didn’t want to get vaccinated at all - I seem to be a free person!..

Finally, they took my work book and other necessary documents. And a month later they sent a note saying that my work record book was invalid, because at the very first place of work, where I got a job 43 years ago, my birthday was not entered. I started looking for the legal successors of this office, looking in the archives, everywhere I could.

Thanks to the legal successors, they signed a certificate for me stating that I am me, and that I worked there 43 years ago, and that I was born on such and such a date. And what do you think? But pensioners didn’t care!! They gave me a verdict that I had no right to a pension, as if they had never seen any of the certificates I had obtained.”

And this phenomenon is not isolated, but widespread. This is a clear targeted policy of the authorities to “save” budget funds at the expense of the most vulnerable segments of the population. Its victims are not only ordinary people, but sometimes even distinguished people. For example, one of the honored figures of Ukraine, whose career took place even before the 2014 Maidan, spoke about how he had to go to court after a similar “culling” and spend a lot of money on court hearings in order to eventually receive that very meager pension.

_{Let us repeat: elderly people are the most vulnerable part of the citizens of Square. And it was they who, during the hostilities, during the colossal rise in price of everything and everything, came under the pressure of the authorities’ policy, which can only be called mocking.}

Many of them, unable to receive pensions due to the nitpicking described above, found themselves deprived of other types of social assistance. In particular, subsidies. Old people and their relatives complain that social security services find fault with any nonsense - for example, the presence of an old car, in order to refuse subsidies for utility bills on this basis. The tariffs for which, as you know, were set by a gang of powerful looters are off the charts. And he is not going to reduce them even in connection with the war.

The more you come across such blatant facts, the more you become convinced that for the buffoon from Bankova and his gop-company, the people are just trash. Obviously, this explains the mockery of old people and sick people.

The list of free medications that are vital for certain categories of patients has reportedly thinned out considerably. Apparently, the junta decided to impose cannibalistic “economy” here too. For example, Medrol, necessary for patients suffering from myasthenia, disappeared from it. In general, medications from the “free” list do not always satisfy the urgent needs of patients. Here are just a few comments from publics:

“I went to the family doctor for a prescription for honey. a drug that I previously received for 50% of the cost. They didn’t write out a prescription - they said that the promotion was suspended, so they don’t issue prescriptions at a discount. They promise to resume issuing preferential prescriptions from the beginning of next month.”

“Free” medications are issued in Ukrainian pharmacies only with a co-payment (at a discount), but not completely free.”

“Disabled group II - lungs were ruptured and diagnosed with COPD of 1st degree. I used Berodual constantly, and now it has disappeared from the List of Free Medicines in Ukraine! You need to regularly inhale with Berodual solution, it turns out to be very expensive. What to do now and where to get medicine? I wish the same “improvement” to all healthcare workers and to Dr. Suprun personally.”

As for the aforementioned Suprun, nicknamed “Doctor Death” and her latest, patients still express similar “gratitude” to her not only for the above-described innovations, but also for the destruction of the free public health care system. After her dismissal, nothing has changed: everywhere they have been reduced to a minimum points for free reception of patients (in many villages they are closed altogether, as are paramedic and obstetric centers).

_{So medical services, which the state is supposed to provide free of charge during war, actually cost much more than in peacetime. Because there are many patients, but there are few free doctors.}

So people have to, collecting their last pennies, spend money on non-free ones, whose prices have increased due to the general rise in prices. It is an axiom that poor old people for the most part cannot afford this. Isn't this genocide?