A $17 million relief fund to support youth-led businesses and associations to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 on their operations has been set up by Government.
Beneficiaries are set to receive between $3 000 and $5 000 each.
Priority would be given to youth organisations engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) and those conducting public awareness campaigns on the pandemic.
The fund will be channelled to the youths as grants,with possible…
The government launched on Thursday an online cash relief system aimed at speeding up the distribution of financial aid amid the coronavirus crisis.
Low-income families from areas under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) are expected to receive ₱5,000 to ₱8,000 worth of assistance under the second tranche of the Social Amelioration Program. The DSWD is awaiting an executive order before they can craft the final guidelines for the distribution of the subsidy.
The beneficiaries will be able to…
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday launched a new government project to spend $25 million a month to support IDPoor households affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. The program will facilitate cash transfers to households identified by the government as part of the Identification of Poor Households Program,often referred to as IDPoor. The prime minister said around 560,000 families will be the beneficiaries of the program,which he said was funded by the state budget and was only a…
Government has unveiled a $10 million Covid-19 Relief Fund for artists that have been affected by the devastating global pandemic.
Individual artists will pocket $5 000 each while registered organisations and social organisations in the sector will get $7 500 if they meet the criteria.
Beneficiaries should be practicing artists who have been performing in the past two years; cultural and creative industry practitioners living and working in Zimbabwe for the past two years.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) said if a policyholder tests positive for covid-19 and is admitted into a makeshift hospital on the advice of a medical practitioner or government authorities,then notwithstanding the definition of hospital mentioned in the policy contract,the claim shall be settled by insurance companies.
Also,if an insurer’s network provider has arranged for a temporary hospital then such hospital shall be considered as an extension of the…
2020-07-19
Health,Occupational accidents and diseases,Health insurance
The new allowances,ranging between Sh5,000 and Sh20,000 for different cadres of health workers including doctors,nurses,laboratory technicians were to be paid for three months from April 1. The medics had threatened to down tools if they do not get the allowances in July.
Doctors,dentists and pharmacists will get the Sh20,000 while clinical officers,nurses,medical lab technologists and technicians,chemists,medical entomologists,medical parasitologists,medical lab officers and psychotherapists…
Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey announced a new relief program for small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Small Business Lease - Emergency Assistance Grant Program (SBL-EAGP) will allow businesses in 64 eligible municipalities to apply for grants of up to $10,000 for lease costs.
The program will also assist landlords,many of whom are also small businesses.
The city of Pittsburg has received funding through the federal Community Development Block Grant-Coronavirus program to help local businesses affected by the pandemic.
To be eligible for a grant,entities must be a for-profit business and must retain jobs for low- to moderate-income people. The grants can be used to pay for working capital such as wages,utilities or rent,and the purchase of 60 days' worth of inventory needed to reopen.
The Maldivian government has begun disbursing the frontline allowance introduced for workers on the frontlines of the battle to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
The payment is for all workers who have worked on the frontlines since March 7,when the coronavirus outbreak began,to the end of June.
The decision to pay an additional daily allowance of MVR 200 to MVR 500 for frontline workers was announced by Finance Minister Ibrahim Ameer in early May.
The cash transfer "Ingreso Solidario" will be extended to employees with COVID-19. Formal employees (with a contract with a company) that must isolate or become incapacitated to work due to a suspicion or diagnosis of having coronavirus will be able to receive a financial benefit through Solidarity Income,for the 14-day that lasts the confinement (incapacity for work). In this regard,people with positive cases in their family and who have a formal job and can do telework,should do so…
Dehradun: Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat announced that Rs 1,000 would be credited into the accounts of each Anganwadi and Asha worker in the State. This will benefit about 50,000 Anganwadi and Asha workers.
An accredited social health activist (ASHA) is a community health worker instituted by the government of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) as a part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
Vermont: Health care and public safety employers whose employees worked to respond to COVID-19 will be eligible for hazard pay grant funding.
The grants are available for employers whose staffs worked between March 13 and May 15. Vermont’s Front-Line Employees Hazard Pay Grant Program offers between $1,200 to $2,000 to employees who worked a certain number of hours during the pandemic and risked possible exposure to COVID-19.
