In Ukraine, periods of receiving childcare assistance are also counted in the insurance period. The right to assistance in caring for a child up to the age of three has an insured person who actually takes care of the child, and this is not necessarily the mother: one of the child's parents, adoptive parent, grandmother, grandfather, other relative or guardian.

Pension expert Sergei Korobkin told whether the period of caring for grandchildren can be counted in the insurance record. About it writes the publication "

He explained that according to Article 24 of the Law of Ukraine “On Compulsory State Pension Insurance”, the length of service is the period during which a person is subject to compulsory state pension insurance and for which monthly insurance premiums are paid in an amount not less than the minimum insurance premium..

Paragraph 8 of Article 11 of this Law states that persons who are subject to compulsory state pension insurance, in particular, include persons who care for a child until he reaches the age of three and, in accordance with the law, receive assistance in caring for a child until he reaches the age of three. That is, periods of receiving childcare assistance are also counted in the length of service..

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In accordance with the law “On pensions” in force in Ukraine until 2004, it was clearly defined that the length of service includes the time of caring for young children (up to three years of age) of a non-working mother.

But the law " The main condition is to receive care assistance and pay insurance premiums, regardless of who exactly cares.

Korobkin added that the insured person who actually cares for the child (mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, guardian or other relative) has the right to assistance in caring for a child up to the age of three..

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According to him, in April 2018, a system was launched in Ukraine that allows automatic recalculation of pensions for working citizens..

If at that time a person’s periods of insurance experience were not taken into account, that is, the periods for which insurance premiums were paid, then the pension was automatically recalculated to the length of service.

The expert stressed that the cancellation of such recalculation by the employees of the Pension Fund is illegal. In such a case, a person can apply to the Senior Pension Fund by adding the answers of the local government. Otherwise, this issue will have to be resolved in court..

Earlier it was reported what minimum experience pensioners in Ukraine need to have in 2023.