22 September 2010, 13:50
Today the Parliament scrutinized the bill on moratorium on the increase of retirement age for women. During the consideration, Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, stressed that pension reform shall be implemented before the talks about raising the retirement age started.
M.Tomenko believes that the reform of pension provision should be implemented. "They should restore the principles of equity, instead of looking for the ways to fill the pension fund at the public expense," he stated. M.Tomenko deems necessary to abolish ‘the elite pensions´ for high-ranking officials, law enforcement servants, and others. "The system of preferential retirement for the police, law enforcement and army officers should be revised," the Deputy Chairman stated. "These actions are more urgent, and would fill the pension fund on a regular basis. Raising of the retirement age without reforming the principles of pension provision is immoral and unfair," the Deputy Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stressed.
Notwithstanding the ineffective vote (both bills failed to get 226 votes), M.Tomenko believes that today´s discussion in the parliament was useful and important, as the Government saw that this resolution could not be adopted without parliamentary hearings and public support.