RECALCULATION OF PENSIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF UKRAINE

Military pensioner Petro Vasyliovych turned to our company for legal assistance in transferring his pension. The latter was dismissed from the structures of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. From 07/05/2002 to 2018, Pyotr Vasyliovych was assigned and calculated a pension for 28 years of service, in the amount of 74% of the corresponding financial support.

Until 2018, Pyotr Vasyliovych received a pension based on the following components of financial support for pension calculation:

• official salary;
• salary for a military rank;
• allowance for years of service;
• additional types of financial support.

In 2018, the main administration of the Pension Fund of Ukraine in the Khmelnytskyi region recalculated the pension of Petro Vasylyovych based on the Certificate on the amount of monetary support for the recalculation of pensions as of 03/01/2018, issued in accordance with the Resolution of the CMU dated 03/23/2018 № 103 "On recalculation of pensions to persons who dismissed from military service, and some other categories of persons" and did not take into account additional types of financial support when calculating the pension. In addition, the pension fund began to calculate a pension based on 70% of the financial support.

At the request of the "Prikhodko&Partners" Law Office, the authorized body prepared and sent to the pension fund an updated certificate on the amount of monetary support for pension transfer as of March 5, 2019, taking into account all allowances, surcharges and bonuses. However, the Pension Fund of Ukraine refused to transfer the pension, which is why we had to go to court.

On October 19, 2022, the Khmelnytskyi District Administrative Court in case № 560/8917/22 satisfied the lawsuit and ordered the Main Directorate of the Pension Fund of Ukraine in the Khmelnytskyi region to recalculate the pension of Pyotr Vasyliovych from April 1, 2019, based on the updated certificate on the amount of financial support based on 74% basic pension amount.

As of April 1, 2019, the Pension Fund recalculated the pension and started calculating the increased pension. Our client's pension before the recalculation was 6,949 hryvnias, after the recalculation it is 14,049 hryvnias. Over all the years of such non-remittance, a debt in the amount of UAH 154,825 was formed.

As we can see, Pyotr Vasyliovych's pension has been increased more than twice. Therefore, we advise you not to waste your time and seek help from lawyers who specialize in recalculating military pensions.