The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, announced on Wednesday the creation of a Social Security benefit for parents who lose hours of work by having to take care of their children . In statements to Onda Cero, Escrivá has declined to give details because its Ministry is still finalizing the design, but believes it will be approved tomorrow among the measures that the Government will approve in extraordinary session.

Escrivá has affirmed that it is about giving "compensation of income" to working parents to whom companies cannot offer "face-to-face solutions" for the care of children for the closure of schools before the coronavirus and need to reduce working hours work or have to stop working in this period. In his opinion, "the cost for Social Security will be significant, but manageable." "There are parents who have to stay with their children in an unexpected situation," explained the minister and the solution comes "through a new Social Security benefit that means those parents who have to stay with their children and the company does not offer them an in-person work solution, they can request compensation for income for the time they will have to stay at home . He recalled that workers in a situation of isolation from the virus will be considered by Social Security as in a situation of occupational accident, so the Administration and not the company or the worker takes care from the first day. He has estimated a cost of this last measure of about 50 million euros.

The minister has also confirmed that there will be a moratorium that can reach a year in the payment of Social Security contributions by companies and freelancers within the battery of measures. Escrivá has affirmed that this crisis can last "six months", beyond the weeks mentioned by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, but has insisted, as he declared in EL MUNDO last Sunday, that the effects will be transitory and followed by a Recovery.

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