Ministry of Labor: more than 700 thousand people have been left without work since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic

In Russia, since March 2020, more than 735 thousand people have remained without work. In total, there are more than 1.2 million unemployed in the country. This was stated by the Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov, Interfax reports.

"If the citizen has lost their jobs after March 1, and there are more than 208 thousand such citizens, they receive unemployment benefits in the maximum amount, that is 12 thousand 130 rubles," Kotyakov said.

In total, unemployment benefits for 1.8 billion rubles have been assigned from the federal budget.

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In mid -April, Anton Kotykov said that more than 180 thousand people were asked to recognize themselves as unemployed. According to the Ministry of Labor, as of April 15, 2020 in Russia there were 730 thousand unemployed.

Earlier in Kaliningrad, the volunteers told the North. Real website that a resident had to starve due to the loss of work due to coronavirus to feed the children.