Residents of areas in eastern Ukraine not controlled by Kyiv cannot get Ukrainian pensions - minister

15:53, 19.04.2016 1 min read

People living in areas not controlled by Kyiv (in eastern Ukraine) will not be able to receive Ukrainian pensions there, the minister on the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons of Ukraine, Vadym Chernysh, has said.

"The algorithm is very simple: people in the uncontrolled territories cannot now receive pensions there. We cannot do that because we have no control over these territories. People cannot receive pensions while there is no Ukrainian control there," he told Interfax-Ukraine.

According to him, there are no mechanisms to ensure payment of pensions without establishing control over those territories.

"If there is no Ukrainian control, the Pension Fund does not work, nobody works – how can we make payments there?" the minister said.

Chernysh said internally displaced people receive pensions in areas controlled by Ukraine without problems.