Just a year after the outbreak of the crisis and the hibernation of the economy to stop the pandemic, the self-employed admit to being on the edge.

With the vast majority assuming income falls that in six out of ten cases exceed 60%, the aid deployed by the Government will not be enough to prevent further damage and more than 300,000 are expected to close this year, according to the barometer on the situation of this collective prepared by the Association of Self-Employed Workers (ATA).

The possibility of a general easing of time and mobility restrictions in the coming weeks has not just alleviated the one and a half million active freelancers, since more than half expect that the 2020 billing drop will be added by a new revenue decline this year.

The problems derived from this situation are mainly a financial situation that is more than compromised due to lack of liquidity and the conviction that their businesses will not recover until 2023.

Two out of three freelancers are currently subject to administrative restrictions on their activity and 565,000 have the business closed.

The diffusion of these circumstances occurs at the moment in which the Government, through the economic vice presidency, designs a direct aid plan with which it hopes to support SMEs and the self-employed hit by the crisis.

Unlike the aid launched so far, the new plan will establish compliance requirements, so that not all businesses will be able to benefit from it to stay afloat.

Economy jealously guards what criteria it will use to discriminate beneficiaries beyond stating that it will use public resources to rescue companies that, although they are in a situation of lack of liquidity or on the verge of insolvency, rely on a business with a future even if they must do a restructuring.

Companies or businesses in serious difficulties that do not meet these requirements will be excluded from aid and will be in danger of closure.

"We need an urgent plan of economic measures that establishes direct aid to cushion the fall in activity and avoid the closure of companies, freelancers and the destruction of employment," summarized the president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor.

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