Salaries of prisoners to be paid to their families: President signs law
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Photo: RBC-Ukraine, Vitalii Nosach)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a law to enhance social protection for servicemen, police officers, and others. The Parliament adopted the law on August 24, referring to draft No. 9638 on the Parliament's website.
Key provisions of the law include:
Preservation of Financial Support:
- Maintenance of financial support for ordinary and commanding officers of the civil protection service who have fallen into captivity or disappeared under exceptional circumstances, along with the possibility of payments to their families. This does not apply to ordinary and commanding officers of the civil protection service who voluntarily surrendered or left their service locations.
Clarification of Compensation Procedures:
- Clarification of the procedure for paying monetary compensation to military personnel and police officers for unused vacation days.
- Clarification of the procedure for paying monetary compensation for unused vacation days in the event of the death of military personnel and police officers.
- Improvement of the procedure for paying one-time financial assistance upon discharge from military service.
Additionally, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, stated that the Parliament has already adopted a series of laws to protect veterans. Shortly, lawmakers plan to consider a bill providing unpaid leave of up to 60 calendar days for employees who start working after being discharged from military service.
Another project to be considered aims to simplify the procedure for obtaining combatant status, introduce a unified state registry of military personnel, and establish a separate status for defenders of Ukraine.