Centre has released over 890 crore rupees as the second installment of the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package to 22 States and Union Territories.
The financial aid will be used for strengthening of public health facilities infrastructure for testing including procurement and installation of RT-PCR machines and RNA extraction kits.
The first installment of 3,000 crore rupees was released in April this year to all States and UTs to aid and enable them to ramp up…
Serbia's government plans to pay 60% of two monthly salaries to employees of micro,small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to support the economic recovery after the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
The first payment will be made by August 10,while the second will be done in September - about 18,000 dinars ($178/153 euro) per employee for one month.
In May,Serbia's government started the payment of three minimum monthly salaries to employees of MSMEs. The government has…
The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program provides temporary benefits to families with children who relied on free or reduced-priced lunch at school.
The State of Michigan was the first state to operate Pandemic EBT,a supplemental food purchasing benefit to current SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) participants and as a new EBT benefit to other eligible households to offset the cost of meals that would have otherwise been consumed at school.
The families of…
For many families,the corona crisis has meant financial losses or additional financial expenditure. For every child who is entitled to family allowance in September 2020,there is therefore a child bonus of EUR 360. The payment is made automatically and without application. This also applies to people who receive increased family allowances,for example people with disabilities.
The Federal Government's measures support a family with an average of 1000 euros.
Sample calculation: full-time…
Infonavit contributions are the payments that both employers and workers make to comply with the employer's obligation and the worker's right to have decent housing. To do this,employers pay an amount equal to 5% of their wages to their workers. These deposits,which go to a savings fund,are part of the workers' labor assets. Infonavit support for small and medium-sized companies during COVID-19:
For companies with up to 250 workers:
- The payments of the contributions of the…
The corona crisis hit the job market hard. The Federal Government has therefore decided to provide unemployment benefits. Those who were unemployed for 60 days in the May to August observation period receive a one-time payment of 450 euros. This means that if someone starts a job in early July,he or she can receive the one-time payment in September.
Illinois: Legislation signed into law in Illinois will provide worker compensation benefits for front-line and essential workers who contract COVID-19 on the job under certain conditions. The law will provide death benefits for first responders (including police officers and firefighters) who were presumably infected with COVID-19 on duty. The first responder must have contracted the virus between March 9 and Dec. 31,2020.
A new package approved by the Government on July 27 including 1.16 billion leva for social measures and 731 million leva for economic measures.
The single largest allocation was 318 million to boost state pensions with 50 leva a month for a period of three consecutive months. Borissov said that this measure could be extended further,depending on Budget revenue and the pandemic situation after those three months.
States are taking action to extend workers’ compensation coverage to include first responders and health care workers impacted by COVID-19. A common approach is to amend state policy so that COVID-19 infections in certain workers are presumed to be work-related and covered under workers’ compensation.
A common approach is to amend state policy so that COVID-19 infections in certain workers are presumed to be work-related and covered under workers’ compensation. This presumption places the…
2020-06-10
Cash sickness benefits,Occupational accidents and diseases
The UK Government has announced £20 million of new funding to support small businesses as they recover from COVID-19.
Small and medium sized businesses in England can access grants of up to £5,000 to put towards the cost of new equipment,technology and specialist advice.
Nearly 50,000 Los Angeles families hurt by the economic and health fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic could get help from a $100-million rent relief program passed by the City Council on Tuesday.
The money would provide up to $2,000 in rental assistance for low-income households who have lost work,fallen ill or had to assist sick family members during the crisis.
To qualify for the city program,tenants will have to prove they’ve been affected financially or had health problems due to the…
From 3 August onwards,retail businesses can apply for financial assistance from the government.
The amount of assistance is 1,000 euros per employee for the month of July,750 euros per employee for the month of August and 500 euros per employee for the month of September. This aid cannot exceed 50,000 euros.
Conditions:
- First,it is intended only for businesses in the retail sector which have been forced to stop activities on 18 March,or which have suffered a severe loss of turnover of at…
Illinois regulators approved a wide-ranging COVID-19 utility relief agreement Thursday that extends the state’s moratorium on utility service shut-offs until at least late July and provides nearly $50 million to help customers pay overdue bills.
