The Welfare Department and the National Assistance Board could see a run on their services next year as a result of the many layoffs this year.
Though he said the Welfare Department had seen no large influx leading up to Christmas, Minister of Social Care Steve Blackett anticipated unemployed workers would be turning to these departments for assistance once the monies they received in severance payments and unemployment benefits ran out.
He tempered this outlook, however, by saying, “What would alleviate that is if we get a number of our projects going in the New Year, especially in the hotel sector, to take up some of those people who would have been laid off.”
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