YEREVAN, OCTOBER 29, NOYAN TAPAN. Cases containing violations of 6.4m drams (nearly 19.6 thousand USD) have been revealed as a result of checkings implemented in 16 territorial agencies of Armenian Social Service. Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed about it by Vahan Baghdasarian, the Head of the Control and Social Monitoring Department of the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Issues. According to him, the most part of the registered violations is conditioned by forged certificates introduced by local self-government bodies. V. Baghdasarian said that during 2007, studies were also conducted in six territorial centers of the Armenian State Employment Service, where violations of 173 thousand drams were revealed. According to him, the main violations are, in particular, conditioned by wrong calculation of length of service for determining the duration of unemployment benefit. According to the head of the department, checkings were also carried out in 12 territorial centers of the State Fund of Social Insurance, where cases of overpaying and underpaying to the total amount of 630 thousand drams were registered.

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