Poor Verkhovna Rada deputies receive 50 thousand a month
Kyiv, January 20 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – While a “belt-tightening regime” is being introduced in Ukraine, cutting social benefits and salaries, people’s representatives, in conditions of war and a severe economic crisis, receive a salary equal to seven minimum wages of an ordinary worker. This is stated in the story of the ICTV channel.
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Thus, people's deputies receive 8,5 thousand UAH. Minus taxes, they receive about 6,5 thousand. Plus funds for “deputy expenses” in the amount of 8,5 thousand UAH. Another 17 thousand UAH. relies on a fund of assistants, of whom people’s deputies can have up to four. In addition, the cost of renting housing is compensated from the state budget - 14,2 thousand UAH and almost 27 thousand UAH. goes towards transportation costs.
“In addition to compensation, deputies also have a lot of benefits - free medical care, one and a half months of vacation, free travel throughout Ukraine and free education at universities and foreign language courses,” the story says.
“Compared to how much deputies receive abroad, this is incomparable money, these are very modest funds for people who decide the fate of a 45 million-strong state,” justifies the newly elected people’s deputy from the Samopomich party, Pavel Kishkar.
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