Government will offer vouchers to low-income households and recipients of child benefits to support local consumption.

The government will also provide a 1.3 trillion won worth of
electricity bill payment deferral, which will be given to 3,200,000 small businesses and 1,570,000 low income households for three months from April to June.

Scaling up PDS allocations for all AAY priority households for three months
(1kg pulses per household, 5kg wheat or rice per individual)

Increase job seekers’ allowance for young adults, and reintroduce job seekers’ allowance for those from low-income households, up to 3 months.

The state of Uttar Pradesh will provide compensation to poor workers via
online payments if they lost their job due to the pandemic. Vegetable vendors,
construction workers, rickshaw pullers, autorickshaw drivers, and temporary
staff at shops will be targeted by this measure…

The Korean social insurance agency will allow for payout of industrial accident insurance to workers who are tested positive for COVID-19. A deduction of health insurance premium payments by 50% is planned for low-income households.

Increasing NREGS wage rates from Rs180 INR to Rs202

In order to maintain employment stability of foreign employees and manpower for employers, the Ministry of Employment and Labor announced changes to procedures of the Employment Permit System (EPS). Measures include the extension of job search period for foreigners who applied for a workplace…

Cash transfers of Rs 500 ($6.5) for 3 months from April to June to 200M
women with a Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) (financial
inclusion) account

The Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) has announced its first-ever decision to increase the employee retention subsidy to maximum 90%, regardless of industry. This provisional measure is for three months (April to June) and intends to encourage all companies affected by COVID-19 to retain…

To provide relief to farmers affected due to the lockdown, the Centre on Thursday said it will transfer in the first week of April the first installment of Rs 2,000 to each of 8.69 crore beneficiaries under the PM-KISAN scheme.

"Farmers receive Rs 6,000 annual from PM-KISAN. We will…

Increased by 250% of existing indirect employment-cost subsidies (to W400,000 per worker) in the event an employee reduces work hours for
COVID-19-related family care, coupled with relaxing eligibility criteria (e.g. the minimum employment duration from 6 months to 1 month).

Rs1000 to all beneficiaries under the National Social Assistance Program
(NSAP) for elderly, widows and disabled receiving social pensions (35M
beneficiaries)

South Korea has allocated a nearly 20 trillion won support package to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. This includes giving parent employees up to 5 days of childcare leave along with the pay of 50,000 won per day, respectively54.

Local Government Ministry allocated $150 million to supplement the Poor Relief programme.

Latvia may introduce an unemployed persons aid benefit. This support would be paid if a person fails to find a job after the end of the period of payments of unemployment benefits.

This solution was discussed during a meeting of the government work group for support of entrepreneurship…

PATH beneficiaries would ordinarily receive a payment in April and then in June. They will, however, be getting a special payment in May.

The Supporting Employees with Transfer of Cash (SET Cash) programme will also provide temporary cash transfers to individuals from any sector where it can be verified that they lost their employment since March 10 when the first COVID case was confirmed here.

This will provide temporary cash transfers to registered businesses in the hotel, tours, and attractions industries based on the number of workers under the $1.5 million income tax threshold who they keep employed. The businesses must be licensed by the Jamaica Tourist Board.

The Government will allow individuals in financial stress as a result of the Coronavirus to access up to $10,000 of their superannuation in 2019-20 and a further $10,000 in 2020-21.

Enterprises that their operation is mandatory suspended shall be liable to pay 60% of the agreed rent for their business premises for the months March and April. Tenants whose employment contract is suspended are allowed to pay only 60% of their monthly rent on main residence in March and April…

The government has also outlined changes to the pension deeming rate, with an average benefit of $8.42 a fortnight, or $219 a year to age pensioners.
The lower deeming rate will be cut from 1% to 0.5% for financial investments up to $51,800 for single pensioners and $86,200 for pensioner…

GOI will pay Employee Provident Fund contributions for employees and
employers for the next 3 months. This is targeted to firms with up to 100
workers and where 90% of workers earn less than Rs15,000 per month. This
is expected to cover 1.8M employees and 400,000 firms.

This will see $1.2bn made available as a wage subsidy of 50% of the apprentice’s or trainee’s wage for up to nine months from 1 January 2020 to 30 September 2020.

The Delhi government decided to double the pension under the widow pension scheme for 2.5 lakh beneficiaries, old-age pension scheme for five lakh beneficiaries, and disability pension scheme for one lakh beneficiaries. The Delhi government is providing Rs 4,000-5000 financial assistance to…