State support for internally displaced persons should depend on an individual’s actual needs, not on the date indicated in their IDP certificate. Ukrainian MP Maksym Tkachenko said this in a comment to our correspondent, adding that the country’s social policy regarding internally displaced persons requires fundamental changes.
He stressed that payments to displaced persons have effectively been “frozen” since 2022, while current legislation divides IDPs into categories depending on when they acquired their status, thereby violating the constitutional principle of equality.
Maksym Tkachenko:
“Social policy regarding internally displaced persons requires fundamental changes. Payments to displaced persons have effectively been frozen since 2022. Since then, the cost of housing rentals and basic food products has risen significantly, while the amount of monthly assistance for IDPs has not increased by a single hryvnia. It remains only UAH 2,000–3,000.
But this is not the only problem. Our legislation still divides displaced persons into different ‘classes’ depending on when exactly they fled the war. People who became IDPs after the full-scale invasion in 2022 and those who received this status back in 2014 are placed in completely different circumstances.
Such a distinction clearly violates the fundamental constitutional principle of equality. All displaced persons are equal before the law and in the face of hardship. State support must depend on a person’s actual needs, not on the date indicated in their certificate.”
