Out of a total of 13,910 such unemployed people, more than a third are in Blagoevgrad, or 4,258 people according to data as of April 20 of this year. The number of registered unemployed in the labor offices in Blagoevgrad is ten times greater than those in Varna and Burgas, for example, which are 402 and 440 people, respectively.
The next cities where there are a lot of registered unemployed people who have returned from abroad are Pazardzhik – 1191 people and Targovishte – 769 souls. For comparison, in Sofia, for example, only 225 people receive unemployment benefits after having worked abroad.
Only from the beginning of this year until April 19, 3,882 unemployed people were registered on the stock exchange, and 923 are in Blagoevgrad, and 326 are in Pazardzhik, the reference of the Ministry of Social Affairs shows.
The unemployed receive less than the minimum wage
As pariteni.bg wrote from the data of the NOI, it gives the impression that last year Blagoevgrad and Targovishte were paid quite a lot of benefits according to European regulations, more than those in Sofia, with a population of two million, for example.
We are talking about people who worked abroad, a total of 4,663 Bulgarians, one third of whom are in Blagoevgrad. The average amount they received reached BGN 1,742 for both cities.
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