Brace yourself, the second wave of wage subsidies will be distributed at the end of October 2020

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The government will continue the distribution of the second wave of wage subsidies or the second term in late October, or no later than early November 2020.

Labor Minister Ida Fauziyah said that the distribution of wave 2 of the wage subsidy will take place once the distribution of lot 1 of stage V.

“Once all the distribution stages are completed, the distribution of salary or salary subsidies for period I. In addition, in approximately the next 2 weeks we will evaluate the implementation of the distribution of salary or salary subsidies for the first period,” he said. at a press conference. virtual, Thursday (01/10/2020).

“So when will the second term begin? God willing, it will be at the end of October 2020. Friends, be patient, we will definitely distribute this aid,” he continued.

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So far, Ida continued, the data that the Ministry of Manpower has received from BPJS Ketenagakerjaan is 12.4 million people. From this data, aid has been sent to 10.7 recipients or 92.48 percent.

Meanwhile, 745,669 people are still in the process of being sent from channel banks. This entire process began on August 24, 2020.

Additionally, Ida revealed, several obstacles were encountered in the process that made it difficult to distribute subsidized wages / salaries. Among other things, duplicate accounts, closed accounts, passive accounts, invalid and frozen accounts.

Another hurdle is that workers’ accounts do not match NIK or the accounts are not registered. Invalid accounts reached 2.4 million workers.

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“Don’t worry, we are doing our best to verify and verify the checklist before distributing aid through the channel bank,” Ida said.

Wage assistance / wage subsidy is provided to workers / workers whose wages are less than 5 million IDR according to the wages reported in the employment social security membership.

A salary subsidy aid of Rs 600,000 is given for four months, so that in total beneficiaries will receive Rs 2.4 million per person. This aid was distributed on two terms, each of which amounted to Rs 1.2 million.

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