1.2 million Iraqi families enjoy social welfare salaries:

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: About 1.2 million Iraqi families have been covered by the social welfare salaries in different parts of the country, according to a statement by the Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs on Tuesday. “The number of families covered by the social welfare salaries in different parts of Iraq has reached about 1.2 millions,” a Ministry’s media source told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding that their salaries will be distributed at the end of the current month, according to the mechanism laid by the Ministry for the elderly, disabled and unemployed people. He said that the salaries range from 50,000 Iraqi dinars for each person, 70,000 dinars for two, 90,000 for three, 100,000 for four, 110,000 for five, 120,000 for 6 and above. A U.S. dollars equals about 1,118 Iraq dinars approx. “The Ministry has laid a new mechanism for persons, covered with social welfare, comprising a committee of social researchers, a municipality member in earch area, along with a social welfare employee, and the committee would carry out visits on random basis to different areas of Iraq,” the source concluded.   SKH 35