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Berlin (dpa) - The federal government is increasing the Corona aid for self-employed people such as artists.
"We're saddling up a lot when it comes to helping self-employed people, that's very important to me," said Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) of the German Press Agency in Berlin.
The restart aid will be increased from 25 percent to 50 percent of the comparable sales, at the same time the maximum funding amount will be increased significantly.
"It is also important to me that we open the restart help for other recipients."
The maximum amount of the flat-rate operating costs will in future be 7500 euros, previously 5000 euros were planned.
The reference turnover is usually 50 percent of the total turnover in 2019, according to a paper from the Ministry of Finance.
What is new is that so-called non-permanent employees can also apply for restart assistance - this is intended to help actors.
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For the left, this is nowhere near enough.
The party chairman Bernd Riexinger criticized: “The much-invoked improvement in support for solo self-employed people is ultimately an improvement from catastrophic to very bad.
The still scarce one-off payment applies to people who have often used up all their reserves in the course of almost a whole year with practically no income and who have to live on something in addition to maintaining their operating base. "
Instead of a one-off payment, a fictitious entrepreneur's wage would be required, which solo self-employed persons can claim in addition to reimbursing fixed costs.
The federal and state governments decided on Tuesday to extend the lockdown until mid-February.
After severe criticism from the economy, the federal government had improved overall corona aid for companies.
There should be expanded access to the aid, and the maximum amount of funding will be increased.
The complex conveyor system is to be simplified.
The advance payments are also to be increased, these are advances on later payments.
There are currently almost 3 billion in November and December aid.
Euro installments flowed, as the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced on Wednesday.
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The deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Sören Bartol, said the simplifications in the disbursement were just as overdue as the increased advance payments.
"I hope that what has now been decided will help, after the sluggish payments of the last few weeks, especially in retail and with solo self-employed people and artists."
According to the new plans of the federal government, support should also be given to companies in the pyrotechnics industry, which had a sharp drop in sales in view of the firecrackers' sales ban at the turn of the year.
According to the paper, companies can apply for funding for the months of March to December 2020.
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