The first reaction of the main organization of the self-employed in Spain, ATA, to the package of measures announced by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez to deal with the DANA that hit Valencia last week has been generally positive. However, they put a but, which they place in the “error”, its president, Lorenzo Amor, has told the media, of not having included among the beneficiaries the self-employed workers who were ‘passing through’ the Valencian Community when the catastrophe broke out.
It refers to truck drivers, commercial agents, taxi drivers, insurance agents, experts and other workers who travel in their own vehicle and who lost it during the critical hours of the storm. There are no specific figures, but common sense suggests that there will be few, since, as ABC already explained, approximately 98% of the more than 100,000 vehicles that the flood took away will be declared a total loss.
Beyond this, as has already been said, the president of the Association of the Self-Employed believes that the package of measures deployed, which has been published today in the BOE, “It is in line with what we from ATA have sent to the administrations and have been demanding”.
As far as self-employed workers are concerned, the so-called ‘Immediate response plan for the reconstruction and relaunch of the Valencian Community’ includes aid for a total of 838 million euros that is expected to reach 65,000 self-employed workers and 30,000 companies, mainly SMEs. In addition to this, there will be tax exemptions, a line of guarantees of 5,000 million or a new temporary disability figure, among other things.
All of this, it must be remembered, is added to what already exists in a normal situation, the benefit for cessation of activity, which in the case of self-employed workers affected by DANA, may also be collected without the need to have the contribution. minimum required, as announced by the Executive.
The beneficiaries will not be few, since according to ATA calculations In the areas of the Valencian Community hit by the cold drop there are 51,000 self-employed workers, more than 350,000 workers and 34,800 premises, establishments, warehouses and offices.
“We already warned that this was not Covid and that undoubtedly, if we did not help the self-employed to rebuild, it would be difficult for them to get their businesses or activities back on track,” Lorenzo Amor remarked. From here on, the organization he presides demands that bureaucracy – which under normal conditions affects small businesses so much, it must be remembered – not be a stumbling block and that the processing of aid “be easy and effective”, because otherwise many “will not be able to access it”, he has settled Love.
When President Sánchez announced this millionaire plan yesterday –The first tranche alone will cost 10.6 billion euros, including small businesses and all other beneficiary strata of society.– promised that it will be carried out “with the least possible paperwork and the greatest possible agility”; ATA will be vigilant.
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