At its emergency meeting of July 20 this year, the Cabinet of Ministers approved by a survey procedure amendments to Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 339 of 8 June 2022 “Regulations regarding the Provision of Primary Support to Ukrainian Civilians” (hereinafter referred to as CM Regulations), which provide for higher compensation for primary support – the accommodation of Ukrainian civilians for up to 60 days.
The approved amendments to the CM Regulations provide for higher compensation for accommodation – for rental of an apartment of no more than 600 euro per month, for other accommodation – not more than 15 euro per person per day, if the local government took a decision on the accommodation of the relevant Ukrainian civilian for up to 60 days in accordance with the requirements of the Law on Assistance to Ukrainian Civilians.
As previously reported, local governments emphasised the difficulties in accommodating Ukrainian civilians for the amount of compensation provided so far and a critical lack of accommodation in some municipalities. Therefore, amendments were adopted to the Law on Assistance to Ukrainian Civilians providing that local governments may take a decision on the period of accommodation of the relevant Ukrainian civilian for up to 120 days or up to 60 days if in the relevant local government it is not possible to provide accommodation for a period of up to 120 days. The local government will only be able to take a decision on accommodation for up to 60 days if 80% of Ukrainian civilians that can actually be accommodated have been reached in the municipality and it is not possible to provide accommodation in another municipality.
We remind that, when deciding on the accommodation of Ukrainian civilians for up to 60 days, the local government should take into account the number of Ukrainian civilians actually accommodated in the relevant municipality, location, possible accommodation costs in accordance with the actual situation of the rental market in the municipality concerned, as well as employment, education and social support opportunities in the municipality concerned. It is also necessary to take into account the belonging of a Ukrainian civilian to one of the groups of persons who continue to be supported also after the deadline set in the law, but not later than until the end of this year, i.e. persons with disabilities, retirement age persons, women throughout the period of pregnancy, pre-school age children who cannot visit a pre-primary education institution, a child who moves to the next level of education or continues to acquire education in Ukraine in distance learning or remotely, an emergency guardian (if it is a Ukrainian civilian) who takes care of a child until 2 years of age and any person (not just one of the parents) who provides nursing, care to a pre-school age child and the child cannot attend a pre-primary education institution.
It is provided that for the continuation of the accommodation of persons belonging to one of the above-mentioned groups of persons after 60 days, but not later than until the end of this year, the following costs will be covered – 300 euro per month for a private person (landlord) per accommodation or, if the accommodation continues at another accommodation place (accommodation placed owned, possessed or held by the local government or other accommodation place), the state shall cover the costs to the local government of not more than 100 euro per month for each person accommodated, if not more than three persons are accommodated in an adapted room or group of premises, but if more than three persons, for each next person – not more than 50 euro per month.
The amendments to the Law on Assistance to Ukrainian Civilians and the CM Regulations come into force and the support measures for Ukrainian civilians provided for in these Regulations will be applicable from 20 July 2022.