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Armenia’s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs will soon launch a unified information system through which issues related to old-age pensions will be settled, said labor and social affairs minister Artur Grigoryan in an press conference at the Government of Armenia building today.
“We’ll receive information also from another source, through which citizens’ movement in and outside the country will be checked,” he said, adding that the new system will eliminate any possible intervention by officials.
If there are cases whereby a given pensioner is deceased but a payment has been made, Grigoryan continued, then the agency making the payment, after receiving this information, will be obliged to appeal to law enforcement agencies.
The ministry will soon have to present to the Armenian government all sub-legislative acts of the 49 laws included in the pension reforms package approved by the National Assembly in December 2010 and expected to be in effect beginning April of this year. In this sense, Grigoryan expressed hope that the work carried out by the ministry will allow a number of problems to be solved.
During this period of reforms, the RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs placed importance on unified support, provided by a single agency, instead of different types of financial assistance and the supplementary payments given to those receiving military pensions.
As reported by local media in the past week, this move follows recent audits which revealed a large number of deceased receiving pensions and numerous other shortcomings in the system.