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Ukrainian legislation provides for early retirement for military personnel. To qualify for early retirement, you need to meet certain criteria, writes "

The Law “On Pensions for Persons Dismissed from Military Service and Certain Other Persons” provides for three types of pensions: for long service, for disability and in case of loss of a breadwinner. Article 12 of this law spells out who exactly and in the presence of what length of service is entitled to early retirement.

By acquiring 25 years of service, the military is entitled to a pension regardless of age.. For sailors or pilots, it is enough to have only 20 years.

It is also possible to assign a pension upon reaching the age of 45 in two cases:.

at the time of reaching this age, the military has 20 years of service;

have 25 years of total service, of which at least 12 and a half years of service.

In turn, disability pensions under the mentioned law are assigned if disability occurred during the period of service or no later than three months after dismissal from service..

This may be later if the disability occurred later than three months after dismissal from service, but due to illness (trauma, wounds, contusions, injuries, etc.).. ) that occurred during the period of service.

Also, according to the law, disability caused by injuries or diseases that occurred during captivity is taken into account, if the captivity was not voluntary and the employee claiming a pension while in captivity did not commit a crime against peace and humanity.