RA vice-premier on obstacles to Implementation of long-term  assistance programme for foricbly displaced Armenians 

ArmInfo.  The program to help IDPs from Nagorno-Karabakh with housing rental (the assistance program in the amount of 40 + 10 thousand drams) has deviated from its intended purpose, turning into temporary social assistance, which hinders the implementation of a long- term program to help them with  housing. Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran  Khachatryan stated this in an interview with the Public Television of  Armenia. 

According to him, the government launched a temporary housing  assistance program for IDPs back in October 2023, providing monthly  assistance in the amount of 50 thousand drams to each beneficiary.   However, over time, this program began to be perceived by part of the  population as permanent social assistance. "We believe that this  measure, which gives the impression of social assistance, has become  a factor over time, due to which people prefer to use the support of  this program rather than participate in the long-term housing  program, within the framework of which families are provided with  support in the amount of 3-4 or 5 million drams per family member so  that people can finally decide on their long-term place of residence.  We realized that this temporary social housing rental assistance  program has become an obstacle to the implementation of the long-term  assistance program," the Deputy Prime Minister said. 

He added that it was for this reason that in November 2024, the  government decided to revise the terms of the program, providing  support from April 2025 only to vulnerable groups of the population:  children, pensioners, people with disabilities and families who have  lost a breadwinner. The amount of support will be 40 thousand drams  per person in April-June and 30 thousand drams per person from July  until the end of the year.