“Since 2006 the state has pledged itself to pay reimbursement to the children of war, having passed the corresponding law. However from year to year this norm is roughly broken by the authorities, the funds are not paid, pensioners are simply neglected. Only in Volynska Region during the last year over 500 pensioners having “the children of war status” applied to Mykola Katerynchuk’s “People’s Attorney” with this problem. By today on the courts’ decisions they have received reimbursement amounts over 3 000 UAH” – the People’s Deputy of Ukraine, leader of the European Party of Ukraine Mykola Katerynchuk informed during his visit to Volyn.
“The idea of “The People’s Attorney” founding appeared in 2002 as a result of the research being held in Vinnitsa Region. Our purpose is simple and noble – to provide free legal aid in the field of protection of the rights of common Ukrainians who are unable to pay for lawyer’s services. By nowadays there are nearly 100 such receptions across Ukraine. For the last eight years we have provided practical legal aid to 51 thousand citizens”, – the leader of the European Party of Ukraine Mykola Katerynchuk told.
Among the most typical references side by side with usual household disputes and problems the People’s Deputy focused attention on the problems with financial payments to the citizens having “the children of war status”. “This norm hasn’t been fulfilled from year to year, officials neglect the norms of the law, pensioners receive a thousand grivnas less annually”, – he underlined.
“Certainly, it is impossible to solve a poverty problem in such a way. It is necessary to provide the sufficient address aid for all categories of exempts: invalids, Chornobyl victims, veterans of all wars and participants of military actions, the named above children of war, needy and multi-children families”, – the politician considers.
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