Donetsk, Oct 18 — DAN. Donetsk People’s Republic employment centers found jobs for 245 people with disabilities in the first nine months of this year, said DPR Republican Employment Center Director Yelena Goloborodova.
“Seventy percent of 350 job seekers were employed, ” Goloborodova said at a press briefing at the Donetsk News Agency.
DPR employment centers have found temporary jobs for more than 33,000 people since the beginning of the year and permanent jobs for more than 7,000 people, she added.
DAN earlier reported that DPR employment centers’ job placement rate reached 90 percent. The number of registered jobless in the beginning of the year amounted to 46,700; of those, some 42,000 were employed. The residents who have been unable to get jobs through employment centers are eligible for unemployment benefits. Currently, the DPR has 193 such recipients. Most of them receive the maximum benefit worth 12,792 rubles.*jk