In April 2023, a movie about social aid for Ukrainians was very popular in social media. According to the author of the statement, the ruling organization pays benefits to Ukrainian refugees to vote for them in the upcoming elections. In the article we explain that this is impossible, and we besides present how the amendment of the Law on Assistance to the Citizens of Ukraine has sealed the strategy of payment of social benefits.
Source: TikTok/BlackFuriat
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The man speaking on the movie is Robert Jabłonowski, an online individual trainer who uses the nickname Black Furiat. Video on his account TickTok displayed 7,000 times, but the same movie on user account @aga_wik has already gained over 800,000 views. The material is besides made available via net instant messaging.
The problem that “Black Furiat” raises in his speech concerns the process in which Ukrainian groups came to Poland to registry at the municipal office where they were awarded PESEL. After the notification in MOPS, they became beneficiaries of social benefits specified as 500+, 300+ or welfare benefit. However, after the affirmative completion of all formalities, they returned to Ukraine, and money from the ATM was taken collectively by 1 individual who came to Poland only for this purpose.
According to the Act of April 2022, the departure of a Ukrainian citizen from Poland for a period of over 1 period deprives him of his right to legal residence in our country. This includes both returning to the country and going to another countries. Wyborcza paper in the September 2022 edition informsthat the provision was regularly broken:
The reflection of industrial officials shows that organised groups of Ukrainian citizens started coming to Przemyśl in May. It is about transports of women with children from Ukraine who come for a short time to Przemyśl, only to benefit from financial assistance, and they return immediately after that.
23 September 2022 Wojciech Bakun, president of Przemyśl, reported on your Facebook account about the abuses related to the payment of benefits:
However, 1 cannot neglect to announcement what has been going on for any time, and which is periodically increasing. 1 cannot neglect to announcement organized transports of women with children, who have written down the procedures they must undergo to receive financial and financial assistance. They form a queue regular before the Municipal Office, then go to MOPS and ZUS to apply for benefits. They then return to Ukraine by organized transport.
ZUS already in May 2022 He said control of the residence of Ukrainian citizens who have applied for benefits. The verification showed that ZUS unduly paid out about PLN 2 million, which succeeded retrieve 35.3 1000 PLN. Therefore, an amendment to the law was needed to seal the payout system.
System sealing
On 28 January 2023, it entered into force Amendment Act on assistance to Ukrainian citizens. In Act savedthat:
The Social Insurance Institution will receive data from the registry of Border Guards concerning the date of each entry and departure from Poland of a Ukrainian citizen. With this solution, ZUS will be able to suspend payment of benefits to people who left Poland.
At the same time, people who return to Poland within 30 days, counting from the date of departure, will not lose the legality of their stay in Poland and payment of benefits will be restored. This amendment avoided overpaid benefits. For the period of application of the fresh provision of the ZUS Aid Act, he suspended the payment of benefits to about 3200 Ukrainian citizens. So the problem raised in the movie Jabłonowski was solved a fewer months ago.
Elections and PESEL
The main thesis cited by Robert Jabłońowski afraid the alleged “purchase” of Ukrainians' voices by the Law and Justice government in the upcoming elections. The false communicative of granting electoral rights to refugees with the allocation of the PESEL number is not new. We wrote about this already in March 2022 in a separate article.
Pursuant to Article 62 of the Constitution pThe Polish citizen who turned 18 has the right to vote. For foreigners, the Electoral Code provides the anticipation for them to vote in elections to the European Parliament and in local elections, to local government units. Exception only European Union citizens, so it does not mention to people with Ukrainian citizenship. PESEL number has nothing to do with the granting of voting rights in Poland.
Summary
The problem with the undue payment of social benefits to any Ukrainians who left our country has already been noticed last year. For this reason, the government has prepared an amendment, thanks to which since January 2023 the Social safety Office in cooperation with the Border defender can control on an ongoing basis whether the individual collecting social assistance has not left the borders of Poland. The procedure for selecting money from ATMs by the substituted persons, whom Jabłonowski was talking about, was so terminated.
Above all, PESEL, which is essential for registration in ZUS, does not confer electoral rights, as suggested by “Black Furiat”. Ukrainians who are beneficiaries of benefits specified as 500+ can inactive not vote either in the upcoming parliamentary elections or in the local government. That's why the argument about the Ukrainian government buying voters is false.
Sources
Fakenews. https://fakenews.pl/politics/non-number-pesel-non-update-citizen-Ukrainians-to-participation-in-elections/
ISAP Sejm: https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20220000835
ISAP Sejm: https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20230000185
Electoral Newspaper: html
Republic of: https://www.rp.pl/foreigners/art38084591-zus-holds-not-support-for-Ukrainians-recovered-35-thousand-from-2-million-zl
Wojciech Bakun: https://www.facebook.com/BakunWojciech/posts/655006625981017/
