Tuesday, 31 January 2012
One-Stop-Shop Due In Social Security
“3 priorities are set before the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in 2012: building infrastructures necessary for the functionality of a multistage pension system, laying a legal basis for the provision of integrated social services and drafting of national a program for the defense of children’s rights,” Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Arthur Grigoryan told today’s press conference at the Government Press Center
As the Minister said, the systemic “cleaning” carried out in the system of social security has led to the removal of some 11 thousand recipients’ names from the pension lists.
“After introducing a consolidated electronic database in the pension system, the number of eligible recipients went down from last year’s 520 thousand to 509 thousand in 2012. The current system rules out the inclusion of dead and missing persons’ names in the lists. Day after day, online information will be provided about those pensioners passing away or leaving the country. The embedded software will exclude them from the lists so that no further payments are made to their account,” the speaker said adding that the program is meant to prevent public officials from making changes whatsoever to the database.
Back to the issue of said 11 thousand pensioners, the Minister advised that legal proceedings have already been instituted with further notice about the damage incurred by the State and prosecutions to be provided in due course.
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs will continue with the pension reform this year. The foundations of the funded pension system were said to have been laid last year with the needed infrastructures to be introduced throughout 2012.
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