“When there is a deficit in a Pension Fund of more than ₴141 billion in the country, and the average pension is less than ₴1,900, it means that the pension reform should have been made several years ago. Without the change of the system, the state wouldn’t be able to guarantee monthly payments to the pensioners,” Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Feldman wrote on his Facebook page.
He emphasized that the average ₴692 increase to the pensions of 5.6 million pensioners is a vitally important issue, which must not be the subject of political speculations. “Do I think that the bill offered by the government is perfect? No, I don’t. But the price of voting “against” the reform is too high, and it would be an anti-national choice. The bill contains a lot of unpopular things, but the state has no right and time to populism. The parliament gave the credit of trust to the governmental plan, but, at the same time, it must monitor its effectiveness,” Oleksandr Feldman noted. “First, the rise in pensions must be real, not nominal. It must not be leveled by the rise in prices and the fall of the national currency. Second, an automatic mechanism of indexation must remove the pensioners from the status of “the hostages to the authorities,” which manually set the size of pensions before. Third, it is necessary to introduce the elements of accumulative pension system – almost all of the countries, where the pensioners obtain decent payments, rejected the obsolescent pay-as-you-go pension system in favour of the multilevel one.”
The politician stated that the parliament of the 8th convocation demonstrated this kind of effectiveness and consolidation around social issues not so often. “And I think it is a good precedent, but there is a lot of work ahead,” he added.
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