Over 2500 socially vulnerable people with disabilities will be offered free personal assistant services after the government approved the regulations which will take effect on January 1, 2024.

And meanwhile, a pilot program will be launched in some towns.

“Any adult can be a personal assistant, even a family member of the person with a disability,” the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Tatevik Stepanyan said at a press conference. “They must all pass a training course. The personal assistants will be paid per hour, at a rate of 1050 drams, which could be revised.”