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    ARMENIA WILL EXERCISE ESTONIAN EXPERIENCE OF PENSION REFORMS

    10:57, 28 November, 2012

    YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS. Armenia will pass into the cumulative
    pension system starting from January 1, 2014. As a model Armenia will
    borrow the Estonian experience in the field, where this system has
    been implemented about ten years ago. "Armenpress" had a conversation
    with the General Executive Director of the Social Maintenance Service
    of Estonia Livi Evarston.

    - When was the cumulative pension system implemented in Estonia and
    what stages did it pass through?

    - Cumulative pension system has been implemented in Estonia in 2003
    and the citizens made first payments that very year. In the first
    stage it was implemented on a voluntary basis and was in force until
    2008. But beginning from 2009 it became obligatory. Citizens born after
    1983 have been involved in the obligatory cumulative pension system,
    as to the citizens below the abovementioned age, they remained in
    the state social system. Notwithstanding if citizens born before
    1983 had a desire to be involved in the aforesaid system they have
    been transferred to the cumulative pension system on a voluntary
    basis. Anyway, voluntary system did not have much success in Estonia,
    as only 6 percent of the citizens have been involved in the system.

    - Was it necessary for Estonia to pass into cumulative pension system
    instead of state pension system?

    - First off all I would like to mention complicated demographic state
    of Estonia. The number of working citizens decreased, while the number
    of pensioners increased. Hence, the problem of paying pensions would
    become rather difficult for the next generations. That is why this
    was an imperative of time.

    - Who is in charge for the surveillance of the pension fund in Estonia?

    - Generally private companies are engaged in the administration
    of pension funds. As to the surveillance it is carried out by the
    Ministry of Finance. It is in charge for the collection, analysis
    and introduction of the financial information to the public. In case
    of occurrence of a number of problems the Ministry of Finance is
    authorized to interfere in the activity of the pension funds. (THE
    FULL VERSION OF THE INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE IN ARMENIAN).

    The interview by Artak Markosyan


    From: Baghdasarian
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