The adjustment support is extended over January and February.
In order for companies to be able to apply for the adjustment support, the companies need to have had a turnover loss of at least 30 percent.
The cost is estimated at SEK 6 billion.
- This is about saving as many companies as possible and there are many who are having an incredibly tough time right now.
We need to extend what we can and therefore we start with January and February, says the Center Party's economic-political spokesman Rickard Nordin to SVT News.
Will you come forward with any targeted support?
- I do not rule out that we find other creative ways to help.
Unfortunately, EU regulations put a stop to how much we can do where, among other things, you can not apply for double support, says Rickard Nordin (C) and continues:
- What we do, however, is to bring forward the tax deferrals so you get liquidity a month earlier.
It can start as early as February 8, which is very important for more companies to be able to survive.
Long wait for companies
The government and the January parties will proceed with the extension after the Christmas holidays.
But when the support will be able to be applied for is unclear.
Several crisis-stricken companies are in dire need of money to survive.
But right now, it is long processing times at primarily the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth that are responsible for the support for short-term layoffs.
- We from the Center Party have been very critical of the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth's handling.
We called in the Minister to the Committee on Industry, and now in the budget talks we have made sure that they get extra resources.
This must go quickly and it is completely unreasonable that we have a state bureaucracy that overthrows Swedish companies.
Here we are doing everything we can to put pressure on the government.