Payments to Ukrainians continue to accrue, the only problem is how to withdraw funds.
Ukraine continues to pay pensions and housing subsidies to its citizens in the occupied territories, despite the closure of branches of state banks and Ukrposhta from August 1. This was emphasized by the newly appointed Minister of Social Policy Oksana Zholnovych on the air of a national telethon.
She noted that today, due to the threat to the lives of Ukrposhta employees, it is not possible to physically transfer payments, but the funds are kept in the accounts of Oschadbank within 30 days. If a person was unable to withdraw the funds during this time, they are transferred to accounts opened in other banks.
Zholnovich emphasized that if a person cannot receive his money in any of the options, then these payments will not go anywhere – they accumulate.
“We throw money there with the hope that a person will be able to withdraw it in some way. In any case, this money will not go anywhere, it will accumulate. There are options to get it even in an occupied territory,” Zholnovich said.
the state's position regarding those who, for various reasons, remained in the temporarily occupied territories is unequivocal: to pay salaries and social benefits, to help as much as possible. Read more in the article Anatoly Bondarchuk and Olexander Klyuzhev “OCCUPIED. Social obligations of the state in the old and new temporarily occupied territories. To pay or not to pay?”
