Deputy Health Minister Irina Tsakadze says around half of socially vulnerable families checked so far have lost their subsistence allowance following a re-evaluation of the state database, IPN reports.
“To date, we have verified approximately 32,000 families, and all parameters show that a certain number of these families has, fortunately, overcome poverty. As such, just under half of the verified families have had their subsistence allowances terminated,” Tsakadze said.
She noted that when the verification process began in February, the database included around 158,000 families receiving subsistence assistance, covering more than 700,000 people.
Tsakadze said some families no longer meet the criteria under which they were originally registered as socially vulnerable.
