PM to present new public employment programme next week
Based on the Social Service Agency a total of 633,000 people recieve social assistance in the country as of October 2021 and the amount of cash benefits surpasses 43 million GEL (about $13,817,480/€12,226,676). Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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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.
Agriculture minister Levan Davitashvili, who spoke at today’s government meeting, said the government had finished working on the programme and it would be presented to the public by the PM next week.
The public employment programme will not be the only initiative to stimulate employment in the country. The government plans to take other steps in this regard, which the public will be informed about in the future,” Davitashvili said.
The minister also noted employing more citizens was a priority for the government in 2022.
Garibashvili initiated the public unemployment programme in December 2021. The head of the government said the initiative would address unemployment by building a “well-functioning system” supporting employment of 300,000 people.
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.
Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili spoke at length about his cabinet’s plan to launch new social programmes to address unemployment and the cost of medications in the country during an interview on TV channel Imedi.
The Georgian government will present a programme in the upcoming weeks which will provide socially vulnerable citizens who are fit for work with jobs instead of social assistance, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said today.
As part of the Georgian prime minister’s initiative, vulnerable families scoring 70,000 or below on the social threshold score and registered in Tbilisi will receive support from the state in covering their utility bills.
A total of 117,897 people received governmental social support package in Georgia in 2021, figures from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) show. In the latest release of data from the agency, statistics for state financial aid to underprivileged citizens show 34.7 percent of recipients being women, with 65.3 percent men.