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    Emil Lazarian
  • 2 years ago
    • Categories: 2022

Government raising minimum wage, pensions from Jan 1

PanArmenian
Armenia – June 30 2022
June 30, 2022 – 18:12 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The government is planning to raise the minimum wage from the current 68,000 to AMD 75,000 a month beginning from January 1, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, June 30.

The Prime Minister said the elderly will also receive higher pensions from the beginning of next year, although he failed to provide more details.

Pashinyan noted that the country's tax collections exceeded budget estimates by AMD 47 billion, which enables the government to plan certain social programs for next year.

Starting from January 1, it is planned to increase childcare allowances for kids under 2 years old to AMD 30,600 instead of the current AMD 28,600. According to Pashinyan, all mothers should receive childcare benefits, regardless of where they live and whether they are employed or not.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS