Financial assistance programme for some forcibly displaced  Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians to be continued until end of 2025 

ArmInfo. From now on, support for internally displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh will be more targeted, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatryan assured at a government meeting on July 3.

"We were supposed to switch to a revised, more targeted and targeted  support mechanism from April, but we postponed it for another two  months. The monthly rental support program in the amount of 40  thousand drams continued in April and May, and our new regulation  came into force in June," he said.

According to him, the support will continue from July until the end  of the year only for minors, pensioners and disabled persons, in the  amount of 30 thousand drams each. <That is, we will continue the  support in the amount of 30 thousand drams for minors, pensioners and  disabled persons until the end of the year>, Tigran Khachatryan  emphasized.

On April 10 of this year, The Cabinet of Ministers adopted a  resolution that needy families forcibly displaced from  Nagorno-Karabakh will receive additional social benefits in Armenia  from April to December 2025. It was noted that assistance will be  provided to families in which the monthly income per family member is  less than 55 thousand drams. One family member will receive 40  thousand drams, starting with the second family member and for each  subsequent one - 10 thousand drams. Assistance will not be provided  to families that own a house or apartment in Armenia, as well as  families in which someone has a car manufactured after 2017.

According to the decision, the following persons will not be  beneficiaries of the program:

1) persons temporarily residing in a social protection institution;

2) persons temporarily residing in territories owned by the state or  municipality;

3) persons temporarily residing in hotels or rest homes with state  assistance;

4) families, one of whose members is the sole owner of residential  real estate located in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, or  one or more family members jointly have a common joint or shared  ownership right to the same property (one family member or members  jointly with a 50 percent or more share), or one or more family  members jointly have a right to purchase the same property registered  in the manner prescribed by the Law On State Registration of Property  Rights (one family member or members jointly with a 50 percent or  more share).

5) families, one of whose members owns a motor vehicle manufactured  after 2017 (registered and having a state license plate in the RA),  or if the annual amount of property tax on the motor vehicle (if  there is more than one real estate in the family - the total amount)  exceeds 15,000 drams.

The annual financial allocation for the implementation of the event  will amount to 1 billion 838.7 million drams. It is expected that the  beneficiaries of the program will be about 3,000 families (11,430  people, of which 8,430 are second family members). "

The program, within the framework of which 40 thousand drams (about  100 dollars) per month per person were allocated to cover housing  costs for each family forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh, and  another 10 thousand drams to pay for utilities, was launched in  October 2023. It was supposed to cover all displaced citizens,  regardless of age, with the exception of those in special centers and  those who are not in the territory of Armenia. At the same time,  property owners in Armenia were entitled to 10 thousand drams to pay  for utilities.

Initially, the program was approved as a temporary measure, for a  6-month period, since it was planned to implement a housing program.  Then it was decided to continue the program until the end of 2024. In  November 2024, the authorities announced that the terms of the  program (40 + 10) would be revised. As a result, it was decided to  review the terms of the 40 + 10 program - from April 2025 from the  list beneficiaries excluded people of working age. At the same time,  as noted, the amount of assistance from April to June inclusive will  be 40 thousand drams, and from July to December inclusive - 30  thousand drams.