YEREVAN, DECEMBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. At the December 27 sitting the RA government made a decision On Determining the Amounts of 2008 State Benefits. As Artem Asatrian, the RA Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Issues, informed journalists after the sitting, by the decision, the limit of family insecurity has been lowered from 33 points to 30 points. The higher insecurity points are the higher is the amount of benefit provided. A. Asatrian said that the amount of basic benefit has been determined in the amount of 8 thousand drams (nearly 26 dollars) instead of current 7 thousand drams. On the occasion of death of one of family members 50 thousand drams will be given next year instead of the former 25 thousand drams. The benefit provided for child's birth, 35 thousand drams, has been kept unchanged.

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