22714 PENSIONS FIXED IN ARMENIA IN 2007, 56% OF WHICH
DISABLEMENT PENSIONS
12-02-2008 16:00:00 | Armenia | Social
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The factual collection
of compulsory social insurance payments made 88.1bn drams
(nearly 288m USD) in 2008, including bank payments 85.1bn drams,
payments of insurers by individual state insurance programs
2.9bn drams. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by the
Social Insurance State Fund, the total amount of social payments
collected in 2007 exceeded the 2006 level by 12.1bn drams.
As of January 1, 2008, 522 662 pensioners were registered
in the territorial centers of the Social Insurance State Fund,
including insurance 469 107, social 47 140, military service 12
009 (of which those receiving double pension 5594). In
comparison with the early 2007, the general number of pensioners
has reduced by 4 833.
Pension was fixed to 22 714 people during last year, 81% of
which insurance, 19% social. 526 pensions by privileged
conditions, 60 of long-term service, 1 186 partial were also
fixed. Disablement pensions made a large number among newly
fixed pensions, 12 684 or 56%.
Last year Fund's Hot Line Service and its territorial
centers received 10 500 application-complaints, 6 252 out of
which on restoration of pension payment.
It was also mentioned that 618 082 individual reports and
203 783 bids of opening individual accounts were presented to
the Fund in 2007. As of January 1, 2008, 1 685 734 individual
reports were presented by 52 160 insurers, 1 524 697 out of
which were entered computer information base.