Georgia to compensate individuals who lost job amid coronavirus crisis while on leave for child related reasons
These people will receive 200 GEL ($62.5/€57) a month for six months. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgia will compensate people who lost their jobs while on leave due to pregnancy, childbirth, childcare or adoption of a child amid the coronavirus crisis.
These people will receive 200 GEL ($62.5/€57) a month for six months.
To receive the compensation, an individual must have received a salary in at least one of the first three months of 2020, moreover, an individual’s contract must have been terminated by June 1, 2020 and they must not have received a salary afterwards.
The former employer must confirm the above conditions about the employee.
The Georgian government presented a coronavirus anti-crisis plan on April 24 in which it announced support for people who lost their jobs amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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People who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus crisis or are on unpaid leave will receive 1,200 GEL ($374.9/€341.7) over the course of six months, which is 200 GEL ($62.5/€57) per month. This assistance will apply to 350,000 citizens of Georgia. For this reason, a total of 460 million GEL ($143.7 mln/€131 mln) is allocated from the budget.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia announced earlier today how the government intends to help businesses and agriculture during the COVID-19 crisis.
Georgia will spend 3.5 billion (about $1.10b/€1.02b) on its coronavirus anti-crisis plan, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia announced earlier today. "For now, the country will spend GEL 3.5 billion on managing the crisis, of which 1.035 billion GEL will be directed at social support of citizens, 2.11 billion GEL will be directed at the economy and entrepreneurs, while 350 million GEL will be spent on the health care of each citizen", Gakharia said.
The Georgian government will identify people who need help as a result of having lost jobs amid the state of emergency in Georgia. The government will determine who has lost the job in this period through the decreased amount of people who pay income taxes, said Vice Prime Minister Maia Tskitishvili earlier today.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stated that the government will help people who have lost their jobs due to the state of emergency announced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the country.
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Georgian commercial banks will postpone payment of loans without capitalisation of interest for another three months for all citizens who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus crisis in Georgia, announces the Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia.
In total 57,443 self-employed people have registered in the last 10 days to receive one-time assistance of 300 GEL from the government of Georgia in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The registration of self-employed people on the website of the Ministry of Health of Georgia to receive one-time assistance from the state began on May 15.
Georgian doctors have used plasma treatment to help an 83-year-old COVID-19 patient in nearly terminal condition. "Now she feels much better,” head of Tbilisi Hospital of Infectious Diseases Tenngiz Tsertsvadze has stated. He said that it is the second case in which plasma treatment has worked with critical patients. "One individual has been cured with the help of plasma treatment. We are waiting for positive results in terms of the 83-year-old patient as well,” Tsertsvadze stated.
Subsistence farmers will no longer be recorded as self-employed by the National Statistics Office of Georgia.
Georgia has already supported over 72,000 people who have lost their jobs amid the coronavirus crisis with more than 14 million GEL ($4.41 mln/€3.96 mln) in total, while it helped over 51,000 self-employed people with more than 15 million GEL ($4.72 mln/€4.24 mln) in total, said Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze.
The number of people who will receive 1,200 GEL in state support due to having experienced a loss of income during the coronavirus pandemic has increased, says the Revenue Service.
International experts have praised Georgia’s fiscal policy during the pandemic, calling it ‘correct and prompt’, reports the government’s press office. Global experts working on Georgia’s post-crisis economic plan have arrived in Georgia today.
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About 100,000 people have lost their source of income in Georgia during the coronavirus pandemic, said Deputy Finance Minister Giorgi Kakauridze earlier today.
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