"All those people who are able to work are in families where there are no disabled people under their care who need care, that is, there is no certain limiting factor, we will try to work with them by providing employment, otherwise they should not be on state assistance a beneficiary of the program," Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Narek Mkrtchyan said at the press conference.
According to him, the number of such persons is 30 thousand. The Minister announced that after the establishment of the Unified Social Service from 2021, as a result of proper administration, they were able to significantly reduce the number of families in the system of insecurity.
"We reduced that number by 30,000 from 90,000. According to the latest data, there are 60,000 families in the system of insecurity," said Mkrtchyan, noting that the reason for this is the high economic activity during the last two months and many people finding work.
The Minister also informed that the new insecurity assessment system was introduced, which replaces the "Paros" system: "With the new insecurity assessment system, we will try to change the perception that a person in a difficult life situation should not remain in the continuous insecurity in which he is trapped. giving constant support," said Mkrtchyan, noting that people are not given jobs or mentoring so that they can work and come out on their own. "from the cave".
"With this new system, we will increase the targeting, people who should not be in this system, should not be and there will be filter factors," said the minister and continued "We will perceive the applications for the new assessment of insecurity as an application for employment and we will start working on them back, offering a job.
We will consider citizens' continuous refusal of work as a manifestation of having a source of income... Now we consider the threshold of insecurity to be the food basket, which is currently 34,581 drams.
A needs assessment will be carried out and as a result a deprivation allowance will be introduced, to which people who have been assessed according to the four levels of poverty: extremely deprived, moderately deprived, moderately deprived and deprived, will be entitled.
