The president of the National Federation of Self-Employed Workers Associations (ATA) and vice president of the CEOE, Lorenzo Lovedeclared this Friday that less than 5% of the 50,000 companies and self-employed workers affected by DANA have requested aid, whether ERTE or benefits for cessation of activity. Likewise, he has declared that the effects of DANA are not comparable to those experienced with the Covid-19 pandemic, since “total accidents have occurred, and work centers have disappeared.”
In an interview on Canal Sur Radio collected by Europa Press, Amor lamented that all the government aid of between 5,000 and 150,000 euros implemented by the Government has left out “all those self-employed workers who were in transit or displaced from the area October 29 ». Likewise, all those who had not done the income tax return or corporate tax from 2023 you cannot benefit from the aid package, nor can those who “were on a flat rate or reduced rate with less than a year of seniority and mothers who have joined after motherhood.”
«The request for ERTE aid and cessation of activity by the self-employed is very slow because this is not Covid. Here there have been losses in shops, cafes or restaurants, which in some cases exceed 200,000 euros and with an aid of 5,000 euros, 800 euros of benefits for cessation of activity or an ERTE, a business cannot be rebuilt,” said the president of ATA. »During Covid we confined ourselves and when we returned to our shops and factories everything was intact, but here everything has disappeared«, he stressed.
Diagnostic error
After highlighting the effect that the fact that “practically one in three citizens of the province of Valencia has lost all or a large part of it” has on consumption, Amor has stressed that the recovery of the areas most affected by DANA will “depend on level of direct aid “that they are given to rebuild and how it can be started.”
«One in four self-employed that has a premises open to the public, be it an office, warehouse, office, commercial premises, bar, restaurant or hotel, It is considering whether or not to reopen. Undoubtedly this area is going to go into depression if a major commitment to reconstruction and direct aid is not made,” insisted the vice president of CEOE, who stressed that “this cannot be fixed with 5,000 or 10,000 or 15,000 euros. “, nor exclusively with ERTE or with cessation of activity, so that either there is a decided bet or unfortunately many economic activities are going to fall by the wayside.”
In his opinion, before DANA there has been a «diagnostic error“because” the social shield may be very good, it worked a lot during the pandemic and I have no doubt that it will be useful here for certain companies, but for others it will not have any type of result because what they need is something else.
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