2,317 ARMENIAN FAMILIES RECEIVE EACH 300,000 DRAMS ($1000) FOR THIRD AND EACH NEXT BORN CHILD

ARMENPRESS
August 1, 2008

YEREVAN, AUGUST 1, ARMENPRESS: Some 2,317 Armenian families, who are
in the list of socially insecure households, received each 300,000
Drams ($1000) for the third and each next born child in the first
six months of 2007.

Armen Margarian, head of a Labor and Social Affairs Ministry’s
department, told Armenpress that overall 170,000 Armenian families
are rated as socially insecure.

The allowance was raised to 300,000 from 200,000 Drams last year,
when 2,654 such families received it