YEREVAN, OCTOBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. It is planned to raise the pension annual additional payment by 50 drams in Armenia starting 2007, making it 230 drams. Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed about it by Levon Lalayan, employee of the Department on Foreign and Public Relations of RA State Fund of Social Insurance. So, in his words, the average amount of pension will increase by about 1500 drams and will make about 12.5 thousand drams (about 33.3 USD). It was also mentioned that no increase of basic pension currently amounting to 4250 drams is planned.

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