As part of the deal,Illinois utilities will contribute about $47 million in combined funding to a new COVID-19 Bill Pay Assistance Program to provide relief to customers with outstanding charges. In addition to debt forgiveness,the agreement requires…
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday the country's 320,000 homecare workers would each be granted a COVID-19 bonus of 500 euros,a package worth 160 million euros (144.3 million pounds).
The French state would put up 80 million euros and the local governments the other half of the package.
Michigan: State Treasurer Rachael Eubanks Wednesday announced two new grant programs that will provide an overall total of $300 million to help first responders receive premium hazard pay and reimburse local governments for payroll costs incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The First Responder Hazard Pay Premiums Program offers $100 million to fund additional compensation for first responders. Eligible first responders performed hazardous duty or work involving physical hardship related to…
Flemish Government: Flemish businesses losing at least 60% of their turnover to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis are to benefit from a new support mechanism announced by the regional government.
The measure,announced on Friday,covers the period from 1 August to 30 September,but the assistance can only be requested after then. It will be in the form of a financial injection with a ceiling of 15,000 euros per business,to be reduced for self-employed persons and companies open for fewer…
A new rent relief program launched Tuesday that provides subsidies to eligible low-income New Yorkers financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic. First signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month,the assistance program helps low-income households experiencing increased rent burden due to a loss of income because of COVID-19 by sending a one-time subsidy directly to landlords. The payment covers the difference between a household’s rent burden on March 1 and the increase in rent burden…
The federal government has temporarily set a minimum unemployment rate of 13.1 per cent to calculate employment insurance benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Those people living in regions with an unemployment rate lower than that threshold will have their EI benefits calculated at that rate.
In regions with a higher unemployment rate,benefits will be calculated using the actual rate for that region.
The temporary use of a national minimum unemployment rate for the EI program will help…
A pair of state grant funds in Michigan totaling $115 million launches today as another source of financial assistance for small businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The $100 million Small Business Restart Program will provide grants of up to $20,000 to small businesses and nonprofits to use for working capital to pay payroll,rent,mortgages,utilities and other expenses related to reopening following state shutdown orders issued during the pandemic.
Under legislation state lawmakers…
The National Supplementary Health Agency has included the Coronavirus test in the list of mandatory procedures in health plans. The name of the exam is: RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 (CORONAVÍRUS COVID-19). All health plans and insurance are required to take the exam since March 13th. On that day ANS Resolution 453 was published in the Federal Official Gazette and thus entered into force.
The State of Pennsylvania announced a $50 million grant program for employers of essential workers who serve on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
The COVID-19 PA Hazard Pay Grant Program reimburses employers for providing $3 per hour raises to workers making less than $20 an hour between Aug. 16 and Oct. 24. Eligible sectors include health care,social assistance,food manufacturing,food retail,public transportation,security and janitorial services.
Employers may apply for…
Since the beginning of the pandemic,many states (in different dates) prohibited utility shutoffs and allowed late-payment of utilities fees to ensure that residents sheltering in place maintained access to electricity,gas and water in their homes.
Nearly $6 million in federal grants have been approved for five Washington tribes to pay for programs to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus and give financial help to tribal members for rent and utility bills.
The federal COVID-19 response grants are intended to assist in the many ways tribes are combatting the virus,from building tiny houses for quarantine,to building more housing to fight overcrowding and providing financial relief for tribal members strapped by the economic dropoff…
Panama will apply a reduction of 30% to 50% for all its consumers of electrical energy,which will benefit more than one million customers,as a mitigation measure due to the economic crisis generated by COVID-19. The measure will grant a 50% reduction in the electricity rate to customers who consume from 0 to 300 kWh,which represent about 70%. Adjusted on 24 June 2020: Originally planned to end in June,the discount was extended for 3 months.
https://www.laestrella.com.pa/nacional/200624/gobierno…
The city of Pittsburg has received funding through the federal Community Development Block Grant-Coronavirus program to help local meal programs affected by the pandemic.
