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Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Social Policy Minister Sergiy Tigipko has said that working retirees, except civil servants, will lose nothing after the implementation of pension reform.

"All working retirees – around three million people – will practically see no changes. The law does not foresee that working retirees will lose anything," he said in parliament on Friday.

"I want to appeal to miners and the military who are working today. We want these people to work, because they, first and foremost, make payments to the pension fund," Tigipko said.

He said that only civil servants and ten categories of employees equated to them would get pensions "at 50%, not 80% of their salaries."

Tigipko said that for men the increase in the retirement age would concern, first and foremost, civil servants, rising from 60 to 62 years from 2013.

Tigipko recalled that the current retirement age in Ukraine had been established in the Soviet Union in 1929. He said that retired men in Ukraine currently live on average 14 years, while retired women live on average 25 years. The minimum pension for men is on average Hr 1,300 and for women – Hr 850, he added.