{"id":51365,"date":"2016-03-28T16:44:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=41565"},"modified":"2016-03-29T19:47:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:47:56","slug":"41565-verifikatsiya-sotsialnih-vidatkiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/41565-verifikatsiya-sotsialnih-vidatkiv","title":{"rendered":"Expert: Social benefits verification to allow more efficient funds spending and helping people in need, not fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nDnh-JZHmig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH IN ENGLISH<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kyiv, March 28, 2016.<\/strong> <\/em>Social benefits constitute slightly over 40 percent of the state expenditure, which amounts to UAH 368 billion this year. These include pension benefits, various forms of social support and subsidies. Any abusive practice in this sphere, even comparatively insignificant, will result in enormous loss of funds. This is the purpose of the social verification process, i.e. checkup of all the recipients: do these people really exist, who are they and whether they are entitled to receive these funds. This is a major reform for Ukraine, said Pavlo Kukhta, expert of the Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR) at a press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. \u201cIt will allow more efficient funds spending, providing help to people who really need it, not swindlers stealing money,\u201d explained the expert. Kukhta said the so-called \u201cghost beneficiaries\u201d is the most primitive fraud scheme, when someone forfeits a beneficiary\u2019s ID and continues receiving pension benefits after the person\u2019s death. In case of fraud, this is about macroeconomic level of embezzlement. As an example, the expert provided foreign experience which says losses may amount to one fourth of the entire state expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tamara Savoshchenko,\u00a0CEO of UniCredit Bank, people must not be afraid of the term \u201cverification\u201d. \u201cIt is a certain monitoring procedure which is not new,\u201d emphasized Savoshchenko. If there are selection criteria for people entitled to receive social benefits, in a logical way there should also be criteria for monitoring fair distribution and use of these funds. Banks possess information required for the verification procedure, so they are a party to the process, she said.<br \/>\nIssues of disclosure of banking secrecy, procedure for maintaining secrecy and its disclosure arise in this regard. Despite this fact, neither one of these disclosures implies anything new, explained the Unicredit\u00a0Bank CEO.\u00a0\u201cThese are the proven procedures, and there are certain rules of disclosure of banking secrecy for one or another reason,\u201d said the banker. She said there were recent changes, \u201csimply extending the list of institutions entitled to obtaining information involving banking secrecy, with certain conditions and restrictions applied\u201d. Savoshchenko added that it referred to the Ministry of Finance and disclosure of information regarding individuals who are recipients of social benefits and social aid.<br \/>\nThe issue of insufficient understanding relates to the issue of distrust in banks, said Oleksiy Oleksandrov,\u00a0Deputy Chairman of the Ukrgasbank Board. He assured that the bank customers who honestly and legitimately fall into the category of social beneficiaries must not be afraid of the checkup. Moreover, no customers\u2019 rights are violated in the process of verification. \u201cInformation is provided exclusively to one more party, in other words, an operator, the Ministry of Finance. It gains access exclusively to the extent making it possible to understand whether the customer is \u201cclean\u201d or not,\u201d said Oleksandrov.\u00a0There will be certain advantages both for the state and the society. First of all, citizens committing fraudulent actions against the state will be disclosed. Second, it will result in saving money allocated for categories who really need support, explained the deputy chairman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are tens of billions of hryvnias saved by the budget due to the fact that the benefits are received not by those people who need them the most,\u201d said Anton Tiutiun,\u00a0Deputy Chairman of the OshchadBank Board. According to him, it is a long-standing problem which used to be neglected. Using banking tools, the state is only trying to understand whether recipients of social benefits are receiving them legitimately, added Tiutiun.<br \/>\nVictor Maziarchuk,\u00a0 senior expert at Public Finance RPR group, emphasized that taxes paid by Ukrainian citizens through state institutions system are used inefficiently, they are simply embezzled, which poses the major problem. \u201cPeople involved into the budget process believe 41 percent of the state funds are used inefficiently,\u201d said the expert. This means that pension and social benefits are small, because 40 percent of the sum is stolen. 47 percent of pensions do not exceed UAH 1300,\u201d said Maziarchuk. Pension benefits are small because there are no funds, and there are no funds because they are being embezzled, and this is the main problem, concluded the expert. On the contrary, the verification process will allow finding these fraudsters. The RPR expert provided statistics from the Pension Fund of Ukraine: number of pensioners decreased by 165 thousand people in a year. \u201cThere is a remarkable thing \u2013 number of pensioners decreases in all the regions except two, [\u2026]\u00a0Donetsk and Luhansk regions where this number is growing. \u201cIf we analyze the average pension benefit in all the regions, it is the highest in these two regions,\u201d said Maziarchuk. The process launched by the Ministry of Finance is one of the methods to secure efficient use of public funds. He believes this mechanism will allow increasing pension benefits and reinstate confidence it the state, summarized the expert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH IN ENGLISH Kyiv, March 28, 2016. Social benefits constitute slightly over 40 percent of the state expenditure, which amounts to UAH 368 billion this year. These include pension benefits, various forms of social support and subsidies. 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