The corona crisis is a real challenge for many working parents. So those affected should now be financially relieved.
- The corona crisis * is a real challenge for working parents.
- After all, day-care centers and schools have long ceased to have regular operations.
- Parents in the corona crisis should be relieved by continued wages. The innovations.
Corona crisis: help for working parents to be extended
Working parents have a particularly difficult time in the Corona crisis *, for some of them there is at least one comforting message: The state wants to pay parents who are unable to work because of closed schools and day care centers longer wages than before, like the German press Agency (dpa) reports. The Federal Cabinet initiated a corresponding extension of the current regulation on Wednesday, which was decided at the end of March because of the corona pandemic.
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Corona crisis: wage replacement for parents to be extended
In future, the loss of earnings compensation will be paid per parent for a maximum of ten weeks instead of the previous six weeks . Single parents are even entitled to up to 20 weeks' compensation, family minister Franziska Giffey (SPD) announced in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin". "This is a very important step to provide financial security," she said. The SPD had long supported this in the coalition. At the beginning of the week, the CDU and CSU had also spoken in favor of this. The changes still have to be made by the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
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Corona crisis: Financial support for working parents
So far, this applies: Those who cannot work in the corona crisis * due to the care of small children and therefore do not earn any money, have received 67 percent of their net income as compensation for a maximum of six weeks, up to a maximum of 2016 euros per month. The employer pays the money and can have it reimbursed by the authorities.
The wage replacement is to be extended because daycare centers and schools are unlikely to be able to go into regular operation for a long time, reports dpa. After several medical associations called for the immediate opening of the facilities on Tuesday, there is also increasing discussion about a quicker return to school and daycare.
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