Minister: unified electronic pension database to be introduced in July in Armenia

YEREVAN, January 31. /ARKA/. Unified electronic pension database will be introduced in July in Armenia, said Armenian Social Welfare Minister Artur Grigoryan on Tuesday to the journalists.

In its result, the opportunity of transferring pensions on the account of dead people or people who had left the country will be excluded.

“If a person dies in Armenia, who received a pension, after registration of relevant certificate to the registrar, the data in the online mode will fall into a single database”, said Grigoryan.

After crossing the borders of the country, this information will be immediately registered in the database and pension payment will be suspended.

“Parallel to the development of the new database, we calculated the old database, in the result of which the number of registered pensioners reduced fr om 520 thousand to 509 thousand. In the previous years 11 thousand “extra” people were registered in the database, pensions were not given, in the result of which in 2011, 10 billion 227 million drams was returned to the state budget.

Grigoryan said that everything was done to avoid interference of officials in certain processes, thus excluding the factor of subjectivity. 

“Pension assignment, suspension of its payment and other issues will be determined with the help of computer program, and interference in these processes is practically impossible. The program will determine which type of pension will be assigned and what payments will be made”, he said.

The process of pension reforms started on January 1, 2011 by the introduction of volunteer accumulative pension system. From January 1, 2014 mandatory accumulative pension system will be introduced in the country, wh ere all the citizens born after January 1, 1974 will be included. -0-