Pension amounts have been limited in Ukraine: why and for whom payments will be reduced

Payments exceeding UAH 23,610 will be reduced.

In 2025, the largest special pensions will be limited in Ukraine. This innovation will affect more than 17 thousand pensioners. It will be in effect for the period of martial law in 2025.

This was reported by the Ministry of Social Policy.

“The law on the state budget approved the norm on the application of 2025 restrictive coefficients to pensions that are four or more times higher than the average pension in the country, or 10 subsistence minimums for disabled persons,” the ministries explained.

The department emphasizes that the system is currently unfair and non-transparent due to the imbalances that have accumulated in the pension system. That is why the restrictions will affect payments that can now amount to 60, 80, 100 thousand hryvnia or even higher.

“The restrictive coefficients will reduce the huge difference between the so-called “special” and general pensions. According to the resolution, reducing coefficients will be applied to pensions exceeding 10 subsistence minimums. In particular, the amount of which is determined by court decisions,” the ministry reported.

The mechanism will work as follows: the higher the pension size, the higher the coefficient will be applied:

a coefficient of 0.5 will be applied to the part of the pension that exceeds 10 subsistence minimums (UAH 23,610) and does not exceed 11 subsistence minimums (UAH 25,971);
0.4 will be applied to the part of the pension that exceeds 11 subsistence minimums (UAH 25,971) and does not exceed 13 subsistence minimums (UAH 30,693);
0.3 will be applied to the part of the pension that exceeds 13 subsistence minimums (UAH 30,693) and does not exceed 17 subsistence minimums (UAH 40,137);
the part of the pension exceeding 17 PM (40,137 UAH) and does not exceed 21 PM (49,581 UAH) — 0.2;
to the part of the pension exceeding 21 PM (49,581 UAH) — 0.1.

The Ministry of Social Policy notes: restrictions will not apply to the pensions of people who are currently fighting at the front or participated in the defense of the Motherland from the Russian aggression in 2014.

It is noted that the restrictions will apply only to the amount of the payment, which is not an insurance part of the pension, but an additional payment from the state for work in certain security or other structures. This category includes allowances, increases, additional pensions, targeted cash assistance, pensions for special services to Ukraine, indexation and other additional payments to the pension established by law.

Recall that new conditions for retirement have become known. This is stated in the law “On Compulsory State Pension Insurance”.