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Ukraine's MPs have failed to support at first reading a bill on amendments to the Ukrainian law "On obligatory state pension insurance." 

A total of 208 MPs of the 348 registered for voting supported the relative bill. The author of the bill MP Volodymyr Lytvyn proposed to base the granting of pensions on a person’s age.

Lytvyn proposed to supplement section XV of the transitional statements of the law with norms according to which until April 1, 2020 the right to receive pensions due to age is granted to people with an insurance service of at least 27 years for men who were born by Jan. 1, 1953; 29 years for men who were born by January 1, 1954; 31 years for men who were born by Jan. 1, 1955; 33 years for men who were born by January 1, 1956; at least 22 years for women who were born by April 1, 1957; 24 years for women who were born by April 1, 1958; 26 years for women who were born by April 1, 1959; and 28 years for women who were born by April 1, 1960.