A debate is ongoing in Ukraine regarding special pensions for prosecutors, which in some cases reach hundreds of thousands of hryvnias per month. Danylo Hetmantsev, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, is calling on the parliament to expedite consideration of draft law No. 12278 on the abolition of such payments, emphasizing the deep social injustice and threat to the state budget.
According to him, the bill has not reached the second reading for almost 200 days, although it passed the first reading and received a favorable opinion from the Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans' Rights. Hetmantsev emphasized that the delay in consideration has real consequences - it deepens the social gap between ordinary pensioners and those who enjoy special privileges.
The People's Deputy gave the example of a former prosecutor of the Mykolaiv region, who, living abroad, won a lawsuit against the Pension Fund of Ukraine. The court ordered him to be paid a disability pension in the amount of UAH 156,692 per month. Only for the period from September 15, 2022 to December 31, 2023, he was paid more than UAH 2.1 million.
In 2025, the Pension Fund of Ukraine, according to court decisions, must pay about UAH 35 billion to recipients of special pensions — funds that could go to support ordinary pensioners or finance defense needs.
According to official data, approximately one in five pensioners in Ukraine receive payments under special laws. These include miners, judges, prosecutors, Chernobyl survivors, and individuals discharged from military service. A separate calculation formula applies to these pensions, which is significantly different from the mechanism for calculating regular labor pensions.
In early 2025, the Cabinet of Ministers introduced restrictions on abnormally high special pensions for civil servants, applying reduction coefficients for payments exceeding UAH 23,610. At the same time, according to Hetmantsev, this does not solve the problem systematically and does not apply to all categories of special pensioners, including prosecutors.
The People's Deputy emphasizes that the state's priority should be a comprehensive pension reform that will ensure a decent standard of living for all Ukrainians, not just for selected groups.
