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At the Cabinet on Wednesday, the government agreed to an education voucher for the unemployed who can retrain and an increase in funds for families and artists in difficult economic situations.

1:25 pm, September 9, 2020

PRESSEFOYER ACCORDING TO THE COUNCIL OF MINISTRY: ASCHBACHER / ANSCHOBER
The Minister of Labor, Christine Aschbacher, and the Minister of Social Affairs, Rudolf Anschober, after the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. © (c) APA / HERBERT PFARRHOFER (HERBERT PFARRHOFER)

The turquoise green government attended the Cabinet on Wednesday Resharpening of crown relief measures decided. An education voucher is created for unemployed people who are training. For him Special care time as well as for him Fund for family difficulties more money is taken in hand, said Family Minister Christine Aschbacher (ÖVP) and Social Affairs Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens).

With the Education voucher should Unemployed trained for scarcity occupations become. “This is an opportunity. This is an open door,” Anschober invited those affected to accept the offer. The model foresees that people who work under the Corona Labor Foundation Completing continuous training and retraining measures for at least four months from October 2020, in the future you will receive an education bonus of 180 euros in addition to unemployment benefits. According to Aschbacher, this corresponds to an average increase in unemployment benefits of 19 percent. The one-time payment for the unemployed started last week.

At Special care time become Relief for business determined. Effective immediately, half of this support will be funded by the federal government. So far, the federal government has paid a third of the costs for specialty care. The time of special care can be requested, when schools are closed, even if only one class is locked. And it can still be used flexibly – that is, weekly, daily, and half a day, Aschbacher explained.

As a third measure, the financing of the Crown-Familienhärtefonds increased from 60 to 100 million euros. The reason for this is that “the number of requests is much higher than expected”. In August, this meant that the payment was greatly delayed.

Duplication of the artist fund

The Covid-19 fund of the Artists Social Security Fund (KSVF) also increased from five million euros to ten million euros. The second phase of the fund has been in operation since July 10. Artists who are not eligible to apply for the WKÖ Hardship Fund or Freelance Bridging Fund can apply here Single payment of up to 3,000 euros to receive.

“The second phase of KSVF’s Covid-19 fund is aimed at lower-income artists whose annual income is too low to be insured with SVS,” he said Secretary of State for Art and Culture Andrea Mayer (Green). “It is even more important that we can continue to help this group through these difficult times by increasing the fund to € 10 million.”

In the first phase of the Covid-19 fund, from March to early July, around 2.1 million euros in emergency aid were paid to 2,186 people. In the current second phase, to date around 2.7 million euros have been disbursed to 1,147 people.

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