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Number of People on Unemployment Benefits Going Down
Thursday 20 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 20 (TASR) - The number of people drawing unemployment benefits went down in April to 48,442, reports the state-owned insurer Socialna Poistovna (SP).
This figure is the lowest since April 2009, when 47,220 people were on unemployment benefits. The number had been going up quite steadily since that time, peaking in August 2009 on 63,495 claimants.
On average, 50,602 people drew unemployment benefits in 2009. Marking the effects of the financial and economic crisis, the year-on-year increase was 125 percent (from 22,527 in 2008). Due to changes in eligibility, more people drew the benefits only in 2005, when the average was 75,897 (even though unemployment was higher in 2000 and 2001).
In 2009, Slovakia paid out €172.58 million on unemployment benefits.
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