The government intends to restrict the conditions for paying the one-time childbirth benefit. This was stated by Deputy Finance Minister Serhiy Rybak.
He explained that it is planned to establish a condition according to which, if the average total income of a family (husband and wife) for the six months before the birth of a child exceeded 5,000 hryvnias, then the one-time benefit will not be paid.
Rybak also reported that if a family has three incapacitated persons, this threshold increases to 6,000 hryvnias, if four or more incapacitated persons – 7,000 hryvnias.
At the same time, he noted that the amount of the benefit itself will not change.
Rybak called such actions by the government a focus of the 2007 state budget on assistance specifically to socially vulnerable segments of the population.
In Ukraine, since April of last year, the childbirth benefit amounts to 8,500 hryvnias.
A one-time payment of 3,384 hryvnias is made, the rest of the amount