The government of Ukraine is ready to offer the Verkhovna Rada to index wages and pensions to Ukrainian citizens, said on the first day of the week the country's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

currently Ukraine in fact is on the verge of default. According to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, in January 2015 the average salary in the country amounted 3455 hryvnia (about $ 160). This is one of the lowest figures in the EU. The pace of GDP decline is determined currently by the national Bank of Ukraine at the level of 7, 5%, inflation - 34, 5%. A number of factions of the parliamentary coalition has made many proposals to index wages and pensions. The speaker of the Parliament Volodymyr Groysman on the first day of the week ordered the relevant committees to hold meetings with the Cabinet on this issue.

According to Yatsenyuk, the Government supports the initiative to hold meetings on indexation of pensions and wages.

"Let me remind you that the coalition decided on indexation of monetary funds coming Residents December 1 of the current year. We are ready for this indexing, and I'm the 1st who showed interest to postpone the indexation to the previous period. But you need to locate resource ", - said Yatsenyuk in the process of submitting the plan of legislative support of reforms in the Parliament on the first day of the week.

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