{"id":987521052,"date":"2022-01-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/pensions-student-stipends-and-social-benefits-increased-in-azerbaijan-by-25-50-since-january-1\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:41:56","slug":"pensions-student-stipends-and-social-benefits-increased-in-azerbaijan-by-25-50-since-january-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/pensions-student-stipends-and-social-benefits-increased-in-azerbaijan-by-25-50-since-january-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensions, student stipends and social benefits increased in Azerbaijan by 25-50% since January 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>Press service of Azerbaijan\u2019s President reported that on December 20, 2021, <strong>President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev<\/strong> signed a number of decrees <strong>to increase students\u2019 stipends, social benefits and pensions<\/strong>. These changes aimed at improving social protection by the head of state will cover more than 732,000 people (about 7% of the total population), for which 200 million manat (equivalent to 117.7 million USD) is provided in the country&#8217;s budget.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>The size of social benefits, scholarships and other payments in Azerbaijan has increased starting from January 1, 2022. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>For example, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><strong>age allowance<\/strong> will increase from 130 to 180 manats (by 38.5% from about 76.5 USD to 106 USD per month);<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>allowance for <strong>persons with disabilities<\/strong> up to 18 years of age the will increase from 150 to 200 manats instead (by 33%);<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>the benefit for the <strong>loss of the breadwinner<\/strong> will increase from 80 to up to 100 manats (by 25%);<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>benefits for <strong>mothers with more than five children<\/strong> have been increased from 55 to 70 manats (by 27%);<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>scholarships (stipends) for students of secondary specialized educational institutions increased from 60 to 90 manats (by 50%);<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>the size of the presidential pension for scientists up to 200 and up to 300 manats, based on academic degrees;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>payments for honorary titles, such as for holders of the People&#8217;s merit title has grown from 150 manats to 180 manats, for holders of the Honorary &nbsp;title \u2013 from 100 to 120 manats.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span><span>Source: Sputnik News. Read more in the original publication (in Russian)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/az.sputniknews.ru\/20211220\/v-azerbaydzhane-povysheny-stipendii-pensii-i-posobiya-kogo-eto-kosnulos-437401560.html\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em><span>For more similar content, please follow&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/universal-object-country\/azerbaijan\">Azerbaijan country page<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press service of Azerbaijan\u2019s President reported that on December 20, 2021, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a number of decrees to increase students\u2019 stipends, social benefits and pensions. These changes aimed at improving social protection by the head of state will cover more than 732,000 people (about 7% of the total&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":987528013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[128,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}