Easter payouts available to be collected

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11 April 2019
16:09

Starting on Friday, beneficiaries of all types of monthly pensions and social benefits under 2,000 lei can collect their one-off 600 lei payouts. According to CNAS data, some 612,800 people will receive this aid from the Government to celebrate Easter.

The National Social Insurance Company (CNAS) says that most recipients, about 400,000, are age pensioners, and the others receive disability pensions, survivor pensions or other social benefits. The amount for the payouts, 367.9 million lei, is taken from CNAS’s State Budget allocations.

The CNAS has already transferred the money to the payment service providers designated by each beneficiary.

Similar 600 lei payouts were offered to the same beneficiaries on the occasion of the last winter holidays.

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Easter payouts available to be collected

IPN.md

11 April 2019
16:09

The CNAS has already transferred the money to the payment service providers designated by each beneficiary.

Similar 600 lei payouts were offered to the same beneficiaries on the occasion of the last winter holidays.

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Christians who follow the old-style church calendar celebrate the Holy Prophet Elijah on Sunday. He is known as a great miracle worker and bringer of rain during drought. In popular tradition, he is considered the protector of crops, reports IPN.

According to the Church, the Holy Prophet Elijah is one of the 16 great prophets of the Old Testament. He lived over 800 years before the Birth of the Savior Jesus Christ, during the reign of King Ahab, in the kingdom of Israel, with its capital in Samaria.

It is considered among the people as a bringer of rain, after he saved the people of Israel from death through prayer, when they were punished by God with three and a half years of drought. It is also said that, after Saint Elijah’s day, the heavy summer rains will begin.

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