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The self-employed may combine the extraordinary benefit approved as a consequence of the coronavirus with another type of Social Security benefit. The Official State Gazette (BOE) published this Wednesday reflects this after the modification introduced by the Government , since until now if a self-employed worker had, for example, a pay for widowhood or orphanhood, he could not access unemployment.

" This benefit will be compatible with any other social security benefit that the beneficiary has been receiving and is compatible with the performance of the activity that he was carrying out," the executive now corrects after the numerous complaints and requests that it had received in this situation.

Especially critical they had been from the National Federation of Autonomous Workers (ATA), exposing cases such as that of an autonomous that, "being forced to close due to a state of alarm, will not have a benefit for collecting 150 euros a month of widow's pension"; or that of a self-employed couple in which, as a consequence of a serious illness of one of their daughters, the woman was forced to request a reduction in working hours with the corresponding help for childcare and now her husband was denied the extraordinary extraordinary unemployment because the family already have a Social Security benefit.

More legal certainty

Likewise, the BOE clarifies that "it will not be necessary to process the right to this benefit to process the withdrawal in the corresponding Social Security regime", and that "the extraordinary benefit for cessation of regulated activity will last for a month, extending, in its case, until the last day of the month in which the alarm state ends, in the event that it is extended and lasts more than one month. "

Until now, these points were not completely clear, says ATA, and provide "greater legal certainty", as does the specification that during the receipt of aid " there will be no obligation to contribute ." "Until today, it was not regulated anywhere, it was one of our main concerns," say the freelancers.

"They legislate after the ATA tweets. They do not listen, they do not dialogue with those who know the self-employed, their casuistry and their heterogeneity. And what happens is this: improvisation and rectification, " criticizes the president of the association, Lorenzo Amor, that affects the petition that he already made for the month of March and does it again this month: "Without income there are no fees. We demand the elimination of the April fee."

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