After Stalin’s death, the “collective leadership” of his associates, who shared power, sought to prevent the concentration of authority in a single individual. One outcome of this was the end of “hybrid” resolutions for determining the compensation of the nomenklatura. Instead, the party and the government began introducing new measures separately but in parallel, with the party maintaining its dominant role. On March 16, 1956, the CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers each adopted resolutions—identical in content—that altered the procedures for calculating temporary financial support. On April 13, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine adopted its own decision on financial privileges, and on April 20, it approved a draft resolution on the same topic, which was then ratified by the Council of Ministers. These resolutions did not specify the reasons for the changes.

From this point forward, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine set the amounts of temporary financial support for party officials, while the government determined those for Soviet officials. Temporary allowances were tailored individually, varying based on family composition. The government resolution incorporated aspects of social equity by reducing temporary allowances by the amount of any additional bonuses that officials might already receive. For some high-ranking officials, financial privileges were eliminated, but they were compensated with personal allowances. As usual, the specific salaries of these privileged individuals (which, incidentally, saw a modest increase) and the amount of personal allowances for ministries, departments, and executive committees—both regional and in Kyiv and Sevastopol—were detailed in classified appendices.