70 million rubles were allocated to the Irkutsk region for organizing employment for the population

The first tranche of federal funds for the program of additional measures to reduce tension in the labor market has arrived in the Irkutsk region, 70 million rubles, or 40 percent of the annual amount. The money will go to job creation, training and retraining, public works, support for young specialists, relocation assistance, and subsidies for unemployed people who decide to start their own business. The authorities are also preparing a public works program and a mechanism to monitor the spending of funds.

The first tranche of federal funds has arrived in the Irkutsk Region for the implementation of the program of additional measures to reduce tension in the labor market.
This is 70 million rubles, or 40% of the total amount (200 million rubles), which this year are to be transferred from the federal budget to the region as the program is implemented. This was announced today at a briefing by the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Irkutsk Region, Alexander Moiseev.
The program measures involve the creation of additional jobs, the organization of training, retraining, and advanced training for citizens who are at risk of dismissal, layoffs, or enterprise reorganization. These funds will also go toward financing public works, adapting young specialists, assistance for people relocating to another area, and the provision of subsidies to unemployed people who want to start their own business.
— To stabilize the situation in the labor market, payments in the form of subventions have been provided from the federal budget. Of these, 870 million rubles have already been transferred from the Federal Treasury account, another 1 billion rubles will arrive in the coming days, as well as 200 million rubles in the form of subsidies, — Alexander Moiseev explained.
The remaining funds will be transferred as the program measures are implemented at the regional level. The subventions are intended for the payment of unemployment benefits.
Alexander Moiseev also said that, as part of the additional measures, a public works program will be approved by a Governor’s decree, along with the mechanism for implementing the program to reduce tension in the labor market and for monitoring the spending of funds.