Government revises the procedure for providing one-time assistance to families of missing servicemen

At a meeting on 1 November, the Cabinet of Ministers approved changes to the procedure for paying one-off financial assistance to the families of servicemen who went missing or were declared dead. This was announced by the government’s representative in parliament, Taras Melnychuk.

According to the updated rules, relatives of servicemen who are entitled to one-off financial assistance will be able to exercise this right within three years from the date of its occurrence.

Currently, the date specified in the death certificate is considered to be the moment when the right to payments in the event of a military death arises.

If a serviceman goes missing and is declared dead by a court three years later, his family loses the right to financial assistance, as the period is calculated from the date of death in the certificate, not from the court decision.

The amendments propose to calculate the three-year period for receiving the allowance from the date of entry into force of the court decision declaring the soldier dead, which will allow families not to lose this right due to the expiration of the period.

In addition, it is proposed that persons with group I disabilities be given the opportunity to receive a one-off allowance on an out-of-priority basis.