The article generalizes the legal regulation of pension provision of the persons retired from military service and the persons who are equal to them. It is proved that at the present stage of state formation and Ukrainian society development, it is especially important for our state to provide rights and freedoms, to give social support, to create favorable social environment, social security of the citizens who ensure the defense of the country, protecting its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.It is determined that the imperfection of current state social policy, as well as negative trends that characterize the retirement provision of the persons retired from military service in modern conditions, do not contribute to the solvency of this category of citizens. Pension system reforming is overwhelmingly characterized by social injustice, unsystematic legislative stories that leads to narrowing and limiting the amount of pension rights, the abolition of privileges, unjustified increase in the requirements for acquiring the right to appoint pensions, and so on. The aforementioned did not pass the number of pensioners from the number of servicemen.The necessity of clarification of the legal regulation of previously assigned pensions to the persons retired from military service recalculation and firstly, the components of monetary provision reviewing from which the recalculation of pensions is carried out, by including sums of monthly additional types of monetary support (allowances, surcharges, increments), premiums, including one-time benefits paid when discharged from military service; and secondly, approaches to determining the amount of recalculation of previously assigned pension.Key words: pension provision, pension system, persons retired from military service, normative and legal regulation, pensioners, pension reform, pension recalculation.REFERENCES

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