Mobilized NDDD personnel should have fair credit for combat service: the issue has already reached the Council

Citizens are still trying to defend fair accrual of insurance service for mobilized participants in hostilities and defenders released from captivity. Now this issue needs legal protection and comprehensive study. Various structures and members of parliament respond to the calls of participants in the initiative “Service under Fire”.

Justice for mobilized OBDs

Activists emphasize that they do not demand creating a new type of pension or an unjustified additional benefit. However, the fact that mobilized military personnel have their service time counted on the principle of one month of service per month of duty, while the special conditions of staying in trenches, under KA- bombs, or in enemy captivity are not taken into account. As one of the initiative participants, Irina Grebtsova, told Channel in a comment 24, in the article 24 of Law No. 1058-IV, the state already applies mechanisms of preferential calculation of service for harmful conditions.

Logically, under the same mechanism, pension should be accrued for participants in hostilities who previously worked in civilian positions.

Note! For mobilized fighters under constant shelling and airbombs, the age threshold is 55 years, and service is counted "one to one". Activists emphasize that legislation assesses the risk to life on the frontline at a level lower than civilian work in harmful workshops.

The introduction of the norm "one month for three" in article 24 of Law No. 1058-IV would only allow mobilized OBDs to use those legal mechanisms that already operate in the solidarity system,

— noted our interlocutor.

The Ministry of Social Policy noted that creating a "special pensions" is prohibited by a recently signed Memorandum. At the same time, changes to the law were proposed back in 2024 year. Then they were ignored.

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But what is important is that citizens do not demand a "new pension", so there is no correct explanation for the denial of crediting combat service for mobilized OBDs.

The right of OBD to early retirement at 55 years is already fixed in art. 115 of Law No. 1058-IV. Crediting combat service does not change the retirement age at 55 years, but only allows mobilized citizens to form the necessary insurable service to realize a right that already exists in law,

— clarified Irina Grebtsova.

The voice of activists is already heard in the authorities

Ms. Irina is not fighting for soldiers' rights alone. Her ally and head of the NGO "Wings of Hope of Prykarpattia" Lesya Fedoryiv addressed a corresponding inquiry to Member of Parliament Oksana Savchuk. The deputy responded to the inquiry fairly quickly.

According to Savchuk, the issue raised by activists is socially important and requires comprehensive processing, including assessment of the current procedure for calculating insurance service, identification of the circle of persons to whom the changes may apply, and the necessary financial-economic calculations.

Therefore the deputy has already submitted an appeal:

to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and the Main Directorate of the Pension Fund of Ukraine regarding the state of processing proposals on multiple calculation of the service time of servicemen;

to the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Social Policy and Veterans Rights Protection regarding consideration of the possibility of legislative regulation of the issue raised.

Oksana Savchuk supported the initiative "Service under Fire" / Photo from Facebook

Also in response, the National Association of Advocates of Ukraine replied. They expressed full support for the position. Thus the NAUU sent an Official Letter of Support to the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Social Policy and Veterans Rights Protection.

Irina Grebtsova noted that the association of lawyers is the highest self-governing body of Ukraine's lawyers. And when the legal community of the state officially confirms the correctness of the legal position, the Pension Fund of Ukraine will no longer be able to manipulate.

Also their support was expressed by the Collective Appeal of residents of Chutivska hromada in Poltava region, signed by seven starosts of the starostyn districts; the MPs Oleg Kulinich, Olga Saladuha and Yehor Cherniev.

Proponents of petition No. 41/010530-26ep, registered on the Cabinet of Ministers website, propose counting one month for three for military personnel directly taking part in battles or performing combat missions in combat areas. One month for two is proposed for those serving in combat areas but not directly participating in battles—for example, providing positions or standing watch. The same is proposed for calculating service for officially confirmed captivity.

Interestingly, the calculation of "one month for three" for the period of direct participation in hostilities in Ukraine is already used to calculate the service years needed for a separate military pension. It is known that legal practice extends to all servicemen, including mobilized.