The Ukrainian government has decided to allocate UAH 1.6 billion for the repayment of wage arrears to budget-paid employees, Acting Vice Premier and Social Policy Minister of Ukraine Sergiy Tigipko has said.

"Today the government allocated UAH 1.6 billion for the repayment of wage arrears as a result of redistribution of expenditures," he told journalists in Kyiv on Monday.

Tigipko added that it was the second allocation of funds for the repayment of wage arrears by the government. According to him, the government will spend UAH 2.9 billion on this purpose, and this sum will cover the current wage arrears in full by the end of the year.