Starting from the end of this month, a total of 1.95 trillion won will be paid in the name of the 4th emergency disaster support fund to 6.9 million people, including the self-employed and the working vulnerable. However, controversy is expected as more benefits will be given to self-employed `rich`.
The government announced on the 2nd that it has confirmed the ‘2021 additional budget for compensation (second customized damage support measures)’ at a state council meeting presided over by President Moon Jae-in. The key to this countermeasure is △selection support for the victims, such as small business owners, △employment shock response, and quarantine response. In addition to the additional budget of 15 trillion won, it will utilize the already prepared budget of 4.5 trillion won.
The key is the’small business owner’s support fund plus (+)’, which is paid in cash to self-employed people. The amount of support has increased from 1 million to 3 million won per person to 1 million to 5 million won. The number of target businesses has also expanded from 2.8 million to 3.85 million.
The largest amount of 5 million won is paid to 11 types of extended banned businesses such as indoor sports facilities, singing practice centers, and entertainment establishments. If one person has two workplaces, 150% of the support amount, if there are three, 180%, and if there are four or more, 200% is paid. A person who operates four or more businesses, such as a gym, karaoke room, and entertainment industry, can receive 200% of the 5 million won, or up to 10 million won. Hong Nam-ki, Deputy Prime Minister of Economy and Ministry of Strategy and Finance, said, “This measure is to provide a foundation for the people to stand up again by closely supplementing the existing blind spots.”
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Self-employed KRW 1 million vs. Corporate room salon KRW 10 million… Controversy over the 4th subsidy
6.7 trillion won support for 3.85 million small business owners
Gym 5 million won, restaurant 3 million won
Classify and support 5 levels of small business owners
Up to 2x for multi-company operators
1.15 million workplaces in restricted business
30-50% reduction in electricity bill for 3 months
“Limited by not considering actual damage scale”
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On the 2nd, when the Ministry of SMEs and Startups began accepting loans for policy funds for small businessmen suffering from Corona 19, a civil petitioner visited the Seoul Central Center of the Small Business Market Promotion Corporation in Jongno-gu, Seoul. [한주형 기자]The core of the government’s second customized damage support countermeasures following the re-proliferation of Corona 19 is to subdivide the type of support into five stages to give more subsidies to the sectors that have suffered more damage, and to reduce support standards to target more support than the first support There is a significant increase. Through this, it was focused on the’wide and thick’ support that the party government suggested as the focus of secondary damage support. However, according to the quarantine measures, small business owners who operate multiple business sites receive support fund of up to 10 million won and electricity bills, regardless of the actual amount of damage, and self-employed persons in general industries receive only 1 million won in support, no matter how large the damage is, controversy over equity. Was filed. This shows the limit of not being able to establish a standard reflecting the appropriate support by calculating the actual damage scale.
According to the government on the 2nd, the’Small Business Owner Support Fund Plus’, a second customized damage support measure, is 5 from the existing three types (group ban, group restriction, general) depending on the intensity of quarantine measures and the level of damage by industry. Subdivided into dog breeds. These industries are primarily included in support if their sales in 2020 decreased compared to 2019.
The government divided into five types of support in the support fund for small business owners: △ banned (extended) △ banned (mitigated) △ limited group △ general (management crisis) △ general (reduced sales). Group prohibition (extended) is a business that has extended the application of the group prohibition after the quarantine guidelines on January 2nd, and includes 11 types of indoor sports facilities such as gyms, singing practice centers, and entertainment establishments. Businesses in this industry receive 5 million won support.
Businesses that belong to the group ban (mitigation) business, which became part of the business after January 2nd, which became a group ban from group ban, will receive 4 million won. These include academies and winter sports facilities. Businesses that are included in 10 categories, such as restaurants and cafes, lodging, and PC cafes, which are restricted to groups, receive a support fund of 3 million won. Among the general sectors, 2 million won was paid to general (management crisis) businesses whose average sales decreased by more than 20% compared to the previous year, such as travel and performance, and 1 million won to general (reduced sales) businesses with annual sales of less than 1 billion won. do.
Until the third disaster subsidy, the government provided subsidies to only one business site if one person operates multiple business sites, but this time it has decided to pay up to twice the amount of support to one person who operates multiple business sites. For example, 150% of the support amount is paid to operators operating two business sites, 180% to operators at three sites, and 200% to operators at four or more sites. This is an issue that has been continuously requested by the government from small business organizations, and is a supplementary content that was enthusiastically reflected by Minister of SMEs and Startups Kwon Chi-seung, a former politician. However, while many room salons and other entertainment bars and gyms are operated to provide cash support of up to 10 million won and electricity bills in places that are difficult to see as small self-employed, the general industry that has not been subjected to quarantine measures but suffers from a sudden decrease in customers due to Corona 19 is Dallang 100 There is a lot of controversy in that it only supports 10,000 won.
Jo Joo-hyun, head of the Small Business Policy Division of the Small and Medium Business Administration, explained, “Small business owners will receive subsidies according to the actual business restrictions applied.”
In addition to the 2.8 million items included in the existing primary support fund, the government added 1.05 million companies to the support target by resolving blind spots and enhancing equity, so that a total of 3.85 million companies can receive benefits. In order to expand the scope of support, the government included businesses with five or more full-time workers, which were previously excluded, and increased the sales limit for general industry support from 400 million won to 1 billion won per year. In addition, more than 330,000 new founders were added to the support target.
The budget allocated to the support fund for small business owners is 6.7 trillion won, which is 63% higher than the first support fund (4.1 trillion won).
In addition, the government decided to reduce electricity bills for three months to 1151,000 small business establishments in industries subject to quarantine measures, such as prohibition of gathering and restriction of gathering. 50% of the collectively prohibited industries and 30% of the collectively restricted industries are each exempted. The amount of support is limited to 1.8 million won, and the total budget is 220.2 billion won. If a business included in the group banned business received all of the various supports that began in June of last year, it would mean that it has received 6.5 million won (emergency employment stabilization grant 1.5 million won, new desired fund 2 million won, support fund 3 million won) so far. If you receive all the benefits of this secondary damage support, you will receive a total of 13.3 million won, up to 5 million won for support and 1.8 million won for electricity bill reduction.
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