Public activist wins lawsuit against government over subsistence minimum

The Kyiv Court of Appeal sustained the claim of head of the “Open Court” project Stanislav Batryn against the government of Ukraine.

The court obliged the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to conduct the expert examination and review the subsistence minimum.

The courts of the first and the second instance confirmed that the government violates Article 48 of the Constitution of Ukraine (“Everyone has the right to a standard of living sufficient for himself or herself and his or her family that includes adequate nutrition, clothing and housing“).

“To confirm the intention to abide by the court’s judgment, we have today received the order of procedure and immediately send the judgment for fulfillment. The fulfillment of this judgment means a complete restart of the system of social safeguards in Ukraine, including changing the size of scholarships, pensions, benefits to families with children, unemployment benefits and hundreds of other indicators of social justice in the country,” Batryn noted.

On the other hand, according to Batryn, this means that the government should carry out the reforms in the social sphere.

Head of the “Open Court” added that no politicians were involved in this case, though some media tried to present it in another way. He noted that there were several similar lawsuits from some politic forces, but they had nothing to do with the “Open Court.”

As a reminder, the public monitoring of courts started in Ukraine on October 12.