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Hadi Rajabli: â€œAzerbaijan needs to improve instruction for targeted social aid forecastâ€

13 January 2010 10:37 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Elbrus Seyfullayev â€“ APA. â€œThe targeted social aids not paid in the last three months of 2009 will be paid thin month and resources will be allocated from the state budgetâ€, Chairman of the Parliamentâ€™s Social Policy Committee Hadi Rajabli told APA. He said current instructions for targeted social aid increased the number of people specified as poor layer of society and last yearâ€™s forecast didnâ€™t coincide with the following instructions. â€œToday poverty was significantly reduced in Azerbaijan and therefore it needs to improve the instruction for forecast. I think the improvement of instructions considering the World Bankâ€™s experience will reduce the contingent of targeted social aidâ€.

The committee chairman said social protection passed into other system. â€œThis is a process of transformation. Previous compensation for children was replaced with the targeted social aid. It aims to secure targets, which demands to set regulations for specifying poor people. There were 17 articles in the regulations, which were improved time by time. This process should be developedâ€.

Rajabli said in this context, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection was addressing a serious problem like poor part of population. â€œThis is very hard issue to be face-to-face with peopleâ€.