Rozenko: IMF insists on increasing the retirement age for Ukraine
International monetary Fund (IMF) insists on increasing the Retirement age for men in Ukraine in order to reduce the deficit of the Pension Fund, said on Tuesday the Minister of social policy Pavlo Rozenko.
Caused a negative reaction in the Ukrainian society pension reform started in Ukraine on 1 October 2011. Its main element is the gradual increase of the Retirement age for women from 55 to 60 years Within ten years. At the end of last year the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Kiev until no plans to increase the Retirement age for Ukrainians, also will not be imposed prohibition on the payment of pensions to working pensioners.
"There is a debate around what the IMF offers as an option to reduce the deficit of the Pension Fund to consider increasing the Retirement age for men" - quoted expression Rozenko Ukrainian Internet-edition " Apostrophe ".
for example, discusses two options phase (within ten years) increase in two - year or 5 years.
Thus, According to the Minister, he did not believe that such measures will remove the problem of the deficit of the Pension Fund.
Ukraine is currently hosted in severe political crisis, which affects its economy and the public sector, in fact the country is on the verge of default. The authorities want to improve the situation of foreign borrowing. The IMF has opened for Ukraine's two-year loan program 17, $ 1 billion. Of this amount, 4, 6 billion Kyiv received in 2014, the remaining funds must be allocated in 2015. Lending the Fund has led a number of requirements.