Pensions for migrants from the ATO zone in 2021. How to apply for a pension for migrants from uncontrolled territory: step-by-step instructions

Help for displaced people

The Russian state provides financial assistance to forced migrants in the form of a one-time benefit for each family member. In accordance with Government Decree No. 724, the amount of payments is:

100 rubles – adults, children;
150 rubles – low-income people.

To receive payments, citizens must contact the territorial body of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with an application in which they indicate all family members who arrived with them.

Certificate: If a person is recognized as poor, he must provide a certificate of recognition as such in accordance with Federal Law No. 134.

Registration of Pensioners from the ATO Zone to Receive a Pension in Ukraine

The completed application must be submitted to an official at the regional headquarters for issues related to the social security of Ukrainian citizens who are moving from temporarily occupied territory and areas of the anti-terrorist operation.

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The holding of “elections” on November 2 on the territory of the “DPR” and “LPR”, not in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine, only worsened the situation for residents of the temporarily occupied areas. The Ukrainian authorities warned the local population about the responsibility and consequences of participating in illegal voting. The world community does not and will not recognize the legitimacy of these “elections”; therefore, this territory will have the status of “unrecognized territory” by all countries in terms of their statehood, with all the negative consequences for its inhabitants economically and socially. Today, all such unrecognized territories have an underdeveloped economy and low incomes. In accordance with the announced results of these “elections” and “taking office,” the leadership of the “DPR” and “LPR” must assume full responsibility for paying pensions and social benefits in these territories. However, the population was once again told that “there are no funds to pay pensions and social benefits.” Before the elections on November 2, 2024. The DPR promised and partially paid social benefits to certain categories of citizens, but after the elections these payments stopped (“Social payments in the DPR”).

Pensions for migrants from the ATO zone

Against the backdrop of political instability and the difficult situation in Ukraine, many residents were forced to leave the country, including to Russia.

When finding employment in the Russian Federation or other countries, Ukrainian pensioners and citizens of pre-retirement age find themselves in a situation where social and tax deductions from wages remain in the countries where they work.

In this regard, adjustments developed by Ukrainian legislators and approved by the Verkhovna Rada were made to some by-laws of Ukraine concerning the accrual of pensions to immigrants by the Pension Fund of Ukraine (PFU).

Let’s understand the concept of “immigrant pension”

Due to military operations and the anti-terrorist operation carried out in a number of areas of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of people found themselves in a difficult and life-threatening situation. In this regard, for about 5 years (since 2014), there has been an outflow of migrants hiding from devastation and war to peaceful regions of the country.

Among them are a fairly large number of pensioners who have sufficient grounds to receive funds from the state pension fund. Pensions for such migrants are calculated in accordance with special rules developed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Important! Those citizens who, according to Ukrainian legislation, have the right to receive funds for pensions, but live in the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions not controlled by the country’s authorities, do not receive the corresponding payments.

Economy Pensioners from the ATO zone were threatened with deprivation of pensions

The Slavyansk Pension Fund office also confirmed to us that there were no cases where pensioners were caught in the act when receiving a double pension. “If there is a complete package of documents, we pay pensions to everyone. There is no database for exchanging information with the DPR. Therefore, it is impossible to prove that a person receives money both here and here. We have not had such cases. I think this is yet another horror story from the authorities,” a PF employee from Slavyansk told Vesti.

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“As of the end of May of this year, 575.3 thousand pensioners have already transferred pension payments from uncontrolled to territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities and are receiving payments on time. However, another 169.0 thousand pensioners did not make such a decision,” says the Regional State Administration. According to the department, there are no arrears in payments.

Rules for calculating benefits

Not all citizens who come to their place of residence in peaceful regions of Ukraine can receive funds issued towards a pension, but only those who meet certain criteria. They are directly established by law and are quite strict, for which they periodically come under criticism from the public and individual politicians.

However, here it must be taken into account that such rules were developed because the Pension Fund of Ukraine is experiencing a constant shortage of funds, so pensions can only be paid to those citizens who really need it and have the right to do so.

In addition, the absence of government control bodies in the ATO coverage area becomes the reason for various types of fraudulent schemes that unscrupulous citizens use to illegally obtain money.

