The Cabinet of Ministers approves a trillion-dollar budget for the Pension Fund and calls it “balanced”
19 September 2025 11:04
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted Resolution No. 1152 approving the budget of the Pension Fund of Ukraine for the current year. The total revenue of the fund is over a trillion hryvnias, but about a tenth of it is a transfer from the state budget. Despite this, the government calls this budget of the Pension Fund “balanced”, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
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Key budget figures
The Pension Fund’s revenues for 2025 are set at UAH 1.025 trillion. The revenue structure includes:
- uAH 858.8 billion – revenues from compulsory state pension insurance, which makes up the bulk (about 84% of total revenues);
- uAH 42.9 billion – revenues from social insurance in connection with temporary disability and industrial accidents;
- uAH 117.3 billion – a transfer from the state budget to ensure social payments.
Budget expenditures are planned at UAH 1.021 trillion.
Despite the UAH 117 billion transfer from the state budget, the government calls the Pension Fund’s budget balanced.
What does the budget envisage?
The approved budget takes into account:
- indexation of pensions and insurance payments in 2025;
- additional payments and recalculations to pensioners;
- provision of social benefits at the expense of public funds;
- payment of pensions granted in pursuance of court decisions, including lifetime pensions for retired judges.
Expenditures for court decisions will be allocated in accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers’ Resolution No. 821 dated July 14, 2025, which establishes the procedure for financing such payments from various sources.
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