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Rise in pensioners in Azerbaijan

Business Materials 18 May 2009 12:19 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 18 / Trend , U. Ismayilova/

There are 1.283 million pensioners in Azerbaijan as of April 1, a rise of 8,610 people more than the figure in Jan.-Mar. 2008, Azerbaijan State Social Insurance Fund said.

Nearly 508,880 of them are men, 774,860 are women; 377,830 are mothers with many children. The civil servants who receive pensions totaled 128,090.

The number of pensioners for age category is 840,880, disabled 305,030; 22,280 are first-group disabled and 7,610 are people have handicaps in eyesight. About 4,600 receive pension for professional traumas and 137,830 people receive pension for loss of breadwinner.

There are three types of labor pensions in Azerbaijan which include pension for age, disabled and loss of breadwinner.

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