The Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, today wanted to step out of the complaints raised by the group of self-employed workers to indicate that the minimum aid established by the Government plan for the cessation of activity will be 950 euros. The breakdown of this aid consists of a minimum income of 661 euros corresponding to the contribution for the minimum base and, the rest, to the suspension of the self-employed quota.

Escrivá has assured that the self-employed workers, more than three million, have been subjected in recent days to a campaign of "disinformation" about the protection they receive in the economic shock plan drawn up by the Government, "giving them to understand that this help is less than it really is . "

Since the plan was launched, the main association representing this group, the National Federation of Autonomous Workers (ATA), has demanded an improvement in the measures proposed, as it considers them insufficient. Among them, for example, the suspension of the payment of quotas for the month of March , something that has not happened.

The aid that the plan establishes for the self-employed who enter the plan's assumptions is already available, Escrivá recalled, adding that there are more than 50,000 people in this group who have requested it . "It is one of the most extensive, comprehensive and generous benefits that is being given in all the countries around us," he assured.

Despite the fact that Social Security monitors the ups and downs on a daily basis, the head of the agency has offered some figures on the labor impact that the coronavirus crisis is having but has refused to give a complete picture until, at the beginning of the next April, data for March already closed. It has confirmed that more than 130,000 people have applied for temporary disability leave as a result of the coronavirus. "It would be premature," he justified.

Escrivá has announced that the organization is studying the introduction of a universal basic income , a measure that has been in circulation for years and that now seems definitely on the table. However, it has not wanted to offer any details or deadline that this announcement compromises and announced that it will announce it when the details are "assessed".

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