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Montevideo, November 18th 2024 - 00:33 UTC

Tag: social support

  • Saturday, August 15th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

    Chile: some 14 million have received some form of social support

    The lockdown has hammered Chile's commerce, service and tourism sectors, pushed unemployment to 11% and a 5,5/7,5% contraction

    Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Friday that more than one million people had received the government's US$ 626 spot payment aimed at staving off the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic and it had approved more than 550,000 requests for soft loans of up to US$ 815.