“This is such a sword of Damocles over the pension system.
Currently, the debt under court decisions in the pension system amounts to 66 billion hryvnia.
And this amount is growing rapidly,” Marchak is quoted as saying by the Ukrainian publication Economic Truth.
According to the deputy head of the department, most of the debt arose in the cases of ex-military personnel and security forces, for whom special pension legislation applies.
Also, 26% of the debt amount concerns payments to Chernobyl victims.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk previously stated that the Ukrainian government, at the request of a number of Western countries, may in the near future reduce or completely cancel living expenses for a number of categories of internally displaced persons.
Also, the Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko said that Kyiv intends to delay pensions, salaries for teachers and civil servants if it does not receive help from the West.