Many in North Caucasus and Other Poor Regions Work Off the Clock and So Receive Government Assistance, ‘To Be Precise’ Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 27 – In some of the poorer regions of the Russian Federation, up to 73 percent of the population receives government assistance, most often because the adults in these families work unofficially, are listed as unemployed, and thus can collect unemployment aid, according to the To Be Precise portal.

            Other reasons that have pushed these figures above 50 percent in Tyva and the North Caucasus include large families and hence maternal capital subsidies and outright fraud which allows many to get themselves declared as invalids and receive government money for that (tochno.st/materials/kazdyi-12-i-municipalitet-v-rossii-ne-prozivet-bez-socvyplat-xorosaia-novost-takix-raionov-stanovitsia-vse-mense).

            The portal provides detailed data on this situation, notes that it is more typically the case in rural areas than in urban ones, and says that the Putin regime is successfully cutting the percent of Russians receiving government assistance, something that is deeply unpopular and may in fact harm many.