The Cabinet of Ministers has approved Independence Day payments: who will receive them and how much
This is set out in a Cabinet of Ministers resolution.
The highest benefit amount of 3,100 hryvnias is provided for persons with special merits to the Motherland and persons with Group I war-related disabilities.
For veterans with Group II disabilities, the payment will be 2,900 hryvnias, and for Group III – 2,700 hryvnias. The same provision applies to former child prisoners of concentration camps and ghettos who became disabled due to general illness or an industrial injury.
The following will receive 1,000 hryvnias:
- combatants;
- victims of the Revolution of Dignity;
- former juvenile prisoners of places of forced detention;
- children born in places of forced detention where their parents were held.
Payments of 650 hryvnias have been allocated to family members of deceased war veterans and defenders of Ukraine. The same amount will be received by the spouses of deceased persons with war-related disabilities or combatants who have not remarried.
A minimum payment of 450 hryvnias is provided for war veterans, former prisoners of concentration camps and ghettos, as well as persons who were forcibly taken away for forced labour. This category also includes the children of partisans and underground fighters.
The government resolution stipulates that all one-off cash payments must be made by 24 August 2026.
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