Ukrainian Veteran Disability Benefits

Last Updated: January 16, 2025

  • Free receipt of medicines, medicinal products, immunobiological preparations, medical devices, and rehabilitation aids.

  • Extraordinary free dental prosthetics (except for prosthetics made of precious metals), free provision of other prostheses, and prosthetic and orthopedic devices.

  • Free out-of-priority annual sanatorium treatment with reimbursement of the cost of travel to and from the sanatorium.

  • 100 percent discount on the payment for the use of housing (rent) within the limits of the norms provided by the current legislation.

  • 100 percent discount on utility bills (gas, electricity, and other services) and liquefied petroleum gas for household needs within the average consumption rates.

  • For persons living in houses without central heating, the cost of fuel, including liquid fuel, is 100 percent discounted within the norms established for sale to the population.

  • Free travel by all types of urban passenger transport, public road transport in rural areas, as well as by rail and water transport of suburban connections and buses of suburban and intercity routes.

  • Extraordinary free capital repairs of own residential buildings and apartments and priority maintenance of residential buildings and apartments.

  • Out-of-priority service by outpatient clinics and out-of-priority hospitalization.

  • Extraordinary free installation of apartment telephones and extraordinary use of all communication services. The subscription fee for using an apartment telephone is 50 percent of the approved tariffs, and for persons with disabilities due to the Second World War, at a 100 percent discount from the approved tariffs.

  • Upon retirement (regardless of the time of retirement) or change of employment, use the polyclinics and hospitals to which they were attached at their previous place of employment.

  • The right to an annual medical examination and dispensary with the involvement of the necessary specialists.

  • Priority employment in the specialty per the preparation and conclusions of the medical and social examination.

  • Preferential right to stay in the job in case of reduction of the number of staff due to changes in the organization of production and labor and to employment in case of liquidation of enterprises, institutions, and organizations.

  • Payment of temporary disability benefits to working persons with a disability resulting from war in 100 percent of the average salary, regardless of length of service.

  • Payment of temporary disability allowance to working persons with disabilities for up to 4 consecutive months or up to 5 months within a calendar year, as well as state social insurance benefits for the entire period of stay in a sanatorium, including round-trip travel, if annual and additional leave is not enough for treatment.

  • Use of regular annual leave at a time convenient for them, as well as additional leave with pay for 14 calendar days per year.

  • Extraordinary housing provision for persons in need of better housing conditions, including through the use of living space transferred by ministries, other central executive authorities, enterprises, and organizations to local councils and state administrations.

  • Obtaining a loan for construction, reconstruction, or overhaul of residential buildings and outbuildings, their connection to engineering networks and communications, as well as loans for construction or purchase of summer houses and improvement of garden plots with repayment within 10 years starting from the fifth year after the completion of construction. these loans are granted by the procedure determined by the Cabinet of Ministry of Ukraine.

  • Priority right to join housing cooperatives, cooperatives for the construction and operation of collective garages, parking lots and their maintenance, gardening associations, to purchase materials for individual construction and garden houses. Garages and parking lots for vehicles of persons with disabilities caused by war who have medical indications for transportation are usually built near houses.

  • Persons with disabilities of groups i and ii are entitled to free travel once a year (round trip) by rail, water, air, or intercity road transport, and persons accompanying persons with disabilities of group i (no more than one accompanying person) are entitled to a 50% discount on the cost of travel once a year (round trip) by these types of transport.

  • Persons with disabilities of group iii are entitled to free travel once every two years (round trip) by rail, water, air, or intercity road transport, regardless of the availability of rail service, or travel once a year (round trip) by these types of transport with a 50% discount on the fare.

  • Persons with disabilities as a result of war and persons accompanying persons with disabilities of the first group (no more than one accompanying person) are entitled to use intercity transport of the above types in the period from October 1 to May 15 with a 50% discount on the fare without limiting the number of trips.

  • Extraordinary free provision of a car (if there are medical indications for providing a vehicle) for a service life of up to ten years (with subsequent replacement with a new one), payment of compensation for gasoline (fuel), repair, maintenance of cars or transportation services.

  • Benefits on payment of taxes, fees, duties, and other payments to the budget per tax and customs legislation.

  • Exemption from rent for non-residential premises rented by persons with war-related disabilities for garages for special vehicles (cars, motorized wheelchairs, bicycle wheelchairs, etc.) and free provision of parking garages for these vehicles, regardless of their form of ownership.

  • Extraordinary service by institutions and organizations providing social care services. If social protection institutions cannot provide such services, the costs associated with the care of the person with a disability are reimbursed in the manner and the amount established by the current legislation.

  • Extraordinary service by enterprises, institutions, organizations of consumer services, public catering, housing and communal services, and intercity transport.

  • The right to extraordinary provision of food products of improved assortment and industrial goods of high demand according to the list and standards established by the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regional, Kyiv, and Sevastopol city state administrations.

  • Pensions or monthly lifetime allowance or state social assistance paid in lieu of a pension are increased for persons with disabilities resulting from war: for persons with disabilities of group I - in the amount of 50 percent of the subsistence minimum for persons who have lost their ability to work, group II - 40 percent of the subsistence minimum for persons who have lost their ability to work, group III - 30 percent of the subsistence minimum for persons who have lost their ability to work.

  • Every year, on the Independence Day of Ukraine, combatants receive a one-time cash payment.

  • State-targeted support for vocational (vocational-technical), professional pre-university, and higher education in state and municipal educational institutions and their children.