"Whenever any list is refreshed and optimized, such a question may arise—was money being spent in vain? No, of course not," Minister for Regional Development Mamuka Mdinaradze told journalists in response to a question regarding socially vulnerable families.
The situation concerns the state's active process of re-evaluating socially vulnerable families. According to the Minister of Health, nearly 70,000 families have already been re-assessed, and the majority of them no longer meet the point threshold required to receive assistance.
According to Mamuka Mdinaradze, the process of re-evaluating socially vulnerable families and the decline in their numbers is naturally linked to the growth of the country's Gross Domestic Product.
"There are certain stages when adjustments are made, albeit based on objective criteria. However, among so many thousands of people, there may naturally be individual human errors and so on, which require review and correction. Just 4–5 years ago, do you remember what the GDP per capita was? It was not even $5,000. When it exceeds $10,000, it naturally triggers the process regarding which decisions are being made now. The more GDP per capita increases—along with the corresponding coefficients reflecting the distribution of this economic growth among the population—the more this list will be adjusted. You cannot have 600,000 socially vulnerable people in a country with a GDP per capita of $4,500, and still have 600,000 socially vulnerable people when it exceeds $10,000," Mdinaradze said.He added that if mistakes occurred during the re-evaluation process, they will be rectified: "In just a few dozen cases, there might be purely natural human errors, which will certainly be corrected," - Mdinaradze stated.
