14.5% of Georgian population receiving social assistance, Mestia highest recipient town
Social assistance is the only source of income for 151,000 families in Georgia. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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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.
In addition, social assistance is the only source of income for 151,000 families in Georgia, says the agency.
The town with the highest ratio of the number of aid recipients to the population was Mestia in the Svaneti region of Georgia, where according to the latest data, 65.9% of the local population received social assistance.
Here are the top 10 regions of Georgia where the most people receive social assistance:
- Mestia - 6,129 people (or 65.9% of local population)
- Ambrolauri - 4,353 people (48.9% of local population)
- Oni - 2,968 people (48.7% of local population)
- Lentekhi - 2,077 people (47.2% of local population)
- Tsageri - 4 ,224 people (41% of local population)
- Keda - 6,839 people (40.5% of local population)
- Khulo - 8,901 people (37.9% of local population)
- Zugdidi - 22,504 people (36.1% of local population)
- Dmanisi - 6,860 people (36.1% of local population)
- Kharagauli - 6,827 people (35% of local population)
On the other hand, only 305 people took social assistance in the ancient Georgian town of Mtskheta, which is 3.1% of the local population.
Last year 339,277,444 GEL was issued for social assistance, while in the first three months of 2021 a total of 89,818,591 has already been transferred.
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.
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 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’s population has slightly increased, reaching 3,728,600 people as of January 1, 2021, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). Year-on-year (y/y) Georgia’s population increased by 0.3%.
At the initiative of Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, assistance to socially vulnerable children will be doubled starting July 1. Instead of existing 50 GEL, assistance for socially vulnerable children will be 100 GEL in 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.
In total 2,587 people died from Covid-19 in 2020, which accounted for more than five per cent of total deaths in Georgia. The number of total deaths in Georgia in 2020 amounted to 50,537, while in 2019 this number was 46,659, with a mortality rate per 1,000 persons increased by 1.1%, the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) reports.
'Produce in Georgia' state programme will introduce a new programme providing co-financing on loans taken out by families with newborn children to buy a new apartment, announces Georgian Economy Minister Natia Turnava.
The number of people receiving social assistance in Georgia has reached 633,000 in October 2021, Social Service Agency reports. As of today, 17% of the Georgian population receive social assistance, while the total amount of allowance given to the socially vulnerable exceeded 43 million GEL (about $13.61 m. / €11.79 m.) in October.
Georgia’s prime minister Irakli Garibashvili will next week present a new public employment programme of the government, with the initiative aiming to provide jobs to socially vulnerable citizens fit for work, instead of social assistance.
A total of 14,382 vacancies were announced in the new government-initiated public employment programme as of March 1, the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs said on Wednesday.
A total of 14,744, 673 million GEL ($4,557,991mln/€4,148,970mln) was issued by municipalities across Georgia last year in the form of “individual state aid,” with the figure marking a 22 percent increase compared to 2020, the Georgian National Competition Agency announced on Thursday.