Pensions for working pensioners will be recalculated from April 1: what changes await us

The Pension Fund of Ukraine announced that from April 1, 2026, automatic recalculation of pensions for working pensioners will begin. This process applies to persons for whom at least 24 months have passed since the last pension was accrued. The recalculation will take into account additional insurance experience and earnings, which is intended to encourage people to continue working even after retirement.

According to the Pension Fund, the innovations affect more than 600 thousand citizens who continue to work and accumulate additional insurance experience. At the beginning of the year, there were about 2.8 million pensioners in Ukraine, whose average pension is approximately 7.16 thousand hryvnias.

Automatic recalculation will be carried out for those who have at least 24 months of insurance experience since the last pension accrual or assignment, which occurred before March 1, 2026. The amount of the allowance will depend on the number of additional months of experience and new earnings. If the length of service is less than 24 months, the pension is recalculated only taking into account the new months, without changing the average salary.

Pensioners who received a pension for long service will be able to use the recalculation only after reaching retirement age. The right to recalculation arises as of March 1 of the relevant year. If the right arises from another date, the pensioner has the opportunity to apply to the Pension Fund to receive an increase.

The average amount of the recalculation can be several hundred hryvnias, which will become an additional financial resource for working pensioners. The PFU emphasizes that all accruals are based on current data on earnings and insurance contributions, which ensures the correctness of the calculations.

Since March 1, 2026, Ukrainian pensioners have received an increase in pensions, but for many this has become just a formality. More than half a million people received only an additional 100 hryvnias, and 328 thousand did not receive an increase at all. The head of the Verkhovna Rada’s Finance Committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, assesses the situation as “shameful” and calls for systemic changes, as the average increase was only 519 hryvnias, which is equivalent to about 10 euros.