The Government of Ukraine recently increased gas and heating tariffs. In order to protect the most vulnerable households, more comprehensive reform of social assistance programs is needed, especially since gas and heating prices will see further increases in the medium term to bring them to cost recovery levels. The World Bank has been tasked to help the government with these reforms, with the public information campaigns to explain the benefits of the reforms to the population, and with regulatory reform necessary to ensure that gas and heating tariffs remain reflective of the costs.