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“It is the largest coverage we have done through direct transfer to the person in the State of Chile,” said the Minister of Social Development and Family, Sebastián Sichel, when announcing the approval of the draft law on Emergency Family Income.
This measure would benefit the 20% of the population living on informal income and it would take place on May 29, according to the minister. “I wish it had been earlier, but the opposition in some cases made it more difficult,” said Sichel.
According to the Secretary of State added, there will be 4.9 million people who will benefit from this income from $ 65 thousand for each member of the family group during the first month. The measure will last at least three months, and will decrease: $ 55,250 the second and $ 45,400 the third.
✅Approved | Senate approves presidential veto and dispatches a bill that grants an Emergency Family Income. pic.twitter.com/MNahIS1Wvw
– SenadoChile (@Senado_Chile) May 13, 2020
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The delivery of the money will be made in the personal account of each one. For those who have already received other state benefits, the process will be automatic, while Those who have not entered their data can do so from May 20 on the website www.ingresodeemergencia.cl.
For his part, the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, assured that “we have always been clearly clear regarding the amounts involved, that these are substantive amounts. I’m glad that today in the Senate that was made clear. “
“These family income supports will continue to be there whenever they are needed. We are not going to leave them alone because we understand that we are facing a unique crisis in our history, in health and economics, “added Briones.
In addition, the Minister of Finance recalled the other measures that the Government has promoted, such as the Employment Protection Law and credit with a state guarantee or “COVID-19 credit”, and stated that the project targeting those who are not yet ready they work on fee tickets.
Who can access the Family Emergency Income
People who belong to the 60% most vulnerable in the emergency months, are not part of the 10% highest income in the medium term, and do not have formal income from wages received due to an employment contract.
This, thinking that they could benefit from other measures that are being pushed to protect income amid the pandemic.
On the other hand, those who are part of the 40% most vulnerable in the emergency months, who are not part of the 10% higher income according to your Social Registry of Homes, and that they receive mostly informal income, but that record some low formal income. In this case, these are also families that live in a situation of high vulnerability during the emergency, but who, in addition to their informal income, receive, for example, a low pension or low fees.
Likewise, households that have at least one adult over 70 years of age or older with Basic Solidarity Pension (PBS), which are not part of either the first or the second universe of homes that the project included initially and that belong to the 80% most vulnerable in the country according to the Socioeconomic Rating of the Social Registry of Homes.
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