ArmInfo.Since its inception, the Military Insurance Fund has provided financial assistance to 4,660 beneficiaries, including soldiers who received disabilities of groups 1 and 2 during the war and families, and died or missing soldiers. Smbat Saiyan, Deputy Director of the Insurance Foundation for Servicemen announced this during a press conference.
At the same time, he noted that the lion's share of the beneficiaries falls on the servicemen who participated in the 44-day Artsakh war. In particular, 97 of them are missing, 524 are disabled, and the rest are family members of military personnel who died during the war. Saiyan stressed that the unprecedented growth of beneficiaries was associated with the Artsakh war.
In this regard, Fundraising and Donor Relations Specialist of the Foundaton Sona Baghdasaryan said that before the war the number of beneficiaries of the Foundation was only 417, and the list of beneficiaries included servicemen with disabilities or the families of those killed since 2008. She also said that since 2017, the Foundation has attracted about 64 billion drams, most of which falls on mandatory payments, while 11 billion are donations during and after the war. "Statistics show that donations from Armenia account for the bulk of donations, followed by the Armenian community in the US, EU and RF," the specialist said.
