ARMENIAN VETERANS OF PATRIOTIC WAR WANT TO RESTORE PRIVILEGES THEY HAD
BEFORE
YEREVAN, MAY 8, NOYAN TAPAN. 7898 veterans of the Patriotic War live
in Armenia at present. About 2000 of them are invalids. Veterans get
8300 drams (about 18.4 U.S. dollars) pension and invalid veterans get
12-21 thousand drams. Besides, according to the RA law “On Patriotic
War Veterans”, all veterans get monthly payment of honor, 10000
drams. Veterans pay for flat, litter, radio and phone subscribing 50%
of payments. They have privileges of getting free medical assistance,
medicine, free applies for accomodation in a sanatorium as well as to
run freely once in a year in the territory of the CIS countries.
Instead of some privileges of 2004, veterans get assistance of 3000
drams, and invalid veterans get assistance of 4500 drams. But, as
Major General Rafik Karapetian, the Chairman of the Veterans’ Union of
Armenia mentioned in the interveiw to the Noyan Tapan correspondent,
veterans want to restore their privileges. The Union is going to
address to the RA President, Prime Minister,
National Assembly Speaker with this issue. According to R.Karapetian,
it is necessary to undertake means to improve the social-economic
state of veterans, “They are already old people: the youngest of them
is 82 years old,” he mentioned, adding that 1400 veterans died the
last year.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress