This information was passed during the meeting of the Council for the Development of Regions Andrey Reva, Minister of Social Policy. He also clarified that in the last heating season, about 7.4 million households used state support in paying HCS.

He also added that work on improving the program of providing subsidies to people continues to be introduced in 2017, in the field of targeted assistance - in particular. Among other things, it is planned to reform the scheme of granting benefits - also added Reva.

As reported URA-Inform, Reva also at the meeting said that now every fourth worker in Ukraine - working in the "shadow".