Social payments increased 3.8 times this year, posting nearly twofold growth in this area compared to 2018, Chairman of the State Social Protection Fund, Himalay Mamishov, told a press briefing on the 6-month report of the Fund, Report informs.
He said that 550,000 people have been provided with social payments this year: “The number of social allowance recipients has incresed by 14,000, pension recipients by 5,000, and targeted state social assistance recipients by 56,000.”