Ukraine paid UAH 2.3 bln of unemployment assistance from beginning of quarantine

According to the Acting Director of the State Employment Center Yulia Zhovtyak, the total amount of state benefits paid to officially registered unemployed in Ukraine since the beginning of quarantine reached UAH 2.3 billion, as Hromadske reports.

According to her, 166,000 unemployed people registered in Ukraine since beginning of lockdown.

“The leaders among the regions are large oblasts: Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Lviv. Since the beginning of quarantine, Ukraine provided UAH 2.3 billion unemployment assistance – this is about 40% more than for the same period in 2019,” the report reads.

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