Every year in Ukraine, financial assistance is provided to certain categories of citizens in honor of Independence Day. In 2025, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians will have the opportunity to receive one-time payments, which will be made by August 24.
This is reported by Finway
Which Categories Will Receive Payments
The Permanent Representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk, explained the mechanism of these payments in detail on his Telegram channel. In particular, cash payments will be received by:
- Persons with disabilities due to the war and former minor prisoners of concentration camps, ghettos, and other places of forced detention, recognized as persons with disabilities:
- Group I – 3,100 hryvnias;
- Group II – 2,900 hryvnias;
- Group III – 2,700 hryvnias.
- Combatants, injured participants of the Revolution of Dignity, as well as former minor prisoners of concentration camps and ghettos, who will receive 1,000 hryvnias.
- Persons with special merits to the Motherland will receive 3,100 hryvnias.
- Family members of deceased or passed combatants, widows and widowers who have not remarried (if the deceased person had a disability due to the war, participated in combat, or was a victim of Nazi persecution), will receive 650 hryvnias.
- War participants and former prisoners of concentration camps, ghettos, and other places of forced detention, as well as individuals forcibly taken for forced labor and children of partisans and underground fighters, will receive 450 hryvnias.
The Importance of Support
This financial assistance is crucial for many families in need of support amid economic challenges. The authorities emphasize the necessity of social security for those who have suffered the most from the war and historical injustices.