Damascus-Sana
Finance directorates started in a number of governorates today, disbursing unemployment benefits to 4,928 beneficiaries from the persons whose names were announced in the lists of the first batch of workers entitled to the allowance from workers whose work was disrupted as a result of precautionary measures to address the Corona virus.
In a statement to Lana, between the Director General of the National Fund for Social Aid, Eng. Luay Al-Arnaji, text messages were sent to beneficiaries yesterday evening, while the unemployment allowance will be disbursed to the rest of the beneficiaries successively, indicating that the total number of beneficiaries in the first batch lists reaches more than 19 thousand beneficiaries.
Al-Aranaji stressed that the delivery of the unemployment allowance is for the same person and does not accept any type of public, private or legal personal agencies in a way that prevents the benefit of any person who is not entitled to or obtain the allowance more than once.
The beneficiary signs and writes a written pledge before receiving the allowance, pledging that he will return the amount of the allowance along with the fines and benefits it entails in the event that it is found that he is not entitled to being a worker in the state or in the private sector, as a result of the measures taken to tackle the Corona virus and not an employer according to Al-Arnaji, indicating The most affected sectors were targeted during precautionary measures to tackle the Coronavirus, namely tourism, pregnancy, porter and handicrafts of a number of traditional handicrafts.
Al-Arnaji pointed out that the process of checking the data of the registrants to benefit from the allowance is closely followed up with the relevant authorities from ministries and unions. Of age.
It is noteworthy that the national campaign for emergency social response was officially launched by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor on the 16th of last April and is targeting alongside daily workers in the sectors most affected as a result of precautionary measures to tackle Corona virus for persons with disabilities and the elderly over 70 years where the last two categories are supported by distributing food baskets Health and financial sums with the participation of a number of NGOs and international organizations and through the private bank account to donate to the campaign. The number of registered to benefit from the campaign via the digital channel reached 450 thousand from the three target groups, including 375 thousand registered from the category of unemployed workers.
Enas Svan