One-time spring payment of UAH 1,500: when will vulnerable categories of Ukrainians receive it?
A new one-time payment of UAH 1,500 for vulnerable categories of the population has been announced in Ukraine. The Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity explained when citizens will be able to receive these funds.
The ministry reported that the Cabinet of Ministers has decided to provide a one-time targeted payment of UAH 1,500 in April 2026 for pensioners and citizens receiving social assistance.
“The payment will be made automatically through the usual channels for receiving pensions or social payments — to bank accounts or through Ukrposhta branches.” Recipients do not need to submit applications, contact social security agencies or collect additional documents,” the report says.
The Ministry of Social Policy also noted that the program plans to cover about 13 million Ukrainians. Those who will receive the supplement include:
- old-age pensioners, disability pensioners, survivors’ pensioners, long-service pensioners who are entitled to an old-age pension. The amount of the pension should not exceed 25,595 hryvnias. For war veterans who participated in the defense of Ukraine since 2014, persons from among the liquidators of the Chernobyl NPP accident will be provided with UAH 1,500 regardless of the amount of pension received;
- recipients of state aid/compensation (including those established for each recipient of aid/compensation):
- for accommodation among IDPs;
- as a low-income family;
- basic social assistance;
- as persons who are not entitled to a pension and have received the right to assistance after 65 years,
- as persons who are not entitled to a pension from among persons with disabilities, and dependents of a deceased breadwinner who did not receive the right to a pension;
- who live together with a person with a disability of group I or II due to a mental disorder;
- persons with disabilities since childhood and children with disabilities;
- for children raised in large families;
- single mothers;
- children under guardianship or care;
- children with severe perinatal nervous system damage;
- children whose parents evade paying alimony;
- orphans and children deprived of parental care, persons from among them, including those with disabilities, who are in family-type orphanages and foster families.
The ministry explained that if one person simultaneously belongs to several categories of recipients, the payment will be calculated only once after a technical reconciliation of state registers. Such a mechanism, as explained in the ministry, allows for a fair and transparent distribution of budget funds.
“A one-time payment will be accrued as a supplement to the already assigned pension or social payment within the payments for April in a separate amount,” – the ministry noted
