Ministry of Labor has decided to take away unemployment benefits from the “dependency ratio” – RBC

A visitor at a job fair in the state employment service of the population, Omsk, April 2016

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The Ministry of Labor has published a draft law that reduces the number of people who can receive unemployment benefits, and terms its receipt. Due to this, the Office proposes to increase the maximum size of the grant of up to 8 ths. Rub.

Labor Ministry proposes to increase the size of unemployment benefits, but reduce with the number of citizens who can it pretend to be from the bill departments and explanatory notes to him who laid out for public comment on regulation.gov.ru site. The initiative involves including combating

«free-rider attitude of citizens”. Now unemployment benefit varies in the amount of 850 rubles. to 4.9 thousand. rub. On the payments to the unemployed from the federal budget spent, according to the explanatory note, in 2014, 33.9 billion rubles, in 2015 -. 38.9 billion and 41.1 billion rubles is planned in 2016. The allowance is paid for the first time and looking for work, and people who wish to work again after a break longer than a year, and fired for violation of labor discipline. Labor Ministry offers to pay benefits only to those who have registered as unemployed for a year after the loss of a job. “With regard to other categories of citizens, duly recognized as unemployed, the decision on the appointment is not received unemployment benefit”, – said in a memorandum (exception made for orphans and children left without parental care)

The Ministry of Labor also proposes to reduce payment periods twice. Who benefits payable under the scheme not exceeding 12 months and a half years. The new initiative offers payments to the unemployed for a maximum of six months during the year.

As a result, by reducing the number of benefit recipients and terms of payment, you can increase the size of the grants themselves, says the Ministry of Labor. The minimum payment increase to 2 thousand rubles, and the maximum possible -…. Up to 8 thousand rubles

The bill aims to provide targeted principle payments and is aimed, in particular, the fight against parasitism, said in a memorandum. There is a category of citizens who are not really motivated to actively seek employment, but tend to continuously receive unemployment benefits, according to Ministry of Labor. For example, they are registered with a break, often with the new account within 12 months they again considered unemployed. It turns out that they are actually looking for jobs, but prolong themselves for benefits. The bill if within a year citizen several times applied to the service, but work between calls and did not find, do not consider him a legitimate recipient of aid.

On the development of this bill Labor Minister Maxim Topilin said still February 2016. In early May, the press service of the Ministry of Labor reported that 1.05 million of the unemployed officially registered in Russia, which are available for 1.23 million jobs from the employment service.