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Grant of 400 euros for freelance scientists from seven branches It will be given at the end of January.
The amount of 400 euros will be given to lawyers, engineers, dentists, geotechnicians, economists, notaries and bailiffs.
The total quantity available is not expected to exceed 35 to 40 million eurosSomething – according to estimates of competent factors – means that the beneficiaries will move between 80,000 and 100,000 self-employed, according to the newspaper “Free Press”.
What applies to applications
The beginning of submission Applications expected next week.
The granting of this extraordinary bonus was approved in November by Law 4756/2020 (article 66) and was to be granted at the end of December.
The new schedule is for end of january 2021. The amount will be disbursed from the reserves of the special unemployment account in which both the self-employed and the self-employed deposit a monthly contribution of 10 euros.
Applications will be open to all those who carry out their professional activity as freelancers as long as they are insured with EBRD and, as established in article 66 of the law, having been included between the months of March and November 2020 in the Activity Codes affected (KAD) of the Ministry of Finance, due to the measures to deal with the pandemic of coronavirus.
The main objective is that people receive the subsidy. young scientists – self-employed who have not closed the first 5 years – because they are significantly affected by the quarantine, but also those who have been significantly affected by restrictive measures to protect the coronary artery.
Except employees
Except of the allocation payment will remain those that employees of these specialties, on the one hand because they do not carry the unemployment contribution like the self-employed and on the other because as employees they can be covered by other applied measures, such as the suspension of employment contracts with the granting of a similar allowance. It is also considered can not to make applications and those who have parallel activity as self-employed and as employees.
According to the draft decision, Criteria the income will be there, but will not be earned upon application. The use of the criteria will be examined once the applications are completed and if the limit of 100,000 beneficiaries is exceeded, that is, once the fund of 40 million euros has been exhausted.
In this case, according to valid information in the newspaper, the decision establishes that in determining the beneficiaries the reduction of its turnover for 2020 compared to 2019, so that the beneficiaries are limited to the levels of the total budgeted endowment of 40 million euros, that is, not exceeding 100,000.
When the criteria will be activated
If sent 150,000 applications while the money is enough to give 400 euros to 100,000 freelancers (40 million euros), then the criteria for rotation reduction in descending order and in combination with the number of beneficiaries.
For example, if 100,000 have a turnover reduction of more than 10%, then they will remain except those that have a reduction in turnover of up to 10%. If with a billing reduction of more than 10% there are 130,000 freelancers, then the billing limit can go to 15% or 20% so that the beneficiaries fall to 100,000.
the Applications It will be presented in the middle of the month, however, once the corresponding ministerial decision is signed and the electronic platform is opened for the beneficiaries. Planning before the reorganization of the government and the change of leadership in the Ministry of Labor due to Giannis Vroutsi in Kosti Hatzidaki was to sign the decision and open the app platform early next week.
The schedule is not expected change with the arrival of the new minister Kostis Hatzidakis, since the scientific bodies that were assigned to present a joint proposal (DSA, Chamber of Commerce, TEE, etc.) have already reached the criteria and the application form with the information they will complete . the beneficiaries, so it only remains to sign the decision and initiate the applications.
400 euros tax free
The 400 euros are tax free and rampant against debts of the State and banks.
Lastly, there is concern that the platform will exceed ΕΡΓΑΝΗΣ or through the OAED, since it is not an unemployment benefit, but an extraordinary subsidy that will be granted to those who are active and belong to the occupational categories affected by the coronavirus.
