Briefing
media after the Government meeting yesterday, Minister for Internal Affairs
Ts.Nyamdorj said there is no proposal to resume payment of child money at
present. The amount formerly paid as child allowance was approximately the same
as the MNT120,000 that the Government has decided to pay from the Human
Development Fund, and the Government is considering paying the MNT50,000 still
due to be paid on this account to be distributed in monthly installments.   

Asked if this
did not mean that money that had gone to children was now being given to
adults, Nyamdorj said every household received the money, and could spend it on
its children. It was only in December 2009, when the Human Development Fund Law
was approved, that it was decided to stop payment of child money and some other
family welfare allowances and the Government sees no reason to revoke the
decision so soon.

Nyamdorj said
his Ministry has developed a draft law to establish a new fund. This has been
approved by the Government and will be submitted to Parliament soon. The fund will
provide assistance to victims of crimes that caused loss of life or serious
injury.