From January 1, 2027, the social package program ends. Lusine Harutyunyan, acting as the head of the Labor Law Policy Department of the RA Ministry of Labor and Welfare, mentioned this at a press conference today, October 7. "With that program, we were solving various educational, social and health problems. The program was introduced in 12-13 years in order to solve these problems, over the years, the individual components of the program received different systemic solutions, including the introduction of health insurance from January 1, 2026. the system. Therefore, this program has come to its logical end and the funding of the program will be stopped from January 1. Although the program has a social purpose, it is not a program of a social nature and is not provided for the purpose of support. It is a social labor guarantee established by the employer for its employees of the state, which does not depend on the salary level or the social status. As the program brings together different public sector workers, under different sector policies, over the years the pay systems have been revised and different social work guarantees have been provided to different employees. , which in most cases have the same educational or health orientation, or set other guarantees. For example, we have such employers in the private sector who provide such packages to their employees and over time the packages are revised, one guarantee is replaced by another guarantee. Here, as of January 1, 2017, the direct social-labor guarantee in the form of a social package is being replaced by a larger systemic investment, the universal health insurance system, and there will also be other components of the state system. The new systems of administration of students or the introduction of certification in the education sector, or already from January 1 we have the new system of remuneration of civil servants based on new performance. "Here, the program automatically ends with the introduction of the given components," he said.