The єYasla program provides monthly assistance of 8 thousand hryvnia (12 thousand for children with disabilities) to parents of children aged 1 to 3 years who went to work full time. Now individual entrepreneurs cannot take advantage of the payments, but this issue may be reconsidered if the relevant petition is supported.

This was reported by the Pension Fund of Ukraine (PFU). Payments are assigned for the period when the child has not yet reached the age to attend preschool education institutions, but one of the parents is already working full time and cannot constantly be at home with him.

Assistance is assigned from the month following the child’s one-year birthday and is paid until the child turns three years old.. The recipient of the benefit can be the mother or other legal representative of a child aged 1 to 3 years who meets two key conditions.

Firstly, he actually took care of the child before going to work. Secondly, after that I went back to work on a full-time basis.. At the same time, the current program procedure contains clear exceptions. Help is not provided to adoptive parents and foster carers. Also, individual entrepreneurs are now excluded from the list of recipients.

In 2026, the amount of assistance under the єYasla program is 8 thousand hryvnia per month per child. For families raising a child with a disability, increased support is provided - 12 thousand hryvnia per month. The funds are intended to help cover the costs of a nanny, private daycare, or other forms of child care while parents are working..

One of the most controversial topics surrounding the program was the exclusion of individual entrepreneurs from the list of aid recipients. Despite the fact that individual entrepreneurs actually carry out professional activities, receive income and pay taxes and a single social contribution, the legislation does not recognize them as being in an employment relationship.

The lack of a formal employment contract is the reason why self-employed parents cannot process payments.

As a result, mothers and fathers-entrepreneurs who, after the birth of a child, restore or continue business and bear the tax burden on the same basis as employees, remain outside the scope of state support.

The issue of individual entrepreneurs’ access to the єYasla program has already been made public. A petition has been published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers demanding that individual entrepreneurs be treated as working persons in order to receive this assistance.. If it gets 25 thousand signatures, the government is obliged to consider the proposal and provide an official response.