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Vaidotas Kalinauskas, head of the Social Security Division of the Ministry of Social Security and Labor, says that the income of these farmers will be assessed individually. Your income tax returns are pending and must be filed by June.
At the time, Vilija Kuliešienė, president of the Lithuanian Commercial Garden Association Fruit and Berries, says that the new order does not satisfy gardeners, as it is impossible to compare their income in 2019 and 2020.
Saulius Daniulis, director of the Lithuanian Association of Organic Farms, also claims 30 percent. The application of the criterion of loss of income in agriculture is incorrect, since the sales of products move from one year to another.
“Those cases will be evaluated individually if in 2020 the income decreased by 30%. and more compared to 2019. If they have dropped, they will be paid a benefit of 260 euros, they will have to apply for it in the Employment Service ”, said V. Kalinauskas in the Rural Affairs Committee of Seimas this week.
According to the representative of the Ministry, the benefit will be granted retroactively, starting in January of this year.
V. Kalinauskas predicts that around 5 to 6 thousand people can request support. agricultural workers. Some of them have already requested an assessment of their income, but according to V. Kalinauskas, the benefits have not yet been paid.
However, according to V. Kuliešienė, the poor harvest of gardeners in 2019 or not received at all due to frost does not allow to apply for state aid.
“Gardeners experienced severe frosts in 2019, so there was little turnover or no income, and therefore we are not satisfied according to the established criteria, because we cannot get drops, because in 2019 we had no harvest at all, so so those criteria are not suitable for us, “V. Kuliešienė told the committee.
He also emphasized that stored apples are already starting to overflow, as schools and kindergartens have no one to supply after the pandemic closes.
“We don’t have storage facilities to keep the harvest as long as possible,” he said.
