Statbel’s report highlights that nearly 120,000 job seekers from 2023—representing 40% of the unemployed—were still searching for employment in 2024, while 28% of them became inactive
The Eurofound report underscores the critical role that social benefits play in the lives of low-income individuals, effectively halving the proportion of those at risk of poverty in the EU from 31% to 15.5% in 2022 among working-age populations
The total number of unemployed individuals during the second quarter of 2023 stood at 284,000. Of this group, 103,000 found jobs by the same time in 2024, while 102,000 remained unemployed
