290,000 register for unemployment insurance, but only 66,000 receive benefits

290,000 people registered for unemployment insurance, but only 66,000 received it. Somayeh Golpoor, labor activist and former head of the Supreme Council of Workers' Trade Associations, told Khabarvary: A 7 percent unemployment rate is meaningful only when labor force participation is at a natural level; the problem is far greater than these numbers suggest, and today more than 3 million Iranian youth are in NEET status, which is the most accurate indicator of functional collapse in the labor market.

• Formal registration for unemployment insurance: 290,000 people
• Actual unemployed individuals: approximately 2 million people
• Jobs lost: more than 1 million positions
• Actual unemployment insurance recipients: only 66,000 people. This statistical crisis represents the vast gap between registration, identification, and actual support.