The Agreement provides that each State shall award and pay pensions for the period of insurance (employment) acquired under the legislation of that State, while insurance period of the former USSR shall be recalculated and the pension appointed by the competent institution of the Contracting Party in whose jurisdiction the overall insurance period is longer. In case the overall period of insurance acquired in the territories of the two countries is equal, insurance periods of the former USSR shall be taken into account by the competent institution of the Contracting Party under whose legislation the person was last insured. The same principle of set-off of insurance periods of the former USSR is provided for in the bilateral agreements with Latvia, Estonia, and Moldova.
Linas Kukuraitis, Minister of Social Security and Labour, said that in March 2018, the Foreign Benefits Office sent pensions to 227 pension recipients of the Republic of Lithuania residing in Ukraine, the total amount paid totalling to EUR 147.000. Pensions were also paid to as many as 252 beneficiaries residing in Lithuania, who have acquired periods of insurance in both Lithuania and Ukraine. In March 2018, the Pension Fund of Ukraine sent pensions to 318 Ukrainian pension recipients in Lithuania. The total amount paid was EUR 40.706.
