ArmInfo.From January 1, 2022, the Armenian government will allocate 50 thousand drams (about $ 100) to families at the birth of their third child and subsequent children. This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on September 30 at a government meeting, during the discussion of the draft state budget for 2022.
The allowance will be paid monthly until the child reaches 6 years of age.
To remind, today in the government, Minister of Finance Tigran Khachatryan, presenting the draft law "On the state budget of the Republic of Armenia for 2022," said that the expenditures of the state budget of Armenia in 2022, in comparison with the indicator set in the state budget for 2021, will increase by 18.2% - up to 2 trillion 188.4 billion AMD. At the same time, state treasury revenues and official transfers in 2022 will grow by 28.9% and will amount to 1 trillion 946.2 billion drams (24.7% of GDP), against the expected by the end of this year 1 trillion 656.9 billion drams (23.6% of GDP) and actual 1 trillion 560.7 billion drams for 2020 (25.2% of GDP). At the same time, tax collections and state duty to GDP will grow by 0.9 percentage points- up to 23.4% and will amount to 1 trillion 843.8 billion drams, instead of 1 trillion 581.0 billion drams expected at the end of 2021 (22.5%) and actual 1 trillion 385.2 billion drams for 2020 (22.4% of GDP). Inflation by the end of 2022 will be 5.2%, from 7.4% expected by the end of 2021.