The Cabinet of Ministers announced the start date for submitting applications for the payment of 1,000 hryvnias as part of the winter support package for the population
Applicants for a payment of 1,000 hryvnias as part of the winter support package for the population will begin on November 15, 2025, and will end on December 15. This was reported by the Minister of Social Policy, Family and Unity of Ukraine Denys Ulyutin.
“The Ministry of Social Policy focuses on supporting people in difficult life circumstances, families with children, internally displaced persons, people with disabilities and the elderly. In total, about 15 million people receive one form or another of state support in Ukraine. The funds provided for payments of UAH 1,000 take into account their needs, ” — said Denys Ulyutin.
This year, the government also allocated UAH 4.4 billion from the state budget for payments of UAH 6,500 for “those who need support the most”. Such assistance will be received by children under guardianship or care, children with disabilities, children in foster families and family-type orphanages (including children with disabilities), people with disabilities of group I among internally displaced persons, children from low-income families under the age of 18, as well as single pensioners who have a care allowance.
Ulyutin specified that the funds will be credited to a current account with a special use regime or to the “Diya.Kartka”. Recipients will be able to use the money within 180 calendar days from the date of enrollment. It is expected that more than 660 thousand people will receive payments under this program.
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko explained that the government expects from 10 to 14 million recipients of one-time cash assistance under the “Winter Support” program — 1,000 UAH for adults and children and 6,500 UAH for the most vulnerable categories of the population. According to her, the expected costs of the program will amount to 14 billion hryvnias.
Svyrydenko noted that, as before, people who are in temporarily occupied territories or abroad will not be able to receive assistance. Applications for children will be submitted separately with a birth certificate. As last year, the funds can be used to pay for utilities, purchase medicines, books, or transfer to charitable accounts of the Security and Defense Forces or volunteer organizations.
