2,808 Great Patriotic War veterans refunded for “frozen” Soviet deposits in Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - Head of the Methodological Assistance Department at the Armenian Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Armen Margaryan said that as of the beginning of 2011around 2,800 veterans of the Great Patriotic War received compensations at the total amount of AMD 600mln for their “frozen” deposits in the Savings Bank of the former USSR.

The program of compensations is under way. The government has not set definite terms for its completion, thus, eligible persons can still apply to receive compensation, Margaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

On March 25, 2010, the Armenian government made a decision to pay compensations to veterans of the Great Patriotic War for their old deposits held until June 10, 1993, in the Savings Bank of the former USSR. The compensations are paid only to those people, who were included in the list of families receiving benefits from July 1, 2005, to April 1, 2006.

AMD 1.7bln was allocated for payment of compensations for the “frozen” Soviet deposits in 2010.