OREANDA-NEWS. January 27, 2012. The judgment of the Constitutional Court, which links the amount of social benefits with Budget capabilities, is very important to the country as it allows guaranteeing the systematic increase in of state assistance and contributes to the restoration of social justice. This was stated by the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Social Policy Sergiy Tigipko during a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers.

"The judgment of the Constitutional Court does not cancel the action of any law that guarantees social benefits. All the existing social payments this year, only will rise at an accelerated pace of inflation rate. This is – a principled stand of the Government," Sergiy Tigipko underlined.

According to the official, court decisions regarding retirement benefits primarily violate social justice. "From 66,500 disabled of Chornobyl, only 20 thousand addressed to the court. Many of them, by some corrupt judges, have made to themselves a pension over 10 thousand UAH and one-time payments more than 200 thousand UAH. Thus, vast majority of disabled liquidators remained with that pension which received earlier," noted the Vice Prime Minister.

According to Sergiy Tigipko, the stand of the Government is to increase the payments to all disabled-liquidators correspondence with Budget capabilities. "We analyze the situation with payments to disabled of Chornobyl. According to operational information, which comes from some regions, these payments are increasing almost twice," he said.