Ukraine Halts Welfare Payments to 600,000 Pending Their Status Verification

Sputnik — 29.04.2016 The Ukrainian government has suspended pensions and other social-welfare benefits to more than 500 000 people internally displaced by fighting between government forces and autonomy seekers in the east, UN Assistant Secretary-General Taye-Brook Zerihoun told the Security Council. Access to urgently needed services is impeded by bureaucratic impediments, Zerihoun said on Thursday. […]

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