Can I increase my military pension? If so, how?

There are many ways to increase your pension, but in order to provide a complete answer, you need to examine your documents, find out your years of service, the amount of financial support (its composition) and other information.

To revise your pension, you must submit an application for pension recalculation to the PFU. In case of refusal - appeal to the administrative court.

I will give below some of the possible reasons for increasing the military pension.

Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 118 dated February 16, 2022 and No. 168 dated February 24, 2023 set pension indexation rates of 1.14 (2022) and 1.197 (2023).

According to Part 2 of Art. 9 of Law No. 2011-XII, the financial support includes:

• official salary, salary according to military rank;

• monthly additional types of financial support (increased salary, allowances, additional payments, rewards that are of a permanent nature, bonus);

• one-time additional types of financial support.

On August 30, 2017, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted resolution No. 704 "On financial support for military personnel, rank-and-file and senior officers, and certain other persons."

Clause 2 of the specified resolution establishes that the financial support of military personnel, rank-and-file and senior officers consists of official salary, salary for military (special) rank, monthly (increase in official salary, allowances, additional payments, rewards of a permanent nature, bonuses) and one-time additional types of cash support.

If your pension does not include all of its above-mentioned types (elements), then this is a reason to apply to the PFU with an application for recalculation of the pension, for its increase.

PS. The amount of financial support can be found out from the TCC of the JV by submitting a corresponding application to them.

Another possible way to increase the military pension is the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 713 of 07/14/2021 on additional social protection of certain categories of persons.

In accordance with clause 1 of the above resolution, from 01.07.2021, persons who were granted a pension until 01.03.2018 in accordance with Law No. 2262-ХІ (except conscripts), up to the amount of their pensions determined in accordance with Articles 13, 21 and 36 of Law No. 2262-XII as of March 1, 2018, a monthly supplement in the amount of 2,000 hryvnias is established, which is taken into account during further increases in pensions determined in accordance with Articles 13, 21 and 36 of Law No. 2262-XII.

You should also remember about pension indexation.

Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 118 dated February 16, 2022 and No. 168 dated February 24, 2023 set pension indexation rates of 1.14 (2022) and 1.197 (2023).

The pension increase provided for by the above-mentioned resolutions is established in addition to the monthly pension supplement provided for by Resolution No. 713.