PM Gakharia: ‘state social assistance, social sustainability will be the main task of Georgian gov’t in 2021’
Giorgi Gakharia said that defeating the coronavirus pandemic and dealing with the economic crisis will be the guarantee of the country’s success. Photo: gov.ge.
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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.
Gakharia also said that, first of all, the Georgian government should try to maintain existing work places and create new ones during the next year.
While talking about the targeted social assistance programme, Gakharia said that as of today, 130,000 Georgian citizens have applied for one-time 300 GEL assistance, of which 110,000 have already it.
Gakharia said all the remaining individuals will receive their assistance by the end of 2020.
This shows how much the epidemic is affecting the economy, how important the lost work places were for each Georgian citizen and how important the main task for the government is to keep existing work places for our citizens”, said Gakharia.
He said that defeating the coronavirus pandemic and dealing with the economic crisis will be the guarantee of the country’s success.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia and Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus spoke of the global pandemic, Georgia’s efforts to curb spread of coronavirus and the vaccination process during a phone conversation earlier today.
Georgia continues to support its citizens amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Families will receive one-time assistance of 200 GEL per child from the state, announces Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia.
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 parliament of Georgia has approved a state budget of 18.4 billion GEL for 2021 at an extraordinary session earlier today. The state budget includes over 890 million GEL expenditures for quarantine, testing and the COVID-19 vaccine.
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.
Three individuals have been detained for misappropriating 10,200 GEL (about $3,238/€2,723) by fictitiously employing dozens of people to receive 200 GEL assistance, which the government of Georgia offered citizens who lost their jobs after the coronavirus outbreak, announces the State Security Service of Georgia.