2021 data: 177,897 people receive social assistance in Georgia
Out of the total 971,648 persons receiving pensions and social packages, 793,751 were receiving old-age pensions, of which 71.5 percent were women and 28.5 percent were men. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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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.
Among the beneficiaries, 71.9 percent were people with disabilities, 12.4 percent represented family members who had lost their breadwinners, 9.9 percent were veterans from armed conflicts, and 5.5 percent was comprised by recipients of state compensations.
The regional distribution of people receiving social packages was as follows:
- Tbilisi - 26.7%
- Imereti - 16.9%
- Adjara - 11.4%
- Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti - 9.7%
- Other regions - 35.3%
Overall in 2021, 350,959 Georgian families were registered in the database for social programmes, while the number of families receiving subsistence allowance amounted to 174,379.
Image: Geostat.
Out of the total 971,648 persons receiving pensions and social packages, 793,751 were receiving old-age pensions, of which 71.5 percent were women and 28.5 percent were men.
Geostat said a majority of the pensions were distributed in Tbilisi and reached 29.4 percent of the total amount, followed by the western region of Imereti with 16.3 percent, and the north-western Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti with 10.8 percent.
The Consumer Price Index in Georgia increased by 1.1 percent in January 2022 compared to the previous month, while the annual inflation rate stood at 13.9 percent, the latest inflation data of the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) shows.
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.
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.
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.
The Interagency Commission for Determining the Terms of Banking Services has ruled on establishing a 26 percent upper limit for loan payments backed by pensions, which may be further reduced in the future based on inflation in Georgia.
The government initiative of launching a previously announced employment programme that will replace social benefits with jobs for up to 200,000 citizens will commence on March 1, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced at the government meeting on Monday.
The unemployment rate in Georgia has decreased by 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to the same period of last year, amounting to 19 percent, the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) announced.
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.
A total of 20,000 vacancies were announced as the new Government-initiated public employment programme launched on Monday, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili revealed at the weekly Government meeting.
A total of 17.5 percent of the Georgian population was under the absolute poverty line in 2021, a 3.8 percentage point decrease compared to the previous year, the latest data of 2021 poverty indicators published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia show.
Seventeen units of insignificant amounts of individual state aid were issued in Georgia in 2022 for a total amount exceeding ₾30 million ($11.63mln), the National Competition Agency of Georgia announced on Tuesday.