President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a law proposing to increase payments from UAH 1.9 million to UAH 15 million for families of civilians who died defending the state between February and March 2022.
This is reported on the parliament's website, writes UNN.
Returned with the signature of the President of Ukraine
Context
People's Deputy, member of the parliamentary Committee on Youth and Sports Iryna Borzova reported that the bill concerns those fallen defenders, who voluntarily took up arms and defended Ukraine from February 24 to March 25, 2022. The document proposes to provide a one-time monetary assistance from the state in the amount of UAH 15 million to the families of both fallen military personnel and civilians.
The financial and economic justification for the draft law states that the total amount of expenditures required for payments to family members of deceased persons of a one-time monetary assistance in the amount of UAH 15 million is UAH 1 billion 860 million, i.e., for 124 deceased civilians.
"Given the limited resources of the state budget, payments are planned to be made to all family members of 124 deceased persons at UAH 1,860,750 for a total amount of UAH 230,733,000," the forecast for 2025 states.