In Lugansk they are fighting against recipients of double pensions – both in the LPR and in Ukraine
Employees of the Pension Fund and social protection authorities are constantly working to stop citizens receiving pensions both in the LPR and abroad.
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About it Minister of Labor and Social Policy of the LPR Svetlana Malakhova announced today.
“We constantly carry out explanatory work with those who receive pensions both in the LPR and in Ukraine,” she noted.
According to the minister, similar processes already took place in the 1990s.
“We already experienced such a period in the 90s, when people tried to apply for pensions on the territory of the Russian Federation. Over time, we carried out a reconciliation, identified this and formalized everything as required by law. A person must receive a pension at his place of residence,” Malakhova recalled.
“Today we have already carried out such verifications with the Russian Federation and the DPR, and we have also identified facts of “doubles,” she added.
According to the minister, it is not yet possible to conduct such a reconciliation with Ukraine.
“Unfortunately, we are still disconnected from the unified register with the Ukrainian side and do not have the opportunity to check. But, taking into account what is provided for in the Minsk agreements, we constantly turn to the Ukrainian side so that we are given the opportunity to conduct a reconciliation of the contingent of our pensioners who were forced to renew their pensions at a certain time,” Malakhova said.
“Some people today are already disconnected from the system and do not receive pensions in Ukraine for a number of reasons: their bank cards may have expired, some people have not been re-registered,” she noted.
However, according to the minister, there remains a certain percentage of pensioners who continue to receive “double” payments.
“As long as the Pension Fund does not know this fact, they have no official grounds to remove a person from payment. But when a person applies for a pension, our specialists conduct a conversation with him, take the application and clarify whether he has made a payment anywhere during the time he was absent. And the statement indicates that he bears personal responsibility for providing this information,” Malakhova explained.
In addition, according to her, employees of the Pension Fund and social security authorities inform the Ukrainian territory about the registration of pension payments by a citizen in the LPR, which the applicant is warned about in advance.
Malakhova also reported that In order to stop receiving “double” pensions, the payment procedure in the LPR has been tightened.
“For example, today it does not provide for the payment of pensions and benefits by proxy. In addition, the Pension Fund, based on the results of payment of pensions for April-May, carried out an update and excluded 66 thousand pensioners from the statement (these are those who did not come and did not receive pensions for 3-4 months). And in the third month we added 11 thousand pensioners,” the minister said.
Malakhova noted that now employees of the Pension Fund and social protection authorities are creating a new base of recipients of social payments.
“I hope that sooner or later we will still carry out some kind of reconciliation with Ukraine, and we will have a single base,” she noted.
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