ArmInfo.The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs proposes to establish a minimum pension threshold of 25,500 drams.Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia Smbat Saiyan stated this on March 25 at the meeting of the standing parliamentary committee on health and social affairs, introducing the bill on amending the RA Law "On State Pensions".
The Deputy Minister said that these reforms are aimed at reducing the extreme poverty in the country. In addition, according to him, the minimum pension should correspond to the minimum food basket. He also noted that earlier, people with various groups of disabilities received the same pension. "The differences were that they received various medications, but their pension was the same. However, we suggest setting 40% of the pension supplement in the amount of 6.400 drams for the disabled of the first group, and 20% in the amount of 3200 drams for the disabled of the second group ", the deputy minister said.
"For the implementation of these reforms, we allocated about 110 million drams from the state budget. We also take into account the rise in prices. If the prices increase annually, we will raise the minimum pension threshold in Armenia," said Saiyan.
As Saiyan noted, the concept of "minimum pension" did not exist before. "The concept of a minimum pension is a new institution that did not exist before. If we talk about numbers, the lowest pension used to be about 16.000 drams per month. As you can see, the minimum threshold has risen significantly. We hope that in this way we will implement the first step to eradicate extreme poverty in the country ", - concluded the Deputy Minister.