President displeased with minimum subsistence level and need criterion

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree On the implementation of "The cost of living in 2013."

For the first time this option is viable populations and low-income people need criterion is not clearly defined, which means the revision of established figures in government.

According to the document, the government in the first quarter of next year to submit proposals on the laws of the living wage and need criteria, the Ministry for 5 months, should decide the legality of acts and to report to the president.

According to the forecast, passed by Parliament in the fall session, the cost of living in the country should reach 116 manat, which is 8 manat or 4.7% more than in the current year. In this case, the cost of living for the working-age population is set at 125 manat (in 2012 - 116 manats), pensioners - 94 manat (AZN 84), children - 93 manats (87 AZN).

According to the forecast of the parliament, the criterion of need for targeted social assistance to the poor must make 93 manats. This year, assistance was provided to those families, where each family member had up to AZN 84 per capita money income.

According to the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee, in 2011 the poverty rate was 7.6%.

It should be noted that the minimum basic part of labor pensions in Azerbaijan today is 85 manat. People with disabilities in Group 1 receive 50 AZN group 2 - 40 manat, the third group - 35 manat. Thus, the government does not include a group of poor 1.43 million pensioners.

According to the estimates of the Center for Economic Research, the consumer basket per worker Azerbaijanis December 1 is 168.95 manat. Pensioners it costs 151.96, children up to 14 years cost the parents 207.30 manat. -17D-