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Zelensky promises business aid package
Zelenskiy today announced a business aid package. Funding for this is in the Fund to Fight COVID, says his adviser.
The financial assistance to entrepreneurs, which President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday, November 24, will be paid by the Fund to Combat COVID-19, said the adviser to the Head of State Oleg Ustenko in a comment to Interfax-Ukraine.
“We are talking about the opportunity to use the funds from the Fund to Combat COVID-19, there is money,” he said.
Ustenko assured that the Ministry of Finance is in a position to comply with what the president says in his vlog.
He also commented on the situation of the financing of expenses by the State Treasury.
“It is absolutely obvious that this is not a good situation. But it is also true that traditionally such a situation has arisen before, although not in mid-November, but in December. Still, it is worth remembering that 2020 is unusual, this is the year of a global pandemic. So it is good that this situation did not arise earlier, “Ustenko said.
However, he noted that the problem has a “solution.”
In addition, the presidential adviser said that the bill on the business aid package provides for additional compensators in the event of a total closure.
“In terms of temporal space, it covers the period of this year and possibly next. Some of these measures relate to compensation for weekend quarantine. The measures are also provided in the form of additional compensators in case of a total lockdown be introduced, “Ustenko said. , specifying that we are talking about supporting small companies, which suffer the most from quarantine.
Recall that today Zelensky announced a one-time aid to private entrepreneurs and tax holidays for companies.
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