Georgia continues social support for citizens amid pandemic
Also, people who are involved in sectors which will be suspended for the next two months per today’s tightened coronavirus regulations, including markets, shopping malls, stores and retail business will receive one-time assistance of 300 GEL. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgia continues to support its citizens amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The country will continue to give 200 GEL assistance for six months starting January 1 to citizens who lost their jobs after the coronavirus outbreak.
Over 125,000 people have received this state support so far.
Also, people who are involved in sectors which will be suspended for the next two months per today’s tightened coronavirus regulations, including markets, shopping malls, stores and retail business will receive one-time assistance of 300 GEL.
About 120,000 self-employed people will receive 300 GEL assistance from the state and the state will help them to postpone loans in banks. Georgian PM Giorgi Gakharia noted that 250,000 people have already benefited from the program.
Moreover, socially vulnerable families (with scores of 65,000 - 100,000), as well as those families with scores of up to 100,000 who have three or more children under the age of 16, will receive 100 GEL assistance every month for six months.
Also 100 GEL assistance will be available over the course of six months for people with disabilities under 18 and people with severe disabilities. This will apply to 43,000 individuals.
Families will receive one-time assistance of 200 GEL per child from the state, announces Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia.
Georgian citizens above 70 years will receive an increased pension starting today with monthly pensions increasing by 30 GEL ($9.8/€8.8) to 250 GEL ($81.8/€72.9), announces the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Affairs of Georgia.
The number of beneficiaries eligible for 300 GEL in state support has increased and based on the changes Georgian citizens who are self-employed abroad will also benefit the state programme.
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.
Georgian Finance Minister Ivane Matchavariani said that the new restrictions imposed by the government today give ground to revise the economic growth rate of 2021.
A 101-year-old woman has recovered from coronavirus in the western Georgian town of Kutaisi. Tamara Pkhakadze is one of the 106,328 individuals who have defeated COVID-19 in Georgia so far. Expressing her gratitude to the hospital employees Tamara Pkhakadze said she feels very well now.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has stated earlier today that state social assistance and social sustainability will be the main task of the Georgian government in 2021.
Georgia is starting a new stage of social assistance this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, said Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia earlier today, noting that people who have lost their jobs and have not earned a salary since December 2020 will receive 200 GEL per month over the course of the next six months.
In Georgia 541,764 people, or 14.5% of the Georgian population receive social assistance from the state and this number has increased by 83,296 individuals in the last one year, announces the Social Service Agency of Georgia.