Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Ukraine and Ukrainians have faced new challenges that required new solutions.

To provide the necessary support to those citizens who need it most, the Government and the Ministry of Social Policy actively cooperated with international partners.

Thanks to this cooperation and the well-established coordination of international humanitarian aid with state programmes, Ukrainians from the most vulnerable categories received financial support worth UAH 4.73 billion in 2023-2024.

“We are very grateful to our international partners for their systematic assistance. For our part, we are developing digital tools to ensure that the support goes to those Ukrainians who need it most. Thanks to this, we can verify each recipient of the payment and ensure the efficiency and transparency of the system,” said Oksana Zholnovych, Minister of Social Policy.

To ensure targeted assistance, the Ministry of Social Policy has simultaneously implemented several initiatives to support Ukrainians. Within the framework of joint projects, international partners provided funding, and the Ministry developed the design of new benefits and implemented the mechanism for their provision in a very short time.

As a result, in 2023-2024:

Jointly with the WFP, an additional benefit was provided for pensioners living in the combat zone and receiving low pensions, as well as for people with childhood disabilities and children with disabilities receiving low social assistance (a total of 748,000 people covered).

Jointly with the WFP, direct financial support was provided for the purchase of solid household fuel in the winter months, and the amount of the subsidy per household for the purchase of firewood and coal was significantly increased to UAH 16,234 per year (87,100 households covered).

Jointly with UNICEF, the following was provided:

• one-time financial assistance to low-income multi-child families and low-income families with children with disabilities living in certain areas of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions (29,700 people covered).
• one-time financial assistance to families with children from Sumy and Kharkiv regions who were subject to mandatory evacuation (30,300 people covered).
• one-time financial assistance to children and their family members who were treated at the Okhmatdyt National Children’s Hospital affected by the air strikes on 8 July 2024 (416 families with children covered).