According to the report of ‘Radio Freedom’, the lists of IDPs were prepared by the State Border Guard Service. People who were absent on controlled by Ukraine territory more than 60 days have got, in general, into these lists. As a result social benefits were stopped for more than 60 thousand of IDPs.

According to Director of the Social Protection Department of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Eleonora Polishchuk words, the social benefits were only interrupted at the moment, not stopped.

Wherein, she noted, that in a closer time electronic system, which will automatically deprive IDP status and also pensions and social benefits, will start its work.

‘If the moment comes and it could come in any moment the blocking of benefits could happen. So, we can restore them only after 6 months. New application, new certificate and new relationships’, Polishchuk told.

Coordinator for Protection and Advocacy of the Norwegian Council for Refugees Natalia Novakova claims that decision to stop pension payments to residents of uncontrolled territories contradict the Constitution, as well as international conventions signed by Ukraine. According to her words all questions of payment of pensions are regulated by decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers. But these documents contradict to Ukrainian and European legislation.

‘We even have the decision of highest administrative court that all these decrees of Cabinet of Ministers about pension payments are illegal. Nevertheless, they continue to function. Wherein, we can speak about article 1 of the protocol to European Convention on Human Rights, which says that a pension is a property of a person and can not be taken away for nothing’, Novakova noted.

According to the information of edition, the mechanism to renew pension payments is developing now in Ministry for Temporary Occupied Territories.

Olga Gvozdeva, the coordinator of public organization ‘Donbass-SOS’, who is also a member of interdepartmental group on this issue, told who it’s going to be changed the pensions to NGCA residents. She added that it’s necessary to untie pensions from IDP certificate for people to have a possibility to get service in comfortable for them Pension fund. Also, it was recommended to change verification terms.

‘We offer the period of verification in one year. How citizens, living abroad, do this. There is a need for them to appear not soon as once a year’, Olga Gvozdeva noted.

What depends on pensioners, who can’t leave uncontrolled territories because of their health, public activists offer to ask international humanitarian organizations to help with the verification of such people.