Are you really waiting for the quarantine to end? Payment taps will rotate slowly but slowly

Feel hundreds of thousands

According to data provided by the Ministry of Social Security and Labor (SADM), from the beginning of the quarantine in mid-March to the end of last week (May 21), more than 80,000. Residents applied for benefits for freelancers.

About 36 thousand. (exact number: 35,599) Employers applied for subsidies last week.

The total number of employees who have been declared inactive and whose wages are being subsidized is quite impressive: more than 240 thousand. (The exact number is 243,231 as of May 21).

Almost 25 thousand. (exact number: 24,694) companies submitted requests to the State Labor Inspectorate about the downtime announced to employees.

The reason is very simple

Sociologist Rasa Ališauskienė, director of Baltijos tyrimai, who participated in the Delfi11 program on Tuesday, spoke about the possible reasons why a small number of children returned to kindergarten and mentioned a very pragmatic possibility: the simpler calculation, which it is worth more financially.

“Let’s not forget a pragmatic deduction: many people are on downtime, companies, institutions have stopped, even those who started working or laid off people, or had to disappoint them. In this case, a significant number of parents they were able to take parental leave, a newsletter, in other words, those newsletters continue until an epidemic situation is declared in the state.

That is the part of those people whose situation in the workplace is not very good, who see that they may be fired or who have nowhere to return to, keep these bulletins (and they will, aut. P.) Until the quarantine due to that order. This is part of the people and therefore the children do not go to kindergarten, more often for pragmatic reasons than for any other type, “said R. Ališauskienė in the” Delfi11 “program.

Will pay for some time

SADM also provides clear explanations of what will happen when the quarantine ends.

Therefore, for self-employed workers – another 2 months after the end of quarantine A benefit of € 257 per month is paid.

For employers who have declared downtime and whose employees have received a wage subsidy, Subsidies will be paid for another 6 months for the wages of employees who have been declared inactive.

In the first to second month, the subsidy can reach 100%. of the calculated salary for the employee, the second – third – 50%, the third – fourth – 30%.

The subsidy cannot exceed 607 euros gross in all months, unless the company is included in a list of activities approved by the Ministers of Social Security and Labor and Economy and Innovation focused on advanced technologies, knowledge-intensive services, greening and social dialogue. The “ceiling” of the subsidy would then be 1,214 euros gross. Examples of subsidy calculations are provided.

Employers can use these subsidies without waiting for the quarantine to end; They can also be used when employees return from downtime during quarantine.

Loss of the right to benefit from the resumption of contact education.

For those who have a certificate of incapacity for work because of childcare, when educational institutions resume distance education after the end of quarantine, Parents are no longer entitled to a certificate of incapacity for work and sickness benefits and must return to work.

Even if the quarantine is prolonged, Elementary parents may receive sickness benefit for a maximum of June 5., because the school year ends on this day. At the end of them, the situation will be the same as every summer at the end of education.

For those who have a certificate of sick leave, the benefit is paid until recovery, regardless of whether or not the quarantine has ended.