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Berlin (dpa / bb) - For weeks, many entrepreneurs affected by closings have been waiting for the requested November aid to be paid out - now it could be ready in Berlin in a few days.
"We assume that we will be able to process the applications from next week," said the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) on request.
As soon as the IBB could process the applications received by the federal government, the first payments would also be made, said a spokesman.
The prerequisite is that everything works technically.
By last Thursday, according to the IBB from Berlin, a little more than 24,000 applications for November aid with a funding volume of around 319.2 million euros had been received.
Around 86 million euros have already been paid out in the form of accelerated advance payments.
This gave self-employed individuals a discount of up to 5000 euros within a short period of time.
Small business owners received up to 50,000 euros.
Almost 90 percent of the requests received were for this type of accelerated payout.
But larger companies with significantly higher losses have so far been waiting in vain for their applications to be processed.
With a deduction of a few tens of thousands of euros, they would not get very far, emphasized a few days ago Thomas Lengfelder, managing director of the Berlin hotel and restaurant association Dehoga.
More and more restaurateurs have their backs to the wall because their liquidity has been used up.
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Since the beginning of November, pubs and restaurants have only been allowed to accept out-of-home orders due to the Corona crisis.
Tourist overnight stays in hotels or guest houses are prohibited.
The catering industry is therefore particularly hard hit economically.
With the November aid, the federal government actually wanted to provide quick relief: the applicants should receive up to 75 percent of the previous year's sales.
Because the restrictions were tightened further in December, a December aid program was also launched.
But this money will probably flow in later.
According to the IBB, it will probably only be able to process the applications for December aid received by the federal government from the end of January.
Slightly more than 8,000 December applications had been received by Thursday with a funding volume of 67.4 million euros.
Of this, 24.4 million euros have already been paid out in the form of advance payments.
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The retail and catering industries criticize the effort involved in submitting applications.
As a rule, the applications must be submitted by the respective tax advisor of the company concerned.
Self-employed persons can also apply for help directly, but must identify themselves using the federal and state Elster tax software.
In the course of the past year, around a dozen other emergency aid programs were launched in Berlin in addition to the November and December aid, which were sometimes financed by the federal government, sometimes by the state, sometimes by both.
At least around 2.2 billion euros were spent on the Berlin economy in the past year in the form of grants, loans and investments in order to cushion the consequences of the corona crisis.
Not included are the November and December aid.
The emergency aid program II, with which the federal and state governments primarily supported self-employed individuals and smaller companies in the summer, accounted for the largest share of this, at 1.8 billion euros.
Information on November and December help