The real living wage in Ukraine is three times higher than on paper – Podlasie
Official documents calculate that a person should be able to live on 3,000 hryvnias, while the Ministry of Social Policy considers 9,000 hryvnias to be the real subsistence minimum.
About this reported head of the budget committee, Roksolana Pidlas, in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
Podlasa noted that it is impossible to bring the level of the living wage to a real indicator, since many payments are tied to it.
Also, according to the chairman of the committee, the “subsistence minimum” category should be abandoned altogether during budget calculations.
“Because it causes a lot of negativity towards the state, when we allegedly say in an official document, in the state budget, that a person should be able to live on UAH 3,000, while the Ministry of Social Policy on the next street calculates the actual, real living wage approximately at the level of UAH 9,000,” explained the head of the budget committee of the Council.
In her opinion, instead, it is worth establishing some basic calculation value to which the salaries of judges, prosecutors, anti-corruption bodies, etc. will be tied.
