Fewer Draw Unemployment Benefits (2)

Published: 11.11.2011 09:35

Offices of the Unemployment Insurance Fund
( Photo: Postimees/Scanpix )

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Registered unemployment fell in October, but so did the percentage of those registered who received the unemployment insurance benefit - to just 18.5 percent compared to 20.6 percent in June.

A total of 51,900 people were on the roll as unemployed at various times during the month (the number had fallen to around 46,000 by October 31) and the unemployment insurance benefit was paid to 9,600 people.

The average unemployment insurance benefit was 297 euros and the total amount paid was 2.4 million euros.

As for the unemployment allowance - a labor market measure that amounts to about 2 euros per day and can be paid for a maximum 270 days - it was paid in October to 8,900 people, or 17 percent of those registered as unemployed during the month.

The Praxis think tank said in an analysis published on November 9 that the poverty risk for the unemployed is high as the amount of the unemployment benefit is low and the payment period is short.


Kristopher Rikken

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  • Tiger

    11.11.2011 13:32

    2 euros per day ? per working day ?

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    knut_albers

    11.11.2011 15:19

    Tiger, no, per calendar day! Estonia does not afraid the additional costs and treats their minions with dignity and respect. Although, it is known to the common public, that the unemployed are too lazy to work. For 1 EUR/ hour and 100 hours/ week also the low laborers would have enough income. Or, as I just read in a German forum (the country with the so called "gravy train benefits") under the head title "abolish social assistance": "Previously, work shy people was put in labor camps!" After all, it is not THAT bad in Estonia. But you certainly can look at the 67 EUR/ month as an unmistakably inhuman token. Especially, if you include that people previously paid for their work more taxes (especially social taxes) than in Germany. That leads me to the following question: For what the whole social insurance taxes are burned down in Estonia? Not for the infrastructure, neither to support the elderly poor that are looking for food and returnable bottles in the dumpster(TM), as can be seen quite obviously in Tallinn, for instance.