MP initiates increase in childbirth benefits.

Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko is initiating an increase in monetary assistance for childbirth. He has already submitted the relevant bill No. 12184 to the Verkhovna Rada. «The monthly payment is 860 hryvnias. I calculated what can be purchased with this money. Practically nothing. I created a petition for the payments to be increased. But it impressed no one. However, they want the demographic situation to improve», the politician stated.

Honcharenko proposes to link the childbirth payments to the subsistence minimum for children of the appropriate age. The lump-sum payment should be 25 subsistence minimums, and the remaining assistance should be paid in equal parts over 3 years.

Currently, the childbirth assistance is 41,280 hryvnias and its amount has not changed since 2014. In 2025, the Cabinet of Ministers plans to abandon increases in the minimum wage and subsistence minimum, which will affect the size of social benefits.