Yatseniuk: IMF will make the issue of increasing the retirement age in Ukraine

The issue of increasing the Retirement age in Ukraine sooner or later will rise again in the framework of cooperation between Kiev and the IMF, believes the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

"No, it (raising the Retirement age - ed.) did not appear in the agreements with the IMF. In the final version, it was decided that raising the Retirement age is not the main condition. I think that sooner or later this Issue will rise again ", - said the Prime Minister in interview to the Ukrainian edition, the full text of which is published on Thursday on the Internet representation of the publication.

first Ukrainian authorities could depart from key requirements of the IMF's balance the budget of the Pension Fund by increasing the Retirement age to 65 years.

in early March, the Ukrainian Parliament the fifth attempt took government law, which by 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.

The adoption of the law was necessary to obtain a new loan program from the IMF. The government hopes that the law will also create policies to stabilize the financial wealth of the budget of the Pension Fund of Ukraine.


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