Financial Tribune - A total of 12,860 billion rials ($75 million) have been deposited into the Social Security Organization�s Unemployment Insurance Fund, according to the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare.

The funding came from the �1 billion coronavirus relief package from the National Development Fund of Iran, Mehr News Agency reported.

�Close to 820,930 people have filed for unemployment since March 13, of whom 687,911 were found eligible for benefits,� Masoud Babaie, an official with the Cooperatives Ministry, said.