Unemployment Relief

While working diligently to ensure the full employment of the country’s workforce, there will be times when certain individuals will find themselves temporarily out of employment.

The UPP government is the first administration in the Caribbean Community that will institutionalize a system of Unemployment Relief. This is indeed a very important measure for a small nation like ours to adopt and underscores the sincerity of the UPP administration as a “People First” movement.

The procedure for persons who have lost their jobs to access unemployment relief will be simple and unbureaucratic. The programme will be administered by the Social Security Board. All eligible persons will apply to the Board and on verifying their claims, the Board will disburse to those persons, every month for a three month period, 60% of the income they last received.