Families that lost providers in Nistru War receive allowances of MDL 18-120

15 years after the military conflict started, the issue of the veterans, including the disabled ones, is not troubling the state that called them to arms and which left them to live on their own, the head of Veterans Union “Saint George” Victor Alerfus told a news conference on March 1. According to Alergus, the families which lost in 1992 their fathers, husbands or their sons receive monthly allowances of MDL 18-120, and those who returned disabled from the battlefield have allowances of MDL 300-650, depending on the disability degree. According to the cited source, several days before the 15th celebration dedicated to the start of the Nistru War, the Government created a committee to evaluate the situation of the ex-service men, the families of those who died on the battlefield, were injured, or who have a deplorable situation. The committee was created after numerous petitions have been sent by the ex-service men for many years. The committee is composed of the PM, one deputy PM, ministers of Finance, Interior, Defence, Social Protection, Family and Child, Culture, interim mayor of Chisinau, chairman of the Nistru War Union of Veterans, League of Veterans and “St. George” Union of Veterans. In 2000, the Government annulled a decision by means of which it offered allowances to the veterans of the War for the Independence and Integrity of Moldova, and to their widows. About 287 service men died in the war in 1992, of them 175 are not decorated. 305 ex-service men are III degree invalids.