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The Community of Madrid will pay the quotas for the months of March and April of the 400,000 self - employed in the region to alleviate the economic effects of the coronavirus crisis. The announcement has been made this Wednesday by the regional president, Ignacio Aguado, who confirms that the ministries of Economy and Finance are working together on a measure that would be retroactive and that in principle will be approved by the next ordinary or extraordinary Governing Council.

Among the "technical details" that remain to be specified is that of the amount of the amount that will have to be paid with public money. Assuming that all workers pay the minimum fee, which is 300 euros, the figure to be paid by the regional government would be 120 million euros per month .

Aguado explained that his proposal has been "well received" by the other directors and that "now what you have to do is put in place the bureaucratic and administrative procedures" to make it effective. He also stressed that these are the measures expected by the self-employed and not those of the Government of Spain, which has approved a moratorium instead of a suspension.

On the other hand, the aid to self-employed workers affected by the coronavirus crisis that the Community of Madrid had launched had been exhausted in just three days. Up to 5,000 people have applied for one of the grants for which together they had allocated five million euros.

The winners will be self-employed workers without their employees and whose businesses "have seen their activity diminished in recent weeks, but continue to offer their services." The subsidies consist of a single payment of up to 3,200 euros .

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