The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has planned to increase minimum wages and pensions by 13% in the early winter of 2015, said the Minister of social policy Pavlo Rozenko.

"We believe, and this is already documented legislative act of Ukraine on the state budget that the first increase of social standards will occur from 1 December 2015, when the minimum pension, the minimum wage and the subsistence minimum in General will grow by 13%," said expression Rozenko the government of Ukraine.

Ukraine is currently housed in a serious political crisis that affects the economy and the public sector, in fact the country was on the brink of default. Authorities nourish the hope of improving the situation of foreign borrowing. Before the IMF Board of Directors blessed 4-year bailout programme in Ukraine 17, 5 billion.

To obtain a new loan program, the IMF, the Ukrainian Parliament in early March, the government adopted the law, which until 2016 is limited to the payment of pensions to working pensioners, and also canceled the payment of special pensions to working MPs, judges and civil servants.

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