The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada, Dmytro Lubinets, stated that over 169,000 Ukrainians were left without pension payments in April due to bureaucracy. He announced this on Telegram, as reported by UNN.
Official data from the PFU speak for themselves: at the end of 2025, over 1,033,574 people received pensions, while as of April 1, 2026, only 989,479 did. Over 169,000 citizens were effectively left without pension payments in April. Among them are elderly people, veterans, people with disabilities… I urge relatives of those who, for various reasons, could not apply in person, to help them undergo video identification and restore payments.
Lubinets emphasized that thousands of Ukrainians still remain without legal pensions for months due to complex procedures and a lack of interaction between state registers.
I have repeatedly raised this issue at the relevant Verkhovna Rada Committee and received support from people's deputies, demanding one thing: state registers must finally "talk" to each other. There are still no real changes! At the same time, it should be noted that delays arise not due to the work of PFU employees, who daily perform their assigned tasks, but due to the lack of appropriate decisions at the government and relevant ministry level.
The Commissioner added that 70% of appeals to the Ombudsman's Office come from IDPs living in government-controlled territory. According to him, they are officially registered and present in IDP databases, but the Pension Fund "does not see" them until the person personally submits a paper application.
Let me give an example. Ms. Alla, who moved from the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region to Vinnytsia region in 2023, a woman with a disability who needs insulin, survived for three months without payments because the system stopped accruals. Her rights were restored only after my personal intervention. But this should be done by a functioning state system. My position is clear: the lack of timely decisions by the relevant ministry forces people to overcome bureaucracy on their own. 169,000 Ukrainians are waiting for their legal money, not another formal reply.
Recall
As UNN previously reported, residents of the temporarily occupied territories had to confirm that they had not received payments from the Russian Federation by April 1, 2026. Without a corresponding application, the accrual of Ukrainian pensions may be suspended.