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" I have been in this for 25 years. I have seen nine ministers pass by, I will also see this one pass by ." The president of the Association of Autonomous Workers (ATA) has thus responded to the harsh criticism that yesterday, in the Congress of Deputies, the Minister of Social Security dedicated to him. José Luis Escrivá affirmed that "a certain association of self-employed persons has been misinforming" and, without directly referring to ATA but in a clear allusion to this federation, affirmed that it is distributing "false information" and that "this cannot be played with".

"Each one is disqualified by the same. On March 19 the minister said that he was not going to modify anything in his law, and from April 19 to 8 the same article has been modified twice. In 20 days, twice The last one, on April 7, with a complete wording. ATA has been 25 years, it has never misinformed the self-employed, "Amor replied when asked about the criticism.

The president of ATA has also criticized the lack of foresight of the Government, which has been running measures such as the possibility of making benefits compatible after complaints from the association, since it was not initially possible, for example, to collect the widowhood benefit and have access to approved exceptional unemployment.

Another sign of the lack of sensitivity, Amor has pointed out, is that "there are tens of thousands of self-employed in the ICU and patients with coronavirus, who are going to receive the benefit but who are going to be forced to pay the Social Security"; or that "tomorrow some 850,000 self-employed are going to collect the benefit but those people were charged the fee on March 31 and it has not yet been returned ."

80% of the self-employed suspend the Government

Amor's response came during the presentation of a survey carried out by ATA, and according to which "80% of the self-employed suspend the Government regarding the economic measures put in place for the group." Furthermore, the average mark given to the management of said measures is 2.67 out of 10. It is also noteworthy that only 5.8% of the self-employed surveyed value them with a score higher than 7, that is, to the notable ", concludes the work in which 1,887 self-employed have participated.

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