The Cabinet of Ministers postponed the indexation of pensions in Ukraine. So in March 2023 you should not wait for her.

The Pension Fund of Ukraine told what conditions for assigning an old-age pension are valid this year and what future pensioners need to know.

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The right to an old-age pension is determined depending on the acquired insurance period upon reaching the age prescribed by law. The general conditions for granting an old-age pension are determined by Article 26 of the Law of Ukraine dated 09. 07. 2003 No. 1058-IV "

The law defines the requirements for the availability of the necessary insurance experience for retirement upon reaching 60, 63 or 65 years. So, to retire at 60 in 2023, you must have at least 30 years of insurance experience..

Annually, the insurance period giving the right to retire at 60 years is increased by 12 months and in 2028 will be 35 years. If a person who turned 60 years old in 2023 has less than 30 years of required insurance experience, he will be eligible for a pension upon reaching the age of 63 if he has at least 20 years of insurance experience. The minimum required insurance period, giving the right to a pension at age 65 - 15 years.

The insurance period giving the right to retire is determined on the date of reaching the age of 60, 63 or 65 years.

For example, a man turned 60 years old 01. 02. 2023. The acquired insurance experience as of this date is 29 years 6 months. Required insurance experience - 30 years. man running. If, while working, he acquires 6 months of insurance experience, then he will be able to apply for a pension after acquiring 30 years of insurance experience.

The pension will be assigned from the date of application. Insurance experience gained after 01. 01. 2004, calculated according to the data of the register of insured persons of the State Register of Compulsory State Social Insurance, and for periods of work up to 01. 01. 2004 - on the basis of a work book and other documents on experience.

The amount of the old-age pension is determined for each pensioner individually and depends on the length of service he has acquired and the salary received from which the insurance premiums were paid..

An old-age pension is assigned upon a person's application from the day following the day he reaches retirement age, if the application occurred no later than three months from the date of reaching such an age..

An application for the appointment of a pension and a package of documents can be submitted directly to any service center of the Pension Fund of Ukraine or in electronic form through the web portal of the Fund's electronic services using a qualified electronic signature.

An old-age pension, from the day following the day of reaching the age of 60, can be assigned automatically (without a person’s request), if the register of insured persons contains information about the length of service acquired before 2004 (the employer or the insured person provided a work book for digitization, other.

Certain categories of citizens may be granted retirement pensions up to the age of 60:.

on preferential terms - to persons who worked in jobs with especially harmful and difficult working conditions and in other jobs with harmful and difficult working conditions or in certain industries (parts one - three of Article 114 of the Law of Ukraine dated 09. 07. 2003 No. 1058-IV \;

early - to persons with a special status, in particular, mothers of large families and mothers of children with disabilities from childhood, participants in hostilities and members of the families of the dead, citizens dismissed from work, who at the time of dismissal had no more than one and a half years left before reaching retirement age (part one. 07. 2003 No. 1058-IV \;

with a reduction in the retirement age - participants in the liquidation and victims of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Article 55 of the Law of Ukraine dated 28. 02. 1991 No. 796-XII “On the status and social protection of citizens affected by the Chernobyl disaster”).

Recall what documents should be submitted for the appointment of an old-age pension in 2023.