Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly totals 375.4 billion yen Supplementary budget is established Support for requesting leave, etc. April 22, 15:22
A special meeting of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly was held, and a supplementary budget of 375.4 billion yen including the cost of countermeasures for the new coronavirus was passed and established, including cooperation payments paid to businesses who fully cooperated with closures and shortening of business hours. did.
At the plenary session on the 22nd, the extraordinary meeting of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly was voted and approved unanimously by voting for a supplementary budget proposal that included the cost of countermeasures for the spread of the new coronavirus.
The total amount of the supplementary budget this time is 375.4 billion yen, and 196.4 billion yen, which is the largest measure for financing small and medium-sized enterprises, is allocated, making it possible to provide loans to SMEs with virtually no interest.
In addition, expenses to secure 3,000 people by June, such as hotels, etc., where ¥ 12.9 billion will be recorded as measures to strengthen the medical system and prevent the collapse of medical care, and people with mild or no symptoms can stay while being treated Etc. are included.
In addition, ¥ 96.0 billion was included in the “infection spread prevention cooperation fund” for businesses that fully cooperated with the leave requested by the city and shortened business hours.
We will start accepting applications from the 22nd, and we plan to start payment from the beginning of next month.
Including the supplementary budget this time, the capital is planning to take the largest ever measure of about 800 billion yen, which greatly exceeds the emergency measures in the event of the Lehman Shock or the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Start accepting applications for "Infection spread prevention cooperation fund"
From 2:00 pm on the 22nd, the capital began accepting applications for "infection spread prevention cooperation money" provided by the metropolitan government for small and medium-sized enterprises and sole proprietors who fully cooperated in closures and shortening of business hours.
Governor Koike told reporters, "After the 3:00 pm today, you can apply online. After the completion of the metropolitan assembly where the supplementary budget proposal including the cost of cooperation money was passed, it was approved. I would like everyone to apply immediately.I would like to be paid quickly from the beginning of May.If everyone can work together in a difficult situation and work out self-restraint as a whole, I can suppress the virus as soon as possible. ".