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On the 23rd, civilians receive counseling at the Job Security Emergency Grant Consultation Desk at the Employment Welfare Center Plus in Jung-gu, Seoul. Yunhap news
There were mixed joys among the freelancers for the second disaster support fund that began to be paid out on the 24th. The freelancers who received the grant greeted it by saying, “ Dry land, ” but small business owners who were unable to receive the support because they did not meet the standards they complained.
Unlike the first round, this subsidy was paid to the vulnerable group affected by the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19). The first beneficiaries of the subsidies are special jobs (special baccalaureate) and self-employed. The government will pay 500,000 won per person from this day to 500,000 special advisers and freelancers who received the first support fund in the first half of the year. About 200,000 freelance and special advisers who recently applied because they did not receive emergency job security support in the first round can receive 1.5 million won per person as of November after passing the assessment alone.
“The standard of ‘August’ is that I don’t want to give support money
To prevent the spread of Corona 19, a closure notice was posted at a gym in central Seoul on the afternoon of the 30th of last month, when social distancing step 2.5 was implemented in the metropolitan area. Yunhap news
However, among the special high schools and the self-employed, it is argued that the standards for the payment of subsidies do not coincide with reality. This is because new applicants must show that their income for August of this year has decreased by more than 25% compared to their income during the period being compared, such as income for June or July of this year.
In particular, they responded by saying: “I do not understand that the government has established August as a standard of ‘reduction of income'”, saying: “It was from September that income was affected by the implementation of step 2.5 of social distancing” . In particular, complaints are high from sports instructors and academies, who were forced to be “forced unemployed” for two weeks in early September due to the ban on meeting in academies and indoor sports facilities. Hwang Mo (31), a sports instructor who could not receive this allowance after the first round, said: “August was a time when it was possible to do normal business, so the salary did not decrease.” “I don’t understand if it was based on monthly income.”
At the online café where the academy instructors met, voices were loud: “As of August, you don’t want to give the subsidy.” One of the academy instructors also said, “Does it make sense that the subsidy to pay the employment insurance premium cannot be awarded after the school door is forcibly closed due to the ban on meetings,” even in the category of ‘non-employment insurance subscribers’, which is one of the criteria for payment of the subsidy?
“Please reflect reality” 靑 Cheongwon-do
That day, a post was published in the Blue House National Petition asking “to review the standards for the second reduction of subsidy income for specially employed workers.” The petitioner said: “The order and restriction of the collective prohibition of the metropolitan area was made in the first and second weeks of September, and it does not make sense that August is the month for the new target income reductions of payment announced by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance “. He added: “The salary is actually a ‘deferred payment,'” he said. “In July, Corona 19 is stable, so the economy is also freeing up and the August revenues will surely increase more than before.”
The petitioner also said: “Since it is actually difficult to prove September income, it is necessary to pay it to the applicant first and then repay and redeem it through the year-end settlement or comprehensive income tax return.”
Reporter Kwon Hye-rim [email protected]
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