One of the target groups of an extensive package of social support carried out on behalf of President Ilham Aliyev are military personnel who have contributed to victory in the Patriotic War. Regulations of the head of state, tens of thousands of military personnel were awarded orders and medals. According to HAQQIN.AZ in the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population.
According to the application, the families of the shekhid were promptly appointed social benefits. More than 2,700 military personnel who have wounded in war, disabilities and relevant social benefits were appointed. For these categories of the population, social payments over the past 3 years increased by an average of 2-2.5 times.
Program provides housing at the expense of the states of the family of Shekhid and the disabled of war last year expanded 5 times. In 2021, more than 3 thousand apartments were provided, and in general the state provided more than 12,300 apartments and private homes to those in this category.
Also last year at the expense of the state were provided by cars 165 more, and in general, 7,400 disabled of war. Wounded in war are attracted to medical and recovery events.
2 708 The wounded serviceman was determined by the degree of disability and was scheduled for social benefits. 188 veterans of the 44-day Patriotic War, 75 soldiers who were disabled in connection with participation in hostilities in the I Karabakh war and in a pre-war period – a total of 263 people with disabilities were provided with high-tech 4th-generation prostheses.
In the post-Soviet period, 10 thousand members of the families of Shekhid and Veterans were brought by the Ministry to active employment programs, including more than 6.5 thousand to the Self-employment program. To create small family farms and enterprises, the program participants were provided with the necessary goods and materials, equipment.
One of the positive practices used by Mintruda is to attract veterans to training courses on the development of modern professions (ICT sphere, IT specialist, programmer, developer, information system specialist, network administrator), etc.
“Employment Marathon”, launched in June last year, aimed at supporting the employment of family members of Shekhid and Veterans, wounded during the Patriotic War. The marathon has already joined 618 employers who presented 4,230 vacancies. The number of secured work within the marathon increased to 1,800 people.