The Rada wants to allow heirs to receive unpaid pensions after the death of a pensioner

The Verkhovna Rada has registered draft law No. 15032, which is supposed to solve the problem of unpaid pension funds under court decisions after the death of pensioners. The document proposes to transfer to heirs the money that a person did not have time to receive during his lifetime due to delays in funding from the Pension Fund.

Pensioners wait for years for payments after the courts

These are situations when pensioners seek a recalculation of their pension or payment of debts through the court, but in fact cannot receive the funds due to a lack of funding.

After the court decision is made, the Pension Fund often:

postpones payments;
refers to a lack of budget funds;
postpones the implementation of decisions for an indefinite period.

According to human rights activists, in some cases people wait for their money for years.

After the death of a pensioner, debts often “disappear”

A separate problem is the situation when a pensioner dies without waiting for payments.

In such cases, as lawyers note, the Pension Fund sometimes refuses to pay debts to relatives, effectively canceling the state’s debt to the person.

Because of this, families can lose:

tens of thousands of hryvnias;
compensation;
funds from pension recalculations;
amounts awarded by courts.
What the bill proposes

The bill No. 15032 provides that unpaid pension funds that were awarded by a court or belonged to a pensioner can be inherited.

The authors of the initiative emphasize that this should:

protect the rights of families;
prevent the loss of legally awarded funds;
force the state to fulfill its financial obligations.
The state’s debts to pensioners are growing

According to human rights activists, as of 2026, the state’s debts under court decisions regarding pension payments remain huge.

The budget allocates significantly less money for such payments than is necessary, so some pensioners risk waiting decades for court decisions to be enforced.