A special aid package to protect journalists wages and support struggling media is to be introduced in North Macedonia thanks to the efforts of the union representing the country's media workers.

Applicable to June, July and August, the plan will provide subsidies to all media…

Relief payments will be given by the government to 710,000 low and middle-income households and underprivileged people, who will have a monthly subsidy of NT$1,500 (US$49.88) remitted directly to their accounts and have already received payments for April.

The Government of Guyana is working to ensure that Small businesses benefit from COVID-19 relief grants through the Small Business Bureau.

The grant funding is specific to businesses registered under the Small Business Bureau. The application can be completed online and is being…

Closing grant adopted in the Parliament Act no. 38/2020 on financial support for smaller operators due to the pandemic. The government will provide these individuals and legal entities engaged in business or self-employment activities with grants to make up part of the revenue decline and help…

Tees Valley: The mayor of Tees Valley has earmarked £1 million to pay the wages of more than 100 young apprentices in an effort to reverse the decline of starts as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.The money will be used to fund “100 per cent” of the apprentices’ wages in their first six…

Child benefit is a universal benefit paid to each child. Its size in 2020 is 60 euros. An additional benefit of 40 euros may be paid for children with disabilities and children from low-income or large families. Until now, when estimating family income for higher child benefit, the amount…

Recognizing that the skilled trades has been one of the hardest hit sectors during the pandemic, the Ontario government is providing grants for apprentices to purchase tools, protective equipment and clothing for their trade. The Ontario Tools Grant Program will help up to 11,600 apprentices.…

A new government subsidy will pay employers up to $16,000 for each new apprentice they train from August. The $390 million Apprenticeship Boost would pay businesses $1000-a-month for each apprentice in their first year of training, and $500-a-month for apprentices in their second year. The…

The Egyptian Cabinet approved to keep the subsidy on home electricity bills until fiscal year (FY) 2024/2025 due to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak. The electricity subsidies were planned to be fully lifted by the end of FY 2021/2022 after the Egyptian pound was floated in 2016.…

The law Aldir Blanc, sanctioned by the president in late June, establishes an emergency allowance of R$ 600 for art and culture workers. It will be paid in three installments.

Professionals who have been working in the sector in the last two years, with earnings of up to R$ 28,500 in…

Federal Government will allocate R$ 160 million to Long Term Care Institutions for the Elderly (ILPIs), also known as nursing homes or nursing homes. The aid is intended to assist locals in combating the Covid-19 pandemic. The Law 14,018 was sanctioned by the President, Jair Bolsonaro and…

"Dar una mano Ecuador" is an initiative to deliver food kits to vulnerable families in Ecuador during the health emergency (partnership between the private sector and the national government).

(Tennessee) Governor Bill Lee announced $81 million dollars in COVID-19 aid, relief and economic security funding is available for K-12 schools and higher education institutions to help with plans for a safe reopening. The first round of wave grant funding would include $11 million dollars for…

"Arranca Peru" is a plan to generate over a million jobs in the country. The government would finance jobs in the following sectors:
-Transport, S/4 billion, to generate over half a million jobs
-Agriculture, S/373 million to make canals and maintain drains, which aims to…

Authorities announced monthly food distributions for low-income families throughout the lockdown period.

The President of Chile just announced a second delivery of “Alimentos Para Chile”, a program that will deliver food baskets to vulnerable families. The program started in late May (announced on May 18th). Approximately 3 million baskets of nonperishable food and hygiene products will be…

People in the NES region were exempt from paying water and electricity fees for two months. In NWS, similar measures were introduced, including significant scale up of health services and the provision of personal protective equipment.

Bono 380 ("Yo me quedo en casa") aims to reach 3.5 million households in conditions of poverty or extreme poverty with payments of 380 soles. This is a second delivery and it will be implemented in the coming months.

Extraordinary measure to support self-employed and informal workers in a situation of social vulnerability, which foresees the support of 1 IAS (EUR 438.81), between July and December 2020, and its integration into the social security system, with a 36-month link to the public social protection…

Under a COVID-19 special assistance programme, some New Zealand benefits exceptionally continue to be paid to beneficiaries stranded overseas until they can return to New Zealand. This programme is currently only available until 20 October 2020.

The Resurgence Wage Subsidy is a two-week payment for businesses who have had, or expect to have, a revenue drop of at least 40% because of COVID-19 for a continuous 14 day period between 12 August to 10 September compared to a similar period last year, and aren’t getting the Wage…

The COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme is available for employers to pay their employees who can't work. The Leave Support Scheme will be paid at a flat rate of: $585.80 for people who were working 20 hours or more per week (full-time rate) and $350.00 for people who were working…

The Wage Subsidy Extension is an 8-week payment for qualifying businesses who have had a 40% decline in revenue because of COVID-19 for a continuous 30 day period compared to a similar period last year. The subsidy will be paid at a flat rate of: $585.80 for people working 20 hours or more per…

Apprenticeship Boost is a payment to help employers keep and take on new apprentices. Apprenticeship Boost is paid directly to employers for a maximum of 20 months from the 5th of August 2020: 

• employers of first year apprentices can get $1,000 a month
• …