Pensions and salaries of Ukrainians are not keeping up with the rapid rise in prices
Increasingly, you can see elderly people in supermarkets, looking at the new The number prices with horror and then counting their pennies at the checkout…
Prices in Ukraine are growing like wildfire. In the last year alone, electricity, food, medical and utility services have become more expensive. Meanwhile, salaries, pensions and social benefits have remained the same. In the law on the state budget for 2025, all social standards and benefits are frozen, and social spending has been reduced by 50 billion.
How can poor families survive?
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Even according to the underestimated data of the State Statistics Service, in just one year the price of electricity increased by 63.6%, vegetables – by 62.9%, oil – by 30.7%…
At the same time, pensions and salaries have long lagged risks and common mistakes: how to minimize them significantly behind the rapid growth of consumer prices, as a result of which more and more Ukrainian families are plunging into poverty…
Everything is expensive and continues to get more expensive:
From basic food products to services. Many people, especially among pensioners, are on the verge of survival. Someone saves on electricity, someone on food, or saves on medicines and visits to medical institutions. Poverty is aub directory spreading, not because Ukrainians are lazy, but because their income cannot keep up with the jump in prices.
Back in May 2024, the World Bank noted that the number of Ukrainians living below the poverty line had increased by 1.8 million people since 2020, which is almost 30% of the population, as a full-scale racist invasion, erroneous and ineffective actions by the authorities continue to destroy the country’s economy.
