The Ukrainian parliament has passed law No. 4490a dealing with the rights and freedoms of internally displaced persons.
A total of 249 MPs voted to adopt this bill at an extraordinary plenary meeting on Monday, Oct. 20.
The law is necessary to legitimize all the decisions concerning the displaced persons, adopted by the government of Ukraine, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said when speaking at parliament on Monday.
According to him, the adoption of the law provides legal guarantees for temporarily displaced persons, determines the order of employment, payment of social benefits and the provision of appropriate assistance.
The law lays down the procedure for the functioning of the state registry of temporarily displaced persons. Every person who temporarily moved from the area of the anti-terrorist operation or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, must be put on the registry, which will include “all personal data of this person, and these personal data will be used to ensure that this person could get a job, salary, pension and temporary housing, the prime minister stressed.
Yatseniuk recalled that the government decided on the payments to temporarily displaced persons: one family will get Hr 2,400 a month. Monthly assistance to every disabled person is Hr 884 and to every able-bodied person is Hr 442, he said. The prime minister said that under the law, a temporarily displaced person can get this payment only if he or she is registered with the employment office.
The premier also noted that the adoption of the law will allow international organizations to give Ukraine additional financial resources in order to support internally displaced persons.
