In the LNR announced the payment of unemployment benefits

The Employment Center of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) will start making unemployment payments next year in accordance with the Russian legislation of the Russian Federation, informs TASS with reference to the director of the institution Andrey Dmitrienko.

“In connection with joining the Russian Federation, the work of the Republican Employment Center is organized taking into account the requirements of Russian legislation. From January, citizens and employers will be provided with a full range of public services in the field of employment, as well as pay unemployment benefits,” he said.

According to Dmitrienko, the LPR employment center has employed more than 14,000 residents of the republic, which is 88.5% of those who applied for help in finding a job.

“The largest number of citizens are employed in such professions and specialties as a motor transport driver, a tractor driver, a seller of food and non-food products, a loader, an auxiliary worker, a junior nurse, a watchman, a teacher, and an educator,” the employment center reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spent December 15 meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects. He instructed the government to prepare a program for the development of new regions of the country (DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions) within the first quarter of next year, which will bring them to the all-Russian level in terms of quality of life and infrastructure.

Putin stressed that in the new regions, in particular, all-Russian social security standards will be introduced, a maternity capital program and payments to needy families will appear, and pensions will be increased. Schools, clinics and kindergartens will also be built in the new subjects, economic activity will be stimulated, and their industrial and agricultural potential will be developed. Russia has come this way with Crimea and Sevastopol, and therefore “knows what needs to be done,” the head of state added.

During a special operation in Ukraine, the Russian military took control of the LPR, as well as most of the DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. At the end of September, five-day referendums were held in these territories on the issue of joining subjects to Russia.

On September 30, the President of the Russian Federation and the heads of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions signed agreements on the regions joining Russia. On October 5, Putin signed federal laws on the admission of four new subjects to the Russian Federation.