Submitted bill sets minimal united pension amount: Minister

The bill submitted by the Labor and Social Affairs Minister Mane Tandilyan is not on raising the amount of minimal salary but setting a minimal united pension amount.

Recently aide to the Prime Minister Mesrop Arakelyan stated that the minimal pension amount grows by 60% which though is not so. Minister Mane Tandilyan said that rate changes take place and new calculation method is being applied.

“It is not about pension raise. There is a definition of basic pension and minimal pension. When we say we need to define the minimal pension, it must be clear that no one will get less than the established threshold,” Minister Tandilyan said, speaking to Aysor.am.

If a person gets pension higher than 25,500AMD he/she will continue getting the same amount.

“We want no one get lesser than the minimal amount of food poverty basket is. From January 1, 2019 no one will get less than 25,500 AMD. This is our aim,” she said.

Asked on what account the raise is being made, regarding the circumstance that the previous authorities were not doing this step claiming limited budget means, Tandilyan said, “Every year the budget registers a growth. It is just about priorities, the policy you are carrying out,” she said, our government made such decision as we believe that pensioners must afford the minimal food basket.