№5, 2011 The Head of the World Bank for Ukraine: “Your pension reform is one of the most balanced one”Parliamentary hearings on the topic: “The state of carrying pension reform and ways of improving it” Parliament Speaker Volodymyr LYTVYN suggested that during the dialogue process there would be less politics, demonstrations and recriminations. Vice Premier, Minister of Social Policy Serhiy TYHIPKO said that since 1998 some governments tried to carry out pension reforms, but, unfortunately, in 2000 they limited to the introduction of the personification pension accounts and in 2004 - the third level of pension system (voluntary private pensions). Speaking of “threatening” demographic trends, he said: if in 2006 we had 15 million 800 stable of contributors to the pension fund by the end of 2010 there were 14.4 million. Thus for the last 5 years, the number of pensioners in Valeriy Sushkevich expressed outrage that for the sake of saving 50 million a year to government bill proposes three times (from 5 to 15 years) rising service record to qualify for the pension for people with disabilities. |