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#. Sung-Hoon Lee (pseudonym), who has been working in Japan for 9 years, recently received a special fixed rate benefit of Corona 19. I put a copy of the foreign card and a copy of the bank book in the documents that came to home and mailed them, and after a while, cash was deposited into the account. Japan is also providing subsidies to foreigners (except short-term) who stay legally. Lee said in Media Today, “Disaster subsidies must be paid to everyone in Japan. We are in a position to pay taxes together, but we must help even foreigners, ”he said.
#. Mr A, a freelancer living in Berlin, Germany, recently shared his experience receiving a grant from a platform that provides information about Germany (DOKBAB). Three days after receiving the online waiting list on the website, the account was deposited with 5,000 euros (about 7 million won). The difference can be paid after verification, but it was not necessary to prove income before receiving it. Mr A said: “The name of the grant is ‘So far’. Shouldn’t it be an immediate support fund at this speed? Considering the usual slowness of administration in Germany, it felt faster. “
Additionally, the Democratic Party, the government, and the Blue House decided to focus the second disaster grant on high-risk industries. As public opinion was tense, like selective payment and universal payment, the Party Administration called it “personalized” support. When criticized because the differential payment policy according to the decrease in income was announced earlier, Kim Sang-jo, head of the Blue House Policy Office, said: “We will go to a universal payment method through just check the minimum requirements without a prior exam as possible. “
However, as it states that the possibility of blind spots is high, interests are being drawn towards the standards and methods of foreign countries. Germany is often mentioned in connection with this disaster grant. Germany paid 50 billion euros (about 68 trillion won) of emergency assistance to the self-employed, self-employed and small business owners. It was called to have similar aspects to ‘personalized support’ in the sense that it focused on supporting vulnerable industries. Gyeongnam Governor Kim Kyung-soo said on the 6th: “The issue of whether it is universal or selective can be solved by establishing an integrated management system to identify income and assets. In Germany, the self-employed, small business owners, and the self-employed suffered emergency coronavirus disasters with just ID cards and tax numbers. If you request the support fund, it will be paid in 3 days. “
However, Germany did not only target specific industries like the plan currently being reviewed in Korea. As of March this year, any self-employed, self-employed or small business owner who has reported to the German tax office can apply for emergency assistance. The degree of pay was classified by the number of employees employed. Business owners with five or fewer full-time employees can receive a maximum of € 9,000 (about 12.6 million won) and 10 or fewer people can receive up to € 15,000 (about 21 million won). If they received more support than the standard, it was returned later and a tax was levied on the support fund itself. Public companies were excluded from the support.
In March, the UK also announced a policy of support for the self-employed, focusing on the self-employed. For self-employed persons whose annual income is less than 50,000 pounds (about 75 million won), 80% of their three-month income was guaranteed up to 7,500 pounds (about 11.4 million won). As of May 29, the British government provided a total income of 6.8 billion pounds (about 1 trillion won) to 2.3 million self-employed workers. The self-employed support plan was expanded once later. It’s a plan to guarantee up to £ 6,570 (about 9.9 million won) of 70% of revenue for three months. The term to pay the self-employed income tax has been extended from the end of July to January of next year.
One thing in common with many countries that have adopted different policies is that they have included foreigners in disaster assistance. The same is true in Japan as in Lee’s case, as well as in Germany and Great Britain. Japan provided disaster assistance in a manner similar to Korea’s first disaster relief fund. All were paid a fixed payment of 100,000 yen (about 1.1 million won) per person. Subsidies were also granted to foreigners with visas to stay more than 3 months, regardless of their nationality. Most countries, such as the United States and Canada, also do not exclude foreigners from disaster assistance.
In the case of Korea, there has been a controversy over the exclusion of foreigners from the disaster subsidy policy of local governments. Earlier, Korea’s National Human Rights Commission recommended that foreigners should not be excluded from the emergency disaster subsidy policy of local governments such as Seoul and Gyeonggi Province in June. She explained that if foreign residents become vulnerable, the ability to recover from damage to local communities can be reduced. However, Governor Lee Jae-myung’s Gyeonggi Province, which emphasizes ‘universal payments’ day after day, did not accept this recommendation.
Meanwhile, the Party Administration, which professed “pre-Chuseok support,” has yet to formulate specific pay targets and standards. Clamoring continues from those concerned that they will not get paid. The National Federation of Taxi Unions (Federation of Korea Trade Unions) and the National Housing City Workers Union (FKTU) argued on the 8th that “corporate taxi workers are known to be excluded from support and are angering taxi families fueled by direct crown attack. ” . Although karaoke is expected to be listed in a high-risk industry, coin-operated karaoke owners, who have raised the possibility of being excluded, announced a press conference on the 9th. Some local governments demanded that areas affected by typhoons and floods are included in the selective payment goal.
Some political circles insist on revising disaster support which has strengthened its universality even now. On the 7th, the Executive Director of the Justice Party, Shim Sang-jeong, said: “It is fairer for the National Assembly to mobilize efforts to raise funds to overcome the crisis by collecting the tax from the super-rich rather than closing the fair without giving disaster subsidies to the rich. ” Basic Income Party spokesperson Kim Joon-ho said on the 8th: “There is no point supporting just one part of a line to see who is more difficult and who is more damaging in the face of a global disaster. Detailed investigation is impossible, and the mass production of numerous blind spots will result in a blossoming of people’s desire to be excluded from the protection of the state. “
※ Reference:
Analysis of the second supplementary budget for 2020 (Office of Legislative Research of the National Assembly, April 2020)
Germany’s support policy for the self-employed and SMEs related to Corona 19 (Korea Labor Institute, International Brief, May 2020)
Corona 19’s Impact on the Japanese Labor Market and the Government’s Response (Korea Labor Institute, International Report, June 2020)
Corona 19’s Impact on the UK Labor Market and the Government’s Response (Korea Labor Institute, International Report, June 2020)
Berlin ‘Instant grant’ for 5,000 euros (DOKBAB)
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