RIGHTS OF 1514 CITIZENS ARE RESTORED

In October 2007 Armenia’s human rights defender applied to the RoA Constitution Court to repeal Article 73.2 since it contradicts to Article 42.3 of the RoA Constitution. On January 15, 2008 the CC decided that before the enactment of the law on pensions many people who had worked in difficult conditions and were entitled to a pension expected a privilege in the order of calculating the size of their pension.
The human rights defender also disputed the compliance of Article 47.3 and Article 47.4 of the law on pensions to Article 18 of the Constitution. According to the above-mentioned provision, in case of 25 years of insurance service the service cannot be affirmed through the court. The court affirms only the missing part of the required service but not more than ten years of service.
In January 2008 the CC met both applications of the human rights defender. After the CC decisions on the applications of the ombudsman the State Insurance Service and the government took joint action to restore the rights of citizens.
During the telephone talk between Human Rights Defender Armen Harutiunian and the head of the State Insurance Service of the Ministry of Affairs Vazgen Khachikian the latter informed that after repealing several provisions of the law on pensions recalculation was administered, and the rights of 1514 citizens were restored, the department of information and pubic relations of the human rights defender’s office reports.

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