November 4, 2009 - 18:54 AMT
RA State Budget will allocate over 242,4 billion drams to social security sphere
"Because of financial crisis, 2010 social expenditures will be decreased by AMD 2 billion. Budget means are restricted, yet we kept our promise and social expenditures won't be much reduced," RA Minister of Labor and Social Issues Gevorg Petrosyan said at parliamentary commission's discussions on 2010 state budget project.

According to Petrosyan, insignificant alterations of social expenditures' budget is explained by objective reasons. RA State Budget will allocate over 242,4 billion drams to social security sphere.

AMD 700 million were allocated to population employment sphere, AMD 119,2 million provided for disabled peoples' needs and AMD 11,8 million for the accommodation of orphans.