The outgoing government completes the list of beneficiaries of € 257: take advantage of a fifth of the self-employed Business

This list has not yet been approved by the Ministers of Social Security and Labor and Economy and Innovation.

This should be done already on Thursday, probably the last working day of the Saul Skvernelis government. 15 minutes approved by Eglė Radišauskienė, Deputy Minister of Social Security and Labor.

You can view the document that lists the areas subject to economic restrictions here. The draft order for such activities contains 31.

E.Radišauskienė said that now it remains to coordinate this list with the Ministry of Finance and then the order can be signed.

The tap will open a fifth of the self-employed

The aforementioned document is relevant for the State Tax Inspection, since it will prepare a list of self-employed victims of quarantine.

If a person joins this list, they will be entitled, as before, to a benefit of 257 euros.

Until now, since the start of the first quarantine in the spring, the government has distributed this benefit to practically everyone who works with an individual activity certificate or business license, but in early December the Seimas decided to reduce the list of recipients.

This was decided when the Government stated that before the second wave, the State no longer had the financial means to pay benefits to all the self-employed.

During the first quarantine, some 87 thousand people received such benefits. people, it cost the state more than 112 million. euros.

It shouldn’t drastically go through that list.

According to the list of affected activities, as of January 1, the list of beneficiaries will be 20%. less surnames.

OR 15 minutes The Deputy Minister of Social Security and Labor E.Radišauskienė, the future Minister Monika Navickienė and the president of the Social Affairs Commission of the Seimas Mindaugas Lingė approved.

“80 percent. The self-employed will be added to that new list,” said E.Radišauskienė.

“I shouldn’t drastically go through that list,” Lingė said.

Ms. Navickienė said that the list of activities that had experienced restrictions after the new government began to function could still be reviewed before January 1.

The Seimas also ruled that the 257 euro benefit would reach the self-employed one month after the quarantine.

Relevant for some companies too

The aforementioned activities that are restricted directly or indirectly during the quarantine are also relevant to some companies awaiting state aid as the economy recovers due to the second wave of COVID-19.

The activities identified will identify affected businesses that are not subject to VAT or that are not operating to the extent that their turnover has fallen as a result of the coronavirus pandemic 15 minutes said the spokeswoman for the Minister of Economy Evelina Butkutė-Lazdauskienė.