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Thousands of IDP families will not receive payments because of one condition: what is this about?

Thousands of IDP families will not receive payments because of one condition: what is this about?

15 July 2026, 15:00

Thousands of IDP families will not receive payments because of one condition: what is this about? — Benefits for children of internally displaced persons in 2026

Families who were granted IDP status back in 2014 but did not relocate again following the full-scale invasion may find their applications for child benefit rejected.

This is set out in Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 390.3.

What changed in March 2026

Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 390 of 18 March 2026 amended the Procedure for the Provision of Subsistence Assistance to IDPs, providing for the possibility of resuming payments to children who had previously received such assistance or had lost their entitlement to it.

However, several conditions must be met simultaneously for payments to be resumed.

Conditions relating to the family itself

The family must meet one of the following requirements:

displacement or re-displacement since 1 January 2022 from areas of hostilities or territories temporarily occupied by Russia;
the family’s home has been destroyed or damaged to the extent that it is unfit for habitation.
In addition, the family must meet the means-testing criteria – the maximum income must not exceed four times the subsistence minimum for persons unable to work per person (10,380 hryvnias in 2026).

Conditions relating to children

For children under 6 years of age (up to 7–8 years of age for those with special educational needs), the benefit is granted regardless of the status of the place of residence or the form of education.

For children aged 6 to 18, the benefit is granted only if:

the family actually resides in an area of active or potential hostilities with no defined end date for the hostilities, OR
the child lives in a relatively safe settlement and is attending school in person (or a combination of in-person and distance learning) at their place of residence.

Why a refusal may be justified even for a child born after 2022

The criteria for resuming payments take into account the displacement history of the entire family, rather than that of an individual child within it. Therefore, if the family has not relocated again from the territories included in the relevant list, a child – even if born after 2022 – will not be entitled to the benefit, as the basic condition relating to the family has not been met.

If at least one of the stipulated conditions is not met, the Pension Fund authority has the right to refuse to grant the benefit.

As a reminder, on 1 July, a reform of social assistance came into force in Germany – the ‘Bürgergeld’ payment was replaced by a new basic social benefit. Read our article to find out how this will affect Ukrainian refugees.

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