Social benefits to increase from 2022

13:26 - 17.11.2021


November 17, Fineko/abc.az. The Azerbaijani MPs raised the issue of the budget of the State Social Protection Fund for 2022 during today’s discussion. ABC.AZ reports that Musa Guliyev, the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Labor & Social Policy, noted that the average monthly amount of labor pensions in 2019 was 264 manats, in 2020 - 301 manats, in 2021 - 328 manats, in 2022 it is provided in the amount of 343 manats, and the old-age pension will be 372 manats. "The minimum size of the labor pension was set in 2017 at 110 manats, in 2018 - 116 manats, in 2019 - 200 manats, and in 2022 this figure is planned to increase to 240 manats. Next year, it is expected to increase the old-age pension from 331 to 372 manats, disability pension - from 261 up to 299 manats, pension in connection with the loss of the breadwinner - from 263 up to 298 manats," Guliyev said.