In accordance with the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1992 on the protection of the elderly, on October 1, annually celebrates in the world, including in Azerbaijan as an international day of the elderly.
in Azerbaijan there are about 440 thousand citizens who have reached the age of 7, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population is said. According to the department, a significant part of labor pensioners make up older people.
The report says that in Azerbaijan for past years they have repeatedly increased pensions. As a result of social reforms in 2019, pensions were increased by 72.4 percent, age allowance – almost 80 percent. Only over the past three years, pensions increased by an average of 60 percent.
It is noted that a part of the elderly citizens – participants in World War II. They receive a presidential pension, the size of which last year was increased.
Every year on the day of victory – May 9 in accordance with the orders of the head of state they pay a one-time material manuals, the size of which over the past three years has been increased three times – from 500 to 1,500 manat, widows of servicemen, faces awarded medals for selfless work in the rear – Almost four times – from 200 to 750 manat.
Over the past period, the Ministry of Labor provided apartments of more than 100 disabled World War, about 1,150 people with disabilities were provided by cars.
Since the beginning of the Pandemic, Coronavirus Mintruda had social services at home 15 thousand lonely citizens and disabled.