Families to receive one-time assistance of 200 GEL per child
One-time assistance for children is part of the third phase of the government's anti-crisis plan which was announced today in order to further ease the burden caused by the coronavirus crisis. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Families will receive one-time assistance of 200 GEL (about $64.83/€54.65) per child from the state, announces Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia.
He said assistance for children will help them prepare for the upcoming academic year.
This will be one of the most important social assistance programmes for children and of course it will help them prepare for the upcoming academic year", said Gakharia.
One-time assistance for children is part of the third phase of the government's anti-crisis plan which was announced today in order to further ease the burden caused by the coronavirus crisis.
In addition all students who have a rating score of 150,000 from the Social Service Agency will receive full tuition from the state for one semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. Furthermore, students whose score is below 150,000 points and have their student status suspended due to the non-payment of tuition fees will also receive 2,250 GEL in financing for tuition in 2020-2021.
Gakharia said that more than 33,000 students in Georgia will benefit from this assistance.
What support can Georgian citizens expect?
The government of Georgia has announced the third phase of its anti-crisis plan in order to ease the burden caused by the coronavirus crisis.
As of now about 132,000 self-employed people have registered in total to receive one-time assistance of 300 GEL from the government of Georgia in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
How does the gov’t plan to support the construction sector?
The Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Gakharia has presented a fourth anti-crisis plan today worth 434 million GEL aimed at supporting the construction and development sector of Georgia. He said that the construction and development sector was one of the fastest growing sectors which employed 120,000 people in 2019.
Georgia will spend 3.5 billion (about $1.10b/€1.02b) on its coronavirus anti-crisis plan, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia announced earlier today. "For now, the country will spend GEL 3.5 billion on managing the crisis, of which 1.035 billion GEL will be directed at social support of citizens, 2.11 billion GEL will be directed at the economy and entrepreneurs, while 350 million GEL will be spent on the health care of each citizen", Gakharia said.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stated today that 'we are entering a long-lasting, deep economic crisis' and if this economic downturn continues 'we will have to announce another social package at the beginning of the next year'.
As of today, 600,868 children have been registered for the state social assistance programme in which children up to 17 years old will receive 200 GEL from the state.
Georgia continues to support its citizens amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
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.