OREANDA-NEWS. March 11, 2009.  “The pension age will not be raised in Ukraine,” Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko informed during a briefing on commenting the information that a respective demand is allegedly included into conditions, set by the IMF to Ukraine as a condition to receive the second tranche of the loan. “I can refute the information that in Ukraine pension age will be raised. As Prime Minister, I will not change it,” Yulia Tymoshenko stressed.

The Minister of Labour and Social Policy of Ukraine Liudmyla Denysova also has negative attitude to increase of the pension age in Ukraine. “It is not appropriate to speak about raise of pension age apart from the situation within the country. If we start to up living standards, invigorate the nation, increase people’s life span, only then it will be timely to speak about raise of pension age. For instance, men living between ages 59 and 63, according to different calculations, are granted pension at the age of 60, it sounds not fair that through the whole life he pays dues and has a chance to use these resources only for three years. These issues should be well-balanced,” Liudmyla Denysova stresses.