250 ARMENIA’s CITIZENS GET SOCIAL CARDS

YEREVAN, JULY 22. ARMINFO. After a week, when amendments have been
inserted in Armenia’s law “On social cards”, 250 citizens get social
cards without a bar code and a logo of Labor and Social Affairs
Ministry.

As ARMINFO’s reporter was informed in the MInistry, citizens who have
returned their social cards recently also were among them. According
to Ministry’s data, 900 citizens getting social cards refused them in
2005. 2,600.000 people (99%) who get salary, pension and other social
payments have already received them. More than 600.000 people have
not received social cards yet, of them 90% have no need for them as
they do not make use of social allowances, pensions or salaries.