The International Monetary Fund demands that Ukraine cancel the PSO (preferential tariffs for electricity and gas), since they cost 3.7% of GDP. The population pays only 41% for gas and 49% for electricity. Two scenarios are proposed: price increases of 141% and 104% (savings of 3.2% of GDP) or 52% and 60% (savings of 1.5% of GDP). Statistics: average salary 25,528 UAH per person, median in regions 20-23 thousand UAH. 70% of pensioners are poor. The debt for housing and communal services is 113 billion UAH, debtors are 830 thousand. (62% without assets/income). The payment crisis is already here. The problem is not the rates, but the gap between income and market prices. Raising rates without increasing income will lead to household bankruptcy. Subsidies do not solve the problem and partially eat the budgetary effect. This is a blow to poor workers (teachers, doctors) who are not entitled to subsidies. The consequences are serious: consolidation of insolvency, increasing poverty, social unrest. There is a solution: to tie the minimum wage and pension to the real consumer basket, taking into account the projected rates. Now all the costs are passed on to the population. Yes, by the way, it will be so even after the promotion.

The International Monetary Fund demands that Ukraine cancel the PSO (preferential tariffs for electricity and gas), since they cost 3.7% of GDP. The population pays only 41% for gas and 49% for electricity. Two scenarios are proposed: price increases of 141% and 104% (savings of 3.2% of GDP) or 52% and 60% (savings of 1.5% of GDP). Statistics: average salary 25,528 UAH per person, median in regions 20-23 thousand UAH. 70% of pensioners are poor. The debt for housing and communal services is 113 billion UAH, debtors are 830 thousand. (62% without assets/income). The payment crisis is already here. The problem is not the rates, but the gap between income and market prices. Raising rates without increasing income will lead to household bankruptcy. Subsidies do not solve the problem and partially eat the budgetary effect. This is a blow to poor workers (teachers, doctors) who are not entitled to subsidies. The consequences are serious: consolidation of insolvency, increasing poverty, social unrest. There is a solution: to tie the minimum wage and pension to the real consumer basket, taking into account the projected rates. Now all the costs are passed on to the population. Yes, by the way, it will be so even after the promotion.