ArmInfo.On December 13, the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Military Insurance Fund was held at the Armenian Defense Ministry, at which a report on the payments made was presented.
According to the press service of the department, the executive director of the Fund, Varyuzhan Avetikyan, reported that during the reporting period after 2017 compensations were paid on 15 facts, 10 of which were paid to the families of the dead servicemen, and 5 - to soldiers having a disability. According to Avetikyan, taking into account the fact that at the previous meeting it was decided to pay compensation also to the families of soldiers killed or disabled in 2015-2016, 147 cases were made over the last 4 months. Of these, 140 families are dead soldiers and 7 are families with disabilities."It was decided at the next meeting of the Board of Trustees to discuss the issue of payment of compensation for the facts registered before 2015," the report says.
Varouzhan Avetikyan informed that at present the total amount of funds raised by the Fund exceeded 12.5 billion drams, and the amount of compensations paid amounted to 771 million drams. The program, as noted, continues to successfully operate on the principle of full transparency and accountability to the public. December 15, 2016 The deputies of the National Assembly of Armenia with a ratio of 84 votes in favor, 4 against and 1 abstaining in the third and final reading adopted the draft on compensation for damage to the life or health of military personnel while protecting the Republic of Armenia with the attached package of draft laws.
The author of the initiative, Ex-Minister of Armenia Vigen Sargsyan, said then that compensation would be paid to the families of servicemen who were killed or injured in military operations, while carrying combat duty on the contact line or performing special missions: at a time from 5 to 10 million drams and monthly - from 200 to 300 thousand drams for 20 years. To implement this, a special fund for the insurance of servicemen was created, where every employed citizen of the Republic of Armenia is obliged to transfer 1000 AMD each month. The financial resources necessary for the payment of compensation by the Fund are also generated from payments in the course of using the services of state or municipal bodies (500 and 200 drams for each service); by selling special bonds; through incoming grants, gifts and donations; at the expense of the profit received as a result of management (in the form of investments) by the collected funds. The law began to operate in 2017 and has no retroactive effect. All operations of the Foundation can be tracked on https://www.1000plus.am/ru.
From January 1 to the end of December 2017 The families of 27 soldiers killed as well as 6 soldiers who were wounded during the fighting received a total of 360 million drams of compensation. In August 2018, changes were made to the law "On Compensation of Harm Caused to the Life or Health of Military Personnel under the Defense of the Republic of Armenia", thanks to which families of military personnel who died or were injured after January 1, 2015 (and the military themselves) will be able to enjoy state support. Prior to this, soldiers with disabilities, their families and families of the military who died after January 1, 2017 had the right to support the state.
