By the decision N 359-L of March 26, the government approved the fifth measure of neutralization of economic problems with the Coronavirus, the aim of which is to support the protection of effective jobs due to the spread of coronavirus among individual businesses in Armenia.

According to the event, assistance is provided to those businesses that had from 2 to 50 employees per month in January, February and March, according to the calculations of the income tax submitted to the RA State Revenue Committee, without taking into account the number of employees hired during the period 26 to 31 March, 2020.

Armen Petrosyan, an expert of the “Development Principles” NGO, noted the exceptions envisaged by the program and presented observations on them.