The Rada called the cost of living in the draft budget a poverty freeze

Verkhovna Rada deputy Daniil Getmantsev believes that the level of living wage proposed by the Cabinet for 2027 is a “poverty freeze.”

Getmantsev submitted amendments to the state budget, providing for the establishment of a living wage of 7.2 thousand hryvnia ($160.3) per person per month.

Ukraine's draft state budget for next year assumes a deficit of $37 billion and an increase in public debt to $276 billion.

The subsistence level proposed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the country's draft budget for 2027 is a “poverty freeze,” says Verkhovna Rada deputy Daniil Getmantsev.

“I believe that the living wage proposed by the Cabinet is a freeze on poverty,” Getmantsev said in an interview with the Ukrainian publication The Page, commenting on the level of the living wage included in the draft budget for 2027.

According to him, in the draft document the cost of living is set at 3,691 hryvnia ($82.19), which does not correspond to reality.

“I submitted my amendments to the state budget, which provide for establishing on January 1, 2027, the cost of living per person per month in the amount of 7.2 thousand hryvnia ($160.3 – ed.),” Getmantsev noted.