In particular, the complaints concern the cancellation of housing benefits. Since March 1, Ukraine has significantly reduced the number of recipients of such social assistance from among IDPs. =”https://baltimorechronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ef156b9bed8af6b6def17c7d6b34e177.jpg” alt=”We now have a frantic number of requests from displaced people who believe that they were illegally relieved of social assistance” >
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Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets, in a comment to Ukrinform, said that the majority of complaints from internally displaced persons are received by the Ombudsman's Office due to deprivation of social benefits from the state and due to the failure to provide additional services in communities.
“First of all, we now have an insane increase in the number of requests from among IDPs – citizens of Ukraine, who believe that they were illegally deprived of the right to receive additional social assistance, namely, housing allowance, which was paid for every adult and every child who lost virtually everyone is at the WTO or on the front line. And people are demanding that such payments be resumed,” he said.
Lubinets recalled that since March 1, Ukraine has significantly reduced the number of recipients of such social assistance from among IDPs.
New rules for assistance for IDPs will come into effect from March 1
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“In second place we have an appeal for receiving some additional services from communities, for example, about placing a child to kindergarten or school. This was, as a rule, at the beginning of the educational process, the academic year. Now there are much fewer such cases, these are (maybe – ed.) when an IDP family moves from one community to another,” the ombudsman added.
As reported, from March 1, the general principle of extension was changed in Ukraine payments for displaced persons – now, to receive assistance, the total family income will be taken into account, which per one family member should be no more than UAH 9,444. and IDPs who hope to return home. If last year the number of refugees was 77%, then this year it is 65%.
