Some 800 pseudo IDPs receive improper social benefits

13:36, 09.01.2017 1 min read

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has found out that in the Anti-Terrorist operation (ATO) area, people who live in the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas receive social benefits from Ukraine's state budget.

As the press center of the SBU reported, security service operatives found that more than 800 Ukrainian citizens receive social benefits from the state budget in in Stanychno-Luhansky district, although they permanently reside in temporarily occupied territories.

"In this regard, managers from regional administration suspended such payments, resulting in savings to the state budget amounted to about UAH four million," the report says.