OREANDA-NEWS. March 20, 2012. The task of the Government in the terms of new social welfare program - to create an effective pension welfare system in which regardless of the time of retirement, a citizen could receive equal to costs pension. This was started by Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov on air of the "Exam for Power" program at the First National TV Channel.

"We are set a task: to create the pension welfare system, for example, where no matter when retire on a pension, you receive pension equal to your expenses", - said Mykola Azarov emphasized in this context the importance of correcting the existing social injustice with pensions. It comes about a big difference of retirement income of citizens only to term pension accrual.

The Head of the Government stressed that there is the gap between pension and those pensions that were designed in 2006, 2007, 2005 years and pensions which have been designed recently. "That is, single-type work, the same length of service, same type of conditions - but one person has one pension and another’s pension rights in almost 2 times higher", - said Mykola Azarov, adding that in 2008 were frozen revision of pensions and salaries in the public sector, including minimum wage, and only in 2011 was conducted indexation of pensions and wages to inflation for 2008, 2009, 2010.

"This is an element of very serious social injustice. Here are the components of this reform; these transformations proposed by the President - a gradual way to bring all pensions to a single denominator. That is, if the regulatory language to speak - a modernization of pension benefits"- the Prime Minister stressed.