So, according to the approved rules, a pension can be accrued to the following persons:

Having Ukrainian citizenship . Only citizens of Ukraine can apply for cash benefits. Proof of citizenship is usually a passport.
Those living on the territory of the ATO before it began . Persons who had a permanent place of residence before 2014 in the territories where the ATO is currently being carried out are entitled to apply for a pension.
Those who left the ATO after the start of hostilities and permanently reside in any region of Ukraine. The region and city of residence where the migrant from Donbass settled does not matter for the payment of the pension - the main thing is that it must be a territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
Registered in accordance with the established procedure with the social security authorities. Without certificates from social security that confirm the status of a migrant, it is impossible to receive a pension.
Have legal grounds for assigning a pension.

To receive a pension, migrants must meet the criteria for a citizen’s age and work experience.

Important! On the territory of Ukraine, a pension reform is taking place, associated with an increase in the age when workers can retire. It is planned that it will be established depending on the length of service - the shorter it is, the higher the age. The consequences of the pension reform affect all citizens, including those who have the status of internally displaced persons.

Conditions for pension accruals

It is necessary to have a special pensioner ID (plastic card), with which he can receive benefits and take advantage of payments. To register it, you should contact the PFU. The card is marked with a photo of the recipient and his digital signature.
Every six months, people whose personal data is included in the so-called SBU blacklists and who have reached retirement age must undergo identification. To implement this, you should contact Oschadbank to re-register the card in the controlled territory. The card account must contain funds in the amount of at least one hryvnia. After the first year of using the pension card, verification will be required once a year.
An elderly person is obliged to notify the Ukrainian Pension Fund if he enters the ATO zone, even if the period of stay there is minimal.

After a wave of protests, citizens were forced to appeal to the Supreme Court of Ukraine to appeal the illegal suspension of PFC payments. The highest judicial body satisfied the demands of the elderly, since the decision contradicts the law on compulsory pension insurance and is unlawful. And also some conditions for verification of elderly people from the “SBU list” were canceled.

How to obtain ATO resettlement status?

In the ATO zone, payments to pensioners stopped from 12/01/14. Their future fate hung in the air. Only if Donetsk came under the control of Kyiv could one hope that someday the funds earned would reach their owners.

As an act of goodwill and a manifestation of the state’s intentions not to leave the population of the rebellious region in trouble, it was announced that pensioners have the right to receive payments in territories controlled by Kyiv. You need to follow a number of simple steps to register your new status:

Contact the social protection department with an application to issue a certificate of assignment of ATO resettlement status.
Provide copies of your passport, pension certificate, identification code.
In the application, indicate the bank account number for transferring the pension.
Register at your new place of residence.
Register with the pension fund.

From this moment on, the certificate of assignment of ATO resettlement status will become an official document, on the basis of which it becomes possible to receive your hard-earned money. The certificate is valid upon presentation of a passport as confirmation of the citizen’s identity.

On the conditions for obtaining ATO resettlement status

18.03.15. – the date from which registration of certificates of obtaining migrant status with the migration service was announced. The DPR has been declared an occupied territory or an ATO region; this fact is officially approved in a decree of the country’s government.

Based on this document, all citizens who voluntarily resettle from the area of military operations are freely issued a certificate of assignment of a new status.

Citizens of Ukraine, stateless persons but permanently residing in the country, as well as foreigners who were forced to leave their permanent place of residence have the right to receive a certificate. The reason for leaving must be an ATO action.

Possibilities for obtaining help may vary:

Contacting the social protection authorities of the citizen's official representative if it is impossible to do this in person.
Submitting an application through an official of an organization that provides accommodation for displaced persons. This option is used when a migrant seeks help from the authorities involved in the work of the regional headquarters.
The application can be submitted through the employees of the housing and communal services office at the citizen’s place of residence.
Authorized persons of township and village councils at the place of relocation and residence of the citizen.

All of these bodies are authorized not only to accept applications from ATO resettlers, but also to issue official certificates of assignment of a new status.

In extreme resettlement conditions, it is not uncommon for citizens to lose their identity documents. Until they are fully restored, it is possible to obtain a temporary migrant certificate.

To do this, you need to contact the territorial body of the State Migration Service, where they are required to issue it within one day. Based on this document, it is possible to obtain a certificate of obtaining the status of a displaced person.

What is required to receive payments?

There are several conditions for the process of processing pension payments for Ukrainian immigrants. To register them, you need to contact the pension fund closest to the place of registration in the controlled territory.

