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400,000 self-employed workers of the more than one million who have requested the extraordinary benefit for cessation of activity due to the state of alarm today receive this aid, although they have had to pay their second installment to Social Security.

The agency has carried out these charges today, so that for nearly 40% of the self-employed who receive benefits as aid due to the economic downturn, the net balance is much lower than the official one. "They are workers who have already paid two installments, practically 580 euros, and they are going to pay 1,000 euros, so the help they are going to receive is 400 euros in 48 days," said Lorenzo Amor, president of the Association. of Autonomous Workers (ATA). Amor has recalled that the suspension of the quota for these workers has already been requested and the Ministry of Social Security indicated that this would be done, although he acknowledged that the system would continue to charge some the April quota, which would later be returned.

"They have been given a blast, the self-employed are not there to finance the government, it is the other way around," he says.

The channeling of aid announced by the Government to protect the incomes of employees and self-employed workers is proving problematic due to bottlenecks in the system. If the latter continue to be charged fees that reduce the net amount of aid, in the case of the former, the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) has only been able to recognize until today 3.9 million individual files from the nearly five that accumulates in total, so that next May at least one million new applicants could suffer delays in the payment of their benefit.

For the self-employed who already received the first 30 days of this aid on April 17 (more than 919,000 people), they will be paid this Thursday for the corresponding 17 days (from April 14 to April 31).

Until April 21, 1,039,598 benefits were resolved favorably and 38,605 have been denied, including 3,685 withdrawn. So, as reported last week by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, the acceptance rate exceeds 90%. For now, there are still 76,722 requests pending resolution.

According to the Ministry, until April 22, Social Security had received more than 1.1 million applications, which means that the percentage of self-employed people who have requested the benefit stands at 35.5% of contributors.

On March 17, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, announced the establishment of an extraordinary benefit, other than the cessation of ordinary activity, which can be used by those self-employed who have closed their businesses due to the health crisis or who have reduced their significantly their activity.

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