Eligibility conditions for getting apartments meant for Chernobyl relief workers to be expanded in Moldova

The MPs today voted, in the first reading, a draft law which provides for the expansion of eligibility conditions for providing apartments meant for participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The draft, voted by 62 deputies, targets the apartments in the block located on Alba Iulia Street no. 91/3 in Chisinau municipality.

Only nine out of the 80 apartments available have been allocated so far, although e 86 applications were submitted. The situation was caused by restrictive eligibility criteria that applicants did not meet.

Thus, the authorities propose modifying the law as an exception, to allow access to more people.

Eligible individuals will also include those who own an inherited residence that does not meet technical or sanitary norms, as well as people who participated in the privatization of a residence together with other family members, benefiting from a share of one third of the area at the most.

At the same time, in the second reading, the parliament is to consider an amendment that will allow the distribution of apartments to war veterans, participants in actions for the defense of independence and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova.

According to official data, in the beginning of 2023, only 1,733 out of more than 3,500 Moldovan liquidators were still alive, and 1,604 of them suffer from different degrees of disability.