Kyrgyzstan will require 2,180,200,000 soms for welfare payments in 2010, Nazgul Tashpaeva, head of the State Social Security Agency said Friday during consideration of a Welfare Payments bill.

The draft budget for 2010 holds 1,595,700,000 billion soms for the payments. “So, the necessary additional payment will come to 584.5 million soms. The money will be spent on raising of social benefits,” Tashpaeva added.