UAH 10.8 thousand per person: families from Kharkiv Oblast and Sumy Oblast will receive assistance from UNICEF

Evacuation of communities in Kharkiv and Sumy regions, located in areas of hostilities, continues. While adult citizens can make decisions about leaving on their own, families with minor children are forcibly evacuated. Such families can receive financial assistance from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

The amount of payments will be about 11,000 hryvnias per family member.

“Families from vulnerable categories that must be evacuated from the front-line communities of Kharkiv and Sumy regions will receive a payment of UAH 10,800 per person in the family after evacuation. That is, for example, a low-income family with many children of 5 people, which will be evacuated from the Sumy or Kharkiv regions, will receive 54,000 hryvnias of additional cash assistance,” – noted in Ministry of Social Policy.

Who is eligible for payments?

Only families who were evacuated from Sumy or Kharkiv regions after May 1 can receive help from the international organization. In addition, applicants must meet one of the following requirements:

• there is a disabled person under the age of 18 in the family;
• the family has many children, while the children have not reached the age of 18;
• children are raised by a single mother or a single father;
• this is a low-income family with children under the age of 18.

This is a one-time financial aid. It can be received at the expense of one of the family members who claims support. Funds can also be received at Ukrposhta branches.

What other assistance can families with children receive?

Currently, Ukrainian families with minor children can also receive vacation funds under the “eOzdorolenny” program. You can get about 16 thousand hryvnias per child. Funds should be spent only in children’s camps or sanatoriums included in the list formed by the Ministry of Social Policy.

The program provides payments for the rehabilitation of the following groups of children:

• children with disabilities;
• children from low-income families;
• children from large families.

Last year, about 2,000 children rested in the Carpathians thanks to the “eOzdorolenny” program.