Attention! There have been significant changes in the procedure for compensating for costs for the accommodation (stay) of internally displaced persons (the so-called "Shelter").
On December 31, 2024, the Government approved Resolution No. 1544 "Some Issues of Providing State Support to Internally Displaced Persons", which made a number of changes to the previous decision of the Cabinet of Ministers, and also set out in a new edition the Procedure for Compensation of Expenses for the Accommodation (Stay) of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
MAIN CHANGES:
The authority to assign and pay compensation has been transferred to the Pension Fund of Ukraine.
From January 2025, compensation will be paid from the state budget of Ukraine;
From January 1, 2025, the payment of compensation is automatically extended for 6 months (applications do not need to be submitted anywhere, as before, every month);
If the payment of compensation was not automatically extended, the person may apply to the bodies of the Pension Fund of Ukraine;
Starting from January 1, 2025, a person who has accommodated internally displaced persons and wants to apply for compensation for the FIRST time, together with authorized representatives of internally displaced persons, submits a notification and application to the Pension Fund of Ukraine in the month of placement of internally displaced persons in the form of an annex to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1544 dated 12/31/2024.
The amount of compensation is 450 UAH per person per month.
Persons who have placed IDPs in the period starting from January 2025 or who have had their right to receive compensation reinstated starting from January are obliged to inform the Pension Fund of Ukraine body about the occurrence of circumstances that may affect the right to further receive compensation or the established amount of payments within 10 working days from the date of occurrence of such circumstances.
Persons who have accommodated internally displaced persons are also obliged ON THE DAY OF TERMINATION of the accommodation of IDPs or a change in their number to submit a notification together with information on the change in the list of persons accommodated in the residential premises, indicating the possibility of further accommodating IDPs in such premises.
Compensation IS PROVIDED for the accommodation of IDPs who:
- do not have their own residential premises with a total area of more than 13.65 sq. meters per person in the household, located in a territory not included in the list of territories where hostilities are (were) conducted or temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation, approved by the Ministry of Reintegration, for which the dates of the end of hostilities or temporary occupation have not been determined (hereinafter referred to as the list of territories);
- in which a residential building, regardless of the size of the total area, has been destroyed or damaged (to the extent of being uninhabitable), which is recorded in the Register of Damaged and Destroyed Property or a report containing the relevant conclusion has been drawn up.
Compensation is NOT provided:
- for the accommodation of IDPs who receive a subsidy to pay the cost or part of the cost of renting (rental) housing (not to be confused with a subsidy for paying for housing and communal services);
- for the placement of IDPs who are related to the owner of the housing by first-degree family ties (parents, husband or wife, children, including adopted children);
- if it is established that the IDP has been abroad for more than 30 days or that the IDP has not been living at the specified address for more than a month;
- if it is established that false information has been provided in the application or notification;
- if within 3 months prior to the application it is established that the IDP purchased, received housing or other real estate free of charge or on preferential terms.