The court decided: the pensioner appealed the PFU’s refusal to transfer the pension due to seniority.

The PFU did not satisfy the citizen’s request to recalculate the pension in relation to the enrollment of work experience

The man submitted a request to the Pension Fund with a request for adjustments pension payments in connection with taking into account his work experience. However, his request was rejected due to discrepancies found in the documents. This is reported in the decision of the Sofiyiv District Court of the Dnipropetrovsk Region, which was made public on October 15, 2025.

On August 11, 2025, the citizen submitted a petition to the Main Department of the Pension Fund of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk Region to revise the amount of the pension in order to take into account his work experience acquired before January 1, 2004. In response to his appeal, on August 18, 2025, a letter was received from the head of the Citizen Service Department No. 12 (service center) of the Department of Citizen Services of the State University of PFU in the Dnipropetrovsk region, to whom the decision of the Main Directorate of the Pension Fund of Ukraine in the Kirovohrad region on the refusal to transfer the pension dated August 18, 2025 was sent. The decision noted that after reviewing the documents submitted for pension recalculation, it was found that according to the archive certificate dated 07/29/2025 confirming the period of work from 1993 to 1998 at the Dymitrov KSP, issued by the Sofiiv Labor Archive of the Sofiiv Settlement Council of the Dnipropetrovsk Region, the name and patronymic of the applicant are indicated in abbreviated form Based on the above, the pension transfer was refused. The need to confirm the applicant’s ownership of the archival certificate dated 07/29/2025, issued by the Sofiiv labor archive of the Sofiiv settlement council of the Dnipropetrovsk region, is needed by him for the transfer of an age pension by the Main Department of the Pension Fund of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which refuses to do so due to the abbreviation of the first and last name in the archival certificate.

What decision did the court make? The husband’s claim was satisfied. The court decided to establish the legal fact of the applicant’s ownership of the archival certificate dated 07/29/2025, issued by the Sofiiv Labor Archive of the Sofiiv Settlement Council of the Dnipropetrovsk Region, to confirm his insurance record during the period of work from 1993 to 1998 at the Dymytrova collective farm, Sofiiv District of the Dnipropetrovsk Region.

“Discrepancies in the records of the plaintiff’s name and patronymic in the archival certificate dated 07/29/2025, provided by the Sofiiv Labor Archive of the Sofiiv Settlement Council in the Dnipropetrovsk Region, and the information in his passport issued on October 16, 2002 by the Sofiiv Regional Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk Region, arose due to abbreviated entries in settlement and payment information collective farm workers regarding the calculation of wages for the years 1993-1998 for the collective farm named after Dimitrov and KSP named after Dimitrov. The reorganization of the collective farm named after Dimitrov into the KSP named after Dimitrov took place in accordance with protocol No. 1 of the general meeting of members of the collective farm on February 10, 1995. According to protocol No. 5 of the general meeting of members of the KSP named after Dimitrova dated May 31, 2000, the collective agricultural enterprise was transformed into a limited liability company (LLC) “Zhovtneve”. The court established that the fact of his work at the Dimytrov collective farm and the KSP named after Sofiyiv district of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the period from 1993 to 1998 is confirmed by the work book of the collective farm worker dated March 28, 1993, issued by the Dimitrov collective farm Sofiiv district of Dnipropetrovsk region, settlement and payment information of collective farm employees on the calculation of wages for the years 1993-1998 for the collective farm and KSP named after Dimitrova, KSP named after Dymytrova of the Sofiiv district, basis Fund No. 7,8 Form RS – pension law; Archival certificate of the Sofiyiv archival department of the Kryvorizka archival department RDA dated 11.08.2025, pension case. Therefore, the fact that the archival certificate belongs to the applicant is fully proven by the evidence contained in the case file. Taking into account the above, the court considers that the plaintiff’s demands are well-founded, legal, supported by the provided evidence and subject to satisfaction,” the court emphasized.

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