Lubinets: Over 169,000 Ukrainians Left Without Pensions In April

(MENAFN- UkrinForm) He wrote about this on Facebook, according to Ukrinform.

"Official data from the Pension Fund of Ukraine speaks for itself: at the end of 2025, over 1,033,574 people were receiving pensions, while as of April 1, 2026, only 989,479 were. Over 169,000 citizens were effectively left without pension payments in April. Among them are the elderly, veterans, and people with disabilities... I urge the relatives of those who, for various reasons, were unable to apply in person to help them complete video identification and resume payments,” the ombudsman noted.

Lubinets emphasized that thousands of Ukrainians have been left without their lawful pensions for months due to complex procedures and a lack of coordination between government registries.

"I have repeatedly raised this issue at the relevant Verkhovna Rada Committee and received support from MPs, demanding one thing: government registries must finally 'communicate' with one another. There are still no real changes! It should be noted that the delays are not caused by the work of Pension Fund of Ukraine employees, who carry out their assigned tasks daily, but by the lack of relevant decisions at the government and ministry levels," he noted.

The Commissioner added that 70% of appeals to the Ombudsman's Office come from IDPs living in government-controlled territory. According to him, they are officially registered and listed in the IDP databases, but the Pension Fund“does not see” them until the person personally submits a paper application.

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"Let me give an example. Ms. Alla, who moved from the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk Oblast to Vinnytsia Oblast in 2023, is a woman with a disability who requires insulin; she survived for three months without payments because the system had stopped processing her benefits. Her rights were restored only after my personal intervention. But this is something the functioning state system should be doing. My position is clear: the lack of timely decisions by the relevant ministry forces people to navigate the bureaucracy on their own. 169,000 Ukrainians are waiting for their rightful money, not another form-letter response," he noted.

As reported by Ukrinform, one-time payments of 1,500 UAH for pensioners and vulnerable groups began in Ukraine on April 1.

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