No mutations both minimal salary and retirement age. Released the results of agreement of the IMF and Ukraine
International monetary Fund welcomes the agreement on the third revision of the program of reforms with the Ukrainian authorities and hoped for further cooperation in reforming the pension system that did not involve raising the retirement age and freezing the minimum wage. This was stated by the head of the external relations Department of the Fund Jerry rice, UNIAN reports.
“We were pleased to announce that agreed to the third revision of the program. If you pay attention to the history of relations with Ukraine, this is probably the first time we’ve come so far in the implementation of our joint programs,” said rice.
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Also during a briefing in Washington, he said that the Ukrainian government is developing a model of pension reform, in conjunction with the IMF.
“We understand the challenges faced by Ukraine today. Our goal the goal of the entire reform program is to help the government and people to overcome all difficulties and to return the country to the path of development and economic growth,” said rice.
According to him, to ensure decent pensions for citizens of Ukraine reform is extremely important and the IMF, together with the Ukrainian authorities is working on an acceptable model for the reform of the pension system.
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Also, according to the Minister of social policy Andrei Reva, updated Memorandum on the extension of the reform programme does not contain the obligations of the authorities of our country, freezing the minimum wage, ban on work for pensioners, as well as a General increase in the retirement age.
“In the final Memorandum, there are no provisions to freeze the minimum wage for three years, banning pensioners to work. There is no increase in the retirement age. No apocalyptic things in Memorandum no. And you will be able to see this”, – said the Minister.
Note that a key objective of reform should be the establishment of a just pensions, while reducing the budget deficit of the Pension Fund, which now exceeds 140 billion.
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As expected, the meeting of the Board of Directors of the IMF on the allocation of Ukraine the next credit tranche and further reforms will take place March 20.
We will remind, according to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Alexander Danilyuk, the updated Memorandum between Ukraine and the IMF includes provisions on pension, land, banking and other important reforms. According to the Minister, the land market in Ukraine de jure does not exist.
“In practice he is, lands are bought, sold, everything is gray, the strange schemes”, – said danyluk.