YEREVAN. - Armenian PM Hovik Abrahamyan today held a consultation on the results of the study carried out by the country’s Control Chamber in the social security centers of Armenia’s Armavir and Aragatsotsn provinces.

According to President of Armenia’s Control Chamber, Ishkhan Zakaryan, the Chamber studied the cases of 6,753 out of 9,912 families receiving welfare. As a result, violation in the amount of 27,2 mln AMD (approx. $56,000) were revealed.  

7,759 families getting welfare are registered in Aragatsotn province, but the Chamber studies the materials of 5,492 of them. Consequently, 341 violations were found.

The district governors directed written notifications on that the majority of violations had been corrected, the sums had been returned to the state budget and all the discrepancies in the lists of welfare recipients had been removed.