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The Labor Office provided 330 million in benefits to the flooded. In a fifth of the cases, the damage ran into millions

The Moravian-Silesian Region was the most affected, according to the submitted applications for the benefit, which accounted for 65 percent of the applications. Olomouc Region was second in the order with 28 percent of requests.

“Our work does not end with the payment of extraordinary immediate aid. A number of households can still draw on other forms of extraordinary assistance, they are also entitled to other benefits, such as housing allowance or unemployment support,” pointed out the general director of the office, Daniel Krištof.

According to the telephone survey that accompanied the dose, most households have managed the disaster, but there are still a lot of people who still need help. Four percent of those affected have lost their housing completely and face demolition. The same amount expects that they will not return to their old job because their business was destroyed by the floods.

Help with accommodation was most often provided by families

“Of the clients who lost their housing completely, 68 percent currently live with family or acquaintances, 20 percent rent,” said office spokesman Michal Kovařík.

According to the survey, more than two-fifths of the disabled will have to reconstruct their home, and one-tenth will be able to return after cleaning it. The rest have already returned home or did not have to leave it at all.

The damage is most often between one hundred thousand and one million. This was stated by 47 percent of the respondents, while for roughly half of them it was in the range of half a million to a million crowns.

For fifteen percent of the respondents, it was between one and three million, for four percent it was over three million CZK. It can thus be said that almost a fifth of those who were flooded suffered millions of damages. For eight percent, the damage was less than one hundred thousand, more than a quarter cannot estimate it.