Unemployment insurance was in full swing during the health crisis.
This in itself is not a great surprise, but a study published Tuesday by the statistical service of the Ministry of Labor, the Dares, details the real extent of the intervention of Unédic, in charge of the regime, and of the State - in particular for the specific solidarity allowance (ASS) - during the pandemic.
If they not only massively financed the partial activity of nearly 9 million French people at the height of the crisis, in April 2020, their action did not stop there since it was necessary to continue to compensate the unemployed "
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Thus, due to the automatic extension of rights and the sudden increase in the number of unemployed in spring 2020, 4.6 million job seekers were eligible for compensation at the end of May.
That is 400,000 more people than before the Covid-19 pandemic.
With the deconfinement and the resumption of activity, their number has gradually stabilized at 4.3 million,
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