YEREVAN. – Although the Government of Armenia has made radical changes in the method for the payment of pensions, an internal resistance is still observed toward the introduction of this new system.   

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated the aforementioned during Thursday’s Cabinet session.

“There were problems with receiving pensions, since the [pensioners’] lists had not come in on time; I have instructed to look into it.  

“For the first time, the pensions were paid on the basis of electronic database, but many people do not like this and they try to show that the pensions need to be paid simultaneously with the paper version,” Sargsyan said.     

In the PM’s words, the corruption risks were arising during the processing of the paper versions, when oversight becomes extremely difficult.  

“There are people that still try to make illegal money by certain methods. All [respective] reports will be prepared and, in September, we will publicize the kinds of misuse that existed,” Tigran Sargsyan stressed.