Almost all deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine received a 100% bonus to their salary for January 2023. The increase was calculated for the “intensity of labor.”
396 out of 415 deputies received an increase. This was reported in the apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada.
Which of the deputies received a bonus for work
As it became known, the average payment per deputy in January 2023 amounted to 48.8 thousand hryvnia. This amount includes salary, 100% bonus and variable payments.
The largest payments were received by the head of parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk – 78.9 thousand hryvnias and the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs Oleksandr Merezhko – 69.1 thousand hryvnias.
Valeriy Lunchenko , a deputy from the Trust group, has the smallest payments – 4,900 hryvnias, as well as Oleksandr Dubinsky , expelled from the Servant of the People faction – 5,000 hryvnias.
Who did not receive an increase in payments
The majority of people’s deputies deprived of mandates from the banned Opposition Platform for Life did not receive an increase – Igor Abramovich, Oleg Voloshin, Taras Kozak, Natalya Korolevskaya, Renat Kuzmin, Viktor Medvedchuk, Yuriy Solod, non-factional Andrei Derkach, as well as several deputies from other factions and groups – in particular, Larisa Bilozir, Oles Dovgy, Olga Stefanishina.
In addition, deputies deprived of their mandate, Andrei Aksenov and Sergei Shakhov, did not receive a salary, but they were compensated for unused vacation and reimbursement for a business trip.
Note! In general , 19.4 million hryvnias were spent on payments to deputies in January of this year.
In Ukraine, they can increase the minimum pension and wages
Recall that the Verkhovna Rada registered bills that propose to increase the minimum wage and the cost of living in Ukraine in several stages. Thus, the bill proposes an increase in the minimum wage, which will take place in several stages:
- from April 1 – up to 7370 hryvnia;
- from July 1 – up to 8107 hryvnias;
- from October 1 – up to 8918 hryvnia.
