Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says today, December 14, the Diia portal has received first applications for UAH 8,000 (US$286) in one-time relief aid per capita to be paid to employees and individual entrepreneurs who lost part of their salaries or income over quarantine-related curbs.
"Today, the Diia portal has started accepting applications for UAH 8,000 in one-time relief from the state. More than 5,000 people used the service in the first 10 hours of its operation," he wrote on Facebook on December 14.
Read alsoUkrainian businesses to get compensation during lockdown – Rada's decisionShmyhal says employees and individual entrepreneurs whose activities are not allowed during the toughening of the quarantine from January could apply for the aid December 14 through December 31.
To this end, one can use personal profile on the portal or select the Service section in the Diia app.
"It will take no more than five minutes to fill in the application form. The money will be automatically credited to a personal hryvnia account after the data has been verified. The government is doing its utmost to ensure that everyone receives the funds as soon as possible," he said.
Background
- On December 7, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed bill No. 1071-IX into law to provide social support for insured persons and business entities during the period of restrictive anti-epidemic measures introduced to prevent the COVID-19 spread across the country. In particular, the document provides for the payment of UAH 8,000 in one-time financial assistance to employees and individual entrepreneurs who lost part of their salaries or income over the quarantine restrictions.
- Those individual entrepreneurs who registered less than three months before the entry into force of the law, or paid single social security taxes in 2020 for less than three months, or whose activity is not subject to quarantine restrictions, will not be eligible for the aid.
- In addition, the law envisages a one-time bailout to companies for payments to their employees, so as not to cut jobs amid the lockdown. This refers to enterprises that (at the time of entry into force of the law) are forced to reduce or may reduce the working hours of employees over the quarantine-related downtime.