There will be no more extra-budgetary funds in state structures. NA Vice President Lena Nazaryan wrote about this on her Facebook page, informing that Finance Minister Atom Janjughazyan came to the NA at the invitation of the “My Step” faction, with whom they discussed a number of issues related to the issue of bonuses and amendments to the Tax Code for about 5 hours.

Nazaryan informed about what changes decisions were made in the matter of bonus payments. 

“1. There will be no more extra-budgetary funds in state structures. (Only the Ministry of Defense may be an exception). It is mainly from these funds that gratuities have been provided for years, and no upper limit of gratuities has been set for a public servant. 

2. According to the 2019 budget, a gratuity fund in the amount of 30 percent of the salary fund will be provided for each state institution. 

3. The Civil Service Office drafts a government decree to regulate the distribution of bonuses. I think the most important question of this kind concerns the setting of an upper limit for each position, so that the manager is limited to that limit when giving bonuses to himself and the employees. 

4. At the earliest opportunity, we will initiate a change in the Law on Public Service, so that the amount of the bonus payment can also be seen in the published declaration.

p.c. In the last 10 years, there has not been as much change in the provision of bonuses as there has been in the last three weeks,” wrote the NA vice president.