List of documents for registering the right to accrue Ukrainian pensions:

Documents required for calculating pensions from Ukraine

Ukrainian internal passport.
Special identification password or tax code.
Photos in official document format.
A certificate in the prescribed form confirming the relevance of the migrant status. You can order it in the office of the social security authorities for residents. It is necessary to apply for the status of a migrant or refugee.
A certificate containing information about the provided social benefits. You will need a work book.
Certificate of salary accruals. The document must be ordered from the last employer.
A certificate issued from the actual, current place of residence.
Information from the address (place of registration).
Document confirming participation in hostilities, if available.
An extract confirming that the citizen is not receiving benefits from social authorities for working with the population of Crimea, that the citizen is not registered in the so-called occupied territory of the LPR or DPR, in Russia.
An extract stating that the citizen is not listed as a co-owner of the individual entrepreneur or manager.
Application for crediting amounts by transfer to an issued bank card.

It is necessary to have an open account with the National Bank of Ukraine Oschadbank. And also submit an application for calculation and accrual of pension.

Sometimes the transfer of the amount is suspended due to the loss of documents. In this case, you must submit an application to the Ukrainian Pension Fund for consideration of your personal file.

Verification of the information provided will take 15 working days. Among other data, the applicant’s living conditions are checked.

If the decision of the social authorities is positive, the elderly person is given a preliminary paper on the assignment of payments. It is subsequently sent for consideration by the commission on issues of calculating pensions for Ukrainian refugees.

After five working days, the commission makes a decision based on the results of the inspections, which it notifies the PFU. If the decision is positive, the first amount will be transferred to the pensioner’s account. In general, no more than a month passes from the start of filing an application for accrual and payment of a pension to the moment it is paid.

In order to receive money and register refugee status, a working pensioner will have to quit his job. You will need to show a certificate of termination of the official employment contract. It should indicate as the reason for dismissal: “Traveling to another, safe region.”

Military pensions in Ukraine

Pension payments for 500 thousand military pensioners have been increased by 1,500 hryvnia from the beginning of 2021. Today the amount is 4400 hryvnia.

How to apply for a pension if documents are lost

In the event of hostilities, one or more documents may be lost. It is possible to obtain a migrant certificate, but in a temporary form, by presenting any remaining official document for the period of restoration of the full package of documents.

How to apply for a pension for a migrant?

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How to apply for a pension for a migrant? Who has the right to receive a pension, how to prove work experience when all the documents were left in uncontrolled territory? Radio Donbass.Realii has prepared instructions.

IDPs are granted a pension on a general basis, but their status can cause certain difficulties. In particular, they cannot even choose the bank from which they want to receive payments. This can only be Oschadbank. And one more thing - the pensioner will have to undergo physical identification every three months.

Where to contact?

A person must apply for a pension to the Pension Fund at the place of registration. For those moving from uncontrolled territory, the role of registration is played by a migrant’s certificate. By the way, it is not necessary to contact the government agency in person: the law provides for the right to apply for a pension through your representative by writing a notarized power of attorney.

What if there are no documents?

An obstacle to receiving a well-deserved social payment may be the lack of documents that are forgotten or lost in the occupied part of the country.

The main part of the documents (passport, work book, tax code) can be provided both in originals and in copies, certified by a notary or at the enterprise at the place of last work. That is, if you don’t have the original, but you took a certified copy with you, you can submit it.

If the work book has not been preserved either in the original or in a certified copy, then in such cases the length of service is established on the basis of other documents issued at the place of work/service/study, as well as by archival institutions.

What does experience confirm?

To confirm work experience, for example, any certificates that can be used to establish the fact of work at the enterprise are accepted. It is important that they can be used to determine your position and length of service. For example, a travel document, an extract from an order (a reprimand? That will do too!), personal accounts and payroll statements, characteristics. You can submit your remaining certificates.

If the submitted document on experience indicates only years, without exact dates, the date is taken as July 1 of the corresponding year, and if the day of the month is not indicated, then the 15th of the corresponding month is considered to be the date.

What should entrepreneurs do?

The working time of persons engaged in entrepreneurial activity based on private property and exclusively on their labor for the period before May 1, 1993, as well as the working time of persons engaged in running personal peasant farms, is counted in the length of service if there is a certificate from the Pension Fund of Ukraine on payment insurance premiums. And such a certificate, as a rule, is available to the entrepreneur from the moment of his registration (it must be issued).

To confirm your experience, you can take an extract from the State Register of Compulsory State Social Insurance.

In all these cases, documents on length of service, age and salary are submitted only in originals.

Is there nothing at all?

If no documents on work experience have been preserved, the authorities of the Pension Fund of Ukraine can confirm such work experience based on the testimony of witnesses.

Who collects and prepares documents?

