31/10/2014 12:23
Ex-minister’s wife gets maternity benefit of 20 million drams
‘Hraparak’ writes that Armenia’s Financial Ombudsperson Piruz Sargsyan, who is the wife of ex-Finance Minister David Sargsyan, got back to work soon after she had a baby and received a maternity benefit amounting to 20 million drams, according to the paper.
Piruz Sargsyan told the paper’s correspondent that she indeed received a large sum, on legal grounds.
“I can say it was not 20 million drams. The size of my benefit is conditioned by the fact that I receive a high salary, and the ombudsman’s salary is established by the law. Under the law, the salary shall exceed threefold the average wage in a bank”, she said.