As of February 1, 2025, the number of recipients of social payments from the State Social Insurance Fund (hereinafter referred to as the SSF) due to job loss amounted to 106 thousand people. At the same time, payments were assigned to 31.2 thousand people this year. The total amount of payments was 9.4 billion tenge.

In accordance with the current legislation, dismissed employees receive social payments for job loss for a period of 1 to 6 months, depending on their length of participation in the compulsory social insurance system and their income over the last 24 months. Payment is made at the expense of the Social Insurance Fund in the amount of up to 45% of lost income.

To assign a payment, a dismissed employee must:

- log in to the eGov.kz portal;

- select the “Registration of job seekers” service in the “Job placement and employment” section;

- order an online service, fill in all the fields, sign it with an electronic signature and send an application;

- within one day, the career center (hereinafter referred to as the MO) at your place of residence will offer you vacancies;

- if a job is not found, you will be remotely granted the status of unemployed within 3 working days (if necessary, an employee of the MO will contact you to collect additional information);

This service can also be obtained online through the Electronic Labor Exchange (enbek.kz).

When there is information about registering as unemployed, the information system of the Ministry of Labor proactively receives information from the Social Insurance Fund in a format To agree to the service, an SMS message will be sent to your mobile phone. If you agree, you must respond to the SMS message. The payment will be assigned automatically.

Recall that the social payment paid in case of loss of employment at the expense of the Social Security Fund is made regardless of the reasons for the dismissal and is intended to support the unemployed person during the period when he is looking for a job.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/enbek/press/news/details/936894