The displaced pensioner collects the documents, and the local branch of the Pension Fund of Ukraine issues the pension. This means that if your documents are not enough, you go collect them in the second round. The pension fund will inform you about this.

Will the time spent searching for documents end up in your pension?

If the future pensioner provides all the documents within 3 months, the pension will be assigned from the day the application is submitted. If the pensioner does not provide documents within three months, then the pension is assigned from the day when all the necessary documents are collected.

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How is a pension paid to an ATO displaced person?

As soon as the pensioner has completed all the steps to receive a pension after relocation, pension payments should be received in the bank account from the next month.

The PF is obliged to transfer all funds in full from the moment the payments are stopped to the citizen, regardless of the time that has passed since the payments were stopped.

The pension fund makes a request about the status of the migrant’s personal account in the state database at the previous address. Due to the fact that the ATO territories are under the jurisdiction of Ukraine as a single state, searching for information about a pensioner and payments made to him is not difficult.

The pension benefit of the migrant is paid at his current place of residence. You can receive money through a post office in cash, to a bank card, or to a bank account. The pensioner himself chooses one of the options for receiving money.

Delays and problems

Despite state guarantees expressed in Ukrainian regulations, displaced citizens often complain about problems with receiving payments.

Among the main ones are:

Refusal to assign payments. Occurs if the migrant has not fulfilled any condition for calculating his pension. For example, he provided an incomplete document or provided false information about himself.
Termination of payments. A forcibly displaced citizen will be deprived of receiving money if he violates the rules of migration registration and also ignores the requirements of social security representatives related to undergoing scheduled checks.
Delay in receipt of money. They can occur for a variety of reasons. You should contact the PFU or the social protection department about the reasons.

What other benefits are there for migrants?

The primary right for displaced students to places in the university dormitory.
Free textbooks and other aids.
For IDPs who have lost their jobs, the Employment Center operates a simplified registration and registration system.
Free food for a month from the date of registration until the migrant finds a job and does not have the funds to purchase it.
Humanitarian assistance, as well as assistance from charitable organizations.
Simplified registration in any clinic at your place of residence, as well as free treatment and examinations. You only need to pay for ultrasound or MRI.
A simplified system for applying for subsidies for utility bills.
Temporary housing from the state. However, unfortunately, there are problems with this - there is simply not enough social housing for everyone, even for temporary stay, and therefore, it is primarily provided to large families of migrants.

Unfortunately, the responsible organizations and institutions do not have a budget sufficient to solve all the problems of displaced people in Ukraine. But if you have the right to receive such a status, it is worth applying for it in order to at least partially cover your expenses and not lose your right to government benefits, which can at least make your life a little easier or resolve any issues.

Reasons for not being recognized as a migrant

Status can be denied for several reasons. Among them:

untimely application for migrant status (the law sets a period of 12 months);
relocation due to famine, epidemic, emergency;
committing a crime against humanity or other serious crimes.

The person is given a written notice of refusal. Thus, not everyone can apply for displaced person status.

New rules for calculating pensions for migrants from Ukraine in 2021

In 2021, as a result of active protests by human rights activists and lawyers in Ukraine, as well as members of the UN Human Rights Committee, it was possible to cancel some decisions taken by the Verkhovna Rada.

Human rights activists declared it illegal to restrict the right of elderly Ukrainians to receive a pension. After this, the government announced that the blocked amounts would be paid.

Other positive points:

The decision of the Ukrainian authorities on the indexation of pension accruals, carried out on July 1, 2021. The pension coefficient for people applying for benefits for the first time has been revised. Now it is equal to 1.
The decision to index social payments by 750 hryvnia in 2019.
Extension of the pension reform stage until 2021, at which it is planned to increase the amount of accruals by another 50%.
Possibility of choosing a method of transferring money through Oschadbank (to a bank card, to a personal account) or issuing funds at a bank cash desk.
Providing the use of an electronic version of the Ukrainian pension fund. For example, you can now find out the movement of accrued funds in your personal account on the official website of the fund, and receive a pension certificate to the specified email address.

Human rights activists have declared violations of international rights regarding the inviolability of the home during inspections, as well as freedom of movement.

Human rights activists and lawyers obtained a decision from the Deputy Minister to reduce the circle of persons subject to verification, provided that they were identified.

The project “Pensions for uncontrolled geographical zones - without a migrant’s certificate” is under consideration. This document was developed by public human rights organizations.

This project, in particular, provides for:

What does the project involve?

