Mobilized UBD personnel should have their combat service credited fairly: the issue has already reached the Council

Citizens are still trying to protect fair crediting of insurance service for mobilized participants in hostilities and defenders released from captivity. This issue now requires legal protection and a comprehensive study. Various structures and members of parliament are reacting to the calls of participants in the initiative “Service under Fire.”

Justice for mobilized UBDs

Activists emphasize that they are not demanding the creation of a new type of pension or an unwarranted extra benefit. However, the fact that for mobilized servicemen the service is counted on a one-to-one basis, but the special conditions of staying in trenches, under shells, or in enemy captivity are not taken into account, is noted. As one of the initiative participants, Irina Grebtsova, told Channel in an interview 24, in article 24 of Law No. 1058-IV the state already applies mechanisms of favorable calculation of service for harmful conditions.

Logically, under the same mechanism, the pension for combat veterans who previously worked in civilian positions should be calculated.

Note! For mobilized fighters under constant shelling and airbombs, the age threshold is 55 years, and the service is counted “one to one.” Activists emphasize that the legislation assesses the risk to life at the line of combat more low than civilian work in harmful plants.

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

— said our interlocutor.

The Ministry of Social Policy noted that creating “special pensions” is prohibited by the recently concluded 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 matters is that citizens are not demanding a “new pension,” so there is no correct explanation for the refusal to credit combat service for mobilized UBD.

The right of UBD 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 accumulate the required insurance service to exercise a right that already exists in law,

— clarified Irina Grebtsova.

The voice of activists is already heard in the authorities

Ms. Irina does not fight for veterans’ rights alone. Her ally and head of the NGO "Wings of Hope of Carpathia" Lesia Fedoriav appealed with a corresponding request to MP Oksana Savchuk. The legislator responded to the request fairly quickly.

According to Savchuk, the issue raised by the activists is socially important and requires comprehensive processing, in particular assessing the current procedure for calculating insurance service, determining the circle of persons to whom the relevant changes may apply, and conducting necessary financial and economic calculations.

Therefore the MP has already submitted a request:

to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and to the Main Directorate of the Pension Fund of Ukraine regarding the state of work on proposals for multiple calculation of service for servicemen;

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

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

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

Irina Grebtsova noted that the Bar Association is the higher self-governing body of Ukrainian 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 for the Collective Appeal of residents of Chutivska community of Poltava region, signed by seven starosts of the starostyn districts, was expressed by MPs Oleg Kulinich, Olga Saladukha and Yehor Cherniyev.

The initiators of petition No. 41/010530-26ep, registered on the Cabinet of Ministers’ website, propose counting one month for three for military personnel who directly participate in combat or perform combat tasks in fighting areas. One month for two is proposed for those serving in combat areas but not directly involved in fighting—for example, providing positions or standing watch. The same is proposed for counting service for officially confirmed captivity.

It is interesting that the calculation “one month for three” for the period of direct participation in hostilities in Ukraine is already used to calculate the length of service needed to retire on a separate military pension. It is known that legal practice extends to all servicemen, including mobilized ones.