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| 14:04:19 | 10-06-2005 | Official |

PROBLEM OF 0.5% SOLVED

Today Robert Kocharyan had a working meeting with Labor and Social Affairs
Minister Aghvan Vardanyan.

The main issues of the meeting were the old-age pension reforms, poverty and
family pensions, and the results of the newly-created Labor State
Inspectorate and the introduction of the social cards.

Employment issues have also been discussed. According to the Ministry data,
since the beginning of the year the unemployment rate has been reduced by
0.5% and now 135 thousand people instead of 142 are looking for jobs.

The Minister has also represented the course of the carrying out of the
order about adding by 5000 the premium of the Great Patriotic War veterans.
A reference has also been made to the possible variants of adding the
pensions of the other veterans too.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress