OREANDA-NEWS. August 17, 2012. From June 1 this year the Oschadbank of Ukraine is compensating payments to depositors of the Sberbank of the former Soviet Union to implement social initiatives of President of Ukraine V. Yanukovych.

As of August 15 this year more than 2.4 million investors have received compensation payments totaling 2 billion 280 million UAH. To receive compensation, the investor has to go through the actualization of its data, which continues from April 2 this year. Today 3.87 million depositors have received date and time of updating their data, of which over 3.49 million has already made it.

The Oschadbank of Ukraine also pay compensation within the balance of indexed deposit, but not more than 500 UAH for heirs of depositors who died in 2005-2011 years and have not received compensation for loss of value of savings over the years 2005-2009, and who died in 2012, or others who have undertaken the organization of the funeral. Compensation already received by over 496 thousand heirs of deceased depositors totaling over 241 million UAH.

For four and a half months of work by specialists of the hotline of support of the USSR Sberbank’ depositors processed over 5.2 million calls. Only for service the Sberbank’ depositors of the former USSR in the Call Center of the Oschadbank of Ukraine are employed over 500 people. All offices of the bank serve depositors, which stores compensation accounts, which are about 6000 offices.

Compensation payments are on schedule and will last until December 25 this year. So, the Oschadbank is continued updating investors, which data included on the 'Register of depositors savings" till 01.01.2012 and have not received compensation during 2008 within the indexed savings (but not exceeding USD 1000 per depositor), with further payment of compensation.

From September 1 of this year the Oschadbank will begin registration of the depositors, which information were not included in the "Register of depositors’ savings" and update those investors, the information of which are entered in the " Register of depositors’ savings " and who received in 2008 compensation in full. The Oschadbank in coming days will inform about the mechanisms of registration and updating just for these categories of investors. After the check and update investors receive national card, which in the case of the relevant decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the future will be directed compensation.

Payments are made according to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from April 23, 2012 № 346 "About payment in 2012 the citizens of Ukraine compensation for losses from depreciation of monetary savings deposited till January 2, 1992 in the offices of the Sberbank of the USSR, acting in Ukraine, and bonds in the State target interest-free loan in 1990, government treasury bills and certificates of the USSR Savings Bank of the USSR, acquired in the Ukrainian SSR".