KIEV, Aug. 8 - Almost 57% of Ukrainians believe that flawed state policy and corruption in government agencies hamper the creation of an effective and fair social security system in Ukraine, according to a survey conducted by the Social Monitoring Center and the Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute for Social Research along with the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

The results of the survey were presented at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

According to the survey, 32.4% of Ukrainians believe that an imperfect state policy hampers the creation of the social security system, 24.7% named corruption, 11.6% the unfair distribution of social benefits (large payments are received by those who do not deserve them), 10% the poor state of the economy, and 6.9% the presence of the shadow economy and tax evasion.