{"id":255679,"date":"2014-07-03T13:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=255679"},"modified":"2014-07-03T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:25:13","slug":"poor-families-to-get-2-50-a-month-from-state-to-soften-blow-of-electricity-price-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/03\/poor-families-to-get-2-50-a-month-from-state-to-soften-blow-of-electricity-price-increase.html","title":{"rendered":"Poor Families to Get $2.50 a Month From State to Soften Blow of Electricity Price Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">105 families living below the poverty line will receive an additional 1,000 AMD (less than $2.50 USD) per month from the state to help mitigate the recent increase in the cost of electricity, the Government of Armenia decided in its meeting today.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to the Cabinet of Ministers&#39; estimates, each family spends around 200 kWh of electricity a month, and the amount of assistance was determined on this basis. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEarlier, RA President Serzh Sargsyan suggested RA Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan find ways to soften the impact of the electricity price hike on socially vulnerable families.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, Armenia&#39;s Public Services Regulatory Commission on Tuesday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/01\/electricity-in-armenia-becomes-10-more-expensive.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>decided<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to increase the electricity tariff by 10%.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>105 families living below the poverty line will receive an additional 1,000 AMD (less than $2.50 USD) per month from the state to help mitigate the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10463,56330,40255,56676],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}