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On April 5, the RA NA Standing Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, moderated by Heriknaz Tigranyan, convened a regular sitting.

Compensation is provided by the Insurance Foundation for Servicemen to the servicemen recognized disabled as a result of hostilities or the fallen servicemen’s families.

According to the current legal regulations, the beneficiaries of the foundation are not entitled to military pensions in case of disability and loss of a breadwinner. The Laws on State Pensions and on State Benefits clarify the conditions giving the right to a pension or benefit for the beneficiaries of the foundation. The drafts propose to preserve the right of the beneficiaries of the foundation to a pension and a benefit in all cases, when that right is not related to the case of compensation. This means that, for example, the deceased serviceman’s mother, regardless of the fact of receiving compensation from the foundation, can receive age, partial service, long-term service employment pensions or pensions with privileged conditions, long-term service military pension or an old-age allowance at the same time.

One other example, a beneficiary serviceman of the foundation recognized as disabled of the 1^st or the 2^nd group may be granted a long-term service military pension. He also may be granted a pension for the care of a family member in case of loss of a breadwinner or a benefit in case of loss of a breadwinner.

In the given two examples the person can receive compensation from the foundation and a pension/benefit from the state budget at the same time.

The laws clarify that only on the basis of compensation a person cannot receive compensation and a disability employment or military pension or a disability benefit at the same time, as well as compensation and an employment or military pension in case of loss of a breadwinner.

Moreover, the persons receiving compensation in case of termination of the right to receive compensation will be entitled to a pension.

At present, regardless of the length of service of a fallen (deceased) serviceman, the pension is calculated from 20 years of service.

In case of experience entitling a person to an employment pension, it is proposed to include the full period of care for a child with a disability before the age of 18 in the length of service. At present, maximum 10 years are registered.

It will be established that the presence of a pensioner receiving non-cash pension in Armenia can also be confirmed by the pension department, based on any application submitted by the pensioner in person related to the exercise of the pension right.

The conditions of exercising the pension right of a foreign citizen or a person not having citizenship will be clarified.

The Committee endorsed the initiative.