Because of the war that Russia started, many Ukrainians were forced to leave for safer regions and become internally displaced persons. They can apply for financial assistance from the state.

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Experts from “Legal Advisor for IDPs” told us what may change in 2025.

On December 31, the next changes to the Procedure for providing assistance for residence of IDPs (hereinafter referred to as the Procedure), approved by the Cabinet of Ministers resolution of December 27, 2024, came into force.. No. 1507.

According to him, the following changes took place.

The circle of persons who are not included in the family of the authorized person has been expanded. So, according to paragraph. 16 p. 3 of the Order the family of an authorized person does not include:.

persons called up for military service during mobilization for a special period in accordance with the Law “On mobilization preparation and mobilization”, as well as.

law enforcement officials,.

military personnel and.

employees of the Armed Forces, the National Guard, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the State Border Service, the State Special Transport Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Police, members of the rank and file and command of the State Emergency Service, the State Security Administration, the State Special Communications Service, military formations formed in accordance with the adopted law, direct participation in the implementation of measures to.

Exception: persons and members of their families who, in accordance with the law, receive compensation for subletting (renting) residential premises as IDPs.

It is determined that an application for assistance for the accommodation of IDPs can also be submitted at the place of registration of the internally displaced person by one of the family members of the authorized person of his choice.

One of the most important changes: it is stipulated that continued payment of benefits is possible during a state of emergency or martial law in Ukraine or its individual localities, but for no more than three six-month periods. This means that for IDPs whose second six-month payment period expires on January 31, assistance will be extended for another 6 months.

It has been established that the average monthly total income includes income received by a person as a one-time assistance, outgoing assistance paid to employees in accordance with the Labor Code, the Law of Ukraine “On Civil Service”, in the amount calculated for such a person by the social protection body by dividing the amount of the specified income.

It has been determined that when calculating the average monthly total income of a family, income received at a time during a calendar year from the sale is not taken into account:.

a single vehicle (mechanism) that was registered to one person from the family members;

the only residential premises/part of a residential premises located in territories where hostilities are (were) ongoing or temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation, for which the date of completion of hostilities (cessation of the possibility of hostilities) has not been determined, territories of active hostilities included in the list of territories.

At the same time, other residential premises, except for one, do not include residential premises/parts of residential premises located in territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation, for which the date of termination of occupation has not been determined.

On November 29 last year, the Cabinet of Ministers resolution of November 26, 2024 came into force. No. 1350, which, among other things, resolved certain issues of providing housing for internally displaced persons and other categories of socially vulnerable segments of the population. Let's remember what has changed.