Despite the war, Ukraine continues to pay pensions and other social benefits. The Ministry of Social Policy has developed and submitted for public discussion a draft law "

Who can be deprived of pensions.

The explanatory note to the bill states that it is designed to stop the payment of pensions to persons sentenced to restriction or imprisonment for committing criminal offenses, namely:.

for actions aimed at forcibly changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power (Article 109 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine);

for encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine (Article 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine);

for high treason (Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine);

for collaborationist activities (parts three - eight of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) (hereinafter - criminal offenses against the national security of Ukraine).

The document also notes that criminal offenses against the foundations of the national security of Ukraine are infringements on state security, defense capability, independence of the country, its constitutional system.. Without proper criminal law protection of these social values, it is impossible for the state to function as a guarantor of human rights and its relevant institutions..

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“An additional means for the comprehensive solution of this problem is proposed to apply the termination of payment of pensions to persons sentenced to restriction or imprisonment for committing a criminal offense against the national security of Ukraine.

The termination of pension payments to persons convicted of committing a criminal offense against the national security of Ukraine will express a negative assessment by the state of the actions committed against it, as well as condemnation of the Ukrainian society, which defends its independence and freedom,” the explanatory note says..

The document also notes that the draft act on the subject of legal regulation does not concern legal relations governed by the law of the European Union (EU acquis), the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, does not contain the risks of committing corruption offenses and offenses related to.

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