The Cabinet of Ministers has registered a revised Programme of Government Activity with the Verkhovna Rada. Compared with the draft presented to the parliamentary coalition, the text no longer contains the two most specific social figures — the minimum pension amount and the hryvnia benchmark for teachers’ salaries.
The revised document was registered with the Verkhovna Rada on the evening of 17 August 2026. The draft, which government officials asked MPs not to publish, calling it merely a working version, was 86 pages long. The final version has been shortened to 76 pages.
Pension
In the draft, the minimum pension was a key figure in the social policy section: “increasing the minimum pension after reaching retirement age to UAH 6,000 in 2027”.
The amount does not appear anywhere in the registered text — neither among the tasks assigned to the Ministry of Social Policy nor in the criteria for achieving the programme objective. The criterion only refers to “a transition from the current fragmented pension system to a new model that includes basic age-related protection, an insurance pension based on contributions made, occupational pension mechanisms and voluntary savings with automatic enrolment” — without specifying any payment amount.
All related mechanisms — a guaranteed age-related payment, occupational pensions instead of special pensions, and voluntary savings with automatic enrolment — are scheduled exclusively for 2027.
Teachers’ salaries
In the draft, a 20% increase in teachers’ salaries was linked to an approximate figure — “up to around UAH 20,000”.
The final text retains only the percentage. Moreover, the registered version contains the following wording: “teachers’ and academic teaching staff salaries increased by 20% and research staff salaries by up to 50% based on the results of attestation” — without the preposition “by” before 20%. The omitted word appears exactly where the hryvnia figure was specified in the draft.
Deadlines
All deadlines specified down to the month have also disappeared from the document. In the draft, dozens of tasks had precise deadlines; in the registered version, all of them have been reduced to “2026”, “2027” or “2026–2027”.
The comprehensive pension reform, which was to be completed by December 2026 under the draft, is now scheduled for “2026–2027”.
If the Programme is adopted, the government will receive a one-year immunity from dismissal under Article 87 of the Constitution.
An extended analysis of the final version of the Programme will be published on LB.ua later.