Canceling paper document flow and converting it to digital format. Recognition of the right to the ability to send documents remotely via electronic communication, without personally visiting the PFU office in the controlled territory.
Increasing the time period for exercising the right to receive an unclaimed amount, since not all people have time to claim it in the shortest possible time due to periodically renewed military actions.

The main requirement formulated in the program registered in the Verkhovna Rada under No. 6692 is the possibility of canceling the issuance of a migrant’s certificate. The chances of this demand being approved by the Verkhovna Rada are slim, but public human rights organizations will continue to insist on this.

For persons with limited mobility, the draft requires the delivery of means of personal identification by social organizations, including international ones. An officially registered authorized representative has the right to draw up any paperwork for a person with limited mobility.

It is also possible to transfer documents through an official. This requires:

prepare a corresponding application in advance;
submit the application to the PFU with the help of housing and communal services employees or members of local village councils.

The same bodies are empowered to issue certificates of assigned migrant status. The document can also be issued by a person who does not have Ukrainian citizenship, but lives in the country on the basis of permanent residence (permanent residence).

The basis for assigning refugee or migrant status is an anti-terrorist operation in the formed republics of the LPR or DPR.

The UN called the demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) related to the need to increase the minimum retirement age for Ukrainians inhumane. However, this question remains open.

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Pension system

According to the department, payment of pensions at the new place of residence can be carried out this month according to additional statements or next month. Payment of pensions is carried out from the first day of the month following the one before which the pension was paid at the previous place of residence.

This may be due to the fact that the work of notaries in the ATO zone is not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities and the possibility of fraud or forgery of documents (powers of attorney) cannot be ruled out. We invite you to consider a specific example of how to process a pension transfer. According to the Donetsk Regional State Administration, about 700 thousand people in the region did not receive a pension.

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Answers to common questions

Question No. 1: Can a forced migrant count on humanitarian assistance on Russian territory?

Answer: Yes, if official status is issued. Humanitarian aid is provided mainly to residents of Donbass and includes food, clothing, and medicine.

Question No. 2: Can I, as a forced migrant, count on free legal assistance in Russia?

Answer: Yes. Forced migrants are provided with lawyers both by government agencies and by many law firms. The service is provided free of charge.

Answers to the most pressing questions on the topic

Below are answers to questions that most concern Ukrainian citizens displaced from the ATO zone.

We stopped paying our pension, what should we do?

In the event that they have stopped paying a pension, you must immediately contact the Pension Fund to find out the reasons for this. As a rule, the reason is that the citizen was not at his place of residence for more than 60 days. In this case, you need to go through the entire procedure again. Including registering, receiving a certificate of migrant status, and so on.

How to restore payment if blocked

Payments to internally displaced persons are subject to serious government control. In this regard, the status of these citizens is constantly checked by social security employees. One of the grounds for termination of payment is the absence of a citizen at the place of residence at the time of the inspection. In this case, the status of a migrant may be cancelled, and therefore the citizen will need to reconfirm it before again counting on a pension.

Payment delay since June - when to expect

Delays in payments of pension money are largely due to the deficit of the Pension Fund of Ukraine, as well as verification procedures for recipients of money.

Back in April last year, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted Resolution No. 335, according to which all existing debts to pensioners are accumulated and will be paid in a special manner. However, at the moment, the procedure for repaying these debts has not been developed. In this regard, it is not possible to talk about the timing of when the money will be paid in full.

Pensioners in the ATO zone were left without pensions

If you dig deeper, it turns out that they have prepared an almost impossible task for pensioners. At the beginning of October, ministers adopted a resolution on the registration of “displaced persons.” According to it, everyone who has moved is obliged to go first to the State Emergency Service department, and then to the social security fund. However, personal presence is not enough. We also need those local residents who will settle refugees in their homes. Homeowners in “peaceful territory” are required to have the main tenant present with statements and copies of passports of everyone registered in the apartment stating that they do not object to the fact that a displaced person from the ATO zone lives with them. The bureaucracy doesn't end there. Expect that within two weeks an authorized person from the housing office or village council will visit the address to check whether a migrant from the east of the country really lives here. But a personal visit by a specialist will not be enough: you will also need certificates from two neighbors and copies of their passports. As a “bonus” for suffering if the procedure is successful, the state undertakes to pay 884 hryvnia per month along with the pension. Even in this situation, gigantic queues have already formed in the social funds of the cities closest to the ATO zone.

— Those who want to receive pensions and social payments are required to obtain a migrant certificate before December 1. The certificate will indicate their place of residence and the address where funds will be transferred outside the ATO zone, the minister emphasized.

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