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The Federal Employment Agency (BA) had already spent six billion euros on short-time work benefits and the reimbursement of social security contributions to companies by mid-March.
"This means that the budget for short-time work planned last year has already been exhausted this month," said the BA.
The further payment of the short-time allowance is not restricted by this.
Because the BA approved additional funds at the end of February.
The authority expects short-time work to total around 12.5 billion euros for the entire year.
The federal government assumes the additional expenditure for corona-related short-time work.
Specifically, 3.6 billion euros were spent on short-time work benefits - and 2.4 billion euros on reimbursement of social security contributions.
BA boss Detlef Scheele assumes around 2.6 million short-time workers in January.
An annual average of 1.1 million people are likely to be on short-time work.
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