New support for self-employed no more than 219.40 euros
Self-employed workers will have new support with a limit set at 219.40 euros, according to a statement by the ministry for labour.
The new support for self-employed workers who are exempt from contributions or who started working less than 12 months ago is a maximum of 219.40 euros, according to a statement by the ministry for labour.
The measure is part of a new set of supports to increase social protection against the Covid-19 pandemic approved by the cabinet on Thursday.
The ministry said, “a new system was created to cover self-employed workers who did not meet the conditions of access to the measure of support for the reduction of activity”.
In turn, “the extraordinary support for the reduction of self-employed workers’ activity, for those who meet the conditions of access (as for managing partners), will have a minimum limit, also set at 219.40 euros.”
In the case of members of statutory bodies (managing partners), the ministry added that “the support granted, similar to that available to self-employed workers, will now be granted to those who register an annual turnover of up to 80k euros, regardless of the number of workers.”
The number of companies in this situation is estimated at 190,000.
Until now, this support was only foreseen for managing partners without employees and with annual invoicing of up to 60k euros.
Another of the measures approved is the reduction to half of the guarantee period for unemployment benefit (benefit for those who don’t have the conditions to access unemployment benefit, or for those who have already finished it).
The guarantee period is cut from 180 days to 90 days in the general scheme and from 120 days to 60 days in the case of workers who become unemployed due to the expiry of a fixed-term contract or the termination of an employment contract during the trial period.
“The duration of this benefit, in these cases, is the same as that of the new guarantee period”, the ministry said.
As for the Social Insertion Income (RSI), the ministry stressed that access to this subsidy no longer depends “exceptionally” on the conclusion of the insertion contract.
