Number of presidential scholarship recipients published

12:55 - 26.07.2022


July 26, Fineko/abc.az. As of 1 July of this year, the number of persons provided by the Ministry of Labor & Social Protection of the Population with the monthly pension of the president increased by 26.3% compared with the same term of 2021 (286,700 people) and compared with 4 years earlier (58,000 people) – 6.2-fold and reached 362,000 people.

ABC.AZ was informed at the Ministry that along with a significant increase in social benefits over the past 4 years, new types of scholarships have been established: monthly scholarships for war veterans, persons with first-degree disabilities and persons caring for disabled people under the age of 18, for other categories.

At that, as part of social support measures after the 44-day Patriotic War, 94,000 family members of martyrs, veterans of the Patriotic War, including the disabled of the Patriotic War, were assigned 104,000 social benefits.

A significant part of these payments were monthly presidential scholarships.

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