Unemployed residents of Mangystau can move to other regions. They will be provided with financial assistance
Unemployed people can move to another region under the voluntary resettlement program with financial assistance. This was announced at a briefing at the Center for Public Communications by the head of the Department for the Coordination of Employment and Social Programs of the Mangystau region, Asset Shopanov.
The program is designed for voluntary relocation to areas with a shortage of labor in order to increase labor mobility.
Asetshopanov announced a list of regions where you can move.
- Abai, Akmola, Karaganda, Kostanay, Pavlodar, North Kazakhstan, Ulytau, East Kazakhstan regions have been identified in accordance with the regional quota for the admission of Kandas and displaced persons for 2023. Financial assistance for the relocation of the program participants is provided in the amount of 70 MCI (241,500 tenge). It is paid once to the head and each family member upon arrival at a new place of residence. For example, if a family consists of 6 people, they will eventually receive about 1.5 million tenge. This is with the exception of assistance provided for renting or buying housing, Asetshopanov explained.
45 families (205 people) from Mangystau became participants of the program in 2022. Now they are all employed.
20 families from Turkmenistan (95 Kandas) moved to the north of Kazakhstan. One of them is Melsrymbayev. He moved to the village of Voskhod in the Akzhar district of North Kazakhstan region in 2022. The state provided financial assistance to each family member in the amount of 214,410 tenge.
- I have four children. Everyone was initially accommodated at the school, the local akimat helped with clothing and nutrition issues. We have accommodation, very warm. Now I work as a gas electric welder, - the man shares.
It should be noted that for one person who moved to an urban area, assistance is paid in the amount of 20 MCI (60,000 tenge), with the number of family members from two to four -25 MCI (86,250 tenge), and from five or more - 30 MCI (103,500 tenge).
For one person who moved to a rural area, 15 MCI (51,750 tenge) is paid, with the number of family members from two to four people - in the amount of 18 MCI (62,100 tenge) and 21 MCI (72,450 tenge) – if there are five or more people in the family.
Participants of the voluntary resettlement program can apply to Employment Centers at their place of residence.