Employers from the Montana Region can apply for financial support from the state to hire unemployed persons and single parents. As of yesterday, the Employment Agency launched a procedure for accepting applications from employers seeking to take advantage of this opportunity. The deadline for submitting documents to the Labor Offices is March 4.
The financing parameters are set out in the National Employment Action Plan for 2020 and provide for the provision of wages and social security contributions for employed unemployed persons with a stay in the Labor Office for more than 6 months, up to 24 years of age or above 50 years old, with primary and lower education, unemployed mothers with children under 5 years, etc.
Encouragement measures offer full-time or part-time options. The duration of the employment provided and the subsidy period also varied and ranged from 3 to 12 months. The Labor Offices Cooperation Councils will evaluate by 9 March the applications submitted according to established criteria and will approve the jobs that can be subsidized within the available free financial resources.
Employers can also apply for other preferences to hire certain groups of unemployed people. In parallel, the Employment Agency also provides financial incentives for the unemployed to stimulate their mobility or entrepreneurship. Unemployed people can apply for and receive financial support for day-to-day commuting expenses for long-distance transport to and from work, as well as housing and other expenses when starting work in a locality more than 50 km away from their place of residence. Starting your own business can be supported on the basis of an approved business project by receiving a one-off unemployment benefits or providing a lump sum for starting a business as a micro-enterprise, which this year is already up to 4000 BGN. In both measures, funds can be provided for other start-up services.
For more information and assistance, you can call the phones of the Counsultancy Center for Disadvantaged People in Berkovitsa 0953 89137 and 0890943741.
