People’s deputies ask the Constitutional Court to increase pensions

People’s deputies ask the Constitutional Court to increase pensions

People’s deputies are dissatisfied with the legislative norms according to which they are awarded pensions. Therefore, they appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request to change these norms. If this happens, the parliamentarians will receive a pension of 29 thousand UAH. The details of the constitutional representation of the people’s deputies were discussed on the Observer portal.

Journalists drew attention to the constitutional submission received by the Constitutional Court on June 13, 2024. The document was signed by 56 people’s deputies and it contains 49 pages. The text indicates that, according to current laws, they receive a pension in the amount of 60% of the salary of current people’s deputies. At the same time, payments are indexed, but are not transferred as for other citizens. According to the authors of the proposal, this violates their constitutional rights. They propose updating a number of laws, and then pensions will be transferred to them. In addition, the article says, it will be possible to demand compensation from the state for lost funds.

According to estimates presented on the portal, people’s deputies will have a pension that will increase to 29 thousand UAH. The increase is 10 thousand UAH.

People’s deputies’ pensions.

On the portal of the Constitutional Court you can familiarize yourself with the text of the submission of people’s deputies No. 3/217(24) dated June 13, 2024 and the handwritten resolutions of those who signed it.

On the first 30 pages there is an explanation not so much of the laws that limited the pensions of parliamentarians.

At the end there are five pages of 56 signatures :

• “Servant of the People” – 20 people’s deputies (Lyudmila Buimister, Tatyana Grishchenko, Maxim Pashkovsky, Alexander Fedienko, Evgeny Bragar, Alexander Kopylenko, Andrey Klochko, Oleg Arsenyuk, Irina Kormyshkina, Igor Krivosheev, Igor Gerasimenko, Anatoly Kostyukh, Andrey Bogdan Sergey Grivko, Maxim Zuev, Valery Kolyukh, Elena Kopanchuk, Victoria Wagner, Alexey Kuznetsov);
• “Opposition platform for life” - 13 (Antonina Slavitskaya, Yuriy Boyko, Alexander Koltunovich, Sergei Levochkin, Vitaly Bort, Grigory Mamko, Julius Ioffe, Nikolai Skorik, Suto Mamoyan, Vasily Nimchenko, Sergei Larin, Mikhail Papiev, Yuri Pavlenko, Musa) ;
• “Fatherland” – five (Sergei Yevtushok, Ivan Kirilenko, Mikhail Tsymbalyuk, Vadim Ivchenko, Andrey Puziychuk, Valery Dubil, Andrey Kozhemyakin);
• “Restoration of Ukraine” – three (Alexander Kovalev, Alexander Lukashev, Roman Ivanisov);
• “For the Future” – one (Anna Skorokhod);
• “Trust” – one (Boris Prikhodko).

On the page of the Constitutional Court it is noted that “by the decision of the panel of judges of the Constitutional Court, constitutional proceedings in the case have been opened.” I have not yet found any comments from people’s deputies on the Internet regarding the idea of raising pensions.