Adjusted from 15 March 2020: The Bulgarian state will give 1000 leva (about 500 euro) extra a month to every medical professional on the frontline against Covid-19 coronavirus.

Extended until the end of 2020.

Adjusted from 18 March 2020: Extension of extraordinary parental leave until 31 July 2020. This is established by a rule contained in the Relaunch Decree which increases the permits available from parents with children up to 12 years from 15 to 30 days.

Adjusted from 20 March 2020: The Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) will be extended until April as part of the government’s July stimulus package. Closes to new entrants from September 17th. Will be cut in line with past incomes.

Adjusted from 29 March 2020: The Rs 50-lakh insurance cover to frontline health workers fighting COVID-19 has been extended for a period of 90 days i.e. up to September 25. The 'Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package Insurance Scheme for Health Workers Fighting COVID-19' was announced on…

Adjusted from 22 March 2020: The Australian Government is extending the Coronavirus Supplement until 31 December 2020.

The government has waived 50 per cent of the electricity and water bill amounts for a year across Jammu and Kashmir with an aim to bring a huge relief to farmers, families and businesses.

Adjusted from 30 March 2020: On 21 July, the Government announced it is extending the JobKeeper Payment until 28 March 2021 and is targeting support to those businesses and not-for-profits which continue to be significantly impacted by the Coronavirus. From 28 September 2020, eligibility for the…

Adjusted from 1 May 2020: The government has rolled out various initiatives to help Singaporeans tide over this difficult period. For those who have lost their jobs or suffered significant income due to the pandemic, they can tap on the COVID-19 Support Grant (CSG), which disburses up to S$800 a…

Adjusted from 10 June 2020: Extension of the provision for subsidizing 60% of the insurance contributions of employers in the SYN-ERGASIA program (job retention program that provides wage subsidies to employers) for the months of August to October.

Coverage of State Budget of employer…

To cushion the impact of the lockdown and its restrictions on importers, the government waived rent charges and demurrages during the period of the lockdown between April 30 and March 19.

Adjusted from 24 March 2020: The temporary wage subsidy scheme is also being extended to March next year, but will be recast as a new scheme from September, with officials said to be working on a new permanent scheme which would see State support for temporarily laid-off workers. The extension…

Adjusted from 26 March 2020: MILLIONS of small businesses will get extra support from the government after Rishi Sunak announced he is extending the self-employed grant scheme.

The Chancellor confirmed the financial lifeline as part of his wider Winter Economy Plan to help prop up the…

Since the first case of COVID-19 was conformed in Jamaica in March and up to the end of August, the social workers had delivered more than 37,600 food packages, 6,873 hygiene packages, and 2,996 cases of water to Jamaicans most at risk.

They have also distributed 1,893 cases of juices,…

Adjusted from 5 June 2020: The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Adaljiza Albertina Xavier Reis Magno, presented the Decree-Law draft, approved by the Council of Minister, whose object is the first amendment to Decree-Law no 21/2020, of June 5th, which created the temporary subsidy in…

Adjusted from 17 March 2020: Spain on September 28 agreed a last-minute extension of a scheme supporting hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed due to COVID-19, as part of a broader social protection package. In a deal reached hours before the ERTE furlough scheme was due to expire, the…

People who have worked from home since the start of the pandemic lockdown could be in line to claim £144 from the UK Government.

The money is available to cover the extra expense of working from home - such as electricity and heating bills.

You can claim £24 a month tax back on…

Morocco’s Social Security Fund (CNSS) is set to launch a website for employees in the tourism sector affected by the COVID-19 crisis to request government compensation.

Companies will be able to declare employees and trainees eligible to benefit from a monthly compensation of MAD 2,000…

Applications are now open for the Social Cash Transfers Assistance Programme which is intended to help vulnerable individuals and families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of the programme is to provide temporary income support to eligible vulnerable individuals and families who…

Israel has expanded its Covid-19 national economic safety net program ahead of the full nationwide lockdown that will begin on Friday, 18 September.
Some employers will receive employee retention grants, in the amount of 5,000 new shekels ($1,460) for each employee they kept, to encourage…

Israel has expanded its Covid-19 national economic safety net program ahead of the full nationwide lockdown that will begin on Friday, 18 September.
Employees who are put on unpaid leaves by their employers will receive increased unemployment benefits.

Adjusted from 20 March 2020: Extends Compensation in the event of loss of earnings for the self-employed to:
- The self-employed who are not directly concerned by the closure of businesses or by the ban on demonstrations, provided that the income from gainful activity subject to the AVS…

Adjusted from 2 June 2020: Expansion of Tennessee Small Business Relief Program to include additional businesses provided they have less than $10 million in annual gross sales and fall within an industry impacted by executive order limitations on activities, gatherings, and other non-essential…

Adjusted from 10 June 2020:California will extend the measure that relaxed the burden of proof to receive workers' compensation benefits for some employees who contract COVID-19 on the job under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Thursday.

Senate Bill 1159 by Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San…

To promote the use of electronic payment tools the Western Africa Central Bank (BCEAO) is providing more flexible measures to open a mobile money and making transfers between people backed by electronic money free.

Up to 50,000 families with children under the age of 3, who are registered as poor in the national program of the Targeted Social Assistance (TSA), will receive one-off payments of 500 TJS (around US$50) in order to offset the impacts of the pandemic.