On April 22, at the initiative of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security a working discussion on the social support programmes of the servicemen suffered because of 44-day war, was held.
The NA deputies, representatives of the Ministry of Defense, the Human Rights Defender Office and the NGOs attended the discussion.
Presenting the motivation of organizing the discussion, the Committee Chair Andranik Kocharyan noted: “Today, many people don’t know the ways of making use of social programmes and get mxed up with bureaucratic hassle.”
The Head of the Chief Department on Servicemen’s Health, Social Protection and Veterans Affairs of the Ministry of Defence, Colonel Alexander Avetisyan presented a comprehensive report, where he noted that the Ministry transferred personal cases of 3039 citizens who died in 44-day war to the Servicemen Insurance Fund to carry out compensations. In this moment, according to their data, 2500 citizens’ compensation bid is confirmed.
Monetary compensation bid of the family of 556 missing servicemen was sent to the Fund. By the decision of the Government, the missing persons’ families, which have not still received any status, will receive 300.000 AMD compensation for six months.
According to Avetisyan, 500.000 one-time compensation has been given to more than 9000 wounded military, irrespective of their disability category: “Taking into consideration the large volume of the work and the geographical distance, a decision was made to carry out the primary collection of the cases through the local self-government and territorial administration bodies. Then, the latter submit the cases of every week or month to the Department, which implements correction of data, and after that sends it to the Fund.”
301 servicemen received first and second disability categories.
Alexander Avetisyan has informed that they have problems of data collection, which related especially to the wounded.
The Ministry also compensates the burial of the dead servicemen, as well as the improvement expenditures of the cemeteries, providing respectively 1.400.000 and 700.000 AMD.
The Head of the Chief Department on Servicemen’s Health, Social Protection and Veterans Affairs of the Ministry of Defence also answered to the questions of the MPs and the invitees. They mainly referred to the loan of the dead and receiving a status of participant in military operations.