In the first semester of 2020 (for the months of January to June), the supplementary payments for the judges of the Constitutional Court totally amounted to 8.4 million AMD.
In the second semester of 2020 (for the months of July to August), the supplementary payments for the judges of the Constitutional Court totally amounted to 5 million AMD. Whereas, judges and the President of the Constitutional Court did not receive any supplementary payments for September, October, November and December of 2020.
When it comes to the Staff and the Chief of the Staff of the Constitutional Court, in the first semester of 2020, about 43.2 million AMD of the supplementary payments was amounted; in the second half of 2020, 49.2 million AMD was amounted, out of which about 42.6 million AMD was allocated for the months of July, August and September; for the time period of October to December, 6.5 million AMD was allocated, out of which 4.4 million AMD was allocated to the supplementary payments of the Staff (in the amount of 30% of their one month’s salaries) for the calendar month November. 331.3 thousand AMD was allocated to one employee in October, 337.6 thousand AMD to another employee in November, and in December 1.4 million AMD was allocated to seven employees as an individual supplementary payment in the amount of 50 to 100% of their one month’s salary.
Furthermore, in December 2020, the employees and the Chief of the Staff of the Constitutional Court also received a supplementary payment accumulated from the annual salary savings (the so-called 13th salary) in the total amount of 23.5 million AMD. The judges and the President of the Constitutional Court did not receive any supplementary payments from the annual salary savings. The Constitutional Court saved more than 106 million AMD from the allocated funds provided for by the state budget, out of which 64.5 million AMD was generated from the means provided, yet not used, salaries and bonus funds of the Constitutional Court. The total amount of annual savings of the Constitutional Court was directed to the Reserve Fund of the Government of the Republic of Armenia.
For your information, 721.2 million AMD was allocated to the Constitutional Court under the budget of 2020, out of which 491.4 million AMD was envisaged for the salaries, and 140.4 million AMD was provided for the supplementary payments.