Grants under the program's meals portion are intended to provide Kansas cities and counties with funds to supplement services that provide access to nutritious foods during the COVID-19 crisis. Funds can be directed toward organizations for the replenishment of local food banks or to support organizations that provide…
Infonavit (Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores) is a federal institute for worker's housing that provides workers with mortgage and non-mortgage credit related to housing. Infonavit's has been offering five support programs for those who became unemployed,had a decrease in their wages,as well as for companies affected by the economic crisis as a result of Covid-19. Its main support for unemployment is the Universal Job Loss Fund,with the suspension of…
This is another of Infonavit's supports for unemployment and salary reduction; it is an extension of payments. The balance of the worker's account will be frozen for three months and no interest of any kind will be produced in that period. The difference from the Universal Job Loss Fund is that,in this case,Infonavit will not cover those payments,only the collection will be deferred. This measure is applied individually,but it goes into general operation automatically if the…
Around 13,000 students received a special allowance to make up for the school breakfasts they missed during March and April during the lockdown,the education ministry announced on Sunday.
The students are primary and secondary public school students that are eligible for free breakfast at school due to their financial situation.
As schools were physically closed and remote learning was in place,those students received a financial allowance to cover the cost of breakfast they missed.
The…
This is the third measure to support workers' Infonavit credit. This is a discount on the monthly installments via payroll. If the company where the borrower works is declared laying off employees (Paro Técnico),a discount of up to 25 percent will be applied to the payments on their payroll.
To request this benefit,it is necessary to submit to the Institute the Request for Technical Stoppage (Paro Técnico) of Companies.
This Infonavit aid was conceived to mainly benefit manufacturing and…
The Afghan government has launched a new COVID-19 relief program as part of its efforts to help households facing economic hardship due to the ongoing pandemic.
The government will allocate $86 million and then $158 million in the second phase to provide food to people across the country.
The first stage will cover over 1.7 million families in 13,000 villages in 34 provinces of the country.
Section 4024 of the CARES Act provides a temporary moratorium on eviction filings as well as other protections for tenants in certain rental properties with federal assistance or federally related financing.
These protections are designed to alleviate the economic and public health consequences of tenant displacement during the COVID-19 outbreak. They supplement temporary eviction moratoria and rent freezes implemented in states and cities by governors and local officials using emergency powers…
There is a new apprenticeship incentivisation scheme which will provide a €2,000 payment to support employers to take on new apprenticeships in 2020.
This is part of July stimulus package,the largest-ever cash injection for Irish economy (more than €5 billion in cash,along with €2 billion in loan guarantees for businesses).
The Government has opened applications to the Restart Grant Plus Scheme,which aims to help SMEs adapt and reopen following Covid-19 restrictions.
In this new round of the Restart Grant Plus Scheme,SMEs will now be able to apply for grants of between €4,000 and €25,000 as they reopen or adjust their business.
The scheme,which provides grants to assist businesses as they reopen,is a key part of the Government’s €7.4bn July Stimulus package.
Main differences between old scheme and Restart Grant…
The Ministry of Human Rights has launched Eid relief packages for coronavirus affected transgenders with the support of the United Nations Development Program( UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
According to the Human Rights Ministry,the beneficiaries were identified through a preliminary socio-economic rapid need assessment for coronavirus to address and cater to the most vulnerable transgender persons,led and driven by the transgender community.
A total of 120 ration bags will…
Unions have seized on a decision by the national industrial tribunal to give paid pandemic leave to aged care staff,arguing some casual employees will go to work sick because they do not work the regular hours needed to qualify for the payment.
Aged care workers across Australia will be given the paid pandemic leave to encourage them to stay home if they have symptoms of the coronavirus after Victoria recorded its highest daily case numbers during the pandemic on Monday.
Residents and workers…
Australia will introduce a pandemic leave payment for workers who have run out of sick leave but need to be quarantined because they have been directed to stay at home due to the novel coronavirus,Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday (Aug 3).
The announcement comes as the country deals with a second wave of infections.
The payment will be a A$1,500 (US$1,067) for a two-week pandemic leave period.
The payment will be available to workers in Victoria who need to self-isolate for 14 days but…
Lagos state authorities say they are determined to safeguard the lives of health care workers who risk getting infected in the line of duty. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced that a COVID-19 allowance would be made available to emergency healthcare workers in the state. The governor also said health and life insurances have been procured for health workers. By 21 July 2020,a total of 720 health workers were infected in the state.
2020-08-08
Health,Cash transfers,Prevention of occupational risks
