A meeting of the Standing Committee on Economics began at 8:00 a.m. today at the Government House. The second discussion of budget amendments for 2015 will be discussed at the standing committee meeting.

The Cabinet has submitted the following issues for amending the 2015 budget: granting allowances for children only to targeted groups and cutting allowances for mothers with the Mongolian Mother's Glory Order whose children have reached 16 years of age, and not to increase pay and pensions in the revised government budget bill for 2015. However, parliament has decided to continue some of the social welfare programs that were considered for cuts.

It has also been decided to allocate an additional 103 billion MNT to the state budget. All these issues were scheduled for discussion at yesterday’s stranding committee meeting but were postponed for today.