What are the benefits of servicemen serving under a contract?

• Obtaining housing at the expense of the state.

In the absence of official living quarters, private, sergeant, and senior military personnel who are in military service under a contract and are not married can be accommodated in specially adapted barracks at the location of the military unit, and family members in family dormitories. Military personnel with 20 or more years of military service have the right to receive permanent housing.

• Material support in accordance with the specified norms.

• Use of annual basic leave with preservation of monetary, material support and monetary assistance for recovery in the amount of monthly monetary support.

• Receipt of lifting allowance in the amount of a monthly allowance for a serviceman and 50 percent of a monthly allowance for each family member of a serviceman who moves with him to a new place of military service, when moving to a new place of military service in another settlement, in in connection with appointment to a military position, enrollment in a military educational institution, the term of study in which is at least six months, or in connection with the redeployment of a military unit.

• Provision of servicemen under the contract with free lunches on working days (or, if desired, monetary compensation in the amount of the cost of a set of products for preparing lunch).

• Free qualified medical care in military medical health care facilities.

• The right to sanatorium-resort treatment and rest in sanatoriums, holiday homes, boarding houses and tourist bases of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (once a year).

• The right to pension regardless of age if they have 25 years of service or more on the day of discharge from service or have 25 years of service or more, of which at least 12 calendar years and 6 months are military service.

• Obtaining education in higher educational institutions (higher military educational institutions) without a break from military service (correspondence form of education).

Private, non-commissioned and non-commissioned officers who are serving in military service under a contract and have extended their term of military service under a new contract have the right to study without separation from military service at higher military educational institutions, military educational units of higher educational institutions, and in the absence of an opportunity training in specialties in these educational institutions, — in other higher educational institutions with the aim of obtaining a higher education.