Citizens of Vanadzor city are not happy to find out that the Governmental decision on reimbursing Governmental credits of Soviet times to citizens because only those citizens included in the list of families receiving state aid over 70 years old will be able to get it.
“As if not giving us governmental aid was not enough, now they don’t give us credit reimbursement either”, said the pensioners, whose stipends had been increased by only 1.000 dram and as a result the Government stopped giving them state aid, thus they didn’t give them credit reimbursement either.
“My mother is over 70 and my sister and I are unemployed. We get neither aid for unemployment nor family aid. Besides that they don’t reimburse the money that my mother has saved during her work experience over 40 years at a chemical factory”, said a citizen living on 30 Karen Demirchyan street.
“Last year the Government stopped giving state aid to many pensioners and gave that support to those families that had first-grade children first. So who will get this reimbursement?” said member of “Heritage” party Gohar Sardaryan, who wanted to ask this to the head of the state committee on state and legal issues, Rafik Petrosyan, during a program on ALM TV channel on April 18, but wasn’t able to get connected. Citizens of Vanadzor got angry especially after the announcement of the head of the state committee on state and legal issues, saying that after giving this reimbursement to citizens over 70 the next phase will be done only in about 5-10 years.