Assistance for single mothers is part of the state social policy aimed at ensuring decent living conditions for women who raise children on their own.
Assistance is provided to:
🔸 Single mothers (who are not married), single adoptive parents, if the birth certificate or a document issued by competent authorities of a foreign state (upon its legalization as required by law) contains no information about the father (mother), or if the entry about the father (mother) was made by the civil status registration authority upon the instruction of the mother (father, adoptive parent).
🔸 A mother (father) also has the right to assistance in the event of the death of one parent, provided that they do not receive a survivor’s pension, a social pension, or state social assistance for a child of the deceased breadwinner, as provided by the Law of Ukraine “On State Social Assistance to Persons Who Do Not Have the Right to a Pension and to Persons with Disabilities.”
📎 Additional conditions:
🔹 If a single mother, single adoptive parent, or a mother/father whose spouse has died, registers a marriage, they retain the right to assistance for children born or adopted before the marriage, provided that these children were not adopted by the new spouse.
🔹 A woman who has children with a person she is not and has not been married to, but with whom she shares a household and raises the children together, is not entitled to assistance for single mothers. If she later marries the father of her children, assistance for children born to this person is not granted.
🔹 Assistance is provided for children up to 18 years of age (or until graduation if the children are studying full-time or in dual education programs at secondary, vocational, professional, pre-higher, or higher education institutions — but no longer than until the age of 23).
📣 Important!
▫️ Assistance is not granted if the child is fully supported by the state.
▫️ Assistance is provided regardless of other benefits the child may receive.
▫️ Assistance is granted for each child individually.
☝🏻 If assistance has previously been approved for you, you do not need to take any action — payments continue automatically.
📝 Documents required to apply:
▫️ Application (standard form);
▫️ Identity document;
▫️ Income and property declaration of all persons applying for social assistance;
▫️ Income certificate if the declaration includes income not reflected in state registers;
▫️ Extract from the State Register of Civil Status Acts regarding the child's birth registration;
▫️ Copy of the child’s birth certificate;
▫️ Adoptive parents must provide a copy of the adoption decision.
Ways to submit documents ⤵️
🔹 In person — at any Pension Fund service center (regardless of registration).
🔹 Online — via the Pension Fund’s Electronic Services Portal: https://portal.pfu.gov.ua/.
🔹 Through an authorized representative — with a power of attorney.
🔹 Through the Administrative Services Center (CNAP).
🔹 Via the Diia portal.
🔹 By postal mail.
📌 The amount of assistance is calculated as the difference between 100% of the subsistence minimum for a child of the relevant age and the family’s average monthly income per person.
☑️ Assistance is granted for six months, with the possibility of renewal if the family’s status and income have not changed.
If the family’s financial situation improves or if the recipient marries, the Pension Fund must be notified within 10 days.
⚖️ Assistance is regulated by the Law of Ukraine “On State Assistance to Families with Children” (21.11.1992 № 2811-XII) and Cabinet of Ministers Resolution № 1751 (27.12.2001).
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