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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The North Rhine-Westphalian state government is also relieving the burden of freelance or self-employed parents of children requiring care in the corona pandemic.
Family Minister Joachim Stamp (FDP) announced on Thursday in the state parliament's family committee that the cabinet had decided on an aid program to provide financial compensation to privately insured parents with daycare and school children under the age of twelve.
It is true that the federal government doubled the number of children’s sick days for legally insured parents who look after their children at home.
With privately or voluntarily insured, self-employed or freelancers, however, “a gap was left”, said Stamp.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia will now close this with its own aid program.
Parents who are legally insured and whose children have private health insurance would also be compensated.
According to Stamp, ten sick days per child are set for all these parent groups in NRW and 20 days for single parents.
The daily rate for compensation is 92 euros.
Applications could be submitted to the district governments from February.
The requests are retroactive to January 5th.
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