The deadline for submitting applications for state aid has been extended to 30 April. This means that IDPs who received such assistance and applied for its extension in April will be able to receive payments starting in March. The Cabinet of Ministers adopted amendments to the resolution “Some issues of payment of accommodation allowance to internally displaced persons”.
The following persons can receive the allowance for another 6 months upon a personal application:
- people with disabilities of group III, whose average monthly total income per recipient in such a family is no more than UAH 9444;
- persons aged 55 and over who have registered with the Employment Centre;
- persons under 23 years of age who are studying at vocational (vocational-technical), professional higher and higher education institutions;
- persons whose living quarters have been destroyed or damaged (to the point of being uninhabitable);
- a family consisting only of disabled persons;
- children placed in the family of a foster carer; foster carers; children temporarily placed in the family of relatives, friends, foster family, family-type children’s home;
- seriously ill persons.
The Law clarified the change in the age of children from 14 to 18 years in the previously defined categories. It was also clarified that persons caring for a child under 3 years of age are also eligible to apply for the next period.
In addition, this Resolution introduced the payment of temporary assistance for children in respect of whom the absence of parental care has been established and who are temporarily placed with relatives, friends, foster families, family-type children’s homes, or “A Child is Not Alone” in the amount of 2.5 times the subsistence minimum for children of the relevant age for each child, and for children with disabilities – 3.5 times the subsistence minimum for children of the relevant age for each child.
These regulatory changes were developed following the work of the Coordination Centre for IDPs under the leadership of Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.