"Fact" daily writes:
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs proposes to make additions and changes to the decisions of the government N 710-L of May 16, 2024 and N 898-L of June 14, 2024.
Decision No. 710-L approved the state support program for providing housing for families forcibly displaced from Karabakh, the purpose of which is the social and economic inclusion of displaced persons by creating the necessary conditions for long-term residence in the Republic of Armenia. As of December 10, 2025, 3,717 families received a certificate, of which 1,612 realized it.
During the implementation of the program, some problems have arisen that hinder the effectiveness of the program, in particular, in order to benefit from the existing mortgage loan repayment assistance, beneficiaries have applied, who received not a mortgage, but a consumer loan or other type of loan for the purpose of purchasing real estate, which does not meet the conditions of the program according to the current legislation.
At the same time, financial documents provided by large stores operating in Armenia are submitted to the joint social service for the purpose of realizing the positive balance, which are not invoices, but any other document, which again does not meet the requirements set by the current legislation.
In law enforcement practice, a problem was also recorded regarding the documents submitted by the citizens who applied to the interdepartmental commission. Many applicants submit only one document to the interdepartmental commission stating that they worked or studied in Karabakh for at least the last 12 months prior to deportation, but the current legislation requires at least 2 documents and the application is rejected.
In order to increase the efficiency of the program, it is proposed to settle these issues, in particular, to establish that the support for repayment of the existing mortgage loan can also be used by those beneficiaries who, as of July 1, 2025, did not receive a mortgage loan, but any other type of loan, for example, for the purpose of purchasing residential real estate or building an individual residential house.
Establish that if the beneficiary wants to use the positive balance for the purchase of furniture or household appliances, then in this case the support amount is transferred by the service to the seller's bank account based on the relevant financial document (including invoice, transfer request, transfer account, invoice, tax account, goods supply account, advance payment request, etc.). It is proposed to consider children born up to and including December 31, 2026 as family members within the framework of the program, regardless of when they submitted the online application and received the certificate provided by the program.
It is also proposed to establish that if the data of applicants who applied for the program and did not receive beneficiary status are available in the individual (personalized) registration database of Karabakh or in the school management information system maintained by the Ministry of Education and Culture, where information is reflected that the applicant who applied for the program and did not receive beneficiary status worked or studied in Karabakh for at least 12 months from September 27, 2020, to December 12, 2022, then he is granted the status of a beneficiary, regardless of the presence of the documents defined by the decision.
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