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919,173 freelancers will receive this Friday the extraordinary benefit for cessation of activity that the Government approved to alleviate the consequences of the coronavirus crisis. "The benefit has an amount of 70% of the regulatory base, that is, a minimum of 661 euros in the case of those who contribute at the minimum base," they point out from the Ministry of Social Security.

"He has access to it", continue from the department headed by José Luis Escrivá, "any self-employed worker registered in the corresponding regime who is affected by the closure of businesses due to the declaration of the state of alarm or whose billing falls in the month 75% compared to the monthly average of the previous semester. " In the case of some groups such as the agrarian regime, the sea or culture and entertainment, they clarify, the calculation period is adapted to the peculiarities of those sectors.

Until last Wednesday, April 15, 1,016,670 self-employed workers had requested this benefit, for which " 97.3% of the applications processed have been approved ". "To request it, no minimum contribution period is required, you only need to be registered in the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers (RETA) and be up to date with the payment of social contributions," explains Social Security.

The Ministry also stresses that "it is compatible with any other Social Security benefit that the applicant has been receiving , such as orphanhood or widowhood, and that it is compatible with the performance of the activity that he was carrying out", something that was not initially thus stipulated and that the complaint of the self-employed forced to modify. And they point out that the measure "supposes an injection of 670.9 million euros"

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