No one else`s opinion interested me. On November 9, 2020, I took this  responsibility and signed this paper:  Pashinyan

ArmInfo. It will be possible to pay Armenian citizens pensions and benefits in an amount that they  will not be ashamed of when the number of working citizens exceeds  the number of non-working citizens by 60, 70, 100 or 200%. This was  stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on November 14 from  the country's parliament rostrum.  

According to him, the number of non-working pensioners and persons receiving benefits in Armenia  currently totals 754,431 people. The state provides them with funds  from the taxes paid by 768,547 employed workers.

At the same time, as the Prime Minister pointed out, there is a lack  of motivation for labor in Armenia.  While there are available jobs,  people prefer to receive unemployment benefits instead of working.  They justify this by saying that the available jobs do not offer good  pay or adequate salaries. Meanwhile, this is once again a  manifestation of anti-statehood, Pashinyan emphasized. According to  him, there are times when you need to take responsibility and make  unpopular decisions. <On November 9, 2020, many of my colleagues were  in my office when I said "I am not interested in any opinion, I will  take this responsibility and sign this paper. I believe I made the  correct decision. The question remains: why did I do it>, he said.