YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The factual collection of compulsory social insurance payments made 88.1bn drams (nearly 288m USD) in 2008, including bank payments 85.1bn drams, payments of insurers by individual state insurance programs 2.9bn drams. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by the Social Insurance State Fund, the total amount of social payments collected in 2007 exceeded the 2006 level by 12.1bn drams. As of January 1, 2008, 522 662 pensioners were registered in the territorial centers of the Social Insurance State Fund, including insurance 469 107, social 47 140, military service 12 009 (of which those receiving double pension 5594). In comparison with the early 2007, the general number of pensioners has reduced by 4 833. Pension was fixed to 22 714 people during last year, 81% of which insurance, 19% social. 526 pensions by privileged conditions, 60 of long-term service, 1 186 partial were also fixed. Disablement pensions made a large number among newly fixed pensions, 12 684 or 56%. Last year Fund's Hot Line Service and its territorial centers received 10 500 application-complaints, 6 252 out of which on restoration of pension payment. It was also mentioned that 618 082 individual reports and 203 783 bids of opening individual accounts were presented to the Fund in 2007. As of January 1, 2008, 1 685 734 individual reports were presented by 52 160 insurers, 1 524 697 out of which were entered computer